FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1994

Men's Ski Flying
at the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1994
Venue Velikanka bratov Gorišek
Date 19–20 March 1994
Competitors 43 from 15 nations
Winning score 351.3
Medalists
   Czech Republic
   Norway
   Italy

The FIS Ski Flying World Ski Championships 1994 took place on 20 March 1994 in Planica, Slovenia for the record fourth time. Planica hosted the championships previously when it was part of Yugoslavia in 1972, 1979, and 1985. This was the first major international sporting event to take place in Slovenia after it declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 following the Ten-Day War. It also marked the first time the Czech Republic and Slovakia were dissolved from Czechoslovakia in January 1993.

It was also historic moment when Austria's Andreas Goldberger became the first person in history who jumped over magic mark of 200 metres (660 ft) but unfortunately touched snow with his hands at 202 metres (663 ft) during practice on 17 March and didn't count. Just a couple minutes later Toni Nieminen from Finland became officially the first person who jumped standing on his feet over magic mark of 200 metres (660 ft) when he jumped 203 metres (666 ft). The final last world record 209 metres (686 ft) was set the next day on March 18 by Espen Bredesen.

World Record

Date Day Bib Name Distance (m) Note
Mar 17 Thursday P12 Austria Martin Höllwarth 196.0 V-jumper
42 Austria Andreas Goldberger 202.0 invalid WR; snow hand touch; 1st ever over 200 m
57 Finland Toni Nieminen 203.0 1st official full standing jump over 200 m ever
Mar 18 Friday 19 Germany Christof Duffner 207.0 invalid WR; fall; official training
Norway Espen Bredesen 209.0 WR that stand for 3 years; official training

Schedule

Velikanka bratov Gorišek (K-185)
Day Date Event Longest jump of the day (m)
Thursday Mar 17 Free Training (2 series) 203.0 - Toni Nieminen
Friday Mar 18 Official Training, Qualification 209.0 - Espen Bredesen
Saturday Mar 19 Individual, Day 1 (cancelled, strong wind)
Sunday Mar 20 Individual, Day 2 199.0 - Roberto Cecon

Individual

On first day of competition event was cancelled due to strong wind. On the second day of competition the managed to take event to the end. For the last time 191 meters rule was in use, which means that jumps that were exceeding the distance points didn't count further. At time the single day event also counted for World Cup points and statistics.

19–20 March 1994[1]

Rank Bib Name Distance (meters) Total Points
Day One (Mar 19) Day Two (Mar 20)
1st Round 2nd Round 3rd Round Final Round
1st 37 Czech Republic Jaroslav Sakala 189.0 185.0 351.3
2nd Norway Espen Bredesen 178.0 182.0 329.8
3rd Italy Roberto Cecon 160.0 199.0 324.7
4 Germany Christof Duffner 159.0 148.0 266.4
5 Norway Lasse Ottesen 177.0 129.0 263.2
6 Switzerland Stephan Zünd 150.0 140.0 252.5
7 Finland Toni Nieminen 139.0 156.0 248.0
8 Norway Kurt Børset 122.0 167.0 245.3
9 Finland Jani Soininen 138.0 149.0 239.4
10 Germany Hansjörg Jäkle 129.0 153.0 237.4
11 2 Japan Takanobu Okabe 198.0 95.0 235.2
12 Finland Janne Ahonen 120.0 159.0 228.8
13 Austria Andreas Goldberger 141.0 128.0 221.3
14 Finland Janne Väätäinen 126.0 146.0 216.9
15 Switzerland Sylvain Freiholz 123.0 139.0 213.4
16 Austria Werner Haim 119.0 132.0 203.9
17 Italy Ivo Pertile 137.0 124.0 201.2
18 United States Tad Langlois 128.0 125.0 195.6
19 7 Japan Noriaki Kasai 153.0 109.0 177.9
20 Czech Republic Tomáš Goder 120.0 117.0 177.4
France Nicolas Jean-Prost 131.0 106.0 177.4
22 Japan Jinya Nishikata 168.0 95.0 170.6
23 Switzerland Sepp Zehnder 118.0 110.0 170.2
24 Austria Werner Rathmayr 114.0 115.0 168.3
25 Finland Bruno Reuteler 108.0 116.0 162.8
26 Germany Gerd Siegmund 115.0 113.0 161.1
27 18 Slovenia Matjaž Zupan 108.0 116.0 156.3
Czech Republic Jakub Sucháček 109.0 115.0 156.3
29 France Didier Mollard 112.0 106.0 147.1
30 Slovenia Matjaž Kladnik 114.0 101.0 144.0
31 Japan Naoki Yasuzaki 139.4
32 Japan Hiroya Saito 137.7
33 Austria Andreas Beck 136.4
34 Slovenia Samo Gostiša 131.1
35 Canada John Lockyer 128.6
36 France Jérôme Gay 122.4
37 Slovakia Vladimír Roško 120.5
38 Norway Ken Lesja 115.1
39 8 Georgia (country) Kakhaber Tsakadze 88.0 99.4
40 Slovenia Jure Žagar 95.6
41 30 Sweden Johan Rasmussen 124,0 94.8
42 Norway Roar Ljøkelsøy 76.7
43 Canada Jeremy Blackburn 39.0

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Czech Republic 1 0 0 1
2  Norway 0 1 0 1
3  Italy 0 0 1 1

References

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