Sara Takanashi, who is aiming to win her third straight women's World Cup championship, placed third in Saturday's competition, won by Austria's Daniela Iraschko-Stolz.

Takanashi tallied 232.1 points with jumps of 96 and 95.5 meters. Iraschko-Stolz opened with a booming 101-meter jump and followed with a 95-meter second effort to earn 245.2 points. Sochi Olympic champion Carina Vogt, who notched her first victory on the World Cup circuit last weekend in Yamagata Prefecture, was second with 237.7 points.

"I wasn't very good," Takanashi said. "Things aren't fitting together right.

"I had some positive jumps in practice and thought I could build on that in competition, but things never clicked."

The victory was Iraschko-Stolz's first of the season and the sixth of her career.

Through the sixth round of the season, Takanashi leads the World Cup standings with 356 points, with Iraschko-Stolz second on 342 and Vogt third with 308.

Yuki Ito, who is ninth in the season standings, was also ninth in the first day of competition at Oberstdorf.