Nordic World Ski Championships 1978 / Men's ski jumping

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1978 there were the following individual results in men's ski jumping :

Normal hill K70

space	Start number	athlete	Widths [m]	Points per jump	Total points
1	53	Matthias Buse	84.0 / 86.0	124.0 / 129.2	253.2
2	17th	Henry Glass	84.5 / 85.5	124.3 / 127.4	251.7
3	56	Alexei Borowitin	84.0 / 84.0	125.0 / 125.0	250.0
4th	52	Karl Schnabl	84.5 / 85.0	124.8 / 124.6	249.4
5	34	Pentti Kokkonen	82.5 / 85.0	121.1 / 127.6	248.7
6th	4th	Tapio Räisänen	83.5 / 84.5	121.2 / 125.3	246.5
7th	10	Valery Sawin	82.5 / 84.0	119.6 / 123.5	243.1
8th	29	Jochen Danneberg	83.5 / 83.5	121.2 / 121.2	242.4
9	12	Roger Ruud	82.0 / 85.0	117.3 / 123.6	240.9
10	48/49/51	Lennart Elimae	82.0 / 83.0	118.8 / 120.9	239.7
11	43	Per Bergerud	83.5 / 82.5	120.7 / 118.6	239.3
12	15th	Jari Puikkonen	81.5 / 82.5	?	236.1
13	42	Johan Sætre	80.5 / 83.0	114.9 / 119.9	234.8
14th	44	Jim Denney	81.0 / 80.5	?	231.6
15th	55	Jouko Törmänen	78.5 / 79.5	?	227.0
16	8th	Tauno Käyhkö	80.0 / 79.5	?	226.9
17th	46	Leoš Škoda	79.5 / 79.0	?	226.8
18th	3	Martin Weber	78.0 / 82.0	?	226.7
19th	?	Sakae Tsuruga	79.0 / 77.5	?	225.1
20th	33	Robert Mösching	81.0 / 79.0	?	224.2
21st	?	Hansjörg Sumi	82.0 / 78.5	?	224.0
22nd	47	Stanislaw Bobak	79.0 / 79.0	?	223.5
23	19th	Sergei Saitschik	78.0 / 79.5	?	223.2
24	9	Anton Innauer	78.5 / 78.0	?	222.6
25th	50	Bogdan Norcic	82.0 / 75.0	?	221.9
26th	45	Walter Steiner	76.5 / 79.0	?	220.0
27	?	Josef Samek	76.0 / 79.0	?	217.7
27	40	František Novák	74.5 / 80.5	?	217.7
29	?	Odd Brandsegg	75.0 / 79.5	?	216.4
30th	?	Hiroyasu Aizawa	79.0 / 74.5	?	213.8
30th	41	Hubert Black	74.5 / 79.0	?	213.8
32	26th	Bjarne Næs	81.5 / 73.5	115.0 / 97.7	212.7
33	?	Chris McNeill	75.0 / 77.0	?	212.4
34	30th	Vladimir Bubenov	76.0 / 75.0	?	212.3
35	22nd	Zdravko Bogataj	77.5 / 78.5	?	211.8
36	?	Jan Holmlund	75.5 / 78.0	?	211.3
37	?	Takao Ito	73.0 / 78.0	?	210.8
38	31	Alois Lipburger	76.5 / 75.5	?	210.4
39	?	Marko Mlakar	73.5 / 79.0	?	209.2
40	?	Takafumi Kawabata	76.0 / 73.0	?	208.1
41	?	Jan Tanczos	76.0 / 77.5	?	207.8
42	54	Peter Leitner	78.0 / 73.0	?	204.3
43	?	Thomas Prosser	71.0 / 72.5	?	187.3
44	?	Jeff Davis	69.5 / 77.5	?	184.9
45	?	Vladimir Breitschew	69.5 / 75.0	?	184.4
46	?	Gerard Colin	70.5 / 71.0	?	183.1
47	?	Piotr Fijas	71.0 / 71.0	?	182.9
48	?	Jeff Denney	71.0 / 72.5	?	182.3
49	?	Seppo Reijonen	68.5 / 70.5	?	181.6
50	?	Thierry Sauvanet	70.5 / 71.5	?	180.9
51	5	Peter Schwinghammer	69.5 / 71.0	?	179.0
52	?	Eric Fourrier	70.0 / 71.5	?	176.6
53	?	Zdravko Zdravkov	67.5 / 69.5	?	173.4
54	21st	Claus Tuchscherer	66.0 / 69.0	?	153.7
55	?	Slavomir Kardas	62.5 / 60.0	?	134.7
DNS	?	?	-	-	-

1974 World Champion : Hans-Georg Aschenbach / 1976 Olympic Champion : Hans-Georg Aschenbach  

Date: February 18, 1978

Participants: 56 named; 55 started; 55 rated;

Explanation of symbols

• DNS = Did not start (not started)
• * = Jump counted as fallen

swell

• MM-kisat Lahti 1978 Erikoismäki P 70 February 18 , 1978 Lahdenmuseot , on lahdenmuseot.fi, accessed on May 5, 2020.
• Men Ski Jumping 70m Nordic Skiing XX World Championship 1978 Lahti (FIN) - 02/18 on todor66.com, accessed on May 5, 2020
• World Championships: February 18, 1978 - Lahti (FIN), in: Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, s. 168. ISBN 3-89784-099-5

Large hill K90

space	Start number	athlete	Widths [m]	Points per jump	Total points
1	41	Tapio Räisänen	111.5 / 108.0	131.0 / 125.6	256.6
2	38	Alois Lipburger	112.5 / 107.5	132.4 / 123.9	256.3
3	11	Falko Weißpflog	108.0 / 114.5	120.6 / 135.2	255.8
4th	43	Matthias Buse	110.0 / 109.5	126.9 / 124.2	251.1
5	40	Tauno Käyhkö	108.5 / 103.5	126.3 / 115.8	242.1
6th	26th	Jouko Törmänen	101.5 / 107.5	117.5 / 124.4	241.9
7th	30th	Valery Sawin	105.5 / 105.5	120.6 / 120.6	241.2
8th	23	Jochen Danneberg	107.5 / 104.0	121.9 / 117.0	238.9
9	50	Alexei Borowitin	103.5 / 100.0	121.1 / 113.4	231.5
10	48	Walter Steiner	101.0 / 101.0	117.5 / 113.3	230.8
11	6th	Josef Hysek	100.5 / 106.0	110.6 / 118.3	228.9
12	18th	Pentti Kokkonen	102.0 / 102.0	113.2 / 114.7	227.9
12	37	Henry Glass	102.0 / 104.5	110.2 / 117.7	227.9
14th	47	Bogdan Norcic	105.5 / 103.0	114.1 / 112.6	226.7
15th	?	Armin Kogler	99.0 / 102.0	109.0 / 117.7	221.7
16	19th	Yuri Ivanov	103.0 / 98.0	113.1 / 107.1	220.2
17th	52	Leoš Škoda	103.5 / 97.0	113.8 / 105.7	219.5
18th	?	Piotr Fijas	101.0 / 104.0	109.3 / 109.5	218.8
19th	45	Per Bergerud	106.5 / 95.5	120.5 / 98.1	218.6
20th	29	Robert Mösching	102.5 / 100.0	110.4 / 106.4	216.8
21st	42	Peter Leitner	95.0 / 103.5	101.4 / 115.3	216.7
21st	51	Lennart Elimae	102.0 / 96.5	112.7 / 104.0	216.7
23	53	Stanislaw Bobak	102.0 / 99.0	113.2 / 102.0	215.2
24	35	Josef Samek	97.0 / 97.0	103.2 / 104.7	207.9
25th	14th	Seppo Reijonen	96.0 / 97.0	103.3 / 103.2	206.5
26th	27	Odd Brandsegg	96.0 / 97.0	101.3 / 103.7	205.0
27	46	Jim Denney	102.0 / 91.0	112.2 / 92.3	204.5
28	?	Hubert Black	99.5 / 92.0	107.7 / 96.7	204.4
29	21st	Claus Tuchscherer	94.0 / 97.0	?	203.2
30th	36	Roger Ruud	96.5 / 93.5	100.5 / 97.8	198.3
31	13	Hansjörg Sumi	97.5 / 94.5	?	198.1
32	25th	Johan Sætre	96.5 / 91.5	101.5 / 95.5	197.0
33	?	Jan Tanczos	94.5 / 96.5	?	196.7
33	54	Hiroyasu Aizawa	91.5 / 94.5	?	196.7
35	9	Hauge rune	87.5 / 99.5	86.9 / 108.7	195.6
36	?	Marko Mlakar	93.0 / 95.0	?	194.5
37	?	Walter Malmquist	96.5 / 90.5	?	193.1
38	55	Anton Innauer	94.0 / 95.0	?	190.4
39	1	Jari Puikkonen	92.5 / 89.0	?	185.4
40	2	Jan Holmlund	85.5 / 95.0	?	183.5
41	?	Takafumi Kawabata	92.0 / 89.5	?	180.9
42	34	Takao Ito	89.5 / 90.0	?	180.6
43	?	Karl Lustenberger	89.5 / 91.5	?	180.2
44	?	Zdravko Bogataj	82.5 / 93.0	?	170.5
45	4th	Sakae Tsuruga	82.0 / 84.5	?	164.9
46	44/49	Vladimir Breitschew	91.0 / 82.0	?	160.0
47	24	Peter Schwinghammer	86.0 / 85.0	?	157.7
48	?	Thomas Prosser	78.0 / 89.5	?	154.8
49	?	Chris McNeill	79.0 / 89.5	?	151.2
50	44/49	Gerard Colin	83.0 / 79.0	?	149.1
51	8th	Vladimir Bubenov	82.0 / 86.0	?	148.5
52	?	Jeff Denney	78.0 / 83.0	?	139.2
53	?	Thierry Sauvanet	85.5 / 76.0	?	138.9
54	?	Eric Fourrier	81.5 / 78.0	?	138.6
55	?	Zdravko Zdravkov	77.0 / 73.5	?	118.5

World Champion 1974 : Hans-Georg Aschenbach / Olympic Champion 1976 : Karl Schnabl (not at the start due to injury)   

Date: February 26, 1978

Participants: 55 named; 55 started; 55 rated;

Defending champion (and fourth on the normal hill) Karl Schnabl suffered a ligament tear in training on February 23 and could not compete.

Explanation of symbols

• DNS = Did not start (not started)
• * = Jump counted as fallen

swell

• MM-kisat Lahti 1978 Erikoismäki P 90 February 26 , 1978 Lahdenmuseot , from lahdenmuseot.fi, accessed on May 5, 2020.
• Men Ski Jumping 90m Nordic Skiing XX World Championship 1978 Lahti (FIN) - 02/26 on todor66.com, accessed on May 5, 2020
• World Championships: February 26, 1978 - Lahti (FIN), in: Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, s. 167. ISBN 3-89784-099-5

Team jumping (unofficial)

space	country	athlete	Width (m)	Points	Points team
1	GDR	Harald Duschk Jochen Danneberg Henry Glaß Matthias Buse	97.0 100.0 101.5 102.0	104.7 109.4 115.5 114.2	443.8
2	Finland	Jari Puikkonen Jouko Törmänen Pentti Kokkonen Tapio Räisänen	89.5 97.0 92.0 102.5	89.2 106.2 89.7 115.9	401.0
3	Norway	Rune Hauge Roger Ruud Tom Levorstad Per Bergerud	94.5 97.0 90.5 95.5	100.2 103.2 91.6 101.6	396.6
4th	Austria	Armin Kogler Anton Innauer Alois Lipburger Fritz Koch	84.5 99.0 103.0 81.5	82.2 109.0 117.1 74.5	382.8
5	Czechoslovakia	Ján Tánczos František Novák Josef Samek Leoš Škoda	90.5 89.5 97.5 89.5	91.6 87.7 105.9 93.2	378.4
6th	Sweden	Seppo Reijonen Jan Holmlund Odd Brandsegg Lennart Elimä	89.5 86.5 93.0 94.0	92.2 84.5 97.6 100.0	374.3
7th	Switzerland	Karl Lustenberger Walter Steiner Hansjörg Sumi Robert Mösching	89.0 100.0 92.0 82.0	87.5 110.4 93.2 75.7	366.8
8th	BR Germany	Thomas Prosser Peter Schwinghammer Hubert Schwarz Peter Leitner	92.0 89.0 83.0 101.0	93.2 86.0 77.1 108.8	365.1
9	Japan	Takafumi Kawabata Takao Itō Hiroyasu Aizawa Sakae Tsuruga	88.0 97.5 88.5 83.5	86.6 104.4 88.8 82.3	362.1
10	United States	Jeff Denney Chris McNeill Jeff Davis Jim Denney	82.5 90.0 89.0 96.5	74.4 88.9 84.5 100.5	348.3

Date: February 22, 1978

For the first time, a team competition in ski jumping was held at the Nordic World Ski Championships. This served as a demonstration competition for the team competition on the large hill, which was introduced at world championships from 1982. Due to the unofficial nature of the competition, no medals were awarded.

swell

• MM-kisat Lahti 1978 Joukkuemäki P 90 February 22 , 1978 Lahdenmuseot , from lahdenmuseot.fi, accessed on May 5, 2020.
• Men Jump Team Nordic Skiing XX World Championship 1978 Lahti (FIN) - 02/18 on todor66.com, accessed May 5, 2020
• World Championships: February 22, 1978 - Lahti (FIN), in: Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, s. 169. ISBN 3-89784-099-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Torn ligament!" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 24, 1978, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).