The sport of ski jumping has seen the use of numerous different techniques, or "styles", over the course of its more than two-hundred-year history. Depending on how the skis are positioned by an athlete, distances have increased by as much as 200 metres (660 ft) within the past century.
13-528: The Kongsberger technique (Norwegian: Kongsbergknekk ) was created by Jacob Tullin Thams and Sigmund Ruud in Kongsberg , Norway. Developed after World War I , the technique was characterised by the athlete's upper body being bent at the hip, with arms extended at the front in the manner of a "superhero", and skis held parallel to each other. Sometimes the arms would be waved or 'flapped' around vigorously in
26-524: A bird-like manner. This technique extended jumping lengths from 45 m (148 ft) to over 100 m (330 ft), and was used in ski jumping until being superseded by the Windisch and Däscher techniques in the 1950s. The Windisch technique , created by Erich Windisch in 1949, was a modification of the Kongsberger technique. The athlete's arms are instead placed backwards toward the hips for
39-402: A closer, more aerodynamic lean. The parallel style , classic style , or Däscher technique was created by Andreas Däscher in the 1950s, as a modification of the Kongsberger and Windisch techniques. No longer was the upper body bent as much at the hip, enabling a flatter, more aerodynamic position in the air. This style became the standard for ski jumping as a whole until the development of
52-411: The 18 km event was shortened to 15 km. 15 of the 21 skiers finished the event. February 6, 1926 The conditions during these championships were extremely rough, with a temperature of −30 °C (−22 °F). In the 50 km, the top finishers used plastered masks for protection to their face. 14 of the 19 skiers finished the event. February 4, 1926 Grøttumsbråten had the fastest time in
65-527: The Summer and Winter Olympic games . Not recognized! Crash at world record distance. 1926 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1926 took place between February 4–6, 1926 in Lahti , Finland . February 4, 1926 18 km was replaced by 30 km, but returned the following year. 30 km would not return to the championships again until 1954 when
78-531: The V-style. In the 1980s, Matti Nykänen created a variation of the parallel style in which the skis were pointed diagonally off to the side in order to increase surface area , essentially forming a crude "half 'V'". The V-style , sometimes called the Graf–Boklöv technique , remains the sport's most recent significant technique change, with the ski tips spread outwards in a highly aerodynamic "V" shape. It became
91-408: The cross country portion of the event, finishing three minutes ahead of Haug. Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway had the longest jump of the competition with a distance of 39.5 meters. February 4, 1926 20 of the 28 jumpers completed this event. Thams had the longest jump in the competition with a distance of 38.5 meters. Some sources have the points 18.980, 18.860 and 18.000 for the top 3, according to
104-446: The early 1980s, Steve Collins used a modified variation of the V-style, or "delta style", with the ski tips held together in front instead of at the rear. Collins was the youngest winner of a World Cup event at the age of fifteen, but his technique never caught on. During this era, any technique aside from the parallel style was considered inappropriate by FIS judges. Although it enabled much longer jumps – up to ten per cent more than
117-597: The individual large hill at the 1926 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti , earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1926 (the first true ski jumper to do so), and would develop the Kongsberger technique in ski jumping (along with fellow Norwegian Sigmund Ruud ) that would be the standard until it was superseded by the Daescher technique in the 1950s. Thams is one of the few athletes who have competed in both
130-406: The parallel style – judges made it an issue to award poor marks to those who used it. The V-style only became recognised as valid by judges in the early 1990s, following wins and high rankings by Jan Boklöv , Jiří Malec and Stefan Zünd , who insisted on using the technique despite receiving low style points. By the mid-1990s it had become the predominant style of jumping used by all athletes, and
143-490: The predominant jumping technique following the Däscher/parallel style, which was last used in the early 1990s. The originator of the V-style was Mirosław Graf , a Polish ski jumper from Szklarska Poręba . Graf discovered the technique as a child in 1969, but it was not taken seriously by his contemporaries. He was nonetheless aware that the V-style was highly effective, as his jumps became considerably longer. In
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#1732801777054156-465: Was a Norwegian Olympian, who competed in ski jumping and sailing . He won the first Olympic ski jumping gold medal in 1924 , and became the third person (after Gillis Grafström who competed in one sport only and boxer/bobsleigh crew member Eddie Eagan ) to medal in both the Winter and Summer Olympics in 1936 as a member of the silver medal-winning Norwegian 8-metre sailing team. Thams also won
169-554: Was therefore no longer penalised as it had proven to be both safer and more efficient than the parallel style. In the H-style , the skis are spread very wide apart and held parallel in an "H" shape, with minimal or no V-angle. A lesser-used technique as of 2018, it is prominently used by Domen Prevc , Léa Lemare , and Nika Križnar . Jacob Tullin Thams Jacob Tullin "Tulla" Thams (7 April 1898 – 27 July 1954)
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