SKI JUMPING WORLD CUP. Anders Bardal from Norway is still in the good form he had at the World Championships in Oslo and won the qualification for the individual competition at the 86th Lahti Ski Games with a jump on 125.5 m (132.0 points). The same distance was also jumped by Finnish Youngster Jarkko Maeaettae - born in 1994 - and Czech Lukas Hlava but they got less points than Bardal and came in second and third.

There were difficult conditions at the Salpaussalkae-hill, on which Andreas Widhoelzl from Austria still hold the hill record. That was also the reason for the cancellation of the final round. It was also not always easy in the qualification, but all-in-all it was fair. Only Manuel Fettner from Austria and Russian Denis Kornilov had bad luck with the wind conditions and could not qualify.

Finns strong in the qualification

Other jumpers did not have problems with the qualification. Anders Jacobsen, Olli Muotka, Martin Schmitt, Daiki Ito, Anssi Koivuranta and Robert Kranjec - all of them were doing well. So three Finnish jumpers were in the Top 10.

Freund best of the pre-qualified

Some of the pre-qualified athletes, like the Austrian World Champions Gregor Schlierenzauer, Martin Koch, Andreas Kofler and Thomas Morgenstern. The best of the Top 10 of the the overall World Cup was Severin Freund with 128 m. This was also the longest jump of the qualification. Adam Malysz and Simon Ammann landed after 125.5 m.

Janne Ahonen could also easily qualify for the competition in his home town Lahti. So the stage is set for his last individual competiton on Sunday. On Saturday a team competition will take place.

Some jumpers took the trip to southern Finland who don't compete in the World Cup often. Dimitri Ipatov from Russia, Bulgarian Bogomil Pavlov or Illimar Paern from Estonia - all of these athletes try their luck towards the end of the season. And Paern could qualify for the competition.

FISskijumping.com
11.03.2011 19:13

Qualification results

Rank  Bib  Name  Nation  Distance  Total 
1 42 Bardal, Anders NOR 125.5 132.0
2 8 Maeaettae, Jarkko FIN 125.5 131.5
3 17 Hlava, Lukas CZE 125.5 130.4
4 46 Koudelka, Roman CZE 123.5 128.7
5 45 Jacobsen, Anders NOR 120.0 124.8
6 24 Muotka, Olli FIN 121.5 122.9
7 34 Schmitt, Martin GER 122.5 122.3
8 47 Ito, Daiki JPN 120.5 121.4
9 26 Koivuranta, Anssi FIN 115.5 121.2
10 40 Kranjec, Robert SLO 121.0 120.6
11 23 Yumoto, Fumihisa JPN 122.0 119.7
12 41 Karelin, Pavel RUS 121.0 119.6
13 27 Tepes, Jurij SLO 115.0 117.5
14 37 Chedal, Emmanuel FRA 120.0 117.2
15 44 Romoeren, Bjoern, Einar NOR 117.0 117.0
16 28 Freitag, Richard GER 117.5 116.6
17 25 Ahonen, Janne FIN 117.5 116.4
18 39 Kasai, Noriaki JPN 118.0 114.4
19 48 Loitzl, Wolfgang AUT 117.0 114.0
20 15 Zyla, Piotr POL 116.5 113.9
21 12 Yoshioka, Kazuya JPN 114.5 112.5
22 43 Neumayer, Michael GER 114.5 111.8
22 32 Bodmer, Pascal GER 117.5 111.8
24 20 Colloredo, Sebastian ITA 112.0 110.2
25 22 Takeuchi, Taku JPN 114.5 108.6
26 9 Byrt, Tomasz POL 115.5 108.2
27 50 Evensen, Johan, Remen NOR 113.5 107.2
28 36 Ingvaldsen, Ole, Marius NOR 109.5 105.4
29 38 Prevc, Peter SLO 111.5 105.0
30 31 Janda, Jakub CZE 113.5 104.3
31 11 Bresadola, Davide ITA 109.0 102.9
32 14 Keituri, Kalle FIN 109.0 102.7
33 33 Hocke, Stephan GER 111.0 102.2
34 18 Sedlak, Borek CZE 110.5 100.3
35 19 Stjernen, Andreas NOR 109.5 99.7
36 35 Matura, Jan CZE 105.0 95.7
37 10 Boyd-clowes, Mackenzie CAN 106.5 92.8
38 21 Damjan, Jernej SLO 103.5 89.5
39 16 Zografski, Vladimir BUL 104.0 86.9
40 4 Paern, Illimar EST 98.5 83.2
41 3 Mayer, Nicolas FRA 91.5 70.6
42 29 Hula, Stefan POL 92.5 69.0
43 1 Ipatov, Dimitry RUS 93.5 67.1
44 13 Frenette, Peter USA 91.0 65.7
45 30 Kornilov, Denis RUS 84.5 54.2
46 5 Pavlov, Bogomil BUL 84.0 50.6
47 6 Sammelselg, Siim-tanel EST 81.5 47.5
48 49 Fettner, Manuel AUT 80.5 46.3

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