FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2006

FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2006

Official logo for the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2006.
Host city Bad Mitterndorf, Austria
Nations participating 17
Athletes participating 52
Events 2
Opening ceremony 12 January
Closing ceremony 15 January
Main venue Kulm
Website Skifliegen.at

The FIS Ski Flying World Ski Championships 2006 took place on 12-15 January 2006 in Bad Mitterndorf, Austria (The International Ski Federation has location listed as Kulm, the ski jumping venue located in Bad Mitterndorf.) for the fourth time. Bad Mitterndorf hosted the championships previously in 1975, 1986, and 1996. Norway repeated as team champion while Roar Ljøkelsøy repeated as individual champion. A record four nations won medals.

Individual

13-14 January 2006.[1]

Medal Athlete Points
Gold  Roar Ljøkelsøy (NOR) 788.0
Silver  Andreas Widhölzl (AUT) 762.4
Bronze  Thomas Morgenstern (AUT) 752.2

Morgenstern had the longest jump of the competition with a 210.5 m final round jump.[1] Widhölzl led after the first round,[2] but Ljøkelsøy took the lead after the second round and never looked back.[3][4]

Team

15 January 2006.[5]

Medal Team Points
Gold  Norway
Roar Ljøkelsøy
Lars Bystøl
Bjørn Einar Romøren
Tommy Ingebrigtsen
1497.9
Silver  Finland
Janne Ahonen
Tami Kiuru
Matti Hautamäki
Janne Happonen
1477.2
Bronze  Germany
Michael Neumayer
Georg Späth
Alexander Herr
Michael Uhrmann
1374.0

Slovenia's Robert Kranjec had the longest jumps in both rounds of competition at 207.0 m. Slovenia would unfortunately finish fifth because none of his other teammate could go further than 180.5 m.

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Norway 2 0 0 2
2  Austria 0 1 1 2
3  Finland 0 1 0 1
4  Germany 0 0 1 1

References

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