Ski jumping world cup 1997/98

World Cup 1997/98
winner
Overall World Cup	Primož Peterka
Ski jumping rating	Primož Peterka
Ski flying rating	Sven Hannawald
Four Hills Tournament	Kazuyoshi Funaki
Nordic Tournament	Andreas Widhölzl
Nations ranking	Japan
Competitions
Venues	19th
Individual competitions	27
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The Ski Jumping World Cup 1997/98 (official name: FIS Ski Jumping World Cup 1997/98 ) was one of the International Ski Federation FIS discharged from 29 November 1997 to 22 March 1998, 19 different locations in Europe and Asia series of competitions in ski jumping . The World Cup consisted of 25 individual competitions. In addition, the two competition days of the ski flying world championship held in Oberstdorf were treated like two additional world cups, so that 27 individual competitions were included in the evaluation. The Slovenian defending champion Primož Peterka won the overall standings this season , followed by Japanese Kazuyoshi Funaki and Austrian Andreas Widhölzl in second and third place . Primož Peterka won the ski jumping discipline, ahead of the Japanese Masahiko Harada and Andreas Widhölzl. The defending champion of this discipline, the German Dieter Thoma , took seventh place. The German Sven Hannawald was able to secure victory in the ski flying classification ahead of Kazuyoshi Funaki and Andreas Widhölzl and Primož Peterka (defending champion), who were in third place ex aequo. The national championship was won by defending champion Japan ahead of the teams from Germany and Austria .

Results and ratings

World Cup overview

date	venue	Jump	comment	winner	Second	Third
11/29/1997	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken K120		Dieter Thoma	Jani Soininen	Noriaki Kasai
11/30/1997				Jani Soininen	Masahiko Harada	Dieter Thoma
December 6, 1997	Predazzo / Val di Fiemme	Trampolino dal Ben K90		Jani Soininen	Primož Peterka	Andreas Widhölzl
December 8, 1997	Villach	Villacher Alpenarena K90		Masahiko Harada	Dieter Thoma	Primož Peterka
12/12/1997	Harrachov	Čerťák normal hill K90		Masahiko Harada	Primož Peterka	Dieter Thoma
12/20/1997	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze K120		Andreas Widhölzl	Stefan Horngacher	Janne Ahonen
December 21, 1997				Masahiko Harada	Primož Peterka	Stefan Horngacher
46th Four Hills Tournament :
12/29/1997	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze K115		Kazuyoshi Funaki	Hiroya Saitō	Ari-Pekka Nikkola
1.1.1998	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large Olympic hill K115		Kazuyoshi Funaki	Masahiko Harada	Hiroya Saitō
4.1.1998	innsbruck	Bergiselschanze K110		Kazuyoshi Funaki	Sven Hannawald	Janne Ahonen
6.1.1998	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze K120		Sven Hannawald	Hansjörg Jäkle	Janne Ahonen
Tour overall rating:				Kazuyoshi Funaki	Sven Hannawald	Janne Ahonen
11.1.1998	Ramsau	World Championship hill W 90 K90		Masahiko Harada	Kazuyoshi Funaki	Hiroya Saitō
January 17, 1998	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew K116		Kristian Brenden	Janne Ahonen	Sven Hannawald
January 18, 1998				Primož Peterka	Kazuyoshi Funaki	Sven Hannawald
January 24th to 25th, 1998 World Ski Flying Championship in Oberstdorf
January 24, 1998	Oberstdorf	Heini-Klopfer ski jumping hill K185	Ski Flying World Championships *	Sven Hannawald	Kazuyoshi Funaki	Kristian Brenden
January 25, 1998				Kazuyoshi Funaki	Dieter Thoma	Sven Hannawald
5.2.1998	Sapporo	Ōkurayama ski jump K120		Andreas Widhölzl	Jani Soininen	Janne Ahonen
February 7-22, 1998 Olympic Winter Games 1998 in Nagano / Hakuba
28.2.1998	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken K175	Ski flying	Andreas Widhölzl	Sven Hannawald	Akira Higashi
1.3.1998				Takanobu Okabe	Hiroya Saitō	Noriaki Kasai
March 4th, 1998	Kuopio	Puijo hill K120		Andreas Widhölzl	Primož Peterka	Hiroya Saitō
Nordic Tournament :
7.3.1998	Lahti	Salpausselkä ski jump K116		Janne Ahonen	Andreas Widhölzl	Kristian Brenden
8.3.1998				Primož Peterka	Jani Soininen	Kristian Brenden
3/11/1998	Falun	Lugnet K115		Primož Peterka	Andreas Widhölzl	Hiroya Saitō
3/13/1998	Trondheim	Granåsen K120		Masahiko Harada	Noriaki Kasai	Roberto Cecon
3/15/1998	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken K112		Primož Peterka	Bruno Reuteler	Masahiko Harada
Nordic Tournament overall ranking				Andreas Widhölzl	Sven Hannawald	Hiroya Saitō
03/21/1998	Planica	Bloudkova Velikanka K120		Kazuyoshi Funaki	Primož Peterka	Hiroya Saitō
March 22, 1998				Noriaki Kasai	Hiroya Saitō	Martin Höllwarth

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

Ratings

Overall World Cup
Final result after 27 of 27 competitions
rank Surname Points 01.  Primož Peterka 1253 02.  Kazuyoshi Funaki 1234 03.  Andreas Widhölzl 1208 04th  Masahiko Harada 1120 05.  Hiroya Saitō 0962 06th  Sven Hannawald 0953 07th  Jani Soininen 0950 08th.  Dieter Thoma 0921 09.  Janne Ahonen 0836 10.  Noriaki Kasai 0720 11.  Martin Höllwarth 0568 12.  Kristian Brenden 0549 13.  Stefan Horngacher 0546 14th  Hansjörg Jäkle 0528 15th  Henning Stensrud 0398 16.  Takanobu Okabe 0385 17th  Andreas Goldberger 0327 18th  Let Ottesen 0288 19th  Kimmo Savolainen 0262 20th  Bruno Reuteler 0255 21st  Reinhard Schwarzenberger 0245 21st  Jaroslav Sakala 0245 23.  Akira Higashi 0240 24.  Kazuya Yoshioka 0238 25th  Sylvain Freiholz 0232 26th  Mika Laitinen 0231 27.  Martin Schmitt 0218 28.  Jon Petter Sandaker 0217 29  Ari-Pekka Nikkola 0213 30th  Roberto Cecon 0199 31.  Wolfgang Loitzl 0194 32.  Roar Ljøkelsøy 0191 33.  Michael Wagner 0176	rank Surname Points 34.  Robert Mateja 0165 35.  Ronny Hornschuh 0159 36.  Hideharu Miyahira 0135 37.  Nicolas Dessum 0130 38.  Christof Duffner 0110 39.  Matti Hautamäki 0104 40.  Kenji Suda 0078  Sturle Holseter 0078 42.  Jussi Hautamäki 0076 43.  Espen Bredesen 0065 44.  Michal Doležal 0064 45.  Yoshikazu Norota 0060 46.  František Jež 0056  Gerd Siegmund 0056 48.  Tommy Ingebrigtsen 0054 49.  Jakub Jiroutek 0051 50.  Valery Kobelev 0050  Stian Kvarstad 0050 52.  Blaž Vrhovnik 0047 53.  Jérôme Gay 0045 54.  Matthias Wallner 0044  Ville Kantee 0044  Frode Håre 0044 57.  Adam Malysz 0043 58.  Martin Zimmermann 0041 59.  Urban Franc 0039 60.  Robert Křenek 0033  Morten Ågheim 0033 62.  Jakub Sucháček 0029 63.  Peter Žonta 0028 64.  Alexander Lord 0027 65.  Miha Rihtar 0026th  Roland Audenrieth 0026th	rank Surname Points 67.  Toni Nieminen 0025th 68.  Wojciech Skupień 0023  Milan Živic 0023 70.  Simon Ammann 0022nd  Jakub Janda 0022nd  Kazuki Nishishita 0022nd 73.  Ryūji Takahashi 0020th 74  Roland Wakolm 0015th 75.  Casey Colby 0013 76.  Håvard Lie 0010  Kjell Erik Sagbakken 0010 78.  Kazuhiro Nakamura 0009  Vladimír Roško 0009 80.  Falko Krismayr 0008th 81.  Martin Mesík 0007th 82.  Choi Heung-chul 0006th  Pasi Kytosaho 0006th  Lauri Hakola 0006th 85.  Jure Radelj 0005  Juho Forsman 0005  Damjan Fras 0005 88  Michael Kury 0004th  Andrei Lyskavets 0004th 90.  Lucas Chevalier-Girod 0003  Krystian Długopolski 0003  Randy Weber 0003 93.  Ralph Gebstedt 0002  Marco Steinauer 0002  Grega Lang 0002  Ján Zelenčík 0002  Aljaxej Schybko 0002 98  Masayuki Satō 0001

Ski jumping rating	Ski flying rating	Nations ranking
Top 15 after 23 of 23 competitions	Top 15 after 4 of 4 flies	After 27 of 27 jumps
rank Surname Points 01.  Primož Peterka 1082 02.  Masahiko Harada 1076 03.  Andreas Widhölzl 1037 04th  Kazuyoshi Funaki 1017 05.  Jani Soininen 0903 06th  Hiroya Saitō 0850 07th  Dieter Thoma 0771 08th.  Janne Ahonen 0741 09.  Sven Hannawald 0695 10.  Noriaki Kasai 0642 11.  Stefan Horngacher 0515 12.  Hansjörg Jäkle 0454 13.  Kristian Brenden 0426 14th  Henning Stensrud 0303 15th  Andreas Goldberger 0258	rank Surname Points 1.  Sven Hannawald 0258 2.  Kazuyoshi Funaki 0217 3.  Andreas Widhölzl 0171  Primož Peterka 0171 5.  Let Ottesen 0157 6th  Dieter Thoma 0150  Takanobu Okabe 0150 8th.  Akira Higashi 0123  Kristian Brenden 0123 10.  Hiroya Saitō 0112 11.  Janne Ahonen 0095  Henning Stensrud 0095 13.  Noriaki Kasai 0078 14th  Hansjörg Jäkle 0074 15th  Andreas Goldberger 0069	rank Surname Points 01.  Japan 5224 02.  Austria 3200 03.  Germany 3176 04th  Finland 2758 05.  Norway 1987 06th  Slovenia 1428 07th  Switzerland 0511 08th.  Czech Republic 0500 09.  Poland 0234 10.  Italy 0199 11.  France 0178 12.  Russia 0050 13.  Slovakia 0018th 14th  United States 0016 15th  South Korea 0006th  Belarus 0006th

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