Jan Boklöv
January Boklöv ( born April 14, 1966 in Malmberget ) is a former Swedish ski jumper. He is the inventor and pioneer of the V- style, which replaced the parallel - jump technique around 1990.
Career
Boklöv played his first World Cup competition on December 30, 1986 in Oberstdorf at the Four Hills Tournament. He was long only moderately successful. This changed after Ground surrounded on the V- jump technique, which he had allegedly invented by mistake due to a fault in the jump training. He spread his skis from the body to the side in the form of a V, and offered the wind so a much larger attack surface than the conventional jump style in which the skis were performed in parallel.
On December 10, 1988, he won so in Lake Placid the first of his five World Cup competitions and in the 1988/89 season and the World Cup. For this he was awarded by the listeners of Radio Sveriges the Radiosportens Jerringpris. Boklöv often lay several meters ahead of its competitors, but had to jump for his considerable style prints in the style points accepted. In particular, the then President of the Jumping Committee of the FIS, the Norwegian Torbjørn Yggeseth, the aesthetics of ski jumping looked vulnerable. After Boklövs successes nevertheless presented from 1990 all the jumpers on the new technology in order for there were then no deduction of points from 1992.
Boklöv himself could not tie back to his successes and was usually to be found in the following years only for sports midfield. At the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992 he reached on the normal hill only the 47th, for jumping on the large hill, he was not nominated. His last World Cup competition he played on January 31, 1993 in ski flying in Bad Mitterndorf.
Achievements
World Cup success
- Overall World Cup Winner 1988/89