Jan Boklöv

Jan Boklöv
Full name	Jan Mauritz Boklöv
nation	Sweden
birthday	April 14, 1966
place of birth	Malmberget ,  Sweden
size	168 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
society	Koskullskulle AIF
status	resigned
End of career	1993
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 30, 1986
World Cup victories (individual)	05 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01. ( 1988/89 )
Ski flying world cup	25. (1990/91)
Four Hills Tournament	05. ( 1988/89 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 5 2 3  Ski flying 0 0 1

Jan Mauritz Boklöv (born April 14, 1966 in Malmberget ) is a former Swedish ski jumper . He is the inventor and pioneer of the V-style , which replaced the parallel jump technique around 1990.

Career

Boklöv competed in his first World Cup competition on December 30, 1986 in Oberstdorf at the Four Hills Tournament . For a long time he was only moderately successful. This changed after he switched to the V-jump technique, which he allegedly invented accidentally as a result of a jumping error in training. He spread the skis from the body to the side in the form of a V and thus offered the wind a much larger attack surface than with the conventional jumping style, in which the skis were guided in parallel.

On December 10, 1988, he won his first of five World Cup competitions in Lake Placid and also the overall World Cup in the 1988/89 season. For this he was awarded by the listeners of Sveriges Radio der Radiosportens Jerringpris . Boklöv was often several meters ahead of his competitors, but had to accept considerable deductions in the posture marks for his jumping style. In particular, the then President of the FIS Jumping Committee , the Norwegian Torbjørn Yggeseth , saw the aesthetics of ski jumping at risk. After Boklöv's success, all ski jumpers switched to the new technique from 1990 on, for which there was no point deduction from 1992.

Boklöv himself could not build on his successes and was mostly only found in the midfield in the following years. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville he only reached 47th place on the normal hill, he was not nominated for jumping on the large hill. His last World Cup competition was on January 31, 1993 when he was ski flying in Bad Mitterndorf .

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	December 10, 1988	Lake Placid	Large hill
2.	December 18, 1988	Sapporo	Large hill
3.	4th January 1989	innsbruck	Large hill
4th	January 15, 1989	Harrachov	Ski jump
5.	January 28, 1989	Chamonix	Normal hill

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1986/87	45.	012
1987/88	10.	064
1988/89	01.	247
1989/90	14th	078
1990/91	50.	002
1991/92	48.	004th

Web links

• Jan Boklöv in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Jan Boklöv in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )