Ski Flying World Championship 2010

Letalnica in Planica, Slovenia

The winner Simon Ammann and the runner-up Gregor Schlierenzauer at the award ceremony.

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
01	Noriaki Kasai	Japan	207.6
02	Antonin Hajek	Czech Republic	206.1
03	Kamil Stoch	Poland	199.9
04th	Matti Hautamäki	Finland	199.1
05	Michael Neumayer	Germany	198.8
06th	Daiki Itō	Japan	197.4
07th	Johan Remen Evensen	Norway	196.5
08th	Emmanuel Chedal	France	193.1
09	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
01	Adam Malysz	Poland	215.1
02	Simon Ammann	Switzerland	214.6
03	Jacobsen is different	Norway	214.4
04th	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Austria	208.7
05	Bjørn Einar Romøren	Norway	207.9
06th	Harri Olli	Finland	207.7
07th	Robert Kranjec	Slovenia	205.5
08th	Wolfgang Loitzl	Austria	204.4
09	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
01	Simon Ammann	Switzerland	445.6
02	Adam Malysz	Poland	442.8
03	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Austria	428.4
04th	Wolfgang Loitzl	Austria	425.2
05	Harri Olli	Finland	414.1
06th	Robert Kranjec	Slovenia	413.6
07th	Bjørn Einar Romøren	Norway	412.5
08th	Jacobsen is different	Norway	411.7
09	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
01	Simon Ammann	Switzerland	684.2
02	Adam Malysz	Poland	667.8
03	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Austria	662.7
04th	Wolfgang Loitzl	Austria	654.7
05	Jacobsen is different	Norway	645.4
06th	Robert Kranjec	Slovenia	639.1
07th	Martin Koch	Austria	631.3
08th	Thomas Morgenstern	Austria	628.5
09	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
01	Simon Ammann	Switzerland	935.8
02	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Austria	910.3
03	Jacobsen is different	Norway	894.0
04th	Adam Malysz	Poland	893.6
05	Robert Kranjec	Slovenia	873.5
06th	Wolfgang Loitzl	Austria	865.3
07th	Thomas Morgenstern	Austria	855.4
08th	Antonin Hajek	Czech Republic	844.9
09	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
01	Austria Wolfgang Loitzl Thomas Morgenstern Martin Koch Gregor Schlierenzauer	1641.4
02	Norway Anders Jacobsen Anders Bardal Johan Remen Evensen Bjørn Einar Romøren	1542.3
03	Finland Janne Happonen Olli Muotka Matti Hautamäki Harri Olli	1474.3
04th	Poland Kamil Stoch Łukasz Rutkowski Stefan Hula Adam Małysz	1452.5
05	Czech Republic Lukáš Hlava Jan Matura Borek Sedlák Antonín Hájek	1399.2
06th	Slovenia Robert Hrgota Jernej Damjan Jurij Tepeš Robert Kranjec	1378.3
07th	Germany Michael Neumayer Richard Freitag Martin Schmitt Michael Uhrmann	1332.9
08th	Italy Sebastian Colloredo Andrea Morassi Roberto Dellasega Diego Dellasega	1219.6
09	Russia Georgi Tscherwjakow Stanislav Oschtschepkow Ilya Roslyakov Roman Trofimow	545.0
10	United States Nicholas Fairall Michael Glasder Christopher Lamb Nicholas Alexander	462.2

Medal table

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

Web links

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