Japan, anchored by overall World Cup leader Ryoyu Kobayashi, finished third in the men's team competition on Sunday and claimed the country's first medal of the 2019 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.
Japan — composed of Kobayashi, his older brother Junshiro, Daiki Ito and Yukiya Sato — earned 920.2 points to finish on the world championship podium for the first time since 2009.
The German team of Geiger, Richard Freitag, Stephan Leyhe and Markus Eisenbichler, who won the men's large hill individual title on Sunday, posted a score of 987.5 to claim the title for the first time since 2001.