Ski Flying World Championship 2016

The FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2016 took place from 14 to 17 January 2016 for the Kulm ski jump at Kulmkogel in Austrian Bad Mitterndorf instead. The venue and the period were announced by the FIS on January 6, 2013 in South Korea . The ski flying world championship was held for the fifth time after 1973, 1986, 1996 and 2006 at the Kulm. Defending champion in the singles was the German Severin Freund . There was no defending champion in the team because the team competition from the previous World Cup was canceled.

The Slovene Peter Prevc became world champion in singles and became the ski flying world champion for the first time after his bronze medal in 2014. The Norwegian Kenneth Gangnes came second in front of the Austrian Stefan Kraft in third place. The team competition was won by the Norwegian team with Anders Fannemel , Johann André Forfang , Daniel-André Tande and Kenneth Gangnes. Second and third place went to Germany and Austria.

The event was overshadowed by a serious fall of the Austrian Lukas Müller while the fore-singers were flying in on the Wednesday before the event. During its flight it hit the slope at about 120 meters. The cause of the fall was probably a buckle on the jump shoe that had opened during the flight. The 23-year-old was operated on in Graz on Wednesday evening . After initial diagnoses, he suffered incomplete paraplegia.

Time schedule

date	Time	event
Wed., January 13th		Arrival of the participants
	18:00	Team captains meeting
Thursday, January 14th	10:30	Official training - two rounds
	13:00	qualification
		Opening ceremony
Fri., January 15th	12:00	Trial run
	13:00	1st round individual
	subsequently	2nd round individual
Saturday, January 16	13:00	Trial run
	14:00	3rd round individual
	subsequently	Final round individual
	subsequently	Award ceremony
		Team captains meeting
Sun 17th January	13:00	Trial run
	14:15	1st round team
	subsequently	Final round team
	subsequently	Award ceremony
		Closing ceremony

Attendees

53 athletes from 16 nations took part. Eight jumpers only took part in training. These jumpers are marked in italics .

Germany (5) Richard Friday Severin Freund (defending champion) Stephan Leyhe Andreas Wank Andreas Wellinger  Finland (4) Lauri Asikainen Sebastian Klinga Ville Larinto Harri Olli  France (2) Vincent Descombes Sevoie Ronan Lamy Chappuis  Italy (1) Sebastian Colloredo  Japan (2) Noriaki Kasai Kento Sakuyama

Canada (1) MacKenzie Boyd-Clowes  Kazakhstan (2) Marat Schaparov Radik Schaparov  Norway (4/6) Not so with Fannemel Johann André Forfang Kenneth Gangnes Joachim Hauer Andreas Stjernen Daniel-André Tande  Austria (4/5) (hosts) Philipp Aschenwald Manuel Fettner Michael Hayboeck Stefan Kraft Manuel Poppinger

Poland (4/5) Stefan Hula Dawid Kubacki Klemens Murańka Kamil Stoch Piotr Żyła  Russia (4/5) Vladislav Boyarinsev Ilmir Khasetdinov Yevgeny Klimov Denis Kornilov Mikhail Maximochkin  Switzerland (2) Simon Ammann Gregor Deschwanden

Slovenia (4/5) Robert Kranjec Anže Lanišek Andraž Pograjc Peter Prevc Jurij Tepeš  South Korea (1) Choi Heung-chul  Czech Republic (4/5) Lukáš Hlava Jakub Janda Roman Koudelka Jan high school diploma Tomáš Vančura  United States (1/2) Kevin Bickner Michael Glasder

Results

singles

Training and qualification

Training and qualification took place on Thursday, January 14th, 2016. 53 athletes from 16 nations were registered for the training of the individual competition. Two training rounds were carried out. For the qualification the starting field was reduced to 45 athletes from 16 nations, since each nation only has four starting places. The exception here is the team from Germany with five starting places. In addition to the four regular starting places, Severin Freund has a personal right to start as defending champion . The ten best jumpers of the current World Cup were pre-qualified for the individual competition. The 30 best athletes in the qualification also qualified. This resulted - together with the pre-qualified jumpers - a starting field of 40 athletes for the first round.

The Slovenian Peter Prevc had the longest flight of the day with 235.5 meters in the second training round. The Norwegian Anders Fannemel won the qualification with a jump to 233.0 meters and thus the greatest distance in the qualification. This gave him a lead of 32.5 points over second-placed Robert Kranjec from Slovenia. Third was Simon Ammann from Switzerland .

rank	Surname	Expanse	Points
01.	Not so with Fannemel	233.0 m	205.9
02.	Robert Kranjec	207.0 m	173.4
03.	Simon Ammann	205.0 m	170.9
04th	Jurij Tepeš	193.5 m	170.3
05.	Roman Koudelka	199.5 m	169.9
06th	Dawid Kubacki	202.0 m	166.9
07th	Manuel Poppinger	191.0 m	163.8
08th.	Vincent Descombes Sevoie	195.5 m	162.0
09.	Manuel Fettner	186.0 m	161.9
10.	Anže Lanišek	189.5 m	160.8

First try

The first round was held on Friday, January 15, 2016. Before the jump there was a trial run. 40 athletes from 16 nations started in the competition. The best 30 athletes qualified for the three further rounds. The leader after the first jump was the Slovene Peter Prevc with a flight of 243.0 meters. This was also the longest flight of the day. Behind Prevc, Kenneth Gangnes and Johann André Forfang were two Norwegians in second and third place. Defending champion Severin Freund was only ninth with a flight of 209.5 meters, 30.7 points behind.

rank	Surname	Expanse	Points
01.	Peter Prevc	243.0 m	220.0
02.	Kenneth Gangnes	236.0 m	218.5
03.	Johann André Forfang	230.0 m	217.2
04th	Stefan Kraft	226.5 m	211.7
05.	Noriaki Kasai	240.5 m	210.0
06th	Not so with Fannemel	234.0 m	204.8
07th	Michael Hayboeck	217.5 m	192.0
08th.	Richard Friday	211.5 m	191.9
09.	Severin friend	209.5 m	189.3
10.	Daniel-André Tande	209.5 m	187.5

Second round

The second run was carried out after the first run. The best 30 athletes of the first round started. Eleven nations were represented. The Austrian Stefan Kraft had the best jump in the second round, moving up from fourth to third place. At 220.0 meters, it had the longest flight of the passage. The leader after the first jump, Peter Prevc, was overtaken by the runner-up Kenneth Gangnes and was only in second place. Gangnes was only 1.3 points ahead of Prevc.

rank	Surname	Expanse	Points
01.	Kenneth Gangnes	216.0 m	419.4
02.	Peter Prevc	213.5 m	418.1
03.	Stefan Kraft	220.0 m	415.6
04th	Johann André Forfang	216.5 m	415.0
05.	Noriaki Kasai	215.0 m	409.0
06th	Not so with Fannemel	214.5 m	397.6
07th	Severin friend	203.0 m	370.5
08th.	Robert Kranjec	213.5 m	356.8
09.	Anže Lanišek	207.0 m	354.4
10.	Jurij Tepeš	201.5 m	350.3

Third round

The third round was held on Saturday, January 16, 2016. Before the jump, there was another trial run. The starting field was the same as that from the second run. Peter Prevc won the passage with a flight of 244.0 meters, thus recapturing the lead from Kenneth Gangnes. This distance was the longest flight of the individual competition. Gangnes was now in second place, 3.3 points behind. In third place was Stefan Kraft, 10.9 points behind Prevc. Johann André Forfang was also able to maintain his fourth place overall despite a fall during his flight at 240.0 meters.

rank	Surname	Expanse	Points
01.	Peter Prevc	244.0 m	640.1
02.	Kenneth Gangnes	238.5 m	636.8
03.	Stefan Kraft	226.5 m	629.2
04th	Johann André Forfang	240.0 m	602.0
05.	Noriaki Kasai	220.0 m	600.4
06th	Severin friend	223.5 m	565.3
07th	Not so with Fannemel	175.5 m	543.9
08th.	Richard Friday	231.0 m	542.8
09.	Jurij Tepeš	220.0 m	535.5
10.	Robert Kranjec	210.0 m	534.9

Fourth round

The fourth run should be carried out after the third run. The starting field was the same as that from the second and third rounds. The passage was canceled due to strong winds. Thus, the rating after the third round was also the overall result.

team

The team competition was held on Sunday, January 17th, 2016 in two rounds. The previously planned trial run had to be canceled due to heavy snowfall. Eight nations took part in the competition. Since the best eight nations qualified for the second run, all starting nations were automatically entitled to start in the second run. The team from Norway around Anders Fannemel , Johann André Forfang , Daniel-André Tande and Kenneth Gangnes became world champions . The team was already in the lead after the first round and in the end was 110.4 points ahead of the second-placed team from Germany . The Austrian team came third . The Slovenian Peter Prevc had the longest flight of the day with 238.0 meters in the second round.

rank	nation	Points
1.	Norway Anders Fannemel Johann André Forfang Daniel-André Tande Kenneth Gangnes	1467.7
2.	Germany Andreas Wellinger Stephan Leyhe Richard Freitag Severin Freund	1357.3
3.	Austria Stefan Kraft Manuel Poppinger Manuel Fettner Michael Hayböck	1310.4
4th	Slovenia Robert Kranjec Jurij Tepeš Anže Lanišek Peter Prevc	1272.7
5.	Poland Kamil Stoch Klemens Murańka Dawid Kubacki Stefan Hula	1211.9
6th	Czech Republic Tomáš Vančura Jan Matura Lukáš Hlava Roman Koudelka	1018.4
7th	Finland Harri Olli Sebastian Klinga Lauri Asikainen Ville Larinto	0721.6
8th.	Russia Wladislav Bojarinzew Mikhail Maximotschkin Ilmir Chasetdinow Denis Kornilow	0707.5

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Norway	1	1	0	2
2.	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
3.	Germany	0	1	0	1
4th	Austria	0	0	2	2
total		2	2	2	6th

Web links

• FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2016 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

References and comments

1. ↑ Kerstin Kock: Incomplete paraplegia in Lukas Müller. In: Skispringen-News.de. January 15, 2016, accessed January 15, 2016 . 
2. ↑ All times are based on CET = UTC +1, local time is UTC + 1.
3. ↑ Official announcement for the Ski Flying World Championship 2016. (PDF; 339 kB) Accessed on January 14, 2016 (English).