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FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1994

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FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1994
VenueVelikanka bratov Gorišek K185
Date20 March 1994
Competitors43 from 15 nations
Winning score351.3
Medalists
gold medal    Czech Republic
silver medal    Norway
bronze medal    Italy
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The FIS Ski Flying World Ski Championships 1994 took place on 20 March 1994 in Planica, Slovenia for the record fourth time. It also counted for World Cup. They previously hosted the championships as being part of Yugoslavia in 1972, 1979 and 1985. This was the first large international sporting event in Slovenia after they declared its independence in 1991 following the Ten-Day War.

Schedule

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Date Event Rounds Longest jump of the day Visitors
17 March 1994   Hill test 2 203 metres (666 ft) by Toni Nieminen N/A
18 March 1994   Official Training 2 209 metres (686 ft) by Espen Bredesen 20,000
19 March 1994   Competition, Day 1 canceled; strong wind, no jumps at all 40,000
20 March 1994   Competition, Day 2 3 199 metres (653 ft) by Roberto Cecon 30,000

All jumps over 200 metres

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Chronological order:

Fair play

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Espen Bredesen (172 and 182 m) switched his silver medal with Roberto Cecon (160 and 199 m) bronze at the press conference after medal ceremony, as he deserved it more due to the rule which didn't allow to score jumps exceeding 191 metres.

Historic 200 metres barrier broken

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On 17 March 1994 sports history was made. Austrian ski jumper Andreas Goldberger became the first person in history to jump over 200 metres (660 ft) barrier, but it didn't count, as he touched the snow with his hands at 202 metres (663 ft) during practice.[1]

On the same day and also in the first round, just a few minutes later after Goldi, Finnish ski jumper Toni Nieminen made a history and officially became the first person to land on his feet over 200 metres (660 ft) when he stood at 203 metres (666 ft).[2]

Competition

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On 17 March 1994 practise session with 36 on start in two rounds was on schedule with historic 200 metres barrier broken and started with WR by test jumper Martin Höllwarth at 196 metres.[3] But Miran Tepeš was honoured to be the first, landing at 163 metres.[4]

On 18 March 1994 official training in front of 20,000 people with two rounds were on schedule and third round was canceled due to strong wind. Before that 15 trial V-jumpers made practise test jumps. In the first round Christof Duffner crashed from a huge height at 207 metres (679 ft) metres world record distance. About 15 minutes later Espen Bredesen set the third and last world record that year at 209 metres (686 ft).[5][6][7]

On 19 March 1994 first day of competition was on schedule but canceled due to strong. Unfortunate to 40,000 people visiting the event, crowd was very disappointed as they didn't manage to see a single jump that day.

On 20 March 1994 second day of competition was on schedule in front of 30,000 people and without any weather problems. The event marked the last time the 191 meters rule—jumps that exceeded the distance points didn't register further—was in use. At the time the single day event also counted for World Cup points and statistics. Only 2 of 4 jumps counted into final results. Czech Jaroslav Sakala became the world champion.[8]

Practise

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13:00 PM — 17 March 1994 — incomplete

Bib Name 1RD 2RD
Test jumpers
P1 Slovenia Miran Tepeš 163.0 m N/A
P2 Slovenia Tomaž Knafelj N/A N/A
P3 Slovenia Aljoša Dolhar 180.0 m N/A
P12 Austria Martin Höllwarth 196.0 m N/A
Competitors
42 Austria Andreas Goldberger 202.0 m 202.0 m
57 Finland Toni Nieminen 203.0 m 173.0 m
N/A Finland Jani Soininen 159.0 m 178.0 m
N/A Finland Janne Ahonen 190.0 m 168.0 m
N/A Slovenia Jure Žagar 156.0 m 152.0 m
N/A Slovenia Matjaž Kladnik 172.0 m 165.0 m
N/A Norway Espen Bredesen 174.0 m 188.0 m
N/A Norway Kurt Børset 166.0 m 167.0 m
N/A Czech Republic Jaroslav Sakala 170.0 m N/A
N/A Austria Werner Haim N/A 181.0 m
N/A Norway Roar Ljøkelsøy N/A 179.0 m
N/A Back N/A 180.0 m

Official training

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9:00 AM trial round — 18 March 1994 — incomplete — 43 on start list

Bib Name 1RD 2RD
7 Japan Noriaki Kasai 174.0 m N/A
9 Slovenia Jure Žagar 149.0 m 149.0 m
11 Finland Toni Nieminen 187.0 m N/A
14 Italy Roberto Cecon N/A 193.0 m
17 Germany Christof Duffner 207.0 m N/A
18 Slovenia Matjaž Zupan 112.0 m 124.0 m
20 Norway Espen Bredesen 209.0 m N/A
25 Austria Werner Rathmayr N/A 181.0 m
32 Slovenia Matjaž Kladnik 167.0 m 152.0 m
36 Austria Andreas Goldberger 201.0 m
37 Czech Republic Jaroslav Sakala 183.0 m 200.0 m
39 Slovenia Samo Gostiša 125.0 m 135.0 m
N/A France Jérôme Gay 146.0 m N/A
N/A France Nicolas Jean-Prost 174.0 m N/A
N/A Slovenia Dejan Jekovec 124.0 m 94.0 m
N/A Germany Gerd Siegmund 186.0 m N/A
N/A Japan Jinya Nishikata 188.0 m N/A
N/A Norway Lasse Ottesen N/A 176.0 m

Official results

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10:00 AM — 20 March 1994 — Two rounds — chronological order[9]

Rank Bib Name D2 (20 March 1994) Points
1RD 2RD
1st place, gold medalist(s) 37 Czech Republic Jaroslav Sakala 189.0 m 185.0 m 351.3
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 20 Norway Espen Bredesen 172.0 m 182.0 m 329.8
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 14 Italy Roberto Cecon 160.0 m 199.0 m 324.7
4 17 Germany Christof Duffner 159.0 m 148.0 m 266.4
5 4 Norway Lasse Ottesen 177.0 m 129.0 m 263.2
6 38 Switzerland Stephan Zünd 150.0 m 140.0 m 252.5
7 11 Finland Toni Nieminen 139.0 m 156.0 m 248.0
8 42 Norway Kurt Børset 122.0 m 167.0 m 245.3
9 23 Finland Jani Soininen 138.0 m 149.0 m 239.4
10 Germany Hansjörg Jäkle 129.0 m 153.0 m 237.4
11 2 Japan Takanobu Okabe 198.0 m 95.0 m 235.2
12 5 Finland Janne Ahonen 120.0 m 159.0 m 228.8
13 36 Austria Andreas Goldberger 141.0 m 128.0 m 221.3
14 43 Finland Janne Väätäinen 126.0 m 146.0 m 216.9
15 Switzerland Sylvain Freiholz 123.0 m 139.0 m 213.4
16 19 Austria Werner Haim 119.0 m 132.0 m 203.9
17 Italy Ivo Pertile 137.0 m 124.0 m 201.2
18 United States Tad Langlois 128.0 m 125.0 m 195.6
19 7 Japan Noriaki Kasai 153.0 m 109.0 m 177.9
20 24 Czech Republic Tomáš Goder 120.0 m 117.0 m 177.4
33 France Nicolas Jean-Prost 131.0 m 106.0 m 177.4
22 13 Japan Jinya Nishikata 168.0 m 95.0 m 170.6
23 Switzerland Sepp Zehnder 118.0 m 110.0 m 170.2
24 25 Austria Werner Rathmayr 114.0 m 115.0 m 168.3
25 Switzerland Bruno Reuteler 108.0 m 116.0 m 162.8
26 35 Germany Gerd Siegmund 115.0 m 113.0 m 161.1
27 18 Slovenia Matjaž Zupan 108.0 m 116.0 m 156.3
22 Czech Republic Jakub Sucháček 109.0 m 115.0 m 156.3
29 France Didier Mollard 112.0 m 106.0 m 147.1
30 32 Slovenia Matjaž Kladnik 114.0 m 101.0 m 144.0
31 Japan Naoki Yasuzaki 102.0 m 110.0 m 139.4
32 Japan Hiroya Saito 103.0 m 108.0 m 137.7
33 Austria Andreas Beck 95.0 m 117.0 m 136.4
34 Slovenia Samo Gostiša 112.0 m 96.0 m 131.1
35 Canada John Lockyer 103.0 m 110.0 m 128.6
36 France Jérôme Gay 101.0 m 101.0 m 122.4
37 Slovakia Vladimír Roško 98.0 m 102.0 m 120.5
38 Norway Ken Lesja 99.0 m 99.0 m 115.1
39 8 Georgia (country) Kakhaber Tsakadze 88.0 m 94.0 m 99.4
40 Slovenia Jure Žagar 83.0 m 100.0 m 95.6
41 30 Sweden Johan Rasmussen 124.0 m 80.0 m 94.8
42 34 Norway Roar Ljøkelsøy 94.0 m 77.0 m 76.7
43 Canada Jeremy Blackburn 85.0 m 39.0

  Points were officially scored maximum as 191 metres jump.
  World record. First official over 200 metres.
  Crash at world record distance.
  World record.
  Fall.

Ski flying world records

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Date Name Country Metres Feet
17 March 1994   Martin Höllwarth  Austria 196 643
17 March 1994   Andreas Goldberger  Austria 202 663
17 March 1994   Toni Nieminen  Finland 203 666
18 March 1994   Christof Duffner  Germany 207 679
18 March 1994   Espen Bredesen  Austria 209 686

  Not recognized! Touch. First ever jump over 200 metres in history.
  First official (standing) jump over 200 metres in history.

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Czech Republic (CZE)1001
2 Norway (NOR)0101
3 Italy (ITA)0011
Totals (3 entries)1113

References

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  1. ^ "Andreas Goldberger - Planica 1994 - 202 m! - World record crash". YouTube/ORF. 17 June 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-20.
  2. ^ "Toni Nieminen - 203 m - Planica 1994". YouTube. 24 March 2017. Archived from the original on 2021-12-20.
  3. ^ "Martin Hoellwarth - 196 m - Planica 1994 - Test Jumping - World Record!". YouTube. 20 July 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-20.
  4. ^ "V Planici tudi preko magičnih 200 metrov, p.8" (in Slovenian). Delo. 18 March 1994.
  5. ^ "Planica ne pozna nobenih meja Espen Bredesen poletel 209 metrov, p.8" (in Slovenian). Delo. 19 March 1994.
  6. ^ "Christof Duffner - Planica 1994 - 207 m - World Record (fall)". ORF/YouTube. 17 June 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-20.
  7. ^ "Espen Bredesen - 209 m - Planica 1994 - Word record (Polish Commentary)". YouTube. 30 December 2017. Archived from the original on 2021-12-20.
  8. ^ "V Planici '94 je novi svetovni prvak postal Jaroslav Sakala, p.11" (in Slovenian). Delo. 21 March 1994.
  9. ^ World Championships 1994 - Official results Archived 2010-08-16 at the Wayback Machine