Ski Jumping 2018/Men's large hill

Men's large hill
General information
Sport	Ski Jumping 2018
Date	16-17 February 2018
Competitors	57 athletes
Venue	Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre
Previous medalists
Gold	Kamil Stoch
Silver	Noriaki Kasai
Bronze	Peter Prevc
Conditions
Temperature	Day 1: -5°C / 23°F Day 2: -7°C / 19.4°F
Medalists
	Kamil Stoch
	Andreas Wellinger
	Robert Johansson

The men's large hill of Ski Jumping 2018 during the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 16-17 February 2018 in the Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre. With 57 athletes competing, the event was won by Kamil Stoch from Poland, with Andreas Wellinger from Germany taking the silver medal and Robert Johansson from Norway taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of three separate rounds. In the qualification, all competitors performed a jump, scored on distance, balance, style, and some other factors. The forty ski jumpers with the highest scores, as well as the ten ski jumpers in the top 10 of the World Cup rankings, advance to the competition round, in which all fifty competitors jump again. The thirty athletes with the highest scores advance to the final. The athlete with the highest combined score of the competition round and the final round is the winner of the event.

Preview

Fifty-seven athletes qualified for the event, including the gold medalist of the normal hill event Andreas Wellinger, who would be another strong medal contender. The German and Norwegian athletes have traditionally been very strong in this event, despite Norway never having won Olympic gold, with Karl Geiger and Richard Freitag (as well as Wellinger) representing Germany, and Andreas Stjernen, Johann Andre Forfang, Robert Johansson, and Daniel Andre Tande representing Norway. More recently, Japan and Poland had also brought about strong competitors, especially Noriaki Kasai, who competed for the eighth time, and had won two medals in this event, and Kamil Stoch, the defending Olympic champion. Other potential outsiders could be Stefan Kraft, the reigning world champion, Peter Prevc, Maciej Kot, and Ryoyu Kobayashi.

Summary

Qualification

With only 7 athletes not qualifying for the competition rounds, it was important that the favorites did not lose their focus. The K-point was set at 125 metres, and everyone who went farther than that was almost definitely safe to go through. This distance was already approached by most of the first few competitors, with Andreas Alamommo and Michael Glasder reaching a satisfactory distance with ease. Directly after them, Lukas Hlava, Casey Larson, and Sergey Tkachenko disappointed with short jumps around 100 metres and were already in serious danger of being eliminated. A similar story unfolded for Kim Hyun-ki, Federico Cecon, and Fatih Arda Ipcioglu, the last of which did not even reach the 100 metres. The first one to break the score of Alamommo in the first phases of the qualification was Alexey Romashov, who was the first athlete to reach 100 points, and his compatriot Evgeniy Klimov even went over that, nearing 140 metres and over 110 points. With most athletes after Klimov reaching around the 120 metres, most of the following athletes were ranked according to or similar to their world rankings. One of the few exceptions here was William Rhoads, who, despite a big distance, was penalized heavily for his wind advantage, settling behind Sebastian Colloredo and into the last 7 in the standings. Immediately after Rhoads, Antti Aalto set himself in the provisional top 3, and he would be starting off the athletes with the bigger jumps. Out of these, Ryoyu Kobayashi went the furthest, nearing 145 metres, and creating a gap of 16 points with the former leader Klimov, shortly afterwards joined by Michael Hayboeck and Maciej Kot. Despite high scores of the top 15 of the World Cup rankings, the first one to beat Kobayashi's score was Robert Johansson, the winner of the normal hill event and one of the big favorites for this event. Johann Andre Forfang also received a high score, but Kobayashi would remain in the top 3 of the qualification. Kamil Stoch, Richard Freitag, Andreas Wellinger, Daniel Andre Tande, Johann Andre Forfang, Robert Johansson, Stefan Kraft, Junshiro Kobayashi, Dawid Kubacki, and Markus Eisenbichler were already qualified based on their performances in the World Cup. Rhoads, Hlava, Larson, Cecon, Kim, and Ipcioglu were eliminated. Colloredo was saved by a disqualification of Kevin Maltsev, who was using incorrect boots.

Qualification Results
Rank	Nat.	Name	Distance	Points
1		Robert Johansson	135.0	131.9
2		Johann André Forfang	137.0	128.7
3		Ryoyu Kobayashi	143.5	127.6
4		Andreas Wellinger	135.0	127.1
5		Michael Hayboeck	133.5	126.9
6		Daniel André Tande	131.5	126.5
7		Kamil Stoch	131.5	125.6
8		Maciej Kot	138.0	124.8
9		Markus Eisenbichler	135.0	123.6
10		Simon Ammann	140.0	122.6
11		Stefan Kraft	131.0	121.1
12		Karl Geiger	130.5	117.7
13		Richard Freitag	130.0	116.8
14		Dawid Kubacki	127.0	114.7
15		Jernej Damjan	132.5	113.7
16		Evgeniy Klimov	136.0	111.8
17		Peter Prevc	125.0	111.0
18		Stefan Hula	127.0	110.4
19		Andreas Stjernen	128.5	110.2
20		Antti Aalto	133.0	109.3
21		Alexey Romashov	136.0	108.9
22		Noriaki Kasai	122.5	104.2
23		Cestmir Kozisek	132.5	104.0
24		Gregor Deschwanden	128.0	103.5
25		Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes	124.5	102.4
26		Denis Kornilov	129.0	101.7
27		Clemens Aigner	119.5	98.5
27		Taku Takeuchi	120.5	98.5
29		Andreas Alamommo	129.5	97.7
30		Anze Semenic	119.5	97.5
31		Vladimir Zografski	123.0	94.3
32		Alex Insam	123.0	93.1
33		Mikhail Nazarov	122.0	92.3
34		Jonathan Learoyd	124.0	92.1
35		Kevin Bickner	122.5	91.1
36		Janne Ahonen	119.0	90.8
37		Junshiro Kobayashi	115.0	89.5
38		Michael Glasder	124.5	88.7
39		Artti Aigro	121.5	86.8
40		Manuel Fettner	111.0	84.8
41		Roman Koudelka	116.5	80.9
42		Davide Bresadola	117.0	80.0
43		Jarkko Maeaettae	116.5	79.0
44		Martti Nomme	114.0	77.2
45		Viktor Polasek	110.5	77.1
46		Choi Se-ou	114.5	73.5
47		Sergey Tkachenko	111.0	70.9
48		Vicent Descombes Sevoie	114.0	69.9
49		Tilen Bartol	103.5	69.6
50		Sebastian Colloredo	107.5	68.1
51		William Rhoads	115.0	67.9
52		Lukas Hlava	106.5	62.2
53		Casey Larson	104.5	61.1
54		Federico Cecon	100.5	50.3
55		Kim Hyun-ki	101.5	46.4
56		Fatih Arda Ipcioglu	96.5	36.4
-		Kevin Maltsev	DQ

Round 1

For the main competition rounds, the top 30 went through to the final round, with once again 125 metres as the K-point. The first competitors Artti Aigro, Andreas Alamommo, Michael Glasder, and Sergey Tkachenko were not able to reach this distance and likely would not advance to the final round, but they were followed by most of the other competitors. The first athlete to reach the K-point was Evgeniy Klimov, and with 16 athletes before him, all with a lower score, he was almost ensured of a second jump. However, he was directly followed by Alex Insam, Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes, and Roman Koudelka, all of whom scored higher. The highest score was even improved by Kevin Bickner and later Ryoyu Kobayashi, the latter of which was the first one to reach 130 metres. Despite the high scores all around, there were still some athletes who performed a bit less, including the defending silver medalist Noriaki Kasai. After Kasai, Michael Hayboek was the first athlete in the competition round to reach 140 points, which would only be beaten by defending champion Kamil Stoch.

Competition Round Results
Rank	Nat.	Name	Distance	Points
1		Kamil Stoch	135.0	143.8
2		Michael Hayboeck	140.0	140.4
3		Andreas Wellinger	135.5	138.8
4		Robert Johansson	137.5	138.3
5		Dawid Kubacki	134.5	137.4
6		Andreas Stjernen	134.5	134.7
7		Ryoyu Kobayashi	135.5	134.0
8		Peter Prevc	134.0	132.4
9		Johann André Forfang	133.0	132.1
10		Simon Ammann	133.5	131.6
11		Richard Freitag	130.0	131.5
12		Stefan Hula	132.0	131.2
13		Stefan Kraft	131.5	130.6
14		Karl Geiger	132.0	129.5
15		Daniel André Tande	131.0	128.9
16		Markus Eisenbichler	130.0	128.7
17		Maciej Kot	128.5	124.2
18		Jernej Damjan	130.0	124.0
19		Tilen Bartol	130.5	122.4
20		Kevin Bickner	129.5	121.9
21		Anze Semenic	127.0	118.1
22		Alex Insam	127.5	118.0
23		Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes	127.5	117.4
24		Evgeniy Klimov	125.0	116.4
25		Roman Koudelka	125.5	115.9
26		Junshiro Kobayashi	122.0	114.8
27		Taku Takeuchi	124.0	114.1
28		Cestmir Kozisek	124.5	112.0
29		Denis Kornilov	122.5	111.2
30		Janne Ahonen	124.5	110.6
31		Clemens Aigner	121.0	110.0
32		Manuel Fettner	124.0	109.8
33		Noriaki Kasai	121.0	107.9
34		Andreas Alamommo	120.0	107.6
35		Vladimir Zografski	119.5	105.9
36		Gregor Deschwanden	123.0	105.8
37		Antti Aalto	121.5	105.7
37		Jarkko Maeaettae	122.0	105.7
39		Mikhail Nazarov	120.0	103.4
40		Sebastian Colloredo	121.0	102.7
41		Jonathan Learoyd	119.5	100.1
42		Alexey Romashov	119.0	99.8
43		Martti Nomme	118.0	96.5
44		Viktor Polasek	116.5	94.4
45		Choi Se-ou	114.0	93.2
46		Michael Glasder	114.0	90.5
47		Davide Bresadola	124.0	89.1
48		Artti Aigro	107.0	79.4
49		Sergey Tkachenko	107.5	73.5
50		Vincent Descombes Sevoie	105.0	72.9

Final

In the final, the top 30 competitors of the competition round jumped again, with the aggregate of the two jumps counting towards the final standings. With the athletes going in reverse order from the result in the previous round, most competitors were not able to reach the same distance as in their first jump. Most of the placements in the lower regions of the competition stayed the same, though Anze Semenic was disqualified for a suit violation, Taku Takeuchi was able to climb from 27th place to 22nd place. Midway through the final round is where the real permutations started happening. Daniel Andre Tande received the highest score of the day so far, a score that would not be beaten in the entire competition, climbing from 15th place to just outside of the podium, while Karl Geiger went from 14th place to 7th. Stefan Kraft lost five places after a somewhat disappointing jump, with something similar happening to Stefan Hula. Markus Eisenbichler had the opposite, despite jumping a shorter distance, jumping in the top 15. Johann Andre Forfang followed his compatriot Tande with a relatively good score, and went up to the top 5, while Michael Hayboeck and Dawid Kubacki went the opposite direction. Especially for Hayboeck, who had the second-highest score of the first jump, this was disappointing, and he would see Andreas Wellinger and Robert Johansson take the podium spots, behind Kamil Stoch, who defended his large lead.

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Name	Distance	Points
1		Daniel André Tande	138.5	144.2
2		Andreas Wellinger	142.0	143.5
3		Kamil Stoch	136.5	141.9
4		Johann André Forfang	134.5	139.5
5		Karl Geiger	137.5	138.1
6		Robert Johansson	134.5	137.0
7		Andreas Stjernen	131.5	132.6
8		Richard Freitag	127.5	128.5
9		Michael Hayboeck	131.0	127.3
10		Markus Eisenbichler	130.5	126.7
11		Peter Prevc	127.5	125.6
12		Tilen Bartol	130.0	125.1
13		Simon Ammann	130.5	125.0
14		Jernej Damjan	130.5	124.3
15		Ryoyu Kobayashi	128.0	124.0
16		Stefan Hula	129.5	122.2
17		Dawid Kubacki	126.0	120.6
18		Maciej Kot	129.5	120.4
19		Taku Takeuchi	125.5	120.1
20		Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes	126.0	117.9
21		Stefan Kraft	125.5	116.8
22		Alex Insam	125.0	114.4
23		Kevin Bickner	124.0	104.4
24		Junshiro Kobayashi	122.0	110.0
25		Roman Koudelka	122.0	107.1
26		Evgeniy Klimov	118.0	104.2
27		Janne Ahonen	115.5	100.0
28		Cestmir Kozisek	113.0	93.1
29		Denis Kornilov	110.5	85.1
30		Anze Semenic	DQ

Results

Kamil Stoch defended his Olympic title, and won his third gold medal in the last four individual events. He also became the oldest individual gold medalist in ski jumping in Olympic history. On the other hand, Andreas Wellinger won his second Olympic medal in Pyeongchang, after winning the gold medal in the normal hill, and his third Olympic medal in total. Robert Johansson also won his second medal in 2018, after he won the bronze medal in the normal hill.

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Score
	Kamil Stoch	Poland	285.7
	Andreas Wellinger	Germany	282.3
	Robert Johansson	Norway	275.3
4	Daniel Andre Tande	Norway	273.1
5	Johann Andre Forfang	Norway	271.6
6	Michael Hayboeck	Austria	267.7
7	Karl Geiger	Germany	267.6
8	Andreas Stjernen	Norway	267.3
9	Richard Freitag	Germany	260.0
10	Dawid Kubacki	Poland	258.0
10	Peter Prevc	Slovenia	258.0
10	Ryoyu Kobayashi	Japan	258.0
13	Simon Ammann	Switzerland	256.6
14	Markus Eisenbichler	Germany	255.4
15	Stefan Hula	Poland	253.4
16	Jernej Damjan	Slovenia	248.3
17	Tilen Bartol	Slovenia	247.5
18	Stefan Kraft	Austria	247.4
19	Maciej Kot	Poland	244.6
20	Kevin Bickner	United States	235.4
21	Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes	Canada	235.3
22	Taku Takeuchi	Japan	234.2
23	Alex Insam	Italy	232.4
24	Junshiro Kobayashi	Japan	224.8
25	Roman Koudelka	Czech Republic	223.0
26	Evgeniy Klimov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	220.6
27	Janne Ahonen	Finland	210.6
28	Cestmir Kozisek	Czech Republic	205.1
29	Denis Kornilov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	196.3
30	Anze Semenic	Slovenia	118.1
31	Clemens Aigner	Austria	110.0
32	Manuel Fettner	Austria	109.8
33	Noriaki Kasai	Japan	107.9
34	Andreas Alamommo	Finland	107.6
35	Vladimir Zografski	Bulgaria	105.9
36	Gregor Deschwanden	Switzerland	105.8
37	Antti Aalto	Finland	105.7
37	Jarkko Maeaettae	Finland	105.7
39	Mikhail Nazarov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	103.4
40	Sebastian Colloredo	Italy	102.7
41	Jonathan Learoyd	France	100.1
42	Alexey Romashov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	99.8
43	Martti Nomme	Estonia	96.5
44	Viktor Polasek	Czech Republic	94.4
45	Choi Se-ou	South Korea	93.2
46	Michael Glasder	United States	90.5
47	Davide Bresadola	Italy	89.1
48	Artti Aigro	Estonia	79.4
49	Sergey Tkachenko	Kazakhstan	73.5
50	Vincent Descombes Sevoie	France	72.9
51	William Rhoads	United States	-
52	Lukas Hlava	Czech Republic	-
53	Casey Larson	United States	-
54	Federico Cecon	Italy	-
55	Kim Hyun-ki	South Korea	-
56	Fatih Arda Ipcioglu	Turkey	-
57	Kevin Maltsev	Estonia	-