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Normal Hill, Individual, Men

Date17 February 1980
StatusOlympic
LocationIntervale Ski Jump Complex, Lake Placid
Participants48 from 16 countries
FormatTwo jumps, with both scored on distance and form.
Olympic Record 84.5 / Hans-Georg Aschenbach GDR / 7 February 1976
Judge #1Eric MagnussonSWE
Judge #2Keihi NakamuraJPN
Judge #3Walter SchnellerFRG
Judge #4Fred RogersUSA
Judge #5Pavel KrznarićYUG
DetailsK-Point: 86 m

Toni Innauer, the young Austrian who was close to winning the Large Hill competition on his home ground in 1976 when aged only 17, was hampered by injuries in the coming years, even if he did win a silver medal in the 1977 World Ski Flying Championships. His 176.0 m jump from Oberstdorf in 1976 was still the world record, not to be beaten until 1981. In 1980 he was fit for fight again, and in the Normal Hill in Lake Placid he was in a class of his own, winning with the largest margin in the history of Olympic ski jumping. In the first round he jumped 89.0 m, and had a lead of 2.7 points ahead of the 20-year Japanese Hirokazu Yagi, with the Finn Pentti Kokkonen in third position. In the second round, the 18-year old East German Manfed Deckert, lying in seventh position after the first round, made an excellent jump of 88.0 m and was briefly in the lead after two jumps. But Innauer answered immediately with a perfect jump of 90.0 m, taking over the lead by 17.1 points. Yagi could not copy his first jump of 87.0 m, landing an ordinary 83.5 m jump and was equal second place with Deckert. Several of the late starters tried to challenge Deckert and Yagi for the medals. First was the young Austrian Hubert Neuper, lying in 14th place after the first round, who made the second best jump of the second round, 88.5 m, and advanced to a sixth place overall. The Japanese Masahiro Akimoto come very close, but ended 0.7 points behind Deckert and Yagi. The last challenger was Kokkonen, in the bronze medal position after the first round, but he made an ordinary jump and ended in fifth position.

PosCompetitorNOCPointsJump #1Jump #2
1Toni InnauerAUT266.3131.6 (1)134.7 (1)Gold
=2Manfred DeckertGDR249.2121.7 (7)127.5 (4)Silver
=2Hirokazu YagiJPN249.2128.9 (2)120.3 (11)Silver
4Masahiro AkimotoJPN248.5120.8 (8)127.7 (3)
5Pentti KokkonenFIN247.6126.8 (3)120.8 (=8)
6Hubert NeuperAUT245.5116.7 (14)128.8 (2)
7Alfred GroyerAUT245.3124.5 (5)120.8 (=8)
8Jouko TörmänenFIN243.5119.0 (9)124.5 (6)
9Hansjörg SumiSUI242.6117.5 (13)125.1 (5)
10Stanisław BobakPOL242.2124.8 (4)117.4 (14)
11Martin WeberGDR236.8118.5 (11)118.3 (13)
12Armin KoglerAUT234.8123.2 (6)111.6 (19)
13Roger RuudNOR234.2113.3 (20)120.9 (7)
14Johan SætreNOR231.8118.0 (12)113.8 (16)
15Henry GlaßGDR231.4114.8 (17)116.6 (15)
16Jari PuikkonenFIN227.5115.8 (15)111.7 (18)
17Jeff DavisUSA226.3105.7 (31)120.6 (10)
18Per BergerudNOR224.0110.7 (24)113.3 (17)
19Peter LeitnerFRG223.0114.3 (18)108.7 (21)
20Jochen DannebergGDR222.7118.8 (10)103.9 (26)
21Aleksey BorovitinURS220.3115.0 (16)105.3 (25)
22Leoš ŠkodaTCH219.7100.7 (33)119.0 (12)
23Chris McNeillUSA212.5110.1 (25)102.4 (=27)
24Bernard MoullierFRA210.5108.1 (29)102.4 (=27)
25Hubert SchwarzFRG209.1113.2 (21)95.9 (=35)
26Jim MakiUSA208.7113.8 (19)94.9 (39)
27Ivar MobekkNOR208.697.6 (=34)111.0 (20)
28Steve CollinsCAN207.7111.8 (22)95.9 (=35)
29Takafumi KawabataJPN207.2111.1 (23)96.1 (34)
30Tauno KäyhköCAN205.4108.8 (28)96.6 (33)
31Vladimir VlasovURS204.8109.2 (27)95.6 (37)
32Kari YlianttilaFIN203.2105.8 (30)97.4 (32)
33Yury IvanovURS200.393.8 (37)106.5 (22)
34Jan HolmlundSWE195.5101.7 (32)93.8 (40)
35Gérard ColinFRA193.887.9 (41)105.9 (23)
36Jim DenneyUSA192.993.2 (39)99.7 (30)
37Robert MöschingSUI192.697.6 (=34)95.0 (38)
38Lido TomasiITA192.593.4 (38)99.1 (31)
39Josef SamekTCH190.384.7 (42)105.6 (24)
40Stanisław PawlusiakPOL183.194.9 (36)88.2 (44)
41Horst BulauCAN180.179.4 (44)100.7 (29)
42Hiroyasu AizawaJPN176.988.4 (40)88.5 (43)
43Paul EgloffSUI171.780.2 (43)91.5 (42)
44Miran TepešYUG171.678.3 (45)93.3 (41)
45Brane BenedikYUG149.671.4 (47)78.2 (45)
46Andrey ShakirovURS147.172.8 (46)74.3 (46)
47Piotr FijasPOL144.0109.4 (26)34.6 (48)
48Bogdan NorčičYUG124.650.7 (48)73.9 (47)