Ski Flying World Championship 2006

Kulm ski jump

The Ski Flying World Championship 2006 was organized by the World Ski Federation FIS from January 12th to 15th at the Kulm in Bad Mitterndorf / Tauplitz . In addition to the individual competition, which consisted of four rounds held over two days, a team competition was also held.

The defending champion Roar Ljøkelsøy from Norway won the individual competition ahead of the two Austrians Andreas Widhölzl and Thomas Morgenstern . The Norwegian team won the team competition, places two and three went to Finland and Germany .

Attendees

52 athletes from 17 countries competed in the World Championship (number of athletes in brackets):

Germany (4)  Estonia (2)  Finland (4)  France (2)  Japan (3)  Norway (5)  Austria (4)  Poland (4)  Russia (4)

Sweden (2)  Switzerland (4)  Slovakia (1)  Slovenia (4)  South Korea (2)  Czech Republic (4)  United States (1)  Belarus (2)

In the qualification held on January 12th, the starting field was reduced to 40 jumpers from 14 countries. After the first round it was again reduced to 30 jumpers from 11 countries. For the team competition, nine nations put together a team of four jumpers each.

Individual competition

space	Surname	country	Points
01	Roar Ljøkelsøy	Norway	788.0
02	Andreas Widhölzl	Austria	762.4
03	Thomas Morgenstern	Austria	752.2
04th	Martin Koch	Austria	741.8
05	Michael Uhrmann	Germany	721.3
06th	Andreas Kuettel	Switzerland	719.0
07th	Jakub Janda	Czech Republic	717.1
08th	Janne Ahonen	Finland	715.8
09	Janne Happonen	Finland	714.6
10	Bjørn Einar Romøren	Norway	707.4
11	Matti Hautamäki	Finland	702.0
12	Tommy Ingebrigtsen	Norway	701.1
13	Michael Neumayer	Germany	689.2
14th	Andreas Kofler	Austria	681.8
15th	Robert Kranjec	Slovenia	678.5
16	Dmitri Vasiliev	Russia	673.5
17th	Henning Stensrud	Norway	668.0
18th	Tami Kiuru	Finland	662.7
19th	Robert Mateja	Poland	652.1
20th	Adam Malysz	Poland	636.2
21st	Alexander Lord	Germany	628.5
22nd	Georg Späth	Germany	625.2
23	Simon Ammann	Switzerland	623.8
24	Michael Möllinger	Switzerland	621.6
25th	Jernej Damjan	Slovenia	616.6
26th	Primož Peterka	Slovenia	605.7
27	Rok Benkovič	Slovenia	605.1
28	Jan high school diploma	Czech Republic	594.9
29	David Lazzaroni	France	562.8
30th	Kim Hyun-ki	South Korea	533.5

Date:
1st round: January 13, 2006, 1:55 pm - 3:55 pm
2nd round: January 13, 2006, 4:10 pm - 4:42 pm
3rd round: January 14, 2006, 1:45 pm - 14th : 6 p.m.
4th round: January 14, 2006, 2:43 p.m. - 3:27 p.m.

After the first round the Austrian Andreas Widhölzl was in the front, but already in the second round the defending champion Roar Ljøkelsøy from Norway was able to take the lead, which he held until the end of the championship. The Austrian Thomas Morgenstern showed me the longest flight, 210.5 m in the fourth round.

Team competition

space	country	Jumper	Points
01	Norway	Bjørn Einar Romøren Lars Bystøl Tommy Ingebrigtsen Roar Ljøkelsøy	1597.9
02	Finland	Janne Happonen Tami Kiuru Matti Hautamäki Janne Ahonen	1477.2
03	Germany	Michael Neumayer Georg Späth Alexander Mr. Michael Uhrmann	1374.0
04th	Austria	Martin Koch Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Kofler Andreas Widhölzl	1290.6
05	Slovenia	Jernej Damjan Rok Benkovič Robert Kranjec Primož Peterka	1252.2
06th	Switzerland	Andreas Küttel Michael Möllinger Guido Landert Simon Ammann	1225.9
07th	Russia	Ildar Fatkullin Dmitri Wassiljew Denis Kornilow Dmitri Ipatow	1154.7
08th	Czech Republic	Antonín Hájek Borek Sedlák Jan Matura Jakub Janda	934.8

Date:
1st round: January 15, 2006, 1:45 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
2nd round: January 15, 2006, 3:28 p.m. - 4:19 p.m.

The team from Austria favored in the run-up only achieved fourth place after Andreas Kofler landed at only 95 meters in the first round. The longest flights were shown by the Slovenian Robert Kranjec , who reached 207.0 m in both rounds.

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Norway	2	0	0	2
2.	Austria	0	1	1	2
3.	Finland	0	1	0	1
4th	Germany	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Official final result single PDF 122kb
• Official final result team PDF 113kb