Johann André Forfang (born 4 July 1995) is a Norwegian
ski jumper
Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the fina ...
and 2018 team Olympic champion.
Career
Like his older brother
Daniel Forfang he represents the club Tromsø SK. Forfang made his
World Cup
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debut in December 2014. He won team gold medal
FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2016 with his teammates in
Tauplitz
Tauplitz is a former municipality in the district of Liezen in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Bad Mitterndorf
Bad Mitterndorf is a town in Salzkammergut in the Aust ...
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Bad Mitterndorf
Bad Mitterndorf is a town in Salzkammergut in the Austrian state of Styria.
Situated between Salzburg and Graz, it is a popular winter sports resort and also as a location for walking and cycling in the summer. Bad Mitterndorf is the site of two ...
. His first individual world cup victory was in
Titisee-Neustadt
Titisee-Neustadt () is a municipality in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is made up of the six communities of Neustadt, Langenordnach, Rudenberg, Titisee, Schwärzenbach and Waldau.
The town ...
on 12 March 2016.
In 2018 he won the last worldccup before the Olympic Games in Willingen. At the 2018 Olympic Games he gained a silver medal in normal hill individual and he is Olympic Champion 2018 with the Norway skijumping team (
Andreas Stjernen
Andreas Kolset Stjernen (born 30 July 1988) is a Norwegian retired ski jumper. He is the son of former ski jumper Hroar Stjernen.
Career
He made his debut in the Continental Cup in February 2005 in Brotterode, scoring two 49th places over two ...
,
Daniel-André Tande
Daniel-André Tande (; born 24 January 1994) is a Norwegian ski jumper, 2018 ski flying World Champion and 2018 team Olympic champion.
Career
Tande's first World Cup start was in Bad Mitterndorf on 11 January 2014. On 25 November 2015, he achiev ...
,
Robert Johansson
Robert Høneren Johansson (born 23 March 1990) is a Norwegian Ski jumping, ski jumper. He is a former list of the longest ski jumps#Men, ski flying world record holder, having landed a jump of in Vikersundbakken, Vikersund on 2016–17 FIS Ski ...
).
On 1 December 2018 he won the world cup in Tagil (
Russia
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).
FIS World Nordic Ski Championships
World Cup
Standings
Wins
Individual starts (177)
References
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1995 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tromsø
Norwegian male ski jumpers
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping
Olympic ski jumpers of Norway
Ski jumpers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Norway
Olympic silver medalists for Norway
Olympic medalists in ski jumping
21st-century Norwegian people