1000th Ski Jumping World Cup held in Lahti this weekend
Feb 26, 2020·Ski Jumping
There will be a reason to celebrate at the upcoming Ski Jumping World Cup in Lahti (FIN). The third (Friday: individual, Saturday: Team, Sunday: Individual) of the three competitions this weekend on Sunday will be the 1000th individual World Cup event in the history of Ski Jumping.
Large hill - normal hill - flying hill
The impressive number of 1000 competitions was held on three different sizes of hills in the World Cup: 714 of them were held on large hills, 159 on normal hills and 127 on flying hills.
Toni Innauer first World Cup winner
The first-ever World Cup was held on December 27th, 1979 in Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA), the winner there was Austria's Toni Innauer, his teammates Hubert Neuper and Alfred Groyer followed in second and third back then.
Gregor Schlierenzauer is the record holder
Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer holds the record when it comes to World Cup wins. "Schlieri" won 53 World Cups, Matti Nykaenen won 46 competitions. Austria also leads the nation's ranking with 255 wins, followed by Finland (151).
Lahti organized 56 competitions
Lahti, where the 1000th competition will be held this weekend, is one of the top organizers: 56 Ski Jumping World Cups were held there. The first on March 8th, 1980, won by Austria's Armin Kogler. The second competition a day later was won by Canada's Steve Collins.
Record winner in Lahti is Matti Nykaenen
Matti Nykaenen took eight wins in Lahti, Kamil Stoch won there three times, he was the best in the final two World Cups 2019 and 2018.
The favorites for Lahti 2020: Stefan Kraft - Kamil Stoch - Karl Geiger
Stefan Kraft leads the overall World Cup with 1433 points. Last weekend in Rasnov, Kraft took his fourth win this season, the 20th of his career. He equaled the number of wins of his follow countryman Andreas Goldberger.
The only Austrians with more wins are Thomas Morgenstern (23), Andreas Felder (25) and Gregor Schlierenzauer (53).
Karl Geiger follows in second in the overall World Cup with 1315 points. Geiger also won a competition in Rasnov last weekend, it was his third win this winter. The last German to win four or more World Cups in a single season was Severin Freund, who won nine times in 2014/15. The same winter, Freund also won the overall World Cup title, tied for points with Slovenia's Peter Prevc. Freund made his comeback in the World Cup after a long break due to injuries in Rasnov.
Kamil Stoch won the individual competitions in Lahti in the last two years. Before that, he had already won there in 2014. With his 35 World Cup wins, Stoch only has won victory less than the great Finn Janne Ahonen.
10 winners this winter
10 different athletes won in the World Cup this winter. Stephan Leyhe (Willingen) and Piotr Zyla (Kulm) won once, Daniel Andre Tande (2), Yukia Sato (2), Marius Lindvik (2), Kamil Stoch (2), Ryoyu Kobayashi (3), Dawid Kubacki (3), Karl Geiger (3) and Stefan Kraft (4) took more than one wins.
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