The men's large hill individual competition of the
Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on 11 and 12 February, at the
Snow Ruyi hill in
Zhangjiakou
Zhangjiakou (; ; ) also known as Kalgan and by several other names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province in Northern China, bordering Beijing to the southeast, Inner Mongolia to the north and west, and Shanxi to the southw ...
.
Marius Lindvik
Marius Lindvik (born 27 June 1998) is a Norwegian ski jumper and Olympic gold medalist.
Career
He won the silver medal in the normal hill at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics. He competed at the Junior World Championships in 2016, 2017 and 2018 wit ...
of Norway won the event, which became his first Olympic medal.
Ryōyū Kobayashi
is a Japanese Ski jumping, ski jumper. He is one of the most successful contemporary athletes in ski jumping, having won during the 2018–19 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, 2018–19 season thirteen World Cup events and all six possible titles in th ...
of Japan became the silver medalist, and
Karl Geiger
Karl Geiger (born 11 February 1993) is a German ski jumper who has competed at FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, World Cup level since 2012. He won gold medals in both the team and mixed team competitions at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021 ...
of Germany won the bronze medal, his first individual Olympic medal.
The defending champion was
Kamil Stoch
Kamil Wiktor Stoch (; born 25 May 1987) is a Polish ski jumper. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers in the history of the sport, having won two World Cup titles, three Four Hills Tournaments (two of them consecutive), three individual go ...
. The 2018 silver medalist,
Andreas Wellinger
Andreas Wellinger (born 28 August 1995) is a German ski jumper. His career-best achievements include winning an individual gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, individual silver at the 2018 Winter Olympics, mixed team gold at the 2017 Ski Jump ...
, did not qualify for the Olympics, but the bronze medalist,
Robert Johansson
Robert Høneren Johansson (born 23 March 1990) is a Norwegian ski jumper. He is a former ski flying world record holder, having landed a jump of in Vikersund on 18 March 2017. Johansson has often been nicknamed the "Wing Commander" for his di ...
, did.
Stefan Kraft
Stefan Kraft (born 13 May 1993) is an Austrian Ski jumping, ski jumper. He is one of the most successful contemporary athletes in ski jumping, having won the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, Ski Jumping World Cup and FIS Ski Flying World Cup, Ski Flyi ...
was the
2021 World champion. Johansson and Geiger are the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Geiger was leading the
2021–22 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
The 2021–22 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was the 43rd World Cup season in ski jumping for men, the 25th official World Cup season in ski flying, and the 11th World Cup season for women. The men's season started in November in Nizhny Tagil, Russia ...
at the start of the Olympics, followed by Kobayashi,
Halvor Egner Granerud
Halvor Egner Granerud (born 29 May 1996) is a Norwegian ski jumper. He is one of the most successful contemporary ski jumpers, having won 25 World Cup individual competitions, the World Cup overall title twice, and the Four Hills Tournament once ...
, and Lindvik.
Kobayashi was leading after the first jump, with Lindvik second, and
Timi Zajc
Timi Zajc (born 26 April 2000) is a Slovenian ski jumper.
Career Continental Cup
In September 2017 in Trondheim, Zajc finished on the podium for the first time in his career after finishing third in the first competition and winning the second c ...
third. Zajc had a mediocre second jump, and Geiger, who was sixth, advanced to the bronze medal position. Lindvik's second jump was sufficient to overtake Kobayashi for gold.
Schedule
Official training
Qualifying
Competition
Qualification
Results
Qualifying
Final
References
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Ski jumping at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Men's events at the 2022 Winter Olympics