Ski jumping at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games | |
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Venue | Alpensia Ski Jumping Stadium |
Dates | 8–19 February 2018 |
No. of events | 4 (3 men, 1 women) |
Competitors | 100 from 21 nations |
Ski jumping at the 2018 Winter Olympics | ||
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Qualification | ||
Normal hill | men | women |
Large hill | men | |
Team | men | |
Ski jumping at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place between 8 and 19 February 2018. A total of four ski jumping events were held. [1]
A maximum of 100 athletes (65 male and 35 female) were allowed to qualify for the ski jumping events. The quotas were allocated using the Olympic Quota Allocation List, which is calculated using the FIS World Cup standings and Continental Cup Standings from seasons 2016–17 and 2017–18 added together. [1]
The following was the competition schedule for the four ski jumping events. [2]
All times are (UTC+9).
Date | Time | Event |
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8 February | 21:30 | Men's individual normal hill qualification |
10 February | 21:35 | Men's individual normal hill |
12 February | 21:50 | Women's individual normal hill |
16 February | 21:30 | Men's individual large hill qualification |
17 February | 21:30 | Men's individual large hill |
19 February | 21:30 | Men's team large hill |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Norway | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
2 | Germany | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
3 | Poland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
4 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (4 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Normal hill individual [3] | Andreas Wellinger Germany | 259.1 | Johann André Forfang Norway | 250.9 | Robert Johansson Norway | 249.7 |
Large hill individual [4] | Kamil Stoch Poland | 285.7 | Andreas Wellinger Germany | 282.3 | Robert Johansson Norway | 275.3 |
Large hill team [5] | Norway Daniel-André Tande Andreas Stjernen Johann André Forfang Robert Johansson | 1098.5 | Germany Karl Geiger Stephan Leyhe Richard Freitag Andreas Wellinger | 1075.7 | Poland Maciej Kot Stefan Hula Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch | 1072.4 |
Women's [6] | Maren Lundby Norway | 264.6 | Katharina Althaus Germany | 252.6 | Sara Takanashi Japan | 243.8 |
A total of 100 athletes from 21 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate. [7]
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