The 26th Ski Flying World Championship was originally supposed to take place on March 19-22 in Planica, Slovenia on the Letalnica bratov Gorišek ski jump and was postponed to December 11-13, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ski flying world championship was held for the seventh time in Planica.
The World Cup was planned for the end of the 2019/2020 season. In view of the COVID-19 pandemic , the Slovenian government decided at the beginning of March 2020 that the Ski Flying World Championships would take place without spectators. Due to the premature end of the season, the Ski Flying World Championships on March 12, 2020 were officially canceled by the FIS.
The Planica Organizing Committee initially planned to postpone the World Cup to the second half of December of the year. Finally, December 10th to 13th was set as the new date and the World Cup was rescheduled for the 2020/2021 season.
The German Karl Geiger , who won half a point ahead of the Norwegian Halvor Egner Granerud , became world champion in the individual for the first time . Third place went to the German Markus Eisenbichler . The team competition was won by the Norwegian team with Daniel-André Tande , Johann André Forfang , Robert Johansson and Halvor Egner Granerud. Second and third place went to Germany and Poland.
Choice of venue
The only applicant for the organization was Planica, which had also applied for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2021 . The detailed concepts of the applicants had to be submitted by September 1, 2015. The Fédération Internationale de Ski selected the venue on June 9, 2016 at the 50th FIS Congress in Cancún . Planica was chosen as the host, Oberstdorf was awarded the contract for the Nordic World Ski Championships.
Time schedule
| date |
event
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| Thursday, December 10th
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qualification
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| Friday, December 11th
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Individual competition, 1st and 2nd round
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| Sat, December 12th
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Individual competition, 3rd and 4th round
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| Sun, December 13th
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Team competition, 1st and 2nd round
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Participating nations and athletes
For safety reasons, athletes are generally not permitted to train outside of the FIS framework on ski flying hills. Since, however, there is no need to do without foresighters even in ski flying, a series of tests for the foresighters is traditionally carried out in Planica one day before qualification. This year, the Slovenes Cene Prevc and Lovro Kos, who were not taken into account, were thereThe latter achieved the longest flight at 225 meters. A total of 16 jumpers took part in the pre-jump training. At a ski flying world championship, different nation quotas apply than for competitions of the world cup, so that, with the exception of the defending champion's nation, only four athletes per federation are eligible to compete, provided the athletes have met the FIS criteria for ski flying. Nevertheless, some teams with up to six athletes traveled to Planica in order to only have to decide on site after training which jumpers are allowed to start in the qualification. The following table of participating nations and athletes also lists those athletes who were only used in training. To highlight which athletes represented their respective country in individual flights, these are shown in bold. In addition, those used in team flying are shown in italics.
| nation |
number |
Deployed |
Athletes
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| Europe (twelve nations)
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Germany Germany
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6th |
4th |
Markus Eisenbichler , Karl Geiger , Pius Paschke , Constantin Schmid , Severin Freund , Martin Hamann
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Estonia Estonia
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1 |
1 |
Artti Aigro
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Finland Finland
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6th |
4th |
Antti Aalto , Niko Kytösaho , Jarkko Määttä , Eetu Nousiainen , Andreas Alamommo , Arttu Pohjola
|
Italy Italy
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2 |
2 |
Giovanni Bresadola , Alex Insam
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Norway Norway 1
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6th |
5 |
Sander Vossan Eriksen , Johann André Forfang , Halvor Egner Granerud , Robert Johansson , Daniel-André Tande (TV), Anders Håre
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Austria Austria
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6th |
4th |
Philipp Aschenwald , Michael Hayböck , Timon-Pascal Kahofer , Gregor Schlierenzauer , Stefan Kraft , Clemens Leitner
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Poland Poland
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6th |
4th |
Dawid Kubacki , Andrzej Stękała , Kamil Stoch , Piotr Żyła , Klemens Murańka , Aleksander Zniszczoł
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Russia Russia
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5 |
4th |
Yevgeny Klimov , Ilya Mankow , Mikhail Nazarov , Danil Sadrejew , Roman Trofimov
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Switzerland Switzerland 2
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2 |
2 |
Gregor Deschwanden , Dominik Peter
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Slovenia Slovenia
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6th |
4th |
Anže Lanišek , Bor Pavlovčič , Domen Prevc , Timi Zajc , Žiga Jelar , Peter Prevc
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Czech Republic Czech Republic
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2 |
2 |
Čestmír Kožíšek , Filip Sakala
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Ukraine Ukraine
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2 |
2 |
Vitaly Kalinichenko , Yevhen Marussjak
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| Asia (one nation)
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Japan Japan
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5 |
4th |
Ryōyū Kobayashi , Naoki Nakamura , Keiichi Satō , Yukiya Satō , Junshirō Kobayashi
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| North America (two nations)
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Canada Canada
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2 |
2 |
MacKenzie Boyd-Clowes , Matthew Soukup
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United States United States
|
3 |
3 |
Patrick Gasienica , Decker Dean , Casey Larson
|
1Since Norway has the defending champion in
Daniel-André Tande , five Norwegians are allowed to compete in the individual competition.
2After the Swiss head coach
Ronny Hornschuh tested positive for the
Sars-CoV-2 virus on qualification day , the athletes decided not to participate in order to protect against infection. However, since they were listed in the starting list for the qualification, they are also shown here as official participants in bold.
Single jump
qualification
First try
In the first round, all athletes started from the starting hatch twelve, so they had the same approach length. The wind did not cause any breaks, but it fluctuated between upwind and tailwind. While Gregor Schlierenzauer was credited 9.4 points, Michail Nazarow was deducted 8.6 points. After the training performance, it was already expected that Karl Geiger and Michael Hayböck would be able to achieve a top position, but Yevgeny Klimow was not to be expected in third place. After the first round, the field was reduced to 30.
Second round
In the second round, too, all athletes jumped from the twelfth starting hatch. After Eisenbichler's flight to 247 meters, the Norwegian head coach Alexander Stöckl made a coaching decision to shorten the approach by a hatch for Halvor Egner Granerud. However, due to an object in the lane, among other things, the conversion of the launch bar took significantly longer than expected, so that the wind was able to turn from upwind to tailwind in the meantime. Stöckl therefore withdrew the shortened run-up, which was accepted by the competition management. While Yevgeny Klimov fell behind after his second jump, Karl Geiger was able to assert himself in first place: “My first jump was top notch. I'm extremely happy that I can keep up. I didn't expect to be in the lead at halftime and of course I want to attack tomorrow, ”said the 27-year-old. A disappointing performance was observed by the Slovenes, who had to put their hopes for a medal aside at half time. Timi Zajc expressed his frustration with the performancevia the Instagram platform : “Sadly, everything collapsed today. I've been training all summer to fly past the last line. I think the coaches have to take on a lot of the responsibility for that, ”said the 20-year-old. The resignation call to head coach Gorazd BertonceljDomen Prevc and Tilen Bartol joined, among others. The criticism resulted in the exclusion of Zajcen by the Slovenian sports director Gorazd Pogorelčnik and the resignation of Bertoncelj before the third round on Saturday. Another mishap of the Slovenes resulted in the fact that the composition of the Slovenian team for team jumping could no longer change. Since Peter Prevc and Žiga Jelar were used as pre-jumpers on Friday, but according to the COVID-19 protocol, pre-jumpers are no longer allowed to start in competitions, both jumpers should leave Planica early. In connection with Timi Zajc's expulsion, the Slovenian team was therefore actually not able to take part in team flying. For this reason, the Slovenian Association sent an inquiry to the competition management and the international ski association to find a solution. Ultimately, the FIS approved an exception so that Slovenia could take part in the team competition. The injured Stefan Kraft and the Pole Aleksander Zniszczoł had already left, which meant that neither of them could participate in the team competition.
Third round
The third round began on Saturday, December 12th at 4 p.m. from start hatch twelve. After the events in the Slovenian team, Timi Zajc did not start. The leader Karl Geiger showed the longest jump with 240.5 meters.
Final round
The fourth round brought the decision. As in the previous rounds, the athletes jumped from the starting hatch twelve.
Team jumping
The team competition was decided in two rounds.
Medal table
| place
|
country
|
gold
|
silver
|
bronze
|
total
|
| 1.
|
Germany Germany
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1
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
| 2.
|
Norway Norway
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
2
|
| 3.
|
Poland Poland
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
|
total
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
6th
|
Web links
Individual evidence
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↑ Planica World Championships should be made up for in December. In: sport.orf.at. May 25, 2020, accessed May 25, 2020 .
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↑ Coronavirus: Ski Flying World Championships in Planica without spectators , on skispringen.com, on March 9, 2020. Accessed on March 9, 2020.
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↑ Editor: A bang in ski jumping! World Cup season 2019/2020 ended prematurely. In: skispringen.com. March 12, 2020, accessed March 12, 2020 .
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↑ Marco Ries: Ski Flying World Championships in Planica should be made up for in December. In: skispringen.com. March 31, 2020, accessed April 1, 2020 .
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↑ Candidates for the 2020/2021 FIS World Championships ( Memento from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the FIS website from May 4, 2015, accessed on May 5, 2015.
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↑ Sport1.de: Oberstdorf wins the Nordic World Ski Championships 2021. Accessed on February 20, 2019 .
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↑ Planica: Planica 2020. Accessed on July 30, 2019 (English).
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↑ Adam Bucholz: MŚwL w Planicy: Lovro Kos for najdłuższym Lotem na teście przedskoczków. In: skijumping.pl. December 9, 2020, accessed December 11, 2020 (Polish).
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↑ No Swiss at the start in Planica. In: swiss-ski.ch. December 10, 2020, accessed December 11, 2020.
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↑ Adam Bucholz: MŚwL w Planicy: Geiger liderem na półmetku, trzech Polaków w dziesiątce. In: skijumping.pl. December 11, 2020, accessed December 12, 2020 (Polish).
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↑ Marco Ries: Karl Geiger leads at half time at the Ski Flying World Championships in Planica. In: skispringen.com. December 11, 2020, accessed December 12, 2020.
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↑ Luis Holuch: Timi Zajc shoots publicly against the Slovenian national coach. In: skispringen.com. December 11, 2020, accessed December 12, 2020.
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↑ Dominik Formela: Timi Zajc wykluczony z reprezentacji Słowenii! Gospodarze poza bankruptcy drużynowym ?. In: skijumping.pl. December 12, 2020, accessed December 12, 2020 (Polish).
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↑ Dominik Formela: Bertoncelj kończy pracę ze Słoweńcami, Hrgota tymczasowym trenerem !. In: skijumping.pl. December 12, 2020, accessed December 12, 2020 (Polish).
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↑ Jaka Lopatic: Peter Prevc predčasno zapušča Planico. In: siol.net. December 11, 2020, accessed on December 12, 2020 (Slovenian).
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↑ Jaka Lopatič: Timi Zajc izključen iz reprezentance! In: siol.net. December 12, 2020, accessed on December 12, 2020 (Slovenian).
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↑ bottom line. (PDF) In: fis-ski.com. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
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