Ski flying world championship 1988

The 10th Ski Flying World Championship was held from March 11th to 13th, 1988 on the Heini-Klopfer ski flying hill in Oberstdorf , Germany. After 1973 and 1981 , the World Cup took place in the Stillachtal for the third time .

Favorites

Compared to the last World Cup , there was actually only one constant among the favorites, superstar Matti Nykänen . But the Finn of all people did not want to travel to the World Cup after his three Olympic gold medals from Calgary . It was not until March 9, 1988, two days before the start of the training, that Nykänen turned up in Oberstdorf, to the surprise of many experts, and declared his participation. After his sovereign success at the Four Hills Tournament with a record advantage of 99 points over long-term rival Jens Weißflog and his Olympic victories, the Finn apparently lost some motivation. In addition, the competition weakened and it was not easy to identify real favorites. The Austrians were the last ski flying world champion Andreas Felder , the World Cup runner -up Franz Neuländtner and Ernst Vettori in the form of low. The latter two jumped after a miserable Four Hills Tournament at times only in the European Cup and were not even in the squad at the World Cup. Expectations were also low among the GDR team. Having finished second on the tour, the Olympic Games fell to a career low point for Jens Weißflog in ninth and 31st place due to a training injury suffered there. An expression of the youth concerns was also the fact that only two jumpers had qualified for Calgary. After the departure of the top jumpers Klaus Ostwald , Manfred Deckert and Holger Freitag as well as a weak form Ulf Findeisen , who also had a bad fall at the last ski flying World Championships, nothing came to Weißflog for a long time. Since he did not take part in the World Cup because of his injury, the GDR sent a quartet of four Nobodies with the combined Heiko Hunger at the top, average age 20.5 years. In addition to the Finns, who had come without the in shape Suorsa and Nikkola , the focus was above all on the regained Norwegians. Vegard Opaas had won three medals at the Nordic World Ski Championships the year before, also in Oberstdorf Ort, and Jon Inge Kjørum and Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl had won the Olympic bronze with the team. In Calgary, the Czechoslovaks around Pavel Ploc also showed great form, and there were two medals on the normal hill. With Jiří Malec had to Parma , Ploc and Ladislav Dluhoš another top athlete joins. In addition, the Yugoslav team around veteran Primož Ulaga had drawn attention to itself in Canada with two medals. With Miran Tepeš , Matjaž Debelak and Matjaž Zupan , the Yugoslavs now also had several irons in the fire.

mode

On both competition days each participant should complete three jumps, of which the two best rated jumps should be included in the rating. But after the training day had to be postponed to Saturday on Friday, March 11th due to heavy snowfall, the schedule began to falter. First of all, the first day of evaluation should take place on Saturday, March 12th, 1988 after two training jumps. After the first day of evaluation could not be carried out on Saturday either, only the one day of evaluation on Sunday, March 13, 1988, with three jumps counted, two of which were scored.

Overall result

In the first round, the later medal winners showed who was in the best shape that day. The competition lived from the beginning of the duel Fidjestøl-Ulaga, in which Nykänen could not really intervene in the first two rounds due to shorter distances. The 18-year-old Austrian Werner Schuster surprised positively , with 168 m in the first round, the third largest distance. However, since he was unable to improve in the further course, he finished in seventh place together with world record holders Piotr Fijas and Jon Inge Kjørum. The last round offered again pure drama and the performances of the jumpers were the best in this round. Nykänen managed to jump over 180 m, which Fidjestøl countered with 181 m. Ulaga's 179 m were only enough for second place in the end, but the Slovenian rated this success higher than his Olympic silver. Some jumpers improved by going beyond the 160 m mark, so that z. For example, Günther Stranner , who had been rather unknown until then , came fifth as the best Austrian. Thomas Klauser finished 11th as the best German jumper with 170 m in the third round. Those who were beaten were primarily ex-world champion Andreas Felder, who couldn't get out of his form and finished 33rd. Also Tuomo Ylipulli 1986 still fifth, failed to get its performance with space 37th

Source:

space	Surname	country	Widths (in m)	Points
01.	Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl	Norway	178/176/181	364.0
02.	Primož Ulaga	Yugoslavia	178/173/179	361.0
03.	Matti Nykänen	Finland	168/168/180	355.5
04th	Pavel Ploc	Czechoslovakia	159/166/172	342.0
05.	Günther Stranner	Austria	166/156/169	337.5
06th	Jiří Parma	Czechoslovakia	167/159/156	334.5
07th	Piotr Fijas	Poland	146/169/163	334.0
	Jon Inge Kjørum	Norway	164/163/164	334.0
	Werner Schuster	Austria	168/162/162	334.0
10.	Matjaz zupan	Yugoslavia	165/166/166	333.5
11.	Trond Jøran Pedersen	Norway	165/157/165	329.5
	Thomas Klauser	BR Germany	148/158/170	329.5
13.	Heikki Ylipulli	Finland	129/164/157	321.0
14th	Jan Boklöv	Sweden	144/164/158	319.5
15th	Matjaž Debelak	Yugoslavia	163/153/157	318.5
16.	Franz Wiegele	Austria	143/150/167	314.0
17th	Ladislav Dluhoš	Czechoslovakia	145/149/163	309.5
18th	Zbigniew Klimowski	Poland	150/158/151	307.0
19th	Wolfgang Margreiter	Austria	119/151/158	306.0
20th	Heiko Hunger	GDR	155/148/153	302.5
21st	Vegard grandpas	Norway	145/150/156	301.5
22nd	Josef Heumann	BR Germany	128/151/154	300.0
23.	Per-Inge Tällberg	Sweden	152/149/153	299.5
24.	Miran Tepeš	Yugoslavia	142/149/150	295.5
25th	Mike Holland	United States	143/143/156	293.0
26th	Jan Kowal	Poland	128/142/156	293.0
27.	Jiří Malec	Czechoslovakia	127/146/155	291.5
28.	Didier Mollard	France	138/123/159	288.5
29	Rolf Schilli	BR Germany	130/145/149	287.0
30th	René Kummerlöw	GDR	149/141/130	284.0
31.	Eric Breche	France	143/122/149	282.0
32.	Ted Langlois	United States	117/148/142	281.5
33.	Andreas fields	Austria	147/136/142	278.5
34.	Sadao Shimizu	Japan	103/145/143	278.0
35.	Risto Laakkonen	Finland	129/133/146	268.5
36.	Guntram Kraus	GDR	131/123/142	262.0
37.	Tuomo Ylipulli	Finland	126/117/147	261.0
38.	Mike Arnold	GDR	132/118/141	260.0
39.	Gérard Balanche	Switzerland	101/115/153	255.5
40.	Christian Hauswirth	Switzerland	95/118/144	247.0
41.	Jarosław Mądry	Poland	124/120/130	235.0
42.	Andreas Bauer	BR Germany	125/117/122	228.5
43.	Fabrice Piazzini	Switzerland	118/111/125	223.0
44.	Thomas Kindlimann	Switzerland	104/122/119	219.5
45.	Florian Trèves	France	110/118/119	217.0
46.	Yasuhide Miyazaki	Japan	106/118/101	204.5
47.	Takayuki Sasaki	Japan	96/104/116	195.0
48.	Nicolas Jean-Prost	France	100/108/105	188.5
49.	László fisherman	Hungary	105/103/108	184.5
50.	Toshiaki Tao	Japan	93/96/107	171.0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neue Zeit of March 11, 1988 p. 6
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland, March 12, 1988, p. 15
3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 12, 1988 p. 7
4. ↑ Overall result