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Large Hill, Individual, Men

Date18 February 1984
StatusOlympic
LocationMalo Polje, Igman
Participants53 from 17 countries
FormatTwo jumps, with both scored on distance and form.
Olympic Record 117.0 / Jouko Törmänen FIN / 23 February 1980
117.0 / Hansjörg Sumi SUI / 23 February 1980
Judge #1Sylvester PancherczPOL
Judge #2Vidar FahlenSWE
Judge #3Jože JavornikYUG
Judge #4Hans OstlerFRG
Judge #5Akio KasayaJPN
DetailsK-Point: 112 m

The quality of the Large Hill event was considerably higher than in the Normal hill one week before. The competition was totally dominated by Matti Nykänen, the silver medalist from the Normal hill. In the first round he made an impressive 116.0 m jump, nine meters longer than his closest opponent, the winner from the Normal hill Jens Weißflog. Austrian Armin Kogler, the best ski jumper at the 1982 World Championships with one gold and one bronze, revenged himself after his poor showing in the Normal hill by lying third.

In the second round, Kogler, starting as number 6, took an early lead and kept his position until Jari Puikkonen, the bronze winner from the Normal hill, took over the lead with a decent jump of 102.0 m. Then the US representative Jeff Hastings, lying 12th after the first round, surprised with a jump of 107.0 m, and suddenly an American was in a position for a medal. But the 19-year old Czech Pavel Ploc, who in 1983 had set a new world record of 181.0 m in his home town Harrachov, answered with a jump of 109.0 m and took over the lead with Weißflog and Nykänen yet to come. Weißflog improved half a meter from his first jump and was now first, over ten points ahead of Ploc. Nykänen, with his big lead after the first jump, could now secure his first Olympic gold medal with a safe jump of around 100 m, but the young Finn was not the type to make safe jumps. He once again made the best and longest jump of the round, 111.0 m. His victory margin was an impressive 17.5 points, the biggest victory margin in the history of Olympic ski jumping. Jeff Hastings fourth place was the best American placing in ski jumping for 60 years, only beaten by Anders Haugen’s bronze medal from 1924. For the ski-jump-loving nation of Norway, the event was described as a national catastrophe. Norway’s best jumper ended in 18th place, the nation’s worst ever Olympic ski jumping performance.

PosCompetitorNOCPointsJump #1Jump #2
1Matti NykänenFIN231.2119.1 (1)112.1 (1)Gold
2Jens WeißflogGDR213.7106.0 (2)107.7 (2)Silver
3Pavel PlocTCH202.997.1 (9)105.8 (4)Bronze
4Jeff HastingsUSA201.295.7 (12)105.5 (5)
5Jari PuikkonenFIN196.6100.1 (6)96.5 (6)
6Armin KoglerAUT195.6103.1 (3)92.5 (14)
7Andi BauerFRG194.6102.2 (4)92.4 (15)
8Vladimír PodzimekTCH194.588.6 (24)105.9 (3)
9Stefan StannariusGDR188.695.6 (13)93.0 (=11)
10Horst BulauCAN188.394.6 (14)93.7 (8)
11Tomaž DolarYUG185.793.8 (15)91.9 (18)
12Ladislav DluhošTCH185.5101.1 (5)84.4 (25)
13Primož UlagaYUG185.289.3 (22)95.9 (7)
14Pentti KokkonenFIN182.490.1 (19)92.3 (16)
15Vasja BajcYUG181.499.6 (7)81.8 (=32)
16Markku PuseniusFIN180.993.4 (=16)87.5 (22)
17Piotr FijasPOL180.696.9 (11)83.7 (=26)
18Ole Christian EidhammerNOR179.993.4 (=16)86.5 (23)
19Hirokazu YagiJPN179.886.8 (26)93.0 (=11)
20Satoru MatsuhashiJPN177.698.6 (8)79.0 (37)
21Matthias BuseGDR176.997.0 (10)79.9 (36)
22Hansjörg SumiSUI176.488.3 (25)88.1 (20)
23Jiří ParmaTCH174.081.8 (31)92.2 (17)
24Hans WallnerAUT173.580.3 (33)93.2 (10)
25Ron RichardsCAN172.979.3 (34)93.6 (9)
26Klaus OstwaldGDR171.889.6 (21)82.2 (30)
27Vegard OpaasNOR171.189.2 (23)81.9 (31)
28Andreas FelderAUT170.380.8 (32)89.5 (19)
29Reed ZuehlkeUSA168.585.6 (=27)82.9 (29)
30Gennady ProkopenkoURS167.179.1 (35)88.0 (21)
31Ole Gunnar FidjestølNOR164.082.2 (30)81.8 (=32)
32Gérard ColinFRA163.871.2 (=40)92.6 (13)
33Lido TomasiITA161.391.9 (18)69.4 (=43)
34Massimo RigoniITA159.378.5 (36)80.8 (34)
35Peter RohweinFRG158.477.7 (37)80.7 (35)
36Steve CollinsCAN156.489.8 (20)66.6 (45)
37Mike HollandUSA154.871.2 (=40)83.6 (28)
38Georg WaldvogelFRG154.582.7 (29)71.8 (42)
39Yury GolovshchikovURS152.065.6 (43)86.4 (24)
40Fabrice PiazziniSUI151.574.8 (39)76.7 (38)
41Manfred SteinerAUT149.485.6 (=27)63.8 (47)
42Vladimir BreychevBUL139.764.2 (45)75.5 (39)
43Masaru NagaokaJPN138.875.5 (38)63.3 (48)
44Sandro SambugaroITA138.368.9 (42)69.4 (=43)
45Miran TepešYUG130.747.0 (50)83.7 (=26)
46Janusz MalikPOL127.565.2 (44)62.3 (49)
47David BrownCAN121.657.1 (48)64.5 (46)
48José RiveraESP113.963.3 (46)50.6 (52)
49Angel StoyanovBUL108.559.0 (47)49.5 (53)
50Bernat SolaESP99.347.3 (49)52.0 (50)
51Hiroo ShimaJPN95.944.4 (51)51.5 (51)
52Rolf Åge BergNOR87.512.8 (52)74.7 (40)
53Dennis McGraneUSA79.97.1 (53)72.8 (41)