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Lindvik delivered a monster 151.3-point second jump to snatch the gold medal in a high quality men's Olympic large hill ski jumping event on Saturday, denying Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi a golden double. Kobayashi, fresh from winning the normal hill title last weekend, set the standard again in the first round with a 142-metre jump for 147 points.
ZHANGJIAKOU, Hebei: Norway's Marius Lindvik delivered a monster 151.3-point second jump to snatch the gold medal in a high-quality men's Olympic large hill ski jumping event on Saturday (Feb 12), denying Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi a golden double.
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Beaming with joy, Norway's Marius Lindvik screamed with delight on realising that the final athlete to go in the men's ski jumping large hill, Kobayashi Ryoyu, had not done enough to top his points score of 296.1.
Norway's Marius Lindvik put down a massive second jump to win gold in the men's large hill, stunning the hot favourite Ryoyu Kobayashi. Lindvik, who scored 144.8 with his first jump to rank second going into the final round, scored 151.3 for an Olympic gold-winning score of 296.1 to produce a huge upset. Ad/> The 23-year-old is the first Norwegian to win Olympic large hill gold since Toralf Engan in the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China :Norway's Marius Lindvik delivered a monster 151.3-point second jump to snatch the gold medal in a high quality men's Olympic large hill ski jumping event on Saturday, denying Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi a golden double.
The penultimate ski jumping final of Beijing 2022 begins on Saturday (12 February) with the men’s large hill event.
Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi held his nerve while his rivals lost theirs on Sunday, winning Olympic ski jumping gold on the men's normal hill in a wild and unpredictable Beijing Games final. Germany's World Cup leader Karl Geiger finished 15th in a disastrous performance, while hotly tipped Norwegians Halvor Egner Granerud and Marius Lindvik were also well out of contention. Kobayashi kept his cool to become the first Japanese ski jumper to win Olympic gold on foreign snow, pulling off jumps of 104.5 and 99.5 metres to finish first on 275.0 points. "This season I've been able to jump to the image I have in my mind," said the 25-year-old, who is second in the current World Cup standings and won this season's Four Hills competition.