Ski Flying World Championship 2018

Heini-Klopfer ski jumping hill

The ski flying world championship 2018 took place from January 18th to 21st on the Heini-Klopfer ski flying hill in Oberstdorf . The FIS awarded the competition to the only candidate on June 5, 2014 at its congress in Barcelona , at which Oberstdorf had also applied for the 2019 Nordic World Ski Championships . The ski flying world championship was held for the sixth time in Oberstdorf.

Ski flying world champion in singles was Daniel-André Tande ahead of Kamil Stoch and Richard Freitag . Ski flying world champion in the team was Norway ahead of Slovenia and Poland.

Time schedule

date	Start (local time)	event
Wed., January 17th	18:00	Team captains meeting
Thursday, January 18	14:00	Official training - two rounds
	16:00	Qualification individual
	17:00	Opening press conference
	7:30 p.m.	Opening ceremony
Friday, January 19th	15:00	Trial run single
	16:00	1st round individual
	subsequently	2nd round individual
	20:00	World Cup gala
Sat, January 20	15:00	Trial run single
	16:00	3rd round individual
	subsequently	Final round individual
	subsequently	Winner presentation single
	subsequently	press conference
	20:00	Award ceremony singles
Sun., January 21
	10:00	Team captains meeting
	15:00	Trial team
	16:00	1st round team
	subsequently	Final round team
	subsequently	Award ceremony team and closing ceremony
	subsequently	press conference

Attendees

54 athletes from 16 nations were registered for the start list. Only nations with at least four starters could take part in the team competition, in the individual competition only a maximum of four jumpers per nation. The Slovenian team was exempt from the latter rule, as it was allowed to send an additional jumper into the competition with Peter Prevc , the defending champion in the singles.

The jumpers not considered for the qualification are shown in italics , the jumpers qualified for the individual competition are shown in bold .

Norway Norway (6) (defending team)
- Johann André Forfang
- Robert Johansson
- Daniel-André Tande
- Andreas Stjernen
- Halvor Egner Granerud
- Not so with Fannemel
Slovenia Slovenia (6)
- Jernej Damjan
- Tilen Bartol
- Domen Prevc
- Anže Semenič
- Peter Prevc (defending champion singles)
- Žiga Jelar
Germany Germany (5) (hosts)
- Richard Friday
- Stephan Leyhe
- Andreas Wellinger
- Markus Eisenbichler
- Karl Geiger

Austria Austria (5)
- Manuel Poppinger
- Michael Hayboeck
- Stefan Kraft
- Clemens Aigner
- Florian Altenburger
Poland Poland (5)
- Dawid Kubacki
- Kamil Stoch
- Piotr Żyła
- Stefan Hula
- Maciej Kot
Finland Finland (4)
- Antti Aalto
- Janne Ahonen
- Eetu Nousiainen
- Jarkko Määttä

Russia Russia (4)
- Alexei Romaschow
- Dmitri Vasiliev
- Mikhail Nazarov
- Denis Kornilov
Switzerland Switzerland (4)
- Gregor Deschwanden
- Andreas Schuler
- Simon Ammann
- Killian Peier
Italy Italy (3)
- Alex Insam
- Sebastian Colloredo
- Davide Bresadola
Japan Japan (3)
- Junshirō Kobayashi
- Noriaki Kasai
- Ryoyu Kobayashi

United States United States (3)
- Michael Glasder
- Kevin Bickner
- William Rhoads
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan (2)
- Marat Schaparov
- Konstantin Sokolenko
Estonia Estonia (1)
- Martti Nõmme
France France (1)
- Vincent Descombes Sevoie
Canada Canada (1)
- MacKenzie Boyd-Clowes
Czech Republic Czech Republic (1)
- Čestmír Kožíšek

Results

singles

Training and qualification

The training and qualification day of the Ski Flying World Championships was affected by the foothills of the storm Friederike . The first training round could be carried out with some delays, the best distance jumped Daniel-André Tande with 223.5 meters. The second training round was canceled after only three jumps. After several postponements of the start, the qualification was finally canceled and postponed to the next day (2:30 p.m.).

Daniel-André Tande won the qualification . With his jump distance of 238.5 m he set a new hill record. Jarkko Määttä and Martti Nõmme did not take part in the qualification.

rank	Surname	Expanse	Points
01.	Norway Daniel-André Tande	238.5 m	222.1
02.	Poland Kamil Stoch	232.0 m	210.7
03.	Norway Andreas Stjernen	217.0 m	210.1
04th	Poland Stefan Hula	217.0 m	208.2
05.	Austria Stefan Kraft	217.0 m	203.7
06th	Germany Richard Friday	219.5 m	201.5
07th	Switzerland Simon Ammann	214.5 m	193.6
08th.	Slovenia Anže Semenič	209.0 m	193.2
08th.	Poland Dawid Kubacki	211.5 m	193.2
10.	Norway Robert Johansson	211.5 m	192.6

First try

The 40 best jumpers in the qualification qualified for the first round.

Daniel-André Tande confirmed his achievements from training and qualification and took the lead with a distance of 212 m, as he had three hatches less inrun than the runner-up Richard Freitag (228 m). Michael Hayböck crashed on landing and thereupon, despite a sufficient 28th place, did not start in the second run.

rank	Surname	Expanse	Points
01.	Norway Daniel-André Tande	212.0 m	207.2
02.	Germany Richard Friday	228.0 m	205.9
03.	Poland Kamil Stoch	230.0 m	205.2
04th	Slovenia Peter Prevc	222.5 m	202.7
05.	Austria Stefan Kraft	218.0 m	200.2
06th	Japan Noriaki Kasai	218.5 m	193.2
07th	Slovenia Anže Semenič	214.5 m	192.1
08th.	Slovenia Jernej Damjan	216.0 m	190.7
09.	Switzerland Simon Ammann	203.5 m	189.6
10.	Norway Andreas Stjernen	193.0 m	188.4

Second round

The 30 best jumpers from the first round qualified for the second round. After the fall of Hayböck, Mikhail Nazarow, who was 31st, moved up to the second round by jury decision.

With changing wind conditions, the inrun length was changed significantly several times. Daniel-André Tande managed to defend his lead.

rank	Surname	Expanse	Points
01.	Norway Daniel-André Tande	227.0 m	449.6
02.	Germany Richard Friday	225.0 m	438.7
03.	Poland Kamil Stoch	219.0 m	431.8
04th	Austria Stefan Kraft	208.5 m	412.3
05.	Norway Robert Johansson	213.5 m	408.0
06th	Norway Andreas Stjernen	203.0 m	404.7
07th	Slovenia Peter Prevc	199.0 m	399.3
08th.	Germany Andreas Wellinger	207.0 m	398.3
09.	Norway Johann André Forfang	207.5 m	395.5
10.	Poland Dawid Kubacki	208.0 m	390.6

Third round

The third round started half an hour later than planned (at 4:30 p.m.) due to strong winds. The last phase in which the best placed athletes jumped was characterized by difficult tailwind conditions. Richard Freitag had to give up second place to Kamil Stoch (211.5 m) with a jump of only 190.5 m . Daniel-André Tande was able to keep the lead with a jump to 200 m.

After the wind got gusty at the start of the final round and the weather forecast did not predict any improvement, the round was canceled after a few jumpers. Thus, the stand after the third round resulted in the final evaluation in the individual. Daniel-André Tande was world champion ahead of Kamil Stoch and Richard Freitag .

rank	Surname	Expanse	Points
01.	Norway Daniel-André Tande	200.0 m	651.9
02.	Poland Kamil Stoch	211.5 m	638.6
03.	Germany Richard Friday	190.5 m	627.6
04th	Austria Stefan Kraft	206.0 m	608.4
05.	Norway Andreas Stjernen	223.5 m	606.9
06th	Slovenia Peter Prevc	218.0 m	600.1
07th	Germany Andreas Wellinger	213.0 m	599.7
08th.	Norway Johann André Forfang	225.5 m	599.2
09.	Norway Robert Johansson	201.0 m	599.0
10.	Poland Dawid Kubacki	215.5 m	589.8

team

The team competition was held in two rounds. Only eight teams took part, so all qualified for the second round. The favored team from Norway won ahead of Slovenia and Poland.

rank	nation	Points
1.	Norway Norway Robert Johansson Andreas Stjernen Johann André Forfang Daniel-André Tande	1662.2
2.	Slovenia Slovenia Jernej Damjan Anže Semenič Domen Prevc Peter Prevc	1615.8
3.	Poland Poland Piotr Żyła Stefan Hula Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch	1592.1
4th	Germany Germany Andreas Wellinger Stephan Leyhe Markus Eisenbichler Richard Friday	1581.2
5.	Austria Austria Clemens Aigner Manuel Poppinger Michael Hayböck Stefan Kraft	1488.8
6th	Switzerland Switzerland Andreas Schuler Killian Peier Gregor Deschwanden Simon Ammann	1350.6
7th	Russia Russia Alexei Romaschow Michail Nazarow Denis Kornilow Dmitri Wassiljew	1283.2
8th.	Finland Finland Antti Aalto Jarkko Määttä Eetu Nousiainen Janne Ahonen	1262.2

Medal table

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

Web links

Ski Flying World Championship 2018 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Oberstdorf is subject to Seefeld in the race for the Ski World Cup 2019 ( memento from June 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) - SID report on handelsblatt.com

↑ Seefeld (AUT), Are (SWE), Oberstdorf (GER) and Park City (USA) win ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on fis-ski.com from June 5, 2014, accessed on June 5, 2014 (English). @1@ 2

↑ FIS SKI FLYING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS. (PDF; 7.05 MB) Retrieved January 20, 2018 (en / de).

[1] Oberstdorf is subject to Seefeld in the race for the Ski World Cup 2019 ( memento from June 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) - SID report on handelsblatt.com