Ski jumping world cup 1995/96

World Cup 1995/96
winner
Overall World Cup	Andreas Goldberger
Ski jumping rating	Ari-Pekka Nikkola
Ski flying rating	Andreas Goldberger
Four Hills Tournament	Jens Weißflog
Nations ranking	Finland
Competitions
Venues	21st
Individual competitions	28
Team competitions	4th
Called off	2
← 1994/95	1996/97 →

The Ski Jumping World Cup 1995/96 (official name: FIS Ski Jumping World Cup 1995/96 ) was one of the International Ski Federation FIS discharged between 2 December 1995 and 17 March 1996, to 21 different locations in Europe, Asia and North America series of competitions in ski jumping . Originally, the implementation of 28 individual competitions and four team competitions was planned. Two individual competitions had to be canceled without replacement. In addition, the two competition days of the ski flying world championship held in Oberstdorf were treated like two additional world cups, so that 28 individual competitions were included in the evaluation. The Austrian defending champion Andreas Goldberger won the overall standings this season , followed by the two Finns Ari-Pekka Nikkola and Janne Ahonen in second and third place . The ski jumping discipline classification, which was held for the first time this season, was won by Ari-Pekka Nikkola ahead of Andreas Goldberger and the Japanese Masahiko Harada . Andreas Goldberger, who was also the defending champion in this classification, won the ski flying classification ahead of Janne Ahonen and the German Christof Duffner . The team from Finland , which had already won the previous year, won the national ranking ahead of Japan and Austria .

Season course

When jumping on December 8, 1995 in the Villach Alpine Arena , the Japanese Masahiko Harada set a new hill record with 99.0 meters. On December 16, 1995 the Czech Jaroslav Sakala improved the hill record on the Le Mont-Schanze in Chamonix to 105.5 m. In Engelberg , Switzerland , on January 14th, 1996 , three jumpers, Christof Duffner , Andreas Goldberger and Reinhard Schwarzenberger, set a new record with each 127.5 meters. The record on the Wielka Krokiew in Zakopane was improved by the Slovenian Primož Peterka on January 27, 1996 to 130.0 meters. In Lahti Harada again set new hill records on March 1st, 1996 with 95.5 meters on the normal hill and two days later on the large hill with 127.0 meters. Goldberger also set a new record for ski flying in Harrachov with 204.0 m. One week before the end of the season, on March 13, 1996, Peterka finally improved the record on the Lugnet normal hill in Falun to 105.0 meters.

Results and ratings

World Cup overview

date	venue	Jump	comment	winner	Second	Third
02/02/1995	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken K90		Mika Laitinen	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Masahiko Harada
December 3, 1995		Lysgårdsbakken K120		Janne Ahonen	Jin'ya Nishikata	Ari-Pekka Nikkola
December 8, 1995	Villach	Villacher Alpenarena K90		Masahiko Harada	Mika Laitinen	Ari-Pekka Nikkola
12/9/1995	Planica	Bloudkova Velikanka K120	team	Finland Jani Soininen Mika Laitinen Ari-Pekka Nikkola Janne Ahonen	Japan Jin'ya Nishikata Kenji Suda Hiroya Saitō Masahiko Harada	Norway Espen Bredesen Eirik Halvorsen Roar Ljøkelsøy Lasse Ottesen
12/10/1995				Mika Laitinen	Roar Ljøkelsøy	Janne Ahonen
12/12/1995	Val di Fiemme / Predazzo	Trampolino dal Ben K90		Mika Laitinen	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Andreas Goldberger
December 16, 1995	Chamonix	Le Mont K95		Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Janne Ahonen	Ralph Gebstedt
12/17/1995				Hiroya Saitō	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Masahiko Harada
12/28/1995	Oberhof	Hans-Renner-Schanze K120		Mika Laitinen	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Jens Weißflog
44th Four Hills Tournament :
12/30/1995	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze K115		Mika Laitinen	Jens Weißflog	Masahiko Harada
1.1.1996	Garmisch-Part.	Large Olympic hill K107		Reinhard Schwarzenberger	Espen Bredesen	Jens Weißflog
4.1.1996	innsbruck	Bergiselschanze K110		Andreas Goldberger	Jens Weißflog	Hiroya Saitō
6.1.1996	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze K120		Jens Weißflog	Espen Bredesen	Ari-Pekka Nikkola
Tour overall rating:				Jens Weißflog	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Reinhard Schwarzenberger
13.1.1996	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze K120		Jani Soininen	Jin'ya Nishikata	Andreas Goldberger
14.1.1996				Andreas Goldberger	Reinhard Schwarzenberger	Espen Bredesen
1/20/1996	Sapporo	Miyanomori hill K90		Jens Weißflog	Eirik Halvorsen	Reinhard Schwarzenberger
January 21, 1996		Ōkurayama ski jump K120		Ari-Pekka Nikkola Andreas Goldberger		Hiroya Saitō
January 27, 1996	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew K116		Primož Peterka	Andreas Goldberger	Reinhard Schwarzenberger
January 28, 1996				Andreas Goldberger	Primož Peterka	Ari-Pekka Nikkola
9th to 11th February 1996 World Ski Flying Championships in Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf
February 10, 1996	Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf	Kulm K180	Ski Flying World Championships *	Janne Ahonen	Andreas Goldberger	Ari-Pekka Nikkola
February 11, 1996				Andreas Goldberger	Christof Duffner	Janne Ahonen
February 17, 1996	Iron Mountain	Pine Mountain Jump K120		Jens Weißflog	Andreas Widhölzl	Ari-Pekka Nikkola
February 18, 1996				Masahiko Harada	Adam Malysz	Kimmo Savolainen
February 23, 1996	Trondheim	Granåsen K120	team	Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola Jani Soininen Janne Ahonen Mika Laitinen	Japan Takanobu Okabe Jun Shibuya Masahiko Harada Hiroya Saitō	Germany Gerd Siegmund Christof Duffner Dieter Thoma Jens Weißflog
February 25, 1996				Competition canceled
28.2.1996	Kuopio	Puijo hill K90	night	Kimmo Savolainen	Jaroslav Sakala	Janne Väätäinen
1.3.1996	Lahti	Salpausselkä ski jump K90	night	Masahiko Harada	Mika Laitinen	Adam Małysz Primož Peterka
2.3.1996		Salpausselkä ski jump K114	Team night	Japan Takanobu Okabe Jin'ya Nishikata Masahiko Harada Hiroya Saitō	Germany Ralph Gebstedt Christof Duffner Dieter Thoma Jens Weißflog	Austria Martin Höllwarth Reinhard Schwarzenberger Stefan Horngacher Andreas Goldberger
3.3.1996				Masahiko Harada	Primož Peterka	Jani Soininen
9.3.1996	Harrachov	Čerťák ski jump K180	Ski flying	Andreas Goldberger	Christof Duffner	Jaroslav Sakala
3/10/1996				Competition canceled
03/13/1996	Falun	Lugnet ski jumps K90	night	Primož Peterka	Adam Malysz	Jens Weißflog
3/15/1996	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken K110	team	Austria Martin Höllwarth Reinhard Schwarzenberger Andreas Widhölzl Andreas Goldberger	Norway Pål Hansen Sturle Holseter Espen Bredesen Roar Ljøkelsøy	Germany Gerd Siegmund Michael Uhrmann Christof Duffner Jens Weißflog
16.3.1996				Adam Malysz	Janne Ahonen	Masahiko Harada

* = The two days of the Ski Flying World Championship were counted as individual World Cups this season.

Ratings

Overall World Cup
Final result after 28 jumps
rank Surname Points 1  Andreas Goldberger 1416 2  Ari-Pekka Nikkola 1384 3  Janne Ahonen 1054 4th  Jens Weißflog 1028 5  Masahiko Harada 982 6th  Mika Laitinen 914 7th  Adam Malysz 751 8th  Hiroya Saitō 747 9  Reinhard Schwarzenberger 724 10  Primož Peterka 670 11  Jani Soininen 630 12  Jin'ya Nishikata 623 13  Espen Bredesen 592 14th  Christof Duffner 505 15th  Roar Ljøkelsøy 501 16  Eirik Halvorsen 417 17th  Marco Steinauer 415 18th  Jaroslav Sakala 367 19th  Ralph Gebstedt 342 20th  Andreas Widhölzl 322 21st  Kimmo Savolainen 308 22nd  Nicolas Jean-Prost 296 23  Sylvain Freiholz 292 24  Kenji Suda 253 25th  Dieter Thoma 249 26th  Martin Höllwarth 244 27  Let Ottesen 233 28  František Jež 226 29  Naoki Yasuzaki 214 30th  Urban Franc 207 31  Sturle Holseter 199 32  Andreas Kuettel 181 33  Kazuyoshi Funaki 151	rank Surname Points 34  Gerd Siegmund 150 35  Stefan Horngacher 134 36  Noriaki Kasai 132 37  Bruno Reuteler 123 38  Kent Johanssen 122 39  Takanobu Okabe 115 40  Janne Väätäinen 113 41  Robert Meglič 108 42  Didier Mollard 105 43  Yukitaka Fukita 100 44  Jakub Sucháček 98 45  Roberto Cecon 90 46  Nicolas Dessum 77  Samo Gostiša 77 48  Wojciech Skupień 75 49  Naoto Itō 74 50  Matthias Wallner 73  Michael Uhrmann 73 52  Randy Weber 66 53  Arve Vorvik 58  Øyvind mountain 58 55  Marián Bielčik 56 56  Jun Shibuya 53 57  Tommy Ingebrigtsen 50 58  Martin Trunz 49 59  Matjaž Kladnik 46 60  Tero Koponen 34 61  Rico Meinel 32  Kazuhiro Higashi 32 63  Stone Henrik Tuff 28 64  Hansjörg Jäkle 27 65  Jure Radelj 24 66  Akira Higashi 22nd	rank Surname Points 67  Frank Reichel 20th  Jani Klinga 20th 69  Jakub Jiroutek 19th  Yoshikazu Norota 19th  Peter Žonta 19th 72  Jaroslav Kahánek 17th 73  Noritaka Kasama 16  Jiří Parma 16 75  Jussi Hautamäki 13  Alexander Lord 13  Michal Doležal 13 78  Masayuki Satō 12 79  Yannick Revuz 11  Katsutoshi Chiba 11 81  Karl-Heinz Dorner 10 82  Ingemar Mayr 9 83  Simen Berntsen 8th 84  Kristian Brenden 7th  Michael Kury 7th  Magnus Øverby 7th 87  Marek Gwóźdź 6th  Hitoshi Sakurai 6th 89  Gerhard Schallert 5  Pål Hansen 5 91  Johan Rasmussen 4th 92  Robert Schlup 3 93  Martin Skoták 2  Toni Nieminen 2 95  Fredrik Johansson 1  Frode Håre 1  Volodymyr Hlywka 1

Ski jumping rating	Ski flying rating	Nations ranking
Final result after 25 jumps (Top 15)	Final score after 3 flights (Top 15)	Final result after 32 jumps
rank Surname Points 1.  Ari-Pekka Nikkola 1288 2.  Andreas Goldberger 1136 3.  Masahiko Harada 982 4th  Jens Weißflog 938 5.  Janne Ahonen 868 6th  Mika Laitinen 864 7th  Hiroya Saitō 723 8th.  Adam Malysz 706 9.  Primož Peterka 670 10.  Reinhard Schwarzenberger 649 11.  Jani Soininen 560 12.  Jin'ya Nishikata 554 13.  Espen Bredesen 520 14th  Marco Steinauer 415 15th  Roar Ljøkelsøy 408	rank Surname Points 1.  Andreas Goldberger 280 2.  Janne Ahonen 186 3.  Christof Duffner 176 4th  Urban Franc 132 5.  Ari-Pekka Nikkola 96  Jaroslav Sakala 96 7th  Roar Ljøkelsøy 93 8th.  Jens Weißflog 90 9.  Reinhard Schwarzenberger 75 10.  Espen Bredesen 72 11.  Jani Soininen 70 12.  Jin'ya Nishikata 69 13.  Jakub Sucháček 65 14th  Eirik Halvorsen 63 15th  Mika Laitinen 50	rank Surname Points 1  Finland 5079 2  Japan 4162 3  Austria 3464 4th  Germany 2919 5  Norway 2746 6th  Slovenia 1311 7th  Switzerland 1060 8th  Czech Republic 851 9  Poland 832 10  France 579 11  Italy 90 12  United States 66 13  Slovakia 56 14th  Sweden 5 15th  Ukraine 1

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