Liberec, Czech Republic  - Austria lived up to its top billing on Saturday to win a third straight team event ski-jumping world title.

Normal hill world champion Wolfgang Loitzl had the longest jumps of 131 metres and 136m in each round as he won together with Olympic champion Thomas Morgenstern, Martin Koch and World Cup leader Gregor Schlierenzauer with 1,034.3 points.

Norway came second with 1,000.8 points and Japan were surprise third-place finishers with 981.2 points.

Fancied Finland had to settle for sixth place while ex-champions Germany didn't even reach the second round, eliminated from the eight-team final by finishing 10th from 12 teams.

Victory was sweet for Austria as it came the day after the nation came up empty-handed in the large hill individual event won by Switzerland's Andreas Kuettel. (dpa)