Ski Flying World Championship 2008

Logo of the Ski Flying World Championship 2008

The Heini-Klopfer ski jumping hill , the venue for this world championship

The ski flying world championship 2008 took place from February 21 to 24, 2008 for the fifth time on the Heini-Klopfer ski jumping hill in Oberstdorf . It was organized by the World Ski Federation FIS and organized by the DSV . An individual competition consisting of four rounds and a team competition (two rounds with four jumpers per team) were held.

The individual competition was won by Gregor Schlierenzauer on February 23rd . Martin Koch and Janne Ahonen also made it onto the podium. With 221 meters, Koch also made the longest jump in the individual competition and thus approached the hill record of defending champion Roar Ljøkelsøy , who was eliminated in the first round, up to 2 meters .

The Austrian team won the team competition, especially thanks to the strong performances of Koch and Schlierenzauer, who had the longest jump in both rounds. The Finnish team finished second, pushing Norway to third place in the final round. Behind them Germany came fourth, Switzerland was eliminated in the first round and came in ninth.

mode

In the individual, 40 jumpers qualified for the first round, of which ten were eliminated before the second round, so that the last three rounds took place with the 30 best athletes. The first two of the four rounds took place on Friday, the third and fourth round on Saturday.

The two rounds of the team competition took place on Sunday.

Attendees

62 athletes from 18 countries competed for the qualification, with substitute jumpers there were a total of 70 participants:

nation	Participant in the qualification	Participants in the first round	Participants in the second round	Team competition
Austria	4th	4th	4th	Yes
Belarus	1	0	0	No
Czech Republic	4th	3	1	Yes
Finland	4th	4th	4th	Yes
France	4th	2	2	Yes
Germany	4th	4th	4th	Yes
Italy	2	1	0	No
Japan	4th	4th	2	Yes
Kazakhstan	4th	1	0	Yes
South Korea	3	0	0	No
Norway	5	5	4th	Yes
Poland	4th	2	1	Yes
Russia	4th	3	2	Yes
Slovenia	4th	3	3	Yes
Switzerland	4th	3	3	Yes
Slovakia	1	0	0	No
Sweden	4th	0	0	Yes
Ukraine	3	1	0	No

Individual competition

Date:
Qualification: February 21, 2008
1st round: February 22, 2008
2nd round: February 22, 2008
3rd round: February 23, 2008
4th round: February 23, 2008

training

In the first training round for the individual competition there were two 200-meter flights, both by Martin Koch (209.5 meters) and by the winner of the Four Hills Tournament 2007/08 , Janne Ahonen (201 meters).

In the second training round there was no jump over 200 meters, here Ahonen jumped the furthest with 198.5 meters. He was followed by Adam Małysz with 197 meters and defending champion and hill record holder Roar Ljøkelsøy with 196.5 meters.

qualification

Martin Koch had the longest jump of the athletes who still had to qualify (201 meters). All Germans and Austrians qualified for the first round, three out of four Swiss athletes made the jump.

The first ten of the overall World Cup had already been pre-qualified, led by Thomas Morgenstern , who was already the overall World Cup winner . Bjørn Einar Romøren jumped the furthest of them with 207 meters. Romøren landed the longest jump at this ski flying world championship to date.

space	Surname	country	Points
01	Martin Koch	Austria	193.7
02	Michael Uhrmann	Germany	186.5
03	Emmanuel Chedal	France	183.6
04th	Roar Ljøkelsøy	Norway	183.0
05	Martin Schmitt	Germany	182.4
06th	Adam Malysz	Poland	181.8
07th	Andreas Kofler	Austria	181.3
08th	Borek Sedlák	Czech Republic	180.6
09	Harri Olli	Finland	179.4
09	Matti Hautamäki	Finland	179.4

First try

After the first round, Bjørn Einar Romøren led with 214.5 meters and 212.4 points ahead of Gregor Schlierenzauer and the best in qualification, Martin Koch , who also landed the longest jump with 215.5 meters. In the first round there were eleven 200 m flights, the defending champion Roar Ljøkelsøy was eliminated from the start.

Status after the first round:

space	Surname	country	Points
01	Bjørn Einar Romøren	Norway	212.4
02	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Austria	207.9
03	Martin Koch	Austria	207.1
04th	Simon Ammann	Switzerland	203.7
05	Janne Ahonen	Finland	202.6
06th	Adam Malysz	Poland	202.0
07th	Thomas Morgenstern	Austria	201.5
08th	Tom Hilde	Norway	197.1
09	Janne Happonen	Finland	196.5
10	Martin Schmitt	Germany	194.2

Second round

In the second round, Koch again made the longest jump with 221 meters, but due to his less than perfect landing he still only finished 3rd. Gregor Schlierenzauer was 0.6 points ahead of Martin Koch in 2nd place. The leader was still after two rounds Bjørn Einar Romøren with a total of 424.1 points. Martin Schmitt as the best German fell from 10th to 12th place, the best Swiss was Andreas Küttel in 8th place.

Status after the second round:

space	Surname	country	Points
01	Bjørn Einar Romøren	Norway	424.1
02	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Austria	421.9
03	Martin Koch	Austria	421.3
04th	Thomas Morgenstern	Austria	413.2
05	Adam Malysz	Poland	409.8
06th	Janne Happonen	Finland	404.1
07th	Janne Ahonen	Finland	403.9
08th	Andreas Kuettel	Switzerland	402.7
09	Harri Olli	Finland	392.0
10	Simon Ammann	Switzerland	391.3

Third round

The leader after three rounds and second overall Martin Koch

Martin Koch also had the longest jump in the third round. Since he also succeeded in landing this time, he took the lead with a 3.8 point lead over Gregor Schlierenzauer. Bjørn Einar Romøren dropped from first to third place, so that Janne Ahonen and Thomas Morgenstern had a chance of winning a medal again. Simon Ammann resumed his position as the best Swiss and was able to place eighth. Despite falling back to 14th place, Martin Schmitt remained the best German.

Status after the third round:

space	Surname	country	Points
01	Martin Koch	Austria	629.9
02	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Austria	626.1
03	Bjørn Einar Romøren	Norway	615.3
04th	Janne Ahonen	Finland	606.7
05	Thomas Morgenstern	Austria	600.1
06th	Janne Happonen	Finland	598.3
07th	Adam Malysz	Poland	591.8
08th	Simon Ammann	Switzerland	590.4
09	Harri Olli	Finland	586.1
10	Andreas Kuettel	Switzerland	580.5

Fourth round

In this round, Gregor Schlierenzauer set the furthest mark with 211.5 meters. For Martin Koch it was only enough for second place, although he had the longest flight in three of four rounds. Janne Ahonen improved from 4th to 3rd, displacing Bjørn Einar Romøren from the medal position. Janne Happonen and Harri Olli placed two other Finns behind Romøren in fifth and sixth place , the Finnish team thus placed three athletes in the top six and went into the team competition on Sunday as a favorite. Behind them were overall World Cup winner Thomas Morgenstern, the best Swiss Simon Ammann, Adam Małysz and Anders Jacobsen in the first ten places. Martin Schmitt remained the best German in the fourth round, although he fell back to 15th place.

Final score

space	Surname	country	Width 1st floor	Width 2nd DG	Width 3rd DG	Width 4th DG	Points
01	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Austria	212.0 m	217.5 m	208.5 m	211.5 m	835.4
02	Martin Koch	Austria	215.5 m	221.0 m	213.0 m	201.5 m	824.7
03	Janne Ahonen	Finland	210.5 m	206.5 m	209.0 m	208.5 m	811.9
04th	Bjørn Einar Romøren	Norway	214.5 m	213.5 m	198.5 m	196.5 m	804.6
05	Janne Happonen	Finland	202.5 m	210.5 m	201.0 m	207.0 m	801.7
06th	Harri Olli	Finland	200.5 m	204.5 m	200.5 m	206.5 m	787.4
07th	Thomas Morgenstern	Austria	205.0 m	213.5 m	194.5 m	193.5 m	784.3
08th	Simon Ammann	Switzerland	208.5 m	195.5 m	205.5 m	199.5 m	782.8
09	Adam Malysz	Poland	207.5 m	211.5 m	192.5 m	196.0 m	778.0
10	Jacobsen is different	Norway	194.5 m	202.5 m	203.0 m	201.5 m	775.3
11	Tom Hilde	Norway	203.0 m	200.0 m	197.0 m	200.0 m	773.5
12	Jernej Damjan	Slovenia	198.0 m	199.5 m	201.5 m	199.5 m	772.7
13	Andreas Kuettel	Switzerland	199.5 m	211.5 m	189.0 m	195.5 m	768.6
14th	Matti Hautamäki	Finland	189.5 m	197.5 m	193.5 m	202.5 m	754.6
15th	Martin Schmitt	Germany	201.0 m	200.0 m	192.5 m	187.0 m	747.6
16	Andreas Kofler	Austria	198.0 m	197.5 m	195.5 m	186.0 m	745.4
17th	Robert Kranjec	Slovenia	194.5 m	201.0 m	189.0 m	191.0 m	740.1
18th	Bardal is different	Norway	178.5 m	194.0 m	193.5 m	192.5 m	717.7
19th	Michael Uhrmann	Germany	183.0 m	195.5 m	190.0 m	184.0 m	709.0
20th	Antonín Hájek	Czech Republic	178.0 m	198.5 m	188.5 m	184.5 m	704.4
21st	Michael Neumayer	Germany	188.5 m	189.0 m	179.0 m	196.5 m	698.6
22nd	Pavel Karelin	Russia	204.5 m	198.5 m	183.0 m	177.5 m	694.7
23	Guido Landert	Switzerland	187.0 m	190.5 m	181.0 m	179.5 m	685.1
24	Emmanuel Chedal	France	186.5 m	182.5 m	182.5 m	178.5 m	670.9
25th	Shōhei Tochimoto	Japan	183.5 m	174.5 m	185.0 m	180.5 m	669.2
26th	Denis Kornilov	Russia	185.0 m	180.5 m	175.5 m	179.5 m	666.1
27	Daiki Itō	Japan	187.0 m	180.5 m	176.0 m	168.0 m	650.3
28	Primož Peterka	Slovenia	179.5 m	176.0 m	169.5 m	183.5 m	649.2
29	David Lazzaroni	France	188.5 m	170.0 m	184.5 m	169.5 m	648.0
30th	Georg Späth	Germany	178.5 m	177.5 m	173.0 m	174.0 m	643.6
31	Borek Sedlák	Czech Republic	177.5 m	-	-	-	162.0
32	Roar Ljøkelsøy	Norway	176.0 m	-	-	-	161.2
33	Jan high school diploma	Czech Republic	175.5 m	-	-	-	161.1
34	Kamil Stoch	Poland	174.0 m	-	-	-	158.3
35	Noriaki Kasai	Japan	174.5 m	-	-	-	155.9
36	Sebastian Colloredo	Italy	171.5 m	-	-	-	154.8
37	Dmitri Ipatov	Russia	165.0 m	-	-	-	145.5
38	Oleksandr Lasarowytsch	Ukraine	165.0 m	-	-	-	142.0
39	Taku Takeuchi	Japan	162.5 m	-	-	-	141.5
40	Nikolai Karpenko	Kazakhstan	161.0 m	-	-	-	135.7

Best

In these statistics only the jumped distances are taken into account, but not the actual number of points.

Passage / qualification	Surname	nation	Expanse
1st training round	Martin Koch	Austria	209.5 m
2nd training round	Janne Ahonen	Finland	201.0 m
qualification	Bjørn Einar Romøren	Norway	207.0 m
1st round	Martin Koch	Austria	215.5 m
2nd round	Martin Koch	Austria	221.0 m
3rd round	Martin Koch	Austria	213.0 m
4th round	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Austria	211.5 m

Longest jumps

Only jumps from the competition are taken into account.

rank	Surname	nation	Expanse	Passage
01	Martin Koch	Austria	221.0 m	2nd round
02	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Austria	217.5 m	2nd round
03	Martin Koch	Austria	215.5 m	1st round
04th	Bjørn Einar Romøren	Norway	214.5 m	1st round
05	Bjørn Einar Romøren	Norway	213.5 m	2nd round
05	Thomas Morgenstern	Austria	213.5 m	2nd round
07th	Martin Koch	Austria	213.0 m	3rd round
08th	Adam Malysz	Poland	211.5 m	2nd round
08th	Andreas Kuettel	Switzerland	211.5 m	2nd round
08th	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Austria	211.5 m	4th round

Team competition

Date:
1st round: February 24, 2008
2nd round: February 24, 2008

First try

After the first round, the Austrian team led the competition before Norway and Finland, the longest of the four flights (one per jumper in a team) was once again set by Martin Koch with 214.5 meters. The German team was able to place itself in 4th place, the Swiss team only came in a disappointing ninth place and had to end the competition early because only eight teams made it to the finals.

Second round

Austria was also able to defend its lead in the second round. This time Gregor Schlierenzauer, the winner in the individual, made the longest flight of 217 meters. For Austria it was the first ever victory in the team competition. Behind them Finland and Norway swapped places so that the Finnish team won the silver and the Norwegian team the bronze. The German team stayed in fourth place.

statistics

rank	country	Jumper	Points (1st DG)	Points (2nd DG)	Total points
01	Austria	Martin Koch Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Kofler Gregor Schlierenzauer	765.3 210.9 184.9 169.2 200.3	788.0 206.6 181.6 190.4 209.4	1,553.3 417.5 366.5 359.6 409.7
02	Finland	Janne Happonen Harri Olli Matti Hautamäki Janne Ahonen	712.4 200.6 160.2 164.5 187.1	764.6 195.8 188.2 195.3 185.3	1477.0 396.4 348.4 359.8 372.4
03	Norway	Bjørn Einar Romøren Anders Bardal Tom Hilde Anders Jacobsen	716.7 191.7 163.4 171.8 189.8	736.5 188.7 172.2 202.2 173.4	1453.2 380.4 335.6 374.0 363.2
04th	Germany	Georg Späth Michael Uhrmann Martin Schmitt Michael Neumayer	645.1 154.2 161.6 170.7 158.6	716.6 160.6 187.5 197.6 170.9	1361.7 314.8 349.1 368.3 329.5
05	Russia	Dmitri Wassiljew Ilya Roslyakov Pavel Karelin Denis Kornilow	626.7 146.6 161.3 168.0 150.8	681.4 165.4 161.6 189.0 165.4	1308.1 312.0 322.9 357.0 316.2
06th	Czech Republic	Antonín Hájek Roman Koudelka Jan Matura Borek Sedlák	628.0 179.4 179.4 156.7 112.5	670.9 168.0 176.4 169.9 156.6	1,298.9 347.4 355.8 326.6 269.1
07th	Japan	Daiki Itō Noriaki Kasai Taku Takeuchi Shōhei Tochimoto	619.4 168.9 150.7 150.3 149.5	621.8 159.9 127.1 166.5 168.3	1241.2 328.8 277.8 316.8 317.8
08th	France	Vincent Descombes David Lazzaroni Pierre Emmanuel Robe Emmanuel Chedal	603.7 153.6 180.1 103.2 166.8	592.5 140.5 140.4 135.7 175.9	1,196.2 294.1 320.5 238.9 342.7
09	Switzerland	Simon Ammann Andreas Küttel Antoine Guignard Guido Landert	602.9 176.1 150.5 119.1 157.2	- - - - -	602.9 176.1 150.5 119.1 157.2
10	Poland	Kamil Stoch Piotr Żyła Stefan Hula Adam Małysz	573.8 148.9 150.1 84.0 190.8	- - - - -	573.8 148.9 150.1 84.0 190.8
11	Sweden	Carl Nordin Isak Grimholm Johan Eriksson Andreas Arén	527.9 132.5 130.8 114.6 150.0	- - - - -	527.9 132.5 130.8 114.6 150.0
12	Slovenia	Robert Kranjec Jurij Tepeš Primož Peterka Jernej Damjan	509.3 39.0 140.1 155.3 174.9	- - - - -	509.3 39.0 140.1 155.3 174.9
13	Kazakhstan	Assan Tachtachunow Alexei Koroljow Radik Schaparow Nikolai Karpenko	508.5 121.2 102.0 148.8 136.5	- - - - -	508.5 121.2 102.0 148.8 136.5

Medal table

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

Others

• Oberstdorf expected around 80,000 spectators, the actual number was around 70,000.
• The jumps were broadcast by ARD and ORF .
• Gregor Schlierenzauer became the youngest ski flying world champion of all time with his victory in the individual.

Web links

• official page
• Qualification result (PDF file; 184 kB)
• Result of the 1st round (PDF file; 176 kB)
• Result of the 2nd round (PDF file; 181 kB)
• Result of the 3rd round (PDF file; 181 kB)
• Official final result (PDF file; 191 kB)
• Result of the team competition (PDF file; 184 kB)