Nordic SkiingJump - World Flight
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From tomorrow until Sunday takes place in Bad Mittendorf, Styria, the XXIV edition of the World Ski Flying, the second highlight of the season after the jump Tourn & eacute; and Four Hills.
Wednesday 13 January 2016 8 minutes reading time
WORLD HISTORY OF FLIGHT The event rainbow of ski flying was born & Outdoors; beginning of the year & rsquo; 70, holding every two years. Initially was staged in odd years, he incastrandosi perfectly with the Olympic Games and the Nordic World Ski Championships that instead disputed in even years.
However the mid & agrave; the years & rsquo; 80 FIS reformed & ograve; timing and frequency of the Nordic World Ski Championships, moving just in odd years. As a result of those ski flying they were translated in even years, and once every two editions, will be played in the same season of the Olympic Games.
So far 20 different jumpers were crowned champions of the world ski flying. Among them only three were able to repeat a title. This is the Swiss Walter Steiner (1972, 1977), the German Sven Hannawald (2000, 2002) and the Norwegian Roar Lj ø kels ø y (2004, 2006).
Are five athletes in activities & agrave; to claim a gold champion in ski flying. It is Noriaki Kasai (1992), Gregor Schlierenzauer (2008), Simon Ammann (2010), Robert Kranjec (2012) and Severin Freund (2014).
The voice medals overall instead nobody can & ograve; compete with Matti Nyk & auml; nen, arrived even five podiums, also consecutive. The Finn & egrave; was bronze in 1983, gold in 1985, bronze again in 1986 is that in 1988, silver in 1990 finally.
Besides the five world champions (including Schlierenzauer & egrave; also accredited to a silver in 2010), in business & agrave; There are three other athletes already & agrave; winning a medal at the World Championships in flight. It is Janne Ahonen (silver in 1996 and in 2004, bronze in 2000 and 2008), Rune Velta (silver in 2012) and Peter Prevc (bronze in 2014).
The voice nations, on the step & more ugrave; World Cup top flight have flown 11 different flags. The German movement & egrave; pi & ugrave; winning ever having won six world titles, although divided between East Germany (2), West Germany (1), and united Germany (3). Follows the & rsquo; Austria 4. Next comes Norway and Switzerland to 3. 2 share successes we find Finland, Czech movement (Czechoslovakia + Czech Republic) and Japan. Single statement for Slovenia.
L & rsquo; Italy, despite never having won, boasts two bronze medals, dated 1992 and 1994. Both are signed by Roberto Cecon.
Since 2004, the event & egrave; enriched the team event. To date, they have played five Since & eacute; in 2014 the adverse weather conditions have prevented the holding of the race. The first two were won by Norway, after which & eacute; there are three achievements of & rsquo; Austria.
 THE SERIES 4 NOTICE The peculiarity & agrave; World Cup flight & egrave; It represented by the fact that the & rsquo; only race of the panorama of ski jumping to fight over in two days and the length of the 4 series.
Since at least theoretically & eacute; The wind lashed the latest editions and in 2014 and 2012 that it was possible to play only two.
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BAD HISTORY Mittendorf The ski jumping starts & ograve; to be practiced on the Kulm gi & agrave; the early twentieth century, but only after the Second World War was built a real trampoline, which opened in 1950.
Over the years the structure & egrave; It was demolished and rebuilt twice. The first in 1985 and second in 2014, both in view of a & rsquo; upcoming edition of the World flight. Therefore l & rsquo; plant on which disputer & agrave; the event rainbow & egrave; very recent. & Nbsp;
What the coming days will & agrave; fifth World Ski Flying to be hosted in the resort & agrave; Styrian.
In 1975, l & rsquo; iridescent gold was won by Czech Karel Kodejska that preceded the German of & rsquo; East Rainer Schmidt, silver, and l & rsquo; Austrian Karl Schnabl, bronze.
In 1986, check out & ograve; a triumph of the athletes home. The medal & rsquo; & ograve and gold; Indeed & Outdoors; Austrian Andreas Felder ahead of compatriot Franz Neul & auml; ndtner, silver. The Finn Matti Nyk & auml; nen bronze.
In 1996, the medal 'gold was conquered by the popular Austrian Andreas Goldberger in front of the Finnish Janne Ahonen, silver, and the Slovenian Urban Franc, bronze.
In 2006, the medal 'gold was won by Norway's Roar Lj ø kels ø y that batt & eacute; Austrians Andres widh & ouml; LZL, silver, and Thomas Morgenstern, bronze.
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Due to adverse weather conditions last year & egrave; could play only one race on the new version of Kulm. Success & egrave; Severin Freund went to Stefan Kraft Jurij Tepes second and third. The German also holds the record of the trampoline with 237.5 meters (12.5 over the & rsquo; Hs).
The program of the event includes qualifying Thursday on Igrave; January 14, the individual race Friday & Igrave; 15 and Saturday 16, the team event on Sunday 17th.
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