Ski jumping at the Milan-Cortina Olympics: rules and program

The competition takes place from the Predazzo ski jump in Val di Fiemme, which has been modernized for the occasion. Realistically, there are no podium prospects for Italy, which has never won an Olympic medal. Honoring participation as best as possible is the least that can be hoped for for the Azzurri. The stars are the Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi (king of the 4 trampolines) and the Slovenian Domen Prevc. Women: Japanese Nozomi Maruyama and Slovenian Nika Prevc. The first six Olympic champions in the roll of honor are all Norwegian: to speak of a great tradition of the “Norge”, who now dominate in the mixed team event. Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Poland, Finland and Japan are the absolute protagonist nations of the discipline.

In ski jumping, athletes slide down a ramp from which they then take off in flight, with the aim of landing as far away as possible. For the purposes of the final ranking, not only the length of the jump performed counts (translated into a score), but also the style of execution (i.e. stability of the skis during the jump, balance, body position and landing), evaluated by the judges using a scoring scale ranging from 1 to 20. The HS point hill size – “slope measurement”) is the point of the slope located at an angle of 32° with respect to the horizontal line. Also in this case the measurement is expressed in meters and indicates the distance from the starting position. The competitions are held over two days on the small and large trampoline: the best 30, who will have 2 attempts, enter the second one.

Small men’s trampoline

1. Gold Ryoyu Kobayashi (Japan)
2. Silver Manuel Fettner (Austria)
3. Bronze Dawid Kubacki (Poland)

1. Gold Marius Lindvik (Norway)
2. Silver Ryoyu Kobayashi (Japan)
3. Bronze Karl Geiger (Germany)

Large men’s team trampoline

1. Gold Austria (Stefan Kraft, Daniel Huber, Jan Hoerl, Manuel Fettner)
2. Silver Slovenia (Lovro Kos, Cene Prevc, Timi Zajc, Peter Prevc)
3. Bronze Germany (Constantin Schmid, Stephan Leyhe, Markus Eisenbichler, Karl Geiger)

1. Gold Ursa Bogataj (Slovenia)
2. Silver Katharina Althaus (Germany)
3. Bronze Nika Kriznar (Slovenia)

1. Gold Slovenia (Nika Kriznar, Timi Zajc, Ursa Bogataj, Peter Prevc)
2. Silver Russia (Irma Makhinia, Danil Sadreev, Irina Avvakumova, Evgeniy Klimov)
3. Bronze Canada (Alexandria Loutitt, Matthew Soukup, Abigail Strate, Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes)

Our two pioneers are Vitale Lenzi (in ’28 in St.Moritz, but it was a FIS competition) and Giacomo Aimoni, in Innsbruck ’64 from the K-90: ​​both placed thirteenth. Roberto Cecon, who also boasts two world bronze medals, 6 victories and 17 podiums in the World Cup, in a maximum of 4 Olympic participations achieved a 16th place in Lillehammer 1994. Ivan Lunardi was sixth from the big springboard in Albertville 1992. The best women’s world result dates back to Oslo 2011 with Elena Runggaldier. For Italy in the running: Giovanni Bresadola, his brother Alex Insam and his son Francesco Cecon. Among the women Annika Sieff, Jessica Malsiner and Martina Zanitzer. Lara and Manuela Malsiner ranked 15th and 18th at the 2018 Games, now it’s the third art sister’s turn.

• NH individual women, first round (6.45pm)
• NH individual women, final round (7.57pm)

• NH individual men, first round (19)
• NH individual men, final round (20.12)

• HS100 mixed teams, first round (6.45pm)
• HS100 mixed team, final round (20)

• Men’s individual LH, first round (6.45pm)
• Men’s individual LH, final round (7.57pm)

• Women’s individual LH, first round (6.45pm)
• Women’s individual LH, final round (7.57pm)

• Men’s super team, first round (19)
• Men’s super team, second round (7.43pm)
• Men’s super team, final round (8.20pm)