FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2018
Host cityOberstdorf, Germany
Nations16
Athletes54
SportSki flying
Events2
Opening18 January 2018
Closing21 January 2018
Main venueHeini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze
Individual prize money (US$)74,500
Team prize money (US$)72,500
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The FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2018 was the 25th ski flying world championships. It was held between 18 and 21 January 2018 in Oberstdorf, Germany and for the sixth time on this location. They hosted world championships at Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze already in 1973, 1981, 1988, 1998 and 2008. There was total prize money of 142,000 swiss francs (72,000 for individual and 70,000 for team event).[1]

Peter Prevc was the defending individual champion and Norway (Anders Fannemel, Johann André Forfang, Daniel-André Tande and Kenneth Gangnes) was defending the team title.

Daniel-André Tande became the new individual world champion and Norway (Robert Johansson, Andreas Stjernen, Johann André Forfang and Daniel-André Tande) took the team title.

Prize money

A total prize of 142,000 swiss francs was awarded: 72,000 CHF to the Top6 individuals and 70,000 CHF to the Top3 teams.

Event Gold Silver Bronze 4th to 6th place
Individual CHF 28,750 CHF 18,000 CHF 10,800 CHF 14,440
Team event CHF 35,000 CHF 21,000 CHF 14,800 not awarded

Schedule

Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze (K200 / HS235)
Date Competition Longest jump of the day Metres Feet
17 January 2018   Hill test wind conditions
18 January 2018   Training 1 Norway Daniel-André Tande 223.5 733
Training 2 United States William Rhoads 182.5 599
T2 canceled after 3 jumps; wind conditions
Qualifications moved on next day; wind conditions
19 January 2018   Trial round D1 canceled; qualifications instead
Qualifications Norway Daniel-André Tande 238.5 782
1st round Individual Poland Kamil Stoch 230.0 755
2nd round Individual Norway Daniel-André Tande 227.0 745
20 January 2018   Trial round D2 Norway Andreas Stjernen 216.5 710
3rd round Individual Norway Andreas Stjernen 223.5 733
4th round Individual Italy Sebastian Colloredo 178.0 584
4th round canceled after 3 jumps; wind
21 January 2018   Trial round TE Norway Andreas Stjernen 230.5 756
1st round Team event Norway Andreas Stjernen 231.0 758
2nd round Team event Poland Dawid Kubacki 221.5 727

Previous championships

All previous ski flying world championships held in Oberstdorf:

Edition Year Gold Silver Bronze
2 1973 East Germany Hans-Georg Aschenbach Switzerland Walter Steiner Czechoslovakia Karel Kodejška
6 1981 Finland Jari Puikkonen Austria Armin Kogler Norway Tom Levorstad
10 1988 Norway Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Primož Ulaga Finland Matti Nykänen
15 1998 Japan Kazuyoshi Funaki Germany Sven Hannawald Germany Dieter Thoma
20 2008 Austria Gregor Schlierenzauer Austria Martin Koch Finland Janne Ahonen
3 2008  Austria
Gregor Schlierenzauer
Andreas Kofler
Thomas Morgenstern
Martin Koch
  Finland
Janne Ahonen
Matti Hautamäki
Harri Olli
Janne Happonen
  Norway
Anders Jacobsen
Tom Hilde
Anders Bardal
Bjørn Einar Romøren

Results

Qualifying

Second training canceled after 3 jumps; wind conditions
Rank Bib Name Training 1 Training 2 Qualifying Points Note
1 53 Norway Daniel-André Tande 223.5 238.5 222.1 Q
2 34 Poland Kamil Stoch 214.5 232.0 210.7 Q
3 54 Norway Andreas Stjernen 206.5 217.0 210.1 Q
4 41 Poland Stefan Hula 179.0 217.0 208.2 Q
5 46 Austria Stefan Kraft 204.5 217.0 203.7 Q
6 26 Germany Richard Freitag 207.0 219.5 201.5 Q
7 52 Switzerland Simon Ammann 208.5 214.5 193.6 Q
8 47 Slovenia Anže Semenič 211.5 209.0 193.2 Q
21 Poland Dawid Kubacki 171.5 211.5 193.2 Q
10 51 Norway Robert Johansson 211.5 211.5 192.6 Q
11 29 Slovenia Jernej Damjan 203.5 209.5 188.3 Q
12 50 Japan Noriaki Kasai DNS 201.0 185.0 Q
13 49 Slovenia Peter Prevc 188.0 200.5 184.7 Q
14 38 Poland Piotr Żyła 192.0 201.5 182.5 Q
15 28 Norway Johann André Forfang 203.5 204.5 181.9 Q
16 40 Germany Andreas Wellinger 176.5 198.5 180.9 Q
17 36 Austria Manuel Poppinger 177.0 199.0 179.2 Q
18 43 Austria Michael Hayböck 185.5 189.5 177.6 Q
19 45 Germany Markus Eisenbichler 215.0 197.5 176.6 Q
20 35 Germany Stephan Leyhe 190.0 195.5 175.2 Q
21 32 United States Kevin Bickner 156.5 201.0 175.0 Q
22 30 Japan Ryōyū Kobayashi 193.0 199.5 174.3 Q
23 5 Russia Dimitry Vassiliev DNS 197.0 171.3 Q
24 37 Slovenia Tilen Bartol 195.0 189.0 164.4 Q
25 20 Japan Junshirō Kobayashi 156.5 192.5 163.9 Q
26 3 Russia Alexey Romashov 164.0 134.0 190.0 160.9 Q
27 48 Austria Clemens Aigner 179.5 183.5 158.7 Q
28 11 Russia Denis Kornilov 178.0 182.5 155.5 Q
29 4 Italy Alex Insam 168.5 184.5 153.9 Q
30 27 Italy Sebastian Colloredo 171.5 180.0 149.4 Q
31 18 Canada MacKenzie Boyd-Clowes 166.5 185.5 146.8 Q
32 19 Finland Janne Ahonen 181.5 177.5 142.8 Q
33 44 Slovenia Domen Prevc 171.5 163.5 142.7 Q
34 17 Switzerland Andreas Schuler 170.5 170.0 134.4 Q
35 8 Finland Antti Aalto 156.0 157.5 134.3 Q
36 15 Switzerland Gregor Deschwanden 171.5 168.5 132.8 Q
37 7 Russia Mikhail Nazarov 158.0 150.0 128.7 Q
38 14 United States Michael Glasder 182.5 161.5 128.2 Q
39 24 France Vincent Descombes Sevoie 166.5 162.0 125.6 Q
40 22 Finland Eetu Nousiainen 160.0 154.0 118.8 Q
not qualified
25 Switzerland Killian Peier 176.0 151.0 113.5
2 United States William Rhoads 174.5 182.5 147.5 108.6
42 Czech Republic Čestmír Kožíšek 156.0 124.0 88.7
1 Kazakhstan Marat Zhaparov 126.5 114.0 125.0 81.3
10 Kazakhstan Konstantin Sokolenko 107.0 111.0 70.1
6 Italy Davide Bresadola 110.0 112.0 66.3
9 Estonia Martti Nomme DNS DNS
16 Finland Jarkko Määttä DNS DNS
internal team qualification: did not enter in qualifying round
39 Norway Anders Fannemel 183.5 DNS
33 Poland Maciej Kot 177.5 DNS
31 Norway Halvor Egner Granerud 184.5 DNS
23 Germany Karl Geiger 187.5 DNS
13 Austria Florian Altenburger 162.5 DNS
12 Slovenia Žiga Jelar 181.5 DNS

Trial rounds

Competition

Individual

Individual
Date19–20 January 2018
Competitors40 from 12 nations
Winning score651.9
Medalists
gold medal Norway Daniel-André Tande
silver medal Poland Kamil Stoch
bronze medal Germany Richard Freitag
Medalist
Daniel-André Tande Kamil Stoch Richard Freitag
 Norway  Poland  Germany
4th round canceled after three jumpers
Rank Bib1 Bib2 Name 19 January (Day 1) 20 January (Day 2) Total
1st round 2nd round 3rd round 4th round
1 47 30 Norway Daniel-André Tande 212.0 227.0 200.0 651.9
2 29 28 Poland Kamil Stoch 230.0 219.0 211.5 638.6
3 23 29 Germany Richard Freitag 228.0 225.0 190.5 627.6
4 40 27 Austria Stefan Kraft 218.0 208.5 206.0 608.4
5 48 25 Norway Andreas Stjernen 193.0 203.0 223.5 606.9
6 43 24 Slovenia Peter Prevc 222.5 199.0 218.0 600.1
7 34 23 Germany Andreas Wellinger 206.0 207.0 213.0 599.7
8 25 22 Norway Johann André Forfang 207.0 207.5 225.5 599.2
9 45 26 Norway Robert Johansson 204.0 213.5 201.0 599.0
10 19 21 Poland Dawid Kubacki 207.5 208.0 215.5 589.8
11 39 19 Germany Markus Eisenbichler 197.5 205.5 203.0 560.1
12 46 16 Switzerland Simon Ammann 203.5 177.0 207.5 559.2
13 35 17 Poland Stefan Hula 193.0 196.5 192.5 550.0
14 41 18 Slovenia Anže Semenič 214.5 178.0 186.0 538.8
15 26 15 Slovenia Jernej Damjan 216.0 174.5 197.5 533.8
16 27 20 Japan Ryoyu Kobayashi 207.5 205.5 165.5 528.4
17 33 11 Poland Piotr Żyła 190.0 183.5 198.5 525.8
18 42 14 Austria Clemens Aigner 202.0 181.5 194.5 524.5
19 11 10 Russia Denis Kornilov 188.0 183.5 191.0 509.6
20 30 12 Germany Stephan Leyhe 183.5 197.5 184.5 502.9
21 38 8 Slovenia Domen Prevc 179.5 187.5 192.5 501.1
22 17 7 Finland Janne Ahonen 182.0 194.5 192.0 500.0
23 31 13 Austria Manuel Poppinger 187.0 195.5 177.5 498.0
24 28 9 United States Kevin Bickner 201.5 167.0 181.0 494.3
25 44 4 Japan Noriaki Kasai 218.5 123.5 209.0 493.6
26 3 6 Russia Alexey Romashov 184.0 191.0 168.5 455.5
27 4 5 Italy Alex Insam 174.5 185.0 159.5 443.4
28 24 2 Italy Sebastian Colloredo 159.0 184.0 191.5 178.0 439.0
29 18 3 Japan Junshirō Kobayashi 171.5 169.0 165.0 170.0 408.7
30 7 1 Russia Mikhail Nazarov (lucky loser) 160.5 161.0 175.0 167.5 396.6
not qualified for 2nd round
31 37 Austria Michael Hayböck (drop out in 1R) 171.5 DNS 126.0
32 8 Finland Antti Aalto 160.0 DNQ 117.6
33 5 Russia Dimitry Vassiliev 159.0 DNQ 113.5
34 13 Switzerland Gregor Deschwanden 150.5 DNQ 111.8
35 20 Finland Eetu Nousiainen 161.0 DNQ 111.4
36 16 Canada MacKenzie Boyd-Clowes 147.5 DNQ 102.3
37 15 Switzerland Andreas Schuler 141.5 DNQ 98.1
38 12 United States Michael Glasder 140.0 DNQ 95.9
39 32 Slovenia Tilen Bartol 144.0 DNQ 95.3
40 21 France Vincent Descombes Sevoie 133.0 DNQ 79.9

Team

Team
Date21 January 2018
Competitors32 from 8 nations
Teams8
Winning score1662.2
Medalists
gold medal Norway Norway
silver medal Slovenia Slovenia
bronze medal Poland Poland
Rank Bib Name 1st round 2nd round Total
1 8  Norway
1 Robert Johansson
2 Andreas Stjernen
3 Johann André Forfang
4 Daniel-André Tande
219.5
231.0
214.0
224.0
218.0
208.0
217.0
202.5		 1662.2
399.9
427.3
405.0
430.0
2 4  Slovenia
1 Jernej Damjan
2 Anže Semenič
3 Domen Prevc
4 Peter Prevc
212.0
207.5
214.0
202.0
220.0
220.5
216.0
193.0		 1615.8
405.4
411.7
406.3
392.4
3 6  Poland
1 Piotr Żyła
2 Stefan Hula
3 Dawid Kubacki
4 Kamil Stoch
212.5
206.0
204.5
209.5
204.0
210.0
221.5
204.0		 1592.1
382.0
392.9
400.5
416.7
4 7  Germany
1 Andreas Wellinger
2 Stephan Leyhe
3 Markus Eisenbichler
4 Richard Freitag
226.0
200.0
200.0
221.5
212.0
186.5
210.5
216.5		 1581.2
402.2
363.3
379.4
436.3
5 5  Austria
1 Clemens Aigner
2 Manuel Poppinger
3 Michael Hayböck
4 Stefan Kraft
200.0
194.5
187.0
200.0
202.0
208.0
212.0
202.0		 1488.3
360.5
372.4
363.4
392.5
6 3  Switzerland
1 Andreas Schuler
2 Killian Peier
3 Gregor Deschwanden
4 Simon Ammann
172.0
175.5
183.0
201.0
193.0
176.5
190.5
216.5		 1350.6
310.7
306.8
327.3
405.8
7 2  Russia
1 Alexey Romashov
2 Mikhail Nazarov
3 Denis Kornilov
4 Dmitry Vassiliev
176.5
167.0
191.0
206.0
188.5
172.5
176.0
191.5		 1283.2
306.4
287.5
316.3
373.0
8 1  Finland
1 Antti Aalto
2 Jarkko Määttä
3 Eetu Nousiainen
4 Janne Ahonen
177.0
172.0
177.0
192.0
184.0
174.5
180.0
189.0		 1262.2
304.8
298.0
300.9
358.5

References

  1. ^ "The facts around the Ski Flying World Championships". International Ski Federation. Archived from the original on 18 January 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2018.

External links

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