Gold for Marius Lindvik

Norway's Marius Lindvik is the large hill Olympic champion 2022. The 23-year-old became the successor of Kamil Stoch with jumps of 140.5 m and 140 m, he was followed by Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi and Karl Geiger of Germany.

Marius Lindvik secured the gold medal in this great competition with an outstanding jump in the final round. Lindvik, second after the first half of the competition, came in 3.3 points ahead of Kobayashi, who was in the lead after the first round. "It was really close between my and Ryoyu. It's difficult to tell what made the difference in the end. I don't really know", said the newly-crowned Olympic champion.

Lindvik is the first Norwegian Olympic champion on the large hill since Toralf Engan, who won the title for Norway in 1964. Lars Bystoel of Norway won the normal hill competition at the 2006 Olympics in Torino/Pragelato.

Ryoyu Kobayashi won his second individual medal at these Olympics after he took gold on the normal hill just a few days ago. "When it comes to my performance, I had two really good jumps today. Marius was simply better, he really deserved to win today", Kobayashi said.

The surprise of the day was Germany's Karl Geiger. A day after his 29th birthday, Geiger showed a great performance after he was struggling on the large hill in Beijing in the training rounds and the qualification. Right on time for the competition, he could significantly improve his performance. The overall World Cup leader was happy after finally winning the medal: "I was desperate in training, I really didn't know what to do anymore. That's why I'm extremely happy that I made it to the podium today", Geiger said. The Oberstdorf-native is the third German Olympic medalist on the large hill after Jens Weissflog 1994 (gold) and Andreas Wellinger 2018 (silver).

The fourth place in this competition went to defending champion Kamil Stoch of Poland, Markus Eisenbichler was fifth, Timi Zajc was the best Slovene in sixth. Manuel Fettner, Halvor Egner Granerud, Jan Hoerl, and Peter Prevc finished 7th to 10th.

The final Ski Jumping event at the Olympic Games is the men's team competition on the large hill on Monday. After today's result, excitement will be guaranteed in this competition, starting at 12 pm CET (7 pm LOC).
The teams of Slovenia, Austria, Norway, Germany, Japan, Poland, and Russia have a chance to win a medal. The final Ski Jumping competition of Beijing 2022 will probably be a nail-biter.

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Facts and Figures:

- Marius Lindvik is the first Norwegian ski jumper to win the large hill competition since Toralf Engan 1964
- No other NOC won as many medals (22) and gold medals (8) in this discipline as Norway. From 1924 to 1952, when there was only one Ski Jumping competition, Norway won six times in a row.
- No other NOC had to wait that long for the second gold medal on the large hill than Norway (58 years).
- At Olympic Winter Games, the men's 5000 m race (9) and the men's 1500 m race (8) in speed skating are the only events that Norway won as often as the large hill competition (8) at Olympic Winter Games.
- It was the 200th gold medal at Olympic Games for Norway (140 in winter, 60 in summer). It's the ninth NOC to achieve this milestone.
- Kobayashi's silver was Japan's fourth medal in this discipline, the first since 2014 when Noriaki Kasai took silver. Kazuyoshi Funaki won gold in 1998, Masahiko Harada won bronze back then.
- After Funake 1998 (silver on the normal hill, gold on the large hill) Kobayashi is the second Japanese to win individual medals on the normal and the large hill at Olympic Winter Games.
- Karl Geiger won bronze ahead of Kamil Stoch, who took the title in 2014 and 2018.
- Geiger won this bronze medal a day after his 29th birthday.
- After Jens Weissflug (1994) and Andreas Wellinger (2018), Geiger is the third German to win an Olympic medal on the large hill.
- Norway leads the medal count in Ski Jumping with 12 gold and a total of 36 medals. Japan is fifth in both counts with four gold and 14 medals, tied with Poland and Switzerland (also four gold medals).