Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Large hill individual

Men's large hill individual
at the XI Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for ski jumping
VenueOkurayama Ski Jump Stadium
DatesFebruary 11
Competitors52 from 15 nations
winning score219.9
Medalists
 Wojciech Fortuna  Poland
 Walter Steiner  Switzerland
 Rainer Schmidt  East Germany
Ski Jumping at the
1972 Winter Olympics
Normal hill   men  
Large hill men

The men's large hill individual ski jumping competition for the 1972 Winter Olympics was held in Okurayama Ski Jump Stadium. It occurred on 11 February.[1]

In the competition on the Okurayama jumping hill, conditions were "variable and unfair" according to a Norwegian account of the 1972 Games published in 2006, and the result is described as "the greatest surprise of all time on the jumping hill".[2] In the first run, the 19-year-old Zakopane mechanic Wojciech Fortuna completed a leap of 111 metres, while Manfred Wolf of East Germany was runner-up after the first run having jumped 107 metres. Jiří Raška, Gariy Napalkov and Tauno Käyhkö, all counted among the favourites according to Jorsett's account, were all more than 12 metres behind, Yukio Kasaya, who won on the normal hill, landed on 90 metres, and Ingolf Mork, the 1972 Four Hills Tournament winner, touched down on 88 metres.

Fortuna's second jump was a more modest 87.5 metres; still, the tenths of a point remained on his side. Again according to Jorsett, Steiner (103 metres), Schmidt (101 metres) and Käyhkö (100.5 metres) got lucky with the wind in the second run, but all finished within 0.7 points of Fortuna. This was the smallest margin between first and fourth to date.

Pudgar's eighth place was the best placing by a Yugoslav at the Winter Olympics until Matjaž Debelak won bronze at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games.

Results

[1]

Rank Athlete Country Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
1st, gold medalist(s) Wojciech Fortuna  Poland 130.4 89.5 219.9
2nd, silver medalist(s) Walter Steiner  Switzerland 101.6 118.2 219.8
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Rainer Schmidt  East Germany 106.4 112.9 219.3
4 Tauno Käyhkö  Finland 104.5 114.7 219.2
5 Manfred Wolf  East Germany 120.3 94.8 215.1
6 Gary Napalkov  Soviet Union 111.3 98.8 210.1
7 Yukio Kasaya  Japan 124.9 84.5 209.4
8 Danilo Pudgar  Yugoslavia 98.5 107.5 206.0
9 Esko Rautionaho  Finland 95.7 110.1 205.8
10 Jiří Raška  Czechoslovakia 111.1 93.6 204.7
11 Rolf Nordgren  Sweden 105.5 98.0 203.5
12 Akitsugu Konno  Japan 109.7 89.4 199.1
13 Kari Ylianttila  Finland 99.1 98.3 197.4
14 Takashi Fujisawa  Japan 107.2 89.9 197.1
15 Zbyněk Hubač  Czechoslovakia 96.1 98.6 194.7
15 Frithjof Prydz  Norway 89.0 105.7 194.7
17 Zdenek Mezl  Canada 104.7 89.6 194.3
18 Tadeusz Pawlusiak  Poland 89.3 94.0 183.3
19 Hiroshi Itagaki  Japan 96.0 87.1 183.1
20 Henry Glaß  East Germany 97.9 85.1 183.0
21 Sergey Yanin  Soviet Union 93.1 88.3 181.4
22 Josef Zehnder  Switzerland 97.0 84.1 181.1
23 Drago Pudgar  Yugoslavia 95.6 84.1 179.7
24 Reinhold Bachler  Austria 88.9 90.3 179.2
25 Ron Steele  United States 86.6 91.1 177.7
26 Leoš Škoda  Czechoslovakia 96.3 80.0 176.3
27 Günther Göllner  West Germany 93.0 82.3 175.3
28 Ingolf Mork  Norway 95.6 77.7 173.3
29 Adam Krzysztofiak  Poland 85.6 87.5 173.1
30 Greg Swor  United States 77.2 95.6 172.8
31 Stanisław Gąsienica Daniel  Poland 83.2 87.9 171.1
32 Rauno Miettinen  Finland 79.7 91.0 170.7
32 Anatoly Zheglanov  Soviet Union 73.7 97.0 170.7
34 Jo Inge Bjørnebye  Norway 86.7 81.1 167.8
35 K'oba Ts'akadze  Soviet Union 69.7 95.5 165.2
36 Jerry Martin  United States 89.1 74.0 163.1
37 Bjørn Wirkola  Norway 97.7 64.8 162.5
37 Marjan Mesec  Yugoslavia 78.7 83.8 162.5
39 Peter Wilson  Canada 78.7 80.9 159.6
40 Heinz Wosipiwo  East Germany 74.3 85.3 159.6
41 Anders Lundqvist  Sweden 85.8 72.2 158.0
42 Hans Schmid  Switzerland 101.8 54.6 156.4
43 Max Golser  Austria 84.9 68.7 153.6
44 Ernst von Grünigen  Switzerland 79.8 73.2 153.0
45 Ulf Kvendbo  Canada 75.6 77.0 152.6
46 Rudi Wanner  Austria 69.6 82.7 152.3
47 Scott Berry  United States 76.1 75.6 151.7
48 Peter Štefančič  Yugoslavia 67.6 77.6 145.2
49 Yvan Richard  France 68.8 73.4 142.2
50 Alain Macle  France 65.9 56.9 122.8
51 Jacques Gaillard  France 60.8 61.9 122.7
52 Alfred Grosche  West Germany 44.6 75.0 119.6

References

  1. 1 2 "The XI Olympic Winter Games Sapporo 1972" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIth Olympic Winter Games. LA84 Foundation. 1972. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ (Norwegian) Olympiske vinterleker 1924–2006, Akilles forlag 2006, ISBN 8272861623

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