Ski Flying World Championship 2012

The FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2012 was held from 23 to 26 February at the Vikersundbakken in Norwegian Vikersund instead. The hill was the venue of a world championship for the fourth time. The defending champion in the individual competition was Simon Ammann from Switzerland and Austria in the team competition . The Slovenian Robert Kranjec was able to win the individual competition, which was shortened to two rounds due to the wind conditions , while Austria defended its title in the team competition.

The hill record and thus the ski flying world record is 246.5 m.

Results overview

date	Passage	comment	winner	Second	Third
February 23, 2012	qualification		Andreas Kofler	Rune velta	Not so with Fannemel
February 24, 2012	1st round		Passage canceled
February 24, 2012	2nd round		Round canceled
February 25, 2012	3rd round	counted as 1st round	Rune velta	Martin Koch	Robert Kranjec
February 25, 2012	4th round and final score	counted as 2nd round	Robert Kranjec	Rune velta	Martin Koch
February 26, 2012	1st round	team	Austria Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Kofler Gregor Schlierenzauer Martin Koch	Germany Andreas Wank Richard Friday Maximilian Mechler Severin Freund	Slovenia Jernej Damjan Jurij Tepeš Jure Šinkovec Robert Kranjec
February 26, 2012	2nd round	team	Austria Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Kofler Gregor Schlierenzauer Martin Koch	Germany Andreas Wank Richard Friday Maximilian Mechler Severin Freund	Slovenia Jernej Damjan Jurij Tepeš Jure Šinkovec Robert Kranjec

Individual competition

Vikersund will be announced at the FIS Congress on January 6, 2008 in Cape Town as the host of the 2012 Ski Flying World Championships

Date:
Qualification: February 23, 2012
1st round: February 24, 2012 (canceled)
2nd round: February 24, 2012 (canceled)
3rd round: February 25, 2012 (counted as first round)
4th round: 25th round February 2012 (counted as the second run)

training

All 56 registered athletes started in both training rounds. In the first run, which was started from infeed hatches 13, 14 and 16, 19 athletes managed the flight over 200 meters. Martin Koch managed the longest flight with 237 meters from infeed hatch 14. In the second run, which started in hatch 16 and continued from hatch 14 from number 36, 22 participants were able to fly over the 200 meter mark. Anders Fannemel achieved the greatest distance here with 223.5 meters from port 16.

qualification

Andreas Kofler won the qualification with a flight of 221 meters. So he was half a meter behind Rune Velta , but got better posture grades than the Norwegian. The already pre-qualified athletes are not to be taken into account in this ranking, these were the top ten of the discipline world cup ski flying, above all the Japanese Daiki Itō .

space	Surname	country	Points
01	Andreas Kofler	Austria	220.3
02	Rune velta	Norway	216.2
03	Not so with Fannemel	Norway	202.8
04th	Lukáš Hlava	Czech Republic	196.2
05	Janne Happonen	Finland	192.5
06th	Vincent Descombes Sevoie	France	190.4
07th	Taku Takeuchi	Japan	188.7
08th	Jakub Janda	Czech Republic	185.7
09	Bjørn Einar Romøren	Norway	177.2
10	Maximilian Mechler	Germany	174.8

First try

Rune Velta jumping to 234 meters

The first round started with a delay after several postponements due to adverse wind conditions and then had to be interrupted several times. After 35 out of 40 athletes, there was initially a longer break of over an hour before the jury decided to cancel. Rune Velta was able to make the longest flight in the broken passage at 234 meters.

Second round

The second round should initially be carried out instead of the trial round on February 25th. Again, however, adverse wind conditions prevented this evaluation round from being carried out, so that only the two actually scheduled rounds were carried out on the second day of the competition.

Third round

The evaluation run planned as the third run was the first run that was included in the evaluation. The conditions were still difficult, which is why the jury decided several times to change the length of the inrun. The start was from portholes 07, 09, 11, 13 and 14. After the first round, the Norwegian Rune Velta was in the lead, who set a flight from port 07 to 217.5 meters. With 215.2 points he took the lead from Martin Koch and Robert Kranjec. A total of 26 athletes made the flight over 200 meters, the greatest distance was achieved by Anders Fannemel with 244.5 meters from infeed hatch 11, which was only two meters below the world record of his compatriot Johan Remen Evensen .

space	Surname	country	Points
01	Rune velta	Norway	215.2
02	Martin Koch	Austria	212.5
03	Robert Kranjec	Slovenia	211.3
04th	Not so with Fannemel	Norway	207.4
05	Bardal is different	Norway	202.5
06th	Severin friend	Germany	199.6
07th	Simon Ammann	Switzerland	196.9
08th	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Austria	196.6
09	Andreas Kofler	Austria	191.5
10	Richard Friday	Germany	190.6

Fourth round and overall classification

The medalists Rune Velta, Robert Kranjec and Martin Koch

The fourth to sixth placed Severin Freund, Daiki Itō and Andreas Kofler

The final, actually fourth, but actually second due to the conditions, was again characterized by changing wind conditions, which made it necessary to adjust the inrun length several times. The start was from hatches 10, 12, 14 and 15. Robert Kranjec secured the world title with the second-longest flight of the competition, when he landed from hatch 15 at 244 meters. Second was the Norwegian Rune Velta, who profited from a fall of the third-placed Martin Koch, who had flown at 243 meters. Anders Fannemel, who was fourth after the first round, fell back to 13th place overall after a flight of 179.5 meters.

space	Surname	country	Points
01	Robert Kranjec	Slovenia	408.7
02	Rune velta	Norway	405.7
03	Martin Koch	Austria	386.2
04th	Severin friend	Germany	372.6
05	Daiki Itō	Japan	365.2
06th	Andreas Kofler	Austria	364.2
07th	Bardal is different	Norway	360.3
08th	Thomas Morgenstern	Austria	360.2
09	Richard Friday	Germany	356.3
10	Kamil Stoch	Poland	353.9

Team competition

The podium of the team competition

Austria with flag at the award ceremony

Slovenia celebrates winning the bronze medal

Date:
1st round: February 26th, 2012
2nd round: February 26th, 2012

The team competition, consisting of two rounds, took place on February 26, 2012 at the end of the ski flying world championships. After the first round, the Austrian team was ahead of Germany and Slovenia. At this stand nothing changed in the second round, in which the best eight teams from the first round were allowed to start. A Swiss team did not start in the team competition.

space	country	Points
01	Austria Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Kofler Gregor Schlierenzauer Martin Koch	1648.4
02	Germany Andreas Wank Richard Friday Maximilian Mechler Severin Freund	1625.2
03	Slovenia Jernej Damjan Jurij Tepeš Jure Šinkovec Robert Kranjec	1580.4
04th	Norway Bjørn Einar Romøren Anders Fannemel Rune Velta Anders Bardal	1542.2
05	Japan Yūta Watase Shōhei Tochimoto Taku Takeuchi Daiki Itō	1472.9
06th	Czech Republic Jakub Janda Jan Matura Roman Koudelka Lukáš Hlava	1452.1
07th	Poland Maciej Kot Piotr Żyła Krzysztof Miętus Kamil Stoch	1444.5
08th	Finland Janne Happonen Olli Muotka Matti Hautamäki Anssi Koivuranta	1421.7
09	Russia Denis Kornilow Dmitri Ipatow Anton Kalinitschenko Dmitri Vasiljew	459.0
10	Kazakhstan Alexei Koroljow Alexei Ptschelinzew Yevgeny Lyowkin Radik Schaparow	342.9

Medal table

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

Web links

Commons : Ski Flying World Championship 2012  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Ski Flying World Championships 2012 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)