Tommy Ingebrigtsen
Tommy Ingebrigtsen ( born August 8, 1977 in Trondheim ) is a former Norwegian ski jumper.
Career
In December 1993 he gave his debut in Predazzo in the Ski Jumping World Cup, and already in his second event on December 17 in Courchevel, he could draw attention to themselves with an eighth place.
The following winter he achieved his greatest successes. On 1 March 1995 he was in the Swedish Gällivare first Junior World Champion and was appointed whether this success in the Norwegian team at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 Canadian Thunder Bay. There he surprisingly won and by far the gold medal in the large hill; on the normal hill he reached the 16th place. After these successes, he was honored in his home country with the foundation - Morgenbladet gold medal.
In the following years Ingebrigtsen was a very fickle Springer. Frequently in competitions he managed only a good jump, but in the second round he had often already land on the Hills- stem. In the World Cup he could not achieve a podium finish until 1999, and its success in 1995 seemed to be many been a fluke.
Until the winter of 1998/99, it went with his career back uphill. He reached the top ten frequently and occasionally even a podium finish. On 26 February 2000, he ersprang with second place on the large hill in Iron Mountain his best individual placing at a World Cup competition. In the overall World Cup standings, he reached each of the eleventh, 1999/2000 the thirteenth rank in the winters of 1998/99 and 2000/ 01.
Then it went downhill again with his form, and the beginning of winter 2002/ 03 Ingebrigtsen was even erected only for the Continental Cup, so the second division of ski jumping. After this time out but he caught himself and won at the 2003 World Championships in Val di Fiemme the silver medal on the normal hill and a bronze medal with the Norwegian team; on the large hill, he was fourth. In the 2003 /04 season he was fifth in the Nordic Tournament and could again reach the eleventh place in the World Cup overall standings.
In the World Cup Ingebrigtsen came in second place and four third-place finishes in his career. Characteristic was his unconventional and often prosecuted by the judges with deductions jump style: When approaching a crouch, he took the knee together almost x -shaped, and in flight he made numerous corrections to the arms and hands in front of what his jumps made it seem very restless. In 2006, he presented with a hill record of 136.0 m at the Holmenkollen. After the 2006/ 07 season Ingebrigtsen ended his career.