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2001–02 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
The 2001–02 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup wast the 23rd World Cup season in ski jumping and without any ski flying individual event held in this season (third time in history).. Season began on 23 November 2001 at Puijo in Kuopio, Finland, and finished on 24 March 2002 at Letalnica bratov Gorišek in Planica, Slovenia. The individual World Cup overall winner was for the second consecutive season Adam Małysz. Nations Cup was taken by Team of Germany. 22 men's individual events on 18 different venues in 10 countries were held on the two different continents (Europe and Asia). The only ski flying event was cancelled due to bad weather (3rd season after 1987/88 and 1989/90 without individual ski flying). And 5 men's team events. German ski jumper Sven Hannawald became the first in history to win the "grand slam" of all four competitions at Four Hills Tournament (at 50th anniversary edition). Peaks of the season were Winter Olympics, FIS Ski Flying World Championships (only two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Małysz
Adam Henryk Małysz (; born 3 December 1977) is a Polish former ski jumper and rally driver. He competed in ski jumping from 1995 to 2011 and is one of the most successful athletes in the history of the sport. His many accomplishments include four World Cup titles (a male record shared with Matti Nykänen), four individual Winter Olympic medals, four individual World Championship gold medals (an all-time record), 39 individual World Cup competition wins, 96 World Cup podiums (individual and team), and being the first male ski jumper to win three consecutive World Cup titles. He is also a winner of the Four Hills Tournament, the only three-time winner of the Nordic Tournament, and a former ski flying world record holder. After retiring from ski jumping, Małysz competed in the Dakar Rally in 2012, 2013 and 2014 finishing 37th, 15th and 13th respectively. In 2018-2022 period he was a director-coordinator of ski jumping and Nordic combined at the Polish Ski Federation. On 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuyoshi Funaki
(born 27 April 1975) is a Japanese former ski jumper. He ranked among the most successful sportsmen of its discipline, particularly in the 1990s. Funaki is known for his special variant of the V-style, in which the body lies flatter between the skis than usual. Career Funaki began ski jumping at the age of eleven. His birthplace Yoichi is also the home of Yukio Kasaya, who was a Japanese national hero with his Normal Hill victory in the 1972 Winter Olympics at Sapporo. Kasaya was also Funaki's role model. Funaki had his first World Cup appearance on December 20, 1992 in Sapporo. His first World Cup victory was achieved on December 10, 1994 in the normal hill at Planica, Slovenia. Several weeks later, he was leading the Four Hills Tournament in total tour points after the third event. In the second part of the last event at Bischofshofen, he had the longest jump of 131.5 meters, but fell during the landing - and the overall tour victory went to Austrian Andreas Goldberger, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Koch (ski Jumper)
Martin Koch (born 22 January 1982) is an Austrian former ski jumper. Career Koch started his World Cup career in 1999 and finished in the top 3 in all ski jumping events eighteen times. This included two victories with the first being on 8 January 2011 in Harrachov. He also won a silver medal at the 2008 Ski Flying World Championships and six gold medals in team events at the 2006 Winter Olympics and World Championships. He made his last World Cup jump on 22 March 2014 on the large hill in Planica. Regarded as a ski flying specialist, . FIS. 2014-01-11. Retrieved 2015-01-15. Koch held the Austrian national [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Ammann
Simon Ammann (; born 25 June 1981) is a Swiss ski jumper. He is one of the most successful athletes in the history of the sport, having won four individual Winter Olympic gold medals in 2002 Winter Olympics, 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics, 2010. His other achievements include winning the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007, 2007 Ski Jumping World Championships, the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2010, 2010 Ski Flying World Championships, the Nordic Tournament 2010, 2010 Nordic Tournament, and the 2009–10 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, 2010 Ski Jumping World Cup overall title. Career Ammann made his debut at the age of 16 during the 1997–98 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup season. He qualified for the 1998 Winter Olympics, 1998 Olympic Games in Hakuba Ski Jumping Stadium, Nagano, Japan, where he finished 35th. Before the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah Olympic Park, Salt Lake City, Ammann crashed and suffered injuries during training in Mühlenkopfschanze, Willingen. Despite this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gross-Titlis-Schanze
Gross-Titlis-Schanze (en: ''Large Titlis hill'') is a large ski jumping hill, located in Engelberg, Switzerland. It is named after the local mountain of Titlis, at an altitude of 1180 m above sea level and is a regular venue in the FIS Ski jumping World Cup. Mostly, the competitions take place in December, just before the Four Hills Tournament. Hill parameters * Construction point: 125 m * Hill size (HS): 140 m * Official hill record: 144.0 m – Domen Prevc ( 18 December 2016), Ryōyū Kobayashi ( 16 December 2018) * Hill record: 146.0 m – Kamil Stoch Kamil Wiktor Stoch (; born 25 May 1987) is a Polish Ski jumping, ski jumper. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers in the history of the sport, having won two FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, World Cup titles, three Four Hills Tournaments (two o ... ( 18 December 2020) * Inrun length: 99.0 m * Inrun angle: 36° * Take-off length: 7 m * Take-off angle: 11° * Take-off height: 3.15 m * Landing angle: 34.8° * Average speed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Engelberg
Engelberg (lit.: ''mountain of angel(s)'') is a village resort and a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Obwalden in Switzerland. Alongside the central village of Engelberg, the municipality encompasses additional settlements, including Grafenort, Oberberg and Schwand. The municipality of Engelberg is an exclave, entirely encircled by the neighboring cantons of Canton of Bern, Bern, Canton of Nidwalden, Nidwalden and Canton of Uri, Uri. Engelberg is a mountain resort in Central Switzerland. In the Middle Ages, the area garnered recognition for its Benedictine monastery, known as Engelberg Abbey. As time progressed, particularly from the 19th century onwards, Engelberg became a well-known mountain resort. The city of Lucerne serves as the nearest major urban center. While the official language of Engelberg is Swiss Swiss Standard German, German, the predominant spoken language is the local variation of the Alemannic German, Alem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villacher Alpenarena
Villacher Alpenarena is a ski jumping hill in Villach, Austria. History It was opened in 1937 and owned by SV Villach. It hosted six FIS Ski jumping World Cup individual events and one team event. Michael Hayböck Michael "Michi" Hayböck (; born 5 March 1991) is an Austrian former Ski jumping, ski jumper. Career He took his first World Cup win on 6 January 2015 in Bischofshofen in the final event of the 2014–15 Four Hills Tournament, Four Hills Tourname ... holds the hill record. There are also K-15, K-30 and K-60 hills. References Ski jumping venues in Austria Sport in Austria Sports venues completed in 1937 Alpenarena {{Austria-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villach
Villach (; ; ; ) is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the population is 61,887. Together with other Alpine towns Villach engages in the Alpine Town of the Year Association for the implementation of the Alpine Convention to achieve sustainable development in the Alpine Arc. In 1997, Villach was the first town to be awarded Alpine Town of the Year. Geography Villach is a statutory city, on the Drau River near its confluence with the Gail tributary, at the western rim of the Klagenfurt basin. The municipal area stretches from the slopes of the Gailtal Alps (Mt. Dobratsch) down to Lake Ossiach in the northeast. The Villach city limits comprise the following districts and villages: In 1905 a part of the municipal area St. Martin was incorporated. In 1973 the city area was further enlarged through the incorporation of Landskr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Goldberger
Andreas "Andi" Goldberger (born 29 November 1972) is an Austrian former ski jumper. In 1994 he became the first man in history to jump over 200 metres, but did not manage to stand. Career He won the World Cup overall titles three times (1993, 1995, 1996), the Four Hills Tournament twice (1992/93, 1994/95), with multiple medals in the Nordic World Championships and Winter Olympics. Despite his success at ski jumping, Goldberger preferred ski flying—a more extreme version of normal ski jumping, in which distances are far greater. History was made On 17 March 1994, during training for the Ski Flying World Championships on Velikanka bratov Gorišek in Planica, Slovenia, he recorded a jump of 202 metres (663 ft); this made him the first man to ever to jump over two hundred metres, but he touched the snow upon landing, thus making the jump invalid as an official world record (Finland's Toni Nieminen would later land a 203 m jump at the same event). World record On 18 March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephan Hocke
Stephan Hocke (born 20 October 1983) is a German former ski jumper who competed from 2001 to 2012. In his debut World Cup season, he won a competition in Engelberg on 15 December 2001, which would be his only World Cup win. He also won a gold medal in the team large hill competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The city is the core of the Salt Lake Ci .... World Cup Standings Wins External links * * * 1983 births Living people Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic ski jumpers for Germany Ski jumpers at the 2002 Winter Olympics German male ski jumpers Skiers from Suhl Olympic medalists in ski jumping Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics 21st-century German sportsmen {{Germany-skijumping-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hochfirstschanze
The Hochfirst Ski Jump (''German: Hochfirstschanze'') is a ski jumping hill located in Titisee-Neustadt in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The ski jump is named after the mountain Hochfirst (1197 m) in the Black Forest. It is the biggest natural ski jumping hill. This means that in contrast to many other ski jumping facilities, rather than an artificial tower, the natural gradient of the mountain slope was used for construction. History In 1911, the first ski jumping hill at Neustadt in the Black Forest was built at thMühlrain From 1930 to 1932, the first Hochfirstschanze in Schmiedsbachtal was constructed as a 60-meter hill. It was inaugurated on December 31, 1933, in front of an attendance of 3,000 spectators. 10,000 spectators came to the hill during the Wehrmacht Championships in February 1938. After World War II, the Ski Club Neustadt developed the idea to build a new large hill together with the ski jumpers Toni Brutscher, Sepp Weiler and Heini Klopfer from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 of Neustadt is a spa known for its Kneipp hydrotherapeutic and curative methods. Furthermore, it is a winter sport center. Geography The community of Titisee lies on the north shore of Titisee, a lake in the eastern Feldberg in the Black Forest, which ranges from 780 to 1192m above sea level. The community of Neustadt is found 5 km to the east. The town lies on a small river called the Seebach (Lake Brook) as it comes in from Feldberg-Bärental to feed Titisee, as the Gutach (Good Water) as it flows out of the lake, and east of Neustadt, where it merges with the Haslach to become a whitewater torrent, as the Wutach (Furious Water). After flowing out of the town, it passes through the well known '' Wutachschlucht'' (Wutach Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
