Forfang made his international debut as a 13-year-old at the FIS junior show jumping in Zakopane in August 2008. After a rather disappointing 43rd place, Forfang only found himself three years later at the FIS Cup in Notodden in an international competition. After a 15th and a 16th place, he was in the B-team of the Ski Jumping Continental Cup for the first time in January 2012 in Bischofshofen . After a disqualification in the first competition, he clearly missed the points in the second competition. After he was able to assert himself at the national level in the Norges Cup at the beginning of the winter of 2012/13, Forfang came back to the squad at the beginning of the 2012/13 Continental Cup season and just missed the points in his second event in Engelberg as 34th . Two competitions later, he made it into the top twenty for the first time in Zakopane and won Continental Cup points for the first time.
In the 2014/15 season Forfang was used for the first time in the World Cup. With a twelfth place on December 20, 2014 in Engelberg , he got his first World Cup points. For the rest of the season he belonged almost continuously to the Norwegian World Cup team and ended up in 23rd place in the overall World Cup ranking. On February 15, 2015, he finished third in ski flying at Vikersundbakken and thus achieved his first podium of his career in the World Cup. At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in February 2015 in Almaty , Kazakhstan , he was double junior world champion when he won both the individual competition and the team competition together with Joacim Ødegård Bjøreng , Halvor Egner Granerud , and Phillip Sjøen . In the same month he first took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun . He was disqualified in the individual competition on the normal hill and took 18th place on the large hill.
In January 2016 Forfang attended the Kulm for the first time at the FIS Ski Flying World Championships in part. In fourth place he missed a medal in the individual competition, but in the team competition he became world champion together with Anders Fannemel , Daniel-André Tande and Kenneth Gangnes . In the 2015/16 season he won a team competition in the World Cup on February 22, 2016 in Kuopio and his first individual World Cup on March 12, 2016 in Titisee-Neustadt . In his second World Cup season, he finished fifth in the overall World Cup with 1,240 points.
At the start of the 2016/17 winter season, he had difficulties building on his old achievements and was occasionally transferred to the Continental Cup team by trainer Alexander Stöckl , which meant he missed the Four Hills Tournament . As a result of consistently good performances in the Continental Cup, he was called back to the World Cup team and was part of the Norwegian team for the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti . He jumped to seventh place on the normal hill and twelve on the large hill in the individual competitions. In the team decision on the large hill on March 4, 2017, he jumped in the second round in turbulent wind conditions to a distance of 138 meters and thus set a new hill record, which was previously 135.5 meters and set by the Austrian Andreas Widhölzl in 2006 has been. With this jump he played a major role in ensuring that the Norwegian team won the silver medal after finishing fourth after the first round.
Forfang achieved his third individual World Cup victory on December 1, 2018 in Nizhny Tagil, Russia . At the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tirol , he finished fifth with the Norwegian team and finished seventh on the large and 45th on the normal hill in the individual competitions. He finished eighth in the 2018/19 overall ranking .
Johann André Forfang's brother Daniel , who was 15 years older than him, was also a ski jumper and now trains as an assistant coach for Team Trønderhopp, where Johann André also jumps. Forfang lives in Trondheim .
successes
World Cup victories in individual
Forfang during his World Cup victory in Titisee-Neustadt in 2016
Norway
Titisee-Neustadt
Nizhny Tagil
Kuopio
Planica
Wisła
