Ski flying world championship 1990

The 11th Ski Flying World Championship was held from February 24 to 25, 1990 on Vikersundbakken in Vikersund , Norway . After 1977 the World Cup took place for the second time at the gates of Oslo. A total of 56 jumpers from 16 nations started. At that time women were not yet allowed to ski jumping or even ski flying . There was also no team competition yet.

Favorites

After the course of the World Cup competitions that had taken place up to then including the Four Hills Tournament, it was difficult to name clear favorites. The current Four Hills Tournament winner Dieter Thoma had to be expected in any case, as well as the long-running and tour second Jens Weißflog . His long-term athletic rival Matti Nykänen obviously had his best times behind him; in the current World Cup season he was only able to achieve one podium place and at the Four Hills Tournament he was no longer in the top ten. Nevertheless, the Finnish team was to be expected, with Ari-Pekka Nikkola and third-placed Risto Laakkonen they had second strong jumpers at the start. The Czechoslovak team had also called up veteran champions Pavel Ploc , Dluhoš , Parma and the very strong František Jež jumper. Jež in particular had won five World Cup competitions up to the World Cup, including the tournament in Bischofshofen. There was also the strong team from Austria with the experienced athletes Ernst Vettori and Andreas Felder . The younger Werner Haim and Heinz Kuttin completed the line-up, who had already achieved podium places in the World Cup season . Last but not least, the Norwegians had to be mentioned, on whom there was no slight pressure with the domestic defending champion Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl . However, the results achieved in the World Cup up to then did not necessarily give rise to high hopes.
The political upheavals in Eastern and Central Europe also did not leave the World Cup unaffected. The Polish federation was unable to send a team. After the resignation of their figurehead Piotr Fijas and the problems in the country, the Polish Ski Association decided not to start. And in the GDR , too , changed priorities almost caused a scandal. The financially intensive competitive sports system was put to the test, so that all sports associations of the DTSB were encouraged to save. So it came about that the DLSV did not want to accredit Jens Weißflog's home trainer Joachim Winterlich for the World Cup, as was usual in the past , but only wanted the association trainers Reinhard Heß and Henry Glaß . Only after Weißflog threatened to boycott the World Cup was Winterlich allowed to fly. He also looked after Ralph Gebstedt. Contrary to the plans of head coach Reinhard Heß, the GDR squad consisted of only three jumpers, as René Kummerlöw did not bring any convincing performances after a strong start to the season.

mode

Originally, two days of competition were planned again. However, the training on Friday, February 23rd, had to be canceled because the temperature on site was around 10 ° C. In addition, the hill was only finally prepared in a large-scale operation on Saturday night. But even on February 24th, the weather conditions did not allow a regular event, so that ultimately the World Cup on Sunday, February 25th, was decided after a trial run on just one day of the competition. This meant that of the three competition jumps completed, the two best were included in the rating.

Overall result

In front of 25,000 spectators, including Norway's then King Olav V , the competition started on Sunday after a nerve-wracking wait. Jens Weißflog set the first mark in the trial run by improving the hill record from 163 to 164 m. In the first round he managed a good 161 m, while the triple Olympic champion from Calgary, Matti Nykänen, seemed to be on his old form again with 171 m. This superset was only followed by 132 m in the second round, while Dieter Thoma, still on rank 38 after round 1, proved with 171 m that his Four Hills Tournament victory was no coincidence. In the meantime, however, Jens Weißflog was in the lead, who set the third and last 170 m jump of the day in the second round. While Felder, Fidjestøl and Nikkola were still within medal range after two rounds, the other favorites couldn't cope with the giant bakken. In the third run, hardly any jumper was able to improve in the wet and therefore slowing snow. Dieter Thoma, however, jumped ten meters further than Nykänen with the maximum clearance of 165 m, and Weissflog's 153 m was not enough to take silver. Because the Finnish old master gathered all his strength again and landed at 155 m, which in the end meant second place with only 1.5 points ahead of his rival Jens Weißflog. For Nykänen it was the last medal at an international ski jumping championship. Since Fidjestøl did not improve in the third round, there was no medal for the Norwegians in front of the home crowd. Among the disappointed were the Czechoslovaks, whose best representative Pavel Ploc came in 14th. For the new ski flying world champion Dieter Thoma, the 1989/90 season had gone very well. After winning the Four Hills Tournament, he won the world title at his first ski flying competition in Vikersund.

space	Surname	country	Widths (in m)	Points
01.	Dieter Thoma	BR Germany	135/171/165	357.7
02.	Matti Nykänen	Finland	171/132/155	350.8
03.	Jens Weißflog	GDR	161/170/153	349.3
04th	Andreas fields	Austria	165/165/158	346.4
05.	Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl	Norway	167/157/148	340.0
06th	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Finland	160/165/131	339.2
07th	Werner Haim	Austria	157/163/145	337.7
08th.	Thomas Klauser	BR Germany	160/153/153	333.9
09.	Virginio Lunardi	Italy	160/159/139	333.4
10.	Roberto Cecon	Italy	155/141/150	326.0
11.	Per-Inge Tällberg	Sweden	134/147/158	325.9
12.	Jon Inge Kjørum	Norway	154/157/98	325.0
13.	Mikhail Jessin	Soviet Union	159/149/135	321.6
14th	Pavel Ploc	Czechoslovakia	139/167/132	321.1
15th	Miran Tepeš	Yugoslavia	150/136/143	319.9
16.	Stephan Zünd	Switzerland	125/164/135	315.5
17th	Ernst Vettori	Austria	155/144/127	314.9
18th	Josef Heumann	BR Germany	152/152/132	312.9
19th	Pavel Kustow	Soviet Union	152/148/123	312.7
20th	Heinz Kuttin	Austria	145/145/145	312.5
21st	Andreas Bauer	BR Germany	145/153/132	311.6
22nd	Franci Petek	Yugoslavia	149/152/130	311.0
23.	Noriaki Kasai	Japan	150/151/138	310.5
24.	Ralph Gebstedt	GDR	152/147/130	310.4
25th	Primož Ulaga	Yugoslavia	148/154/114	310.3
26th	František Jež	Czechoslovakia	150/146/129	309.0
27.	Jan Boklöv	Sweden	153/147/113	308.7
28.	Christian Hauswirth	Switzerland	143/54/115	307.8
	Martin Švagerko	Czechoslovakia	151/146/136	307.8
30th	Masahiko Harada	Japan	140/149/126	302.9
31.	Staffan Tällberg	Sweden	138/144/139	302.8
32.	Ladislav Dluhoš	Czechoslovakia	94/145/136	300.7
33.	Vegard grandpas	Norway	150/135/128	298.4
34.	Didier Mollard	France	147/122/130	295.6
35.	Andrei Werweikin	Soviet Union	145/136/125	292.5
36.	Matjaž Zupan	Yugoslavia	147/136/127	291.7
37.	Yuri Golovshchikov	Soviet Union	137/14/126	290.3
38.	Christoph Lehmann	Switzerland	137/145/122	289.8
39.	Magne Johansen	Norway	137/134/130	288.1
40.	Risto Laakkonen	Finland	129/145/127	285.6
41.	Ron Richards	Canada	134/135/128	282.3
42.	Olijnyk rune	Norway	131/139/114	281.2
43.	Heiko Hunger	GDR	140/124/126	280.8
44.	Ted Langlois	United States	132/127/127	276.7
45.	Manabu Nikaidō	Japan	140/129/105	276.4
46.	Nicolas Jean-Prost	France	130/127/118	276.3
47.	John Lockyer	Canada	131/128/110	265.9
48.	Bernat Sola	Spain	129/120/120	263.2
49.	Thomas Kindlimann	Switzerland	131/122/104	262.1
50.	Naoki Yasuzaki	Japan	116/12/126	261.5
51.	Colin Capel	Canada	117/128/116	259.1
52.	Magnus Åström	Sweden	126/106/116	251.1
53.	Kurt Stein	Switzerland	117/120/110	242.9
54.	Roberto Frison	Italy	118/123/103	238.5
55.	Bryan Sanders	United States	116/113/95	230.9
56.	Jim Holland	United States	109/109/103	217.6

Web links

• Results of the Ski Flying World Championships 1990 for all 56 starters on www.fis-ski.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Neue Zeit , February 23, 1990 p. 6.
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , February 26, 1990 p. 6.
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , February 26, 1990, p. 6.
4. ↑ Overall result