Ski Flying World Championship 2010
The 2010 ski flying world championship was held from March 19th to 21st at Letalnica in Planica , Slovenia . It was the sixth time that the ski flying world championships were held there. They consisted of an individual competition in four rounds and a team competition. The defending champions were Gregor Schlierenzauer and the Austrian team. Simon Ammann won the individual competition , while the Austrian team was able to repeat its team success from 2008 . The ski flying world championship also marked the end of the ski jumping season 2009/10 .
Individual competition
Date:
Qualification: March 18, 2010
1st round: March 19, 2010
2nd round: March 19, 2010
3rd round: March 20, 2010
4th round: March 20, 2010
training
In the first training round for the individual competition, a total of 69 of 70 registered jumpers started, 16 of them managed to stand a distance of 200 meters and more. The longest flight was made by Noriaki Kasai (215.5 meters).
One less athlete competed in the second training round, and there were a total of 17 jumps over 200 meters. The Czech jumper Antonin Hajek achieved the longest flight of the weekend to date with 228.5 meters. Nevertheless, Simon Ammann (217.5 meters) was in front of Hajek at the end, as Hajek started his jump from five hatches further up. Defending champion Gregor Schlierenzauer (211.5 meters) took third place in the final accounts immediately after Ammann and Hajek.
qualification
Noriaki Kasai had the longest jump of the athletes who had yet to qualify (210.5 meters). All Germans and Austrians qualified for the first round.
The first ten of the overall World Cup were already pre-qualified, led by Simon Ammann, who was already the overall World Cup winner. Bjørn Einar Romøren jumped the furthest of them with 230.5 meters. Romøren landed the longest jump at this ski flying world championship to date.
space | Surname | country | Points |
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1 | Noriaki Kasai | Japan | 207.6 |
2 | Antonin Hajek | Czech Republic | 206.1 |
3 | Kamil Stoch | Poland | 199.9 |
4th | Matti Hautamäki | Finland | 199.1 |
5 | Michael Neumayer | Germany | 198.8 |
6th | Daiki Itō | Japan | 197.4 |
7th | Johan Remen Evensen | Norway | 196.5 |
8th | Emmanuel Chedal | France | 193.1 |
9 | Janne Happonen | Finland | 187.9 |
10 | Borek Sedlák | Czech Republic | 182.8 |
First try
After the first round, Adam Małysz led with 217.5 meters and 215.1 points ahead of Simon Ammann and Anders Jacobsen . Local hero Robert Kranjec made the longest flight with 223.5 meters. In the first round there were 15 flights over the 200 m mark, one of which was achieved by defending champion Gregor Schlierenzauer (209.5 meters, 208.7 points).
The qualifying winner, Noriaki Kasai, flew in 13th place with 215.5 meters.
space | Surname | country | Points |
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1 | Adam Malysz | Poland | 215.1 |
2 | Simon Ammann | Switzerland | 214.6 |
3 | Jacobsen is different | Norway | 214.4 |
4th | Gregor Schlierenzauer | Austria | 208.7 |
5 | Bjørn Einar Romøren | Norway | 207.9 |
6th | Harri Olli | Finland | 207.7 |
7th | Robert Kranjec | Slovenia | 205.5 |
8th | Wolfgang Loitzl | Austria | 204.4 |
9 | Martin Koch | Austria | 202.2 |
10 | Janne Happonen | Finland | 196.7 |
Second round
In the second round, the Austrian David Zauner surprisingly managed the longest jump to 223 meters. As a result, he moved up from 15th to tenth place. Adam Małysz lost his lead due to somewhat poorer conditions and a 1.5 meter shorter jump to just 215 meters to Simon Ammann. After two rounds, Simon Ammann is leading with 2.8 points ahead of Adam Małysz and 17.2 points ahead of defending champion Gregor Schlierenzauer.
The best German after the first day of competition is Martin Schmitt , who is in 18th place . Schmitt achieved 372.3 points in the two rounds and is 56.1 points behind the medal ranks.
space | Surname | country | Points |
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1 | Simon Ammann | Switzerland | 445.6 |
2 | Adam Malysz | Poland | 442.8 |
3 | Gregor Schlierenzauer | Austria | 428.4 |
4th | Wolfgang Loitzl | Austria | 425.2 |
5 | Harri Olli | Finland | 414.1 |
6th | Robert Kranjec | Slovenia | 413.6 |
7th | Bjørn Einar Romøren | Norway | 412.5 |
8th | Jacobsen is different | Norway | 411.7 |
9 | Martin Koch | Austria | 409.9 |
10 | David Zauner | Austria | 406.5 |
Third round
After the third round, Simon Ammann maintained his top position ahead of Małysz and Schlierenzauer. With 230.5 meters, Anders Jacobsen had the longest jump of the passage and thus improved to 5th place.
space | Surname | country | Points |
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1 | Simon Ammann | Switzerland | 684.2 |
2 | Adam Malysz | Poland | 667.8 |
3 | Gregor Schlierenzauer | Austria | 662.7 |
4th | Wolfgang Loitzl | Austria | 654.7 |
5 | Jacobsen is different | Norway | 645.4 |
6th | Robert Kranjec | Slovenia | 639.1 |
7th | Martin Koch | Austria | 631.3 |
8th | Thomas Morgenstern | Austria | 628.5 |
9 | Bjørn Einar Romøren | Norway | 623.0 |
10 | Harri Olli | Finland | 618.8 |
Fourth round
After four rounds, the Swiss Simon Ammann won the individual jumping ahead of Gregor Schlierenzauer from Austria and Anders Jacobsen from Norway. Ammann achieved the highest number of points of all jumpers in rounds 2, 3 and 4. As the best German, Michael Uhrmann finished the competition in 19th place (745.7 points).
space | Surname | country | Points |
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1 | Simon Ammann | Switzerland | 935.8 |
2 | Gregor Schlierenzauer | Austria | 910.3 |
3 | Jacobsen is different | Norway | 894.0 |
4th | Adam Malysz | Poland | 893.6 |
5 | Robert Kranjec | Slovenia | 873.5 |
6th | Wolfgang Loitzl | Austria | 865.3 |
7th | Thomas Morgenstern | Austria | 855.4 |
8th | Antonin Hajek | Czech Republic | 844.9 |
9 | Bjørn Einar Romøren | Norway | 844.5 |
10 | Martin Koch | Austria | 839.8 |
Team competition
The team competition, consisting of two rounds, took place on March 21, 2010 at the end of the ski flying world championships. After the first round, the Austrian team was ahead of Norway and Finland. At this stand nothing changed in the second round, in which the best eight teams from the first round were allowed to start. The German team finished the competition in 7th place, a Swiss team did not start in the team competition.
space | country | Points |
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1 | Austria | 1641.4 |
2 | Norway | 1542.3 |
3 | Finland | 1474.3 |
4th | Poland | 1452.5 |
5 | Czech Republic | 1399.2 |
6th | Slovenia | 1378.3 |
7th | Germany | 1332.9 |
8th | Italy | 1219.6 |
9 | Russia | 545.0 |
10 | United States | 462.2 |
Medal table
space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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1. | Austria | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
2. | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
3. | Norway | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
4th | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |