Ski Flying World Championship 1985

The 8th Ski Flying World Championship was held from March 15 to 17, 1985 on the Letalnica ski jumping hill in Planica , Yugoslavia . After 1972 and 1979, the World Cup took place for the third time on the world's first ski flying hill. The world championships were held in Planica on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first ski competitions.

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All top jumpers of the 1984/85 World Cup season traveled to the Ski Flying World Championships . First and foremost there were of course the two long-term rivals Matti Nykänen from Finland and Jens Weißflog from the GDR, both Olympic and current world champions , Nykänen from the large hill, Weißflog from the normal hill. The Four Hills Tournament won Weissflog before Nykänen. For the Saxon it was his first ski flying World Championship, as he had a serious fall in training in Harrachov in 1983 before the competition. Furthermore, the current world champion of the large hill, Per Bergerud , came from Norway . In the Austrian team, Andreas Felder , Ernst Vettori and Franz Wiegele , who had been World Cup leaders until then, had three favorites, while the Czechoslovaks had at least two hot irons in the fire with Vice World Champions Pavel Ploc and Jiří Parma . The Yugoslav hosts had high hopes for Primož Ulaga and Miran Tepeš , although Ulaga in particular still had a deal to do with the local audience. A year earlier, he had been mercilessly whistled for his bad performance at the Olympic Games in Sarajevo. The GDR representation traveled with Jens Weißflog, the ski flying world champion from 1983, Klaus Ostwald , Ulf Findeisen and the 16-year-old young talent Raimund Litschko . Holger Freitag was seriously injured in the previous Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck and was not part of the squad like in 1983. A total of 52 jumpers from 14 countries had registered, in the end 44 participants from 13 countries were included in the evaluation.

mode

Since it had been scientifically established that the jumpers began to experience psychological fatigue on the fourth day of jumping, the world championship was only held on three instead of four days, one training day and two jumping days. As usual, each participant completed three jumps on the first day, of which the two with the highest points were included in the rating. The complicated rules of the last World Cup with averages and percentage calculations were not reinstated. Since half a meter of fresh snow had fallen during the night between the days of jumping, the second day of jumping was delayed due to the new preparation of the hill. Thus, only two rounds could be carried out, of which the best point was included in the evaluation.

Results

training

The records fell on the day of training. The existing world record of Matti Nykänen with 185 m was initially equalized by the Yugoslav leader Matjaž Debelak and was outbid in the first round by American Mike Holland with 186 m. After an immediate shortening of the run-up, Nykänen still jumped 187 m in the first round. In the second round he exceeded this distance and jumped 191 m.

1 day

It was already clear after training that the title was only awarded via Nykänen. With the first jump in front of around 80,000 spectators, he already cleared the fronts: 190 m, one meter below his world record set the day before. No other jumper even came close to jumping this distance, somewhat surprisingly Ladislav Dluhoš with 170 m and Pavel Ploc with 169 m came closest to the Finn, but there were 20 m in between. Local hero Ulaga started weak with 144 m, the last ski flying world champion Klaus Ostwald screwed up the first jump completely and sled down the slope after 98 m. With widths over 160 m, the strong Austrians also kept options for a podium place open. Weißflog himself started the competition with a mediocre 164 m. In the second round, however, he was able to defy Nykänen, who jumped 174 m, with the same distance and pushed himself forward. Ulaga with 169 m and Ostwald with 166 also improved significantly, while the Austrians in particular fell behind: Ernst Vettori only jumped 140 m. In the third round, Nykänen made a 180 m jump, the second largest daily distance, while Weißflog was only able to counter with 170 m. In the sum of the three jumps, Nykänen jumped 36 m further than Weißflog, which also explains the gap of 27 points. Behind the two exceptional athletes was a tightly packed top group, between third and tenth place was just 13 points. In this top group, to the delight of the audience, there were also Ulaga and Tepeš, at least the battle for bronze was still possible. Andreas Felder found himself in 19th place after the first day and had to fear for his World Cup lead.

space	Surname	country	Widths (in m)	Points
01.	Matti Nykänen	Finland	190 /174/ 180	386.0
02.	Jens Weißflog	GDR	164/ 174 / 170	359.0
03.	Pavel Ploc	Czechoslovakia	169 / 169 /158	344.5
04th	Ladislav Dluhoš	Czechoslovakia	170 / 165 /133	343.5
05.	Miran Tepeš	Yugoslavia	167 /161/ 164	342.0
06th	Primož Ulaga	Yugoslavia	144/ 169 / 173	340.5
07th	Thomas Klauser	BR Germany	166 /158/ 162	339.0
08th.	Mike Holland	United States	164 / 164 /164	335.0
09.	Klaus Ostwald	GDR	98/ 166 / 159	333.5
10.	Tuomo Ylipulli	Finland	168 / 161 /145	331.5

2 day

The second competition started two hours later because of the snowfall during the night, so that only two rounds could be carried out. Again Nykänen was the measure of all things, taking the lead again with 187 m in the first round. This time he was followed by Klaus Ostwald, who with 180 m proved that his world championship title from 1983 was no coincidence. The American Mike Holland, who jumped 170 m, showed himself strong again and Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl showed with the same distance that the previously weak Norwegians were also present. While Miran Tepeš still kept up at 143, Ulaga's nerves failed and he slipped a long way back with only 124 m. He had to put all hopes on the second jump. In the second round, Nykänen landed at 186 m. Despite the shorter distance, this jump was ultimately included in the evaluation, as the posture grades were better. After Ploc and Ylipulli had slipped in the first round with widths of around 140 m, they proved with 173 m jumps that bronze was still within reach. Ulaga was able to make up for his first attempt with 151. Klaus Ostwald, who could not repeat his good 180 m jump, was second for the day, but that was enough for him in a valuation jump.

space	Surname	country	Expanses	Points
01.	Matti Nykänen	Austria	187/ 186	194.5
02.	Klaus Ostwald	GDR	180 /155	183.5
03.	Pavel Ploc	Czechoslovakia	142/ 173	179.5
04th	Tuomo Ylipulli	Finland	144/ 173	179.0
05.	Mike Holland	United States	170/ 169	174.0
06th	Jens Weißflog	GDR	168 /166	172.5
07th	Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl	Norway	170 /153	172.0
08th.	Ladislav Dluhoš	Czechoslovakia	168 /153	171.5
09.	Thomas Klauser	BR Germany	157/ 165	170.0
10.	Miran Tepeš	Yugoslavia	143/ 164	169.5

Overall result

Matti Nykänen was the uncrowned king of this world championship. He was almost 50 points ahead of his permanent rival Jens Weißflog, who soberly analyzed that Nykänen could not be beaten that weekend. Behind Weißflog, Pavel Ploc pushed himself onto the bronze course with his last jump of 173 m. After silver in Harrachov, back then before Nykänen, this was his second ski flying medal for the Czechoslovak. He pushed the last ski flying world champion Klaus Ostwald to the ungrateful fourth place. This had been particularly impressive on the second day. The losers included the hosts, with Tepeš in sixth place even better than the higher rated Ulaga (11th). The Austrians could not even bring a jumper into the top ten, Andreas Felder as the best Austrian took 15th place and also lost his World Cup lead. With eighth place, the German Thomas Klauser achieved a respectable success: It was the first top ten placement at a ski flying world championship for a German jumper.

space	Surname	country	Points
01.	Matti Nykänen	Finland	580.5
02.	Jens Weißflog	GDR	531.5
03.	Pavel Ploc	Czechoslovakia	524.0
04th	Klaus Ostwald	GDR	517.0
05.	Ladislav Dluhoš	Czechoslovakia	515.0
06th	Miran Tepeš	Yugoslavia	511.5
07th	Tuomo Ylipulli	Finland	510.5
08th.	Mike Holland	United States	509.5
	Thomas Klauser	BR Germany	509.5
10.	Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl	Norway	496.5
11.	Primož Ulaga	Yugoslavia	490.5
12.	Per Bergerud	Norway	481.5
13.	Matjaž Žagar	Yugoslavia	480.5
14th	Piotr Fijas	Poland	477.0
15th	Andreas fields	Austria	476.0
	Franz Neuländtner	Austria	476.0
17th	Ulf Findeisen	GDR	473.5
18th	Jiří Parma	Czechoslovakia	472.5
19th	Hroar ​​Stjernen	Norway	461.0
20th	Ernst Vettori	Austria	460.5
21st	Franz Wiegele	Austria	453.5
22nd	Gérard Balanche	Switzerland	445.0
23.	Mika Kojonkoski	Finland	443.5
24.	Trond Jøran Pedersen	Norway	437.0
25th	Lorenz Wegscheider	BR Germany	428.0
26th	Tomaž Dolar	Yugoslavia	422.0
27.	Zane Palmer	United States	420.0
28.	Chris Hastings	United States	410.0
29	Tadeusz Fijas	Poland	408.0
30th	Raimund Litschko	GDR	407.5
31.	Gérard Colin	France	403.5
	Kimmo Kylmaaho	Finland	398.5
33.	Uli Boll	BR Germany	390.5
34.	Frédéric Berger	France	390.0
35.	Miroslav Polák	Czechoslovakia	389.5
	Pascal Reymond	Switzerland	389.5
37.	Thomas Hasslberger	BR Germany	385.0
38.	Patric Dubiez	France	381.0
39.	Rick Mewborn	United States	378.0
40.	Bernat Sola	Spain	375.5
41.	Sandro Sambugaro	Italy	368.5
42.	Massimo Rigoni	Italy	345.0
43.	Roberto Varutti	Italy	317.5
44.	Eric Breche	France	314.5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 16, 1985 p. 6
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Neues Deutschland, March 18, 1985 p. 7
3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 16, 1985 p. 6
4. ↑ Results of the first day
5. ↑ Results of the second day
6. ↑ complete result