FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1994

Men's Ski Flying at the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1994
Venue	Velikanka bratov Gorišek
Date	19–20 March 1994
Competitors	43 from 15 nations
Winning score	351.3
Medalists
Jaroslav Sakala   Czech Republic   Espen Bredesen   Norway   Roberto Cecon   Italy

The FIS Ski Flying World Ski Championships 1994 took place on 20 March 1994 in Planica, Slovenia for the record fourth time. Planica hosted the championships previously when it was part of Yugoslavia in 1972, 1979, and 1985. This was the first major international sporting event to take place in Slovenia after it declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 following the Ten-Day War. It also marked the first time the Czech Republic and Slovakia were dissolved from Czechoslovakia in January 1993.

It was also historic moment when Austria's Andreas Goldberger became the first person in history who jumped over magic mark of 200 metres (660 ft) but unfortunately touched snow with his hands at 202 metres (663 ft) during practice on 17 March and didn't count. Just a couple minutes later Toni Nieminen from Finland became officially the first person who jumped standing on his feet over magic mark of 200 metres (660 ft) when he jumped 203 metres (666 ft). The final last world record 209 metres (686 ft) was set the next day on March 18 by Espen Bredesen.

World Record

Date	Day	Bib	Name	Distance (m)	Note
Mar 17	Thursday	P12	Martin Höllwarth	196.0	V-jumper
		42	Andreas Goldberger	202.0	invalid WR; snow hand touch; 1st ever over 200 m
		57	Toni Nieminen	203.0	1st official full standing jump over 200 m ever
Mar 18	Friday	19	Christof Duffner	207.0	invalid WR; fall; official training
			Espen Bredesen	209.0	WR that stand for 3 years; official training

Schedule

Velikanka bratov Gorišek (K-185)

Day	Date	Event	Longest jump of the day (m)
Thursday	Mar 17	Free Training (2 series)	203.0 - Toni Nieminen
Friday	Mar 18	Official Training, Qualification	209.0 - Espen Bredesen
Saturday	Mar 19	Individual, Day 1 (cancelled, strong wind)
Sunday	Mar 20	Individual, Day 2	199.0 - Roberto Cecon

Individual

On first day of competition event was cancelled due to strong wind. On the second day of competition the managed to take event to the end. For the last time 191 meters rule was in use, which means that jumps that were exceeding the distance points didn't count further. At time the single day event also counted for World Cup points and statistics.

19–20 March 1994

Rank	Bib	Name	Distance (meters)				Total Points
			Day One (Mar 19)		Day Two (Mar 20)
			1st Round	2nd Round	3rd Round	Final Round
	37	Jaroslav Sakala			189.0	185.0	351.3
		Espen Bredesen			178.0	182.0	329.8
		Roberto Cecon			160.0	199.0	324.7
4		Christof Duffner			159.0	148.0	266.4
5		Lasse Ottesen			177.0	129.0	263.2
6		Stephan Zünd			150.0	140.0	252.5
7		Toni Nieminen			139.0	156.0	248.0
8		Kurt Børset			122.0	167.0	245.3
9		Jani Soininen			138.0	149.0	239.4
10		Hansjörg Jäkle			129.0	153.0	237.4
11	2	Takanobu Okabe			198.0	95.0	235.2
12		Janne Ahonen			120.0	159.0	228.8
13		Andreas Goldberger			141.0	128.0	221.3
14		Janne Väätäinen			126.0	146.0	216.9
15		Sylvain Freiholz			123.0	139.0	213.4
16		Werner Haim			119.0	132.0	203.9
17		Ivo Pertile			137.0	124.0	201.2
18		Tad Langlois			128.0	125.0	195.6
19	7	Noriaki Kasai			153.0	109.0	177.9
20		Tomáš Goder			120.0	117.0	177.4
		Nicolas Jean-Prost			131.0	106.0	177.4
22		Jinya Nishikata			168.0	95.0	170.6
23		Sepp Zehnder			118.0	110.0	170.2
24		Werner Rathmayr			114.0	115.0	168.3
25		Bruno Reuteler			108.0	116.0	162.8
26		Gerd Siegmund			115.0	113.0	161.1
27	18	Matjaž Zupan			108.0	116.0	156.3
		Jakub Sucháček			109.0	115.0	156.3
29		Didier Mollard			112.0	106.0	147.1
30		Matjaž Kladnik			114.0	101.0	144.0
31		Naoki Yasuzaki					139.4
32		Hiroya Saito					137.7
33		Andreas Beck					136.4
34		Samo Gostiša					131.1
35		John Lockyer					128.6
36		Jérôme Gay					122.4
37		Vladimír Roško					120.5
38		Ken Lesja					115.1
39	8	Kakhaber Tsakadze			88.0		99.4
40		Jure Žagar					95.6
41	30	Johan Rasmussen			124,0		94.8
42		Roar Ljøkelsøy					76.7
43		Jeremy Blackburn					39.0

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
2	Norway	0	1	0	1
3	Italy	0	0	1	1