Ski jumping at the 2010 Winter Olympics
In the XXI. 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver (Canada) were held three competitions in ski jumping.
Venue was the Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, about 125 kilometers north of Vancouver.
Competitions
The individual jumping normal hill
Date: February 13, 2010, 18:45 clock CET ( 9:45 clock time) qualification on February 12, 19:00 CET clock (10:00 clock time) Defending champion: Norway Lars Bystol World Cup: Austria Wolfgang Loitzl
The first ski jumping competition of the 2010 Winter Olympics was also the first decision ever. The qualification for the competition on the normal hill already took place several hours before the actual opening of the Games. It was attended by 61 ski jumpers from 18 countries, the highest possible quota of four athletes featured eleven nations, including Germany and Austria. For Switzerland the other hand, only two athletes had qualified for the Olympics, Andreas Küttel, the reigning world champion on the large hill, and the World Cup leader Simon Ammann. In qualifying it was no surprise failures - among the ten athletes who did not reach the first pass, no one was the best forty in the World Cup. The longest jump of 107 meters, it was the Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer, who was one of the favorites alongside Simon Ammann. Since Schlierenzauer was, however, pre-qualified as well as all other top ten athletes in the overall World Cup, the German Michael Uhrmann was officially out as the winner of the qualification. He had, for longer start as favorites, a width of 106 meters and standing thus placed at the top of the field, which had yet to qualify. In addition, two other German watch men finished in the top ten of the qualification: Michael Neumayer third parties and Martin Schmitt in ninth. The Austrians were all pre-qualified, as Simon Ammann; His teammate Andreas Küttel reached 23 as also without effort the final.
On the first final round took as planned 50 ski jumpers in part, but 51, as two athletes had occupied the 50th place on points in qualifying. The competition began with no Canadian participation - every four Canadians had failed to qualify - at 18:45 clock. Compared to qualify the jury reduced the start-up, and there was no supporting the ascendant, so that the first widths initially well below 90 meters. The first jumper who landed at over 100 meters, was the Czech Roman Koudelka, the longer time accordingly held the lead. During the first Swiss Andreas Küttel was eliminated in the first round with a jump of 94 feet, get both Martin Schmitt and Michael Neumayer good attempts at the 100 meters. A significant longest jump of 103.5 meters, sat Michael watch men, who thus took over the interim leadership. In contrast, the first Olympic appearance of his teammates Pascal Bodmer was rather unhappy. Because of a suit problemes - a zip of the jersey was ripped out, so the suit was open at the top - he was not allowed to start first and completed his jump only after all other athletes had completed the passage. Then he came to 95.5 meters, which he failed to reach the final round as 31 by one rank. Also, some of the Austrians did not repeat their performance from the previous season: Wolfgang Loitzl and Andreas Kofler missed in the first round the top ten. The two other Austrians did not come to Uhrmanns width zoom, which marked the peak to the last Springer, because Simon Ammann attempt of 105 meters was enough to take the lead.
At the beginning of the second pass, the leaders changed frequently since each Springer took a head start on all previous. First, the lengths were similar in a narrow range around the 100 meters, in which Andreas Kofler ended and thus failed to improve. With Martin Schmitt, the Norwegian Anders Jacobsen and the Slovenians Peter Prevc then completed three athletes in succession a jump of about 103 meters each. All three athletes thus improved by some ranks and later placed in the top ten; Prevc of them was in seventh place with 104.5 meters of the best. An even further experiment laid only towards Gregor Schlierenzauer, who was out after the first passage only in seventh place. With 106.5 meters, but he still had further chances for a medal because of the following three athletes no one came up to his length. Only Poland's Adam Malysz displaced Schlierenzauer with a jump of 105 meters from the top position. After Michael watch men had fallen back with a 102- meter jump, it was clear that Małysz and Schlierenzauer had a medal safely. For these two athletes finally have the silver and the bronze medal because Simon Ammann of 108 meters, it was the longest jump of the day and in to the Olympic gold medal for Best considerably secured in both rounds. For Ammann it was after his double Olympic champion from 2002 's third gold medal.
The individual jumping large hill
Date: February 20, 2010, 20:30 clock CET ( 11:30 local time clock ) qualification on February 19, 19:00 CET clock (10:00 clock time) Defending champion: Thomas Morgenstern of Austria World Cup: Switzerland Andreas Küttel
Curiosity on the large hill: One week after the decision on the normal hill get the same athletes the same medals for the second time: Gold for Ammann, silver for Małysz, bronze for Schlierenzauer. Second oddity: Malysz won his Olympic medals in Salt Lake City and Vancouver whenever Ammann Olympic champion.
Team competition
Date: February 22, 2010, 19:00 clock CET (10:00 local time clock ) Defending champion: Austria Austria World Cup: Austria Austria