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The 1972 Winter Olympic Games ski jumping results.
[edit] Men's events
[edit] Large hill
February 11, 1972
In the competition on the Okurayama jumping hill, conditions were "variable and unfair" according to a Norwegian account of the 1972 Games published in 2006, and the result is described as "the greatest surprise of all time on the jumping hill".[1] In the first run, the 19-year-old Zakopane mechanic Wojciech Fortuna completed a leap of 111 metres, while Manfred Wolf of East Germany was runner-up after the first run having jumped 107 metres. Jiri Raska, Gariy Napalkov and Tauno Käyhkö, all counted among the favourites according to Jorsett's account, were all more than 12 metres behind, Yukio Kasaya, who won on the normal hill, landed on 90 metres, and Ingolf Mork, the 1972 Four Hills Tournament winner, touched down on 88 metres.
Fortuna's second jump was a more modest 87.5 metres; still, the tenths of a point remained on his side. Again according to Jorsett, Steiner (103 metres), Schmidt (101 metres) and Käyhkö (100.5 metres) got lucky with the wind in the second run, but all finished within 0.7 points of Fortuna. This was the smallest margin between first and fourth to date.
Pudgar's eighth place was the best placing by a Yugoslav at the Winter Olympics until Matjaž Debelak won bronze at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games.
[edit] Normal hill
February 6, 1972
[edit] References
- ^ (Norwegian) Olympiske vinterleker 1924–2006, Akilles forlag 2006, ISBN 827286163
Wojciech Fortuna (POL)
Walter Steiner (SUI)
Rainer Schmidt (GDR)
Tauno Käyhkö (FIN)
Gariy Napalkov (URS)
Yukio Kasaya (JPN)
Danilo Pudgar (YUG)
Ingolf Mork (NOR)
Jiří Raška (TCH)
