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2008–09 FIS Ski Flying World Cup
The 2008/09 FIS Ski Flying World Cup was the 12th official World Cup season in ski flying awarded with small crystal globe as the subdiscipline of FIS Ski Jumping World Cup. Competition with small globe award returned this season after eight years long break. Calendar Men Team Standings Ski Flying References {{DEFAULTSORT:2008-09 Fis Ski Flying World Cup World cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the name is ... FIS Ski Flying World Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregor Schlierenzauer
Gregor Schlierenzauer (; born 7 January 1990) is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed from 2006 to 2021. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers of all time, having won the Ski Jumping World Cup overall title, the Four Hills Tournament, and Nordic Tournament twice each; the Ski Flying World Cup overall title three times; as well as four medals at the Winter Olympics, twelve at the Ski Jumping World Championships, and five at the Ski Flying World Championships. During his victorious 2008–09 World Cup season, Schlierenzauer set a number of ski jumping records, including surpassing Janne Ahonen's record of twelve individual World Cup wins in a season with thirteen; and also tying Ahonen, Matti Hautamäki, and Thomas Morgenstern's record of six consecutive individual wins in a single season. On 26 January 2013, Schlierenzauer equalled Matti Nykänen's long-standing record of 46 individual World Cup wins; he would go on to achieve a total of 53 wins, the most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikersund
Vikersund is a town of 3,232 (in 2020) inhabitants in the municipality capital of Modum, in the county of Buskerud, Norway. Overview Vikersund is located 30 kilometers south of Hønefoss and 40 kilometers northwest of Drammen. The village is located at the southwestern arm of Tyrifjorden. Drammenselva enters Tyrifjorden by Vikerfossen. Trunk road Highway 35 passes Vikersund. Vikersund station is a railway station on Randsfjordbanen which was established in 1866, two years before Randsfjordbanen between Drammen and Randsfjord was completed. Vikersund has a primary school - Vikersund primary school and a middle school - North Modum School. Students at NMU from Vikersund school Sysle school and some also come from Stalsberg school (Geithus). Between Vikersund and Krøderen is ''Krøderbanen museumsjernbane'' railway museum. Tyrifjord Hotell, situated by the fjord opposite Vikersund, just 3 minutes by car from Vikersund Ski-Jumping Center with the world's largest ski flying hill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Loitzl
Wolfgang Loitzl (born 13 January 1980) is an Austrian former ski jumper. He was the winner of the 2008–09 Four Hills Tournament and the 2009 Normal Hill World Champion. Career He won seven medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with seven golds (Individual normal hill: 2009, Team normal hill: 2001, 2005; Team large hill: 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013) and one bronze (Team large hill: 2001). He earned a bronze medal in the team event at the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2004 and finished 15th at the individual competition at those same championships. Loitzl has seven individual career victories from 1998 to 2003. Loitzl won the 2008–09 Four Hills Tournament. In the final competition of the tournament in Bischofshofen, he received the maximum score (20) for the first jump from all five judges. In ski jumping history, only Anton Innauer (1976), Kazuyoshi Funaki (1998), Sven Hannawald (2003), Hideharu Miyahira (2003), and Peter Prevc (2015) have matched this feat. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Rosliakov
Ilya Sergeyevich Rosliakov () (born February 18, 1983, in Murmansk) is a Russian ski jumper who has been competing since 2003. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 10th in the team large hill and 44th in the individual large hill events. Rosliakov's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was sixth in the team large hill event at Sapporo in 2007. His best individual World Cup finish was 12th in an individual large hill in Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ... in 2004. References * 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Murmansk Skiers from Murmansk Oblast Olympic ski jumpers for Russia Russian male ski jumpers Ski jumpers at the 2010 Winter Olympics 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-skijumping-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Karelin
Pavel Vladimirovich Karelin (27 April 1990 – 9 October 2011) was a Russian ski jumping, ski jumper from Nizhny Novgorod who competed from 2004 until his death in 2011. He made his 2007-08 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, World Cup debut on 30 November 2007, finishing 8th in team large hill event at Kuusamo, Finland. During the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished tenth in the team large hill, 33rd in the individual normal hill, and 38th in the individual large hill events. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009, Karelin finished ninth in the team large hill and 34th in the individual large hill events. His best World Cup finish was second in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 1 January 2011 during the Four Hills Tournament, 2010–11 Four Hills Tournament, making him the second Russian ski jumper, in post-USSR, Soviet era, to manage a podium position; the first was Dimitry Vassiliev who also scored his first podium place, with a second, on 1 January in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Kornilov
Denis Aleksandrovich Kornilov (; born 17 August 1986) is a Russian ski jumper who has competed at World Cup level since 2003. Career Kornilov's best individual World Cup result is fifth in Bischofshofen on 6 January 2008, and in Sapporo on 3 February 2008. His best team result is second in Oberstdorf on 15 February 2009. At the World Championships, his best individual result is 16th in 2011; his best team result is fifth in 2005. Kornilov has competed at four Winter Olympics, with his individual result being 24th and his best team result being seventh, both in 2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of .... References * External links * * 1986 births Living people Skiers from Nizhny Novgorod Olympic ski jumpers for Russia Russian male ski jumpers Ski jumper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matti Hautamäki
Matti Antero Hautamäki (; born 14 July 1981) is a Finnish former ski jumper who competed from 1997 to 2012. He is one of Finland's most successful ski jumpers, having won sixteen individual World Cup competitions; multiple medals at the Winter Olympics, Ski Jumping World Championships and Ski Flying World Championships; the Nordic Tournament twice; and four ski flying world records. Career Ski jumping Hautamäki started ski jumping at the age of seven near his hometown of Oulu. When his older brother Jussi and friend Lauri Hakola moved to Kuopio, Matti joined them. At first he found it difficult to be independent at the age of sixteen, but he received much help and support from his brother, with whom he was living at the time. The help of his new coach Pekka Niemelä, whom he met at the sports school in Kuopio, also helped him advance quickly. In the same year Matti had his first real successes and won medals at the 1997 and 1999 FIS Junior World Ski Jumping Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juha-Matti Ruuskanen
Juha-Matti Ruuskanen (born 24 July 1984) is a Finnish former ski jumper who competed from 2002 to 2012, mainly at Continental Cup level. His lone World Cup victory was in a team event at the ski flying hill in Oberstdorf Oberstdorf (Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic: ''Oberschdorf'') is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality and skiing and hiking town in Germany, located in the Allgäu region of the Bavarian Alps. It is the southernmost settlement in German ... on 15 February 2009. References 1984 births Finnish male ski jumpers Living people Sportspeople from Kuopio Skiers from North Savo 21st-century Finnish sportsmen {{Finland-skijumping-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalle Keituri
Kalle Keituri (born 25 April 1984) is a Finnish former ski jumper who competed from 2002 to 2014. He debuted in the Continental Cup in 2002 after winning a bronze medal at the 2002 Junior World Championship in Schonach. On 1 March 2002 he made his World Cup debut in Lahti, finishing 19th and gaining 12 points; his overall position at the end of the season was 66th. In the following season he finished 26th in Lahti. In 2004 he did not participate in the World Cup. The next year was Keituri's best as he reached 9th position in the overall Continental Cup standings, with 540 points; he also competed in five World Cup events. In Lahti he was 22nd, followed by 29th Lillehammer and 22nd in Planica; this gained him 22 points in the overall World Cup. During the 2005–06 World Cup season his best performance was ninth in Titisee-Neustadt on 22 January 2006, but his final Continental Cup position was only 67th. In the 2007–08 World Cup season he achieved ninth in Kuusamo, which re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kranjec
Robert Kranjec (born 16 July 1981) is a Slovenian former ski jumper. Career Kranjec won a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in the team large hill event. He won his first World Cup event at Kuusamo, Finland in 2005. In the following years, he could not reach any top results except for ski flying competitions. In 2010 he celebrated his second World Cup victory at Tauplitz, Austria. After two more successful ski flying competitions at Tauplitz and Oberstdorf, in which he achieved second place each time, he won the ski flying World Cup in the 2009–10 season. In 2012, he won the 2012 FIS Ski Flying World Championships and thus became Slovenia's third World Champion in ski jumping and the first in ski flying. He also set a new national record. At the same championship, he won the bronze medal in team competition. In the same season, Kranjec also won his second ski flying World Cup title. Kranjec retired from ski jumping in March 2019. Personal life K ... [...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] |
Letalnica Bratov Gorišek
Letalnica bratov Gorišek () is one of the two largest ski flying ski jumping hills, hills in the world and the biggest of eight hills located at the Planica Nordic Centre in Planica, Slovenia. It was built in 1969 and is named after the original constructors and brothers Vlado Gorišek, Vlado and Janez Gorišek. Since its opening, a total of List of the longest ski jumps#Men, 29 world records have been set at the venue. Yugoslav ski jumper Miro Oman made the inaugural test jump of on 6 March 1969. The first FIS Ski Flying World Championships were organized on the hill in FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1972, 1972. After Matti Nykänen set a world record jump of at the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1985, 1985 FIS Ski Flying World Championships, a new rule was instituted by the International Ski Federation that awarded no additional points for jumps over this distance due to safety reasons. The rule was abolished in 1994. On 17 March 1994, Andreas Goldberger touched th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
