1987–88 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup

The 1987–88 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was the 9th World Cup season in ski jumping.

1987–88 World Cup

Winners
Overall	Matti Nykänen
Four Hills Tournament	Matti Nykänen
Swiss Tournament	Matti Nykänen
Nations Cup	Finland
Competitions
Venues	15
Individual	20
Cancelled	2
← 1986–87 1988–89 →

Season began in Thunder Bay, Canada on 5 December 1987 and finished in Planica, Yugoslavia on 27 March 1988. The individual World Cup overall winner was Finnish ski jumper Matti Nykänen (for the 4th and last time in his career) dominating the season with 10 WC wins, double olympic gold and bronze at Ski Flying World Champ.; Nations Cup was taken by Team of Finland.

20 men's individual events on 15 different venues in 10 countries were held on three different continents (Europe, Asia and North America). Two competition were cancelled this season.

Peaks of the season were Winter Olympics, FIS Ski Flying World Championships, Four Hills Tournament, Bohemia Tournament (cancelled) and Swiss Tournament.

Two events (Harrachov and Liberec), counting for Bohemia Tournament were cancelled.

Map of world cup hosts

Europe Oslo Moritz Engelberg Meldal Gstaad Galio Planica Lahti 4HT Swiss T. Other
West Germany Oberstdorf Garmisch		Austria Innsbruck Bischofshofen Asia Sapporo		North America Thunder Bay Lake Placid

Calendar

Men's Individual

N – normal hill / L – large hill

All	No.	Date	Place (Hill)	Size	Winner	Second	Third	Overall leader[a]	R.
189	1	5 December 1987	Thunder Bay (Big Thunder K89, K120)	N 068	Matti Nykänen	Pavel Ploc	Ernst Vettori	Matti Nykänen	[1]
190	2	6 December 1987		L 106	Matti Nykänen	Jens Weißflog	Vegard Opaas		[2]
191	3	12 December 1987	Lake Placid (MacKenzie Int. K114, K86)	L 107	Pavel Ploc	Dieter Thoma	Andreas Bauer	Pavel Ploc	[3]
192	4	13 December 1987		N 069	Pavel Ploc	Jiří Parma	Vegard Opaas		[4]
193	5	19 December 1987	Sapporo (Miyanomori K90) (Ōkurayama K115)	N 070	Matti Nykänen	Werner Schuster	Martin Švagerko		[5]
194	6	20 December 1987		L 108	Matti Nykänen	Jiří Parma	Staffan Tällberg	Matti Nykänen	[6]
195	7	30 December 1987	Oberstdorf (Schattenbergschanze K115)	L 109	Pavel Ploc	Matti Nykänen	Staffan Tällberg	Pavel Ploc	[7]
196	8	1 January 1988	Garmisch-Pa (Große Olympiaschanze K107)	L 110	Matti Nykänen	Staffan Tällberg	Jens Weißflog	Matti Nykänen	[8]
197	9	4 January 1988	Innsbruck (Bergiselschanze K109)	L 111	Matti Nykänen	Andreas Bauer	Jens Weißflog		[9]
198	10	6 January 1988	Bischofshofen (Paul-Ausserleitner K111)	L 112	Matti Nykänen	Primož Ulaga	Ole C. Eidhammer		[10]
36th Four Hills Tournament Overall (30 December 1987 – 6 January 1988)					Matti Nykänen	Jens Weißflog	Jiří Parma	4H Tournament
		9 January 1988	Liberec (Ještěd A K120)	L cnx	cancelled due to high temperatures and lack of snow			—
		10 January 1988	Harrachov (Čerťák K120)	L cnx
Bohemia Tournament Overall (9 – 10 January 1988)					cancelled due to high temperatures and lack of snow			Bohemia Tournament
199	11	17 January 1988	Gallio (Trampolino di Pakstall K95)	N 071	Ernst Vettori	Primož Ulaga	Jiří Parma	Matti Nykänen	[11]
200	12	20 January 1988	St. Moritz (Olympiaschanze K94)	N 072	Matti Nykänen	Erik Johnsen	Remo Lederer	Matti Nykänen	[12]
201	13	22 January 1988	Gstaad (Mattenschanze K88)	N 073	Pavel Ploc	Miran Tepeš	Jens Weißflog		[13]
202	14	24 January 1988	Engelberg (Gross-Titlis-Schanze K120)	L 113	Jens Weißflog	Matti Nykänen	Andreas Felder		[14]
23rd Swiss Tournament Overall (20 – 24 February 1988)					Matti Nykänen	Miran Tepeš	Ernst Vettori	Swiss Tournament
1988 Winter Olympics (14 – 23 February • Calgary)
203	15	4 March 1988	Lahti (Salpausselkä K90, K114)	N 074	Matti Nykänen	Jan Boklöv	Erik Johnsen	Matti Nykänen	[15]
204	16	6 March 1988		L 114	Matti Nykänen	Jan Boklöv	Erik Johnsen		[16]
FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1988 (13 March • Oberstdorf)
205	17	18 March 1988	Meldal (Kløvsteinbakken K105)	L 115	Erik Johnsen	Oliver Strohmaier	Jiří Malec	Matti Nykänen	[17]
206	18	20 March 1988	Oslo (Holmenkollbakken K105)	L 116	Erik Johnsen	Ole G. Fidjestøl	Günther Stranner		[18]
207	19	26 March 1988	Planica (Srednja Bloudkova K90) (Bloudkova velikanka K120)	N 075	Primož Ulaga	Pavel Ploc	Ernst Vettori		[19]
208	20	27 March 1988		L 117	Primož Ulaga	Rajko Lotrič	Didier Mollard		[20]
9th FIS World Cup Overall (5 December 1987 – 27 March 1988)					Matti Nykänen	Pavel Ploc	Primož Ulaga	World Cup Overall

Standings

Overall Rank after 20 events Points 1 Matti Nykänen 282 2 Pavel Ploc 187 3 Primož Ulaga 127 4 Jiří Parma 125 5 Ernst Vettori 114 6 Jens Weißflog 111 7 Erik Johnsen 106 8 Miran Tepeš 97 9 Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl 82 10 Jan Boklöv 64

Nations Cup Rank after 20 events Points 1  Finland 541 2  Czechoslovakia 430 3  Norway 412 4  Austria 333 5  Yugoslavia 310 6  West Germany 180 7  Sweden 165 8  East Germany 153 9  Switzerland 77 10  Canada 68

Four Hills Tournament Rank after 4 events Points 1 Matti Nykänen 887.7 2 Jens Weißflog 788.7 3 Jiří Parma 767.7 4 Christian Hauswirth 763.5 5 Franz Wiegele 752.7 6 Staffan Tällberg 751.5 7 Miran Tepeš 748.2 8 Andreas Bauer 741.0 9 Tuomo Ylipulli 731.5 10 Jari Puikkonen 726.3

Swiss Tournament

Rank	after 3 events[21]	Points
1	Matti Nykänen	641.5
2	Miran Tepeš	635.5
3	Ernst Vettori	621.3
4	Jens Weißflog	621.2
5	Pavel Ploc	619.1
6	Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl	616.1
7	Andreas Felder	600.8
8	Franz Wiegele	587.5
9	Josef Heumann	583.3
10	Ole C. Eidhammer	579.3

See also

• 1987–88 FIS Europa Cup (2nd level competition)

Notes

1. Yellow bib for the overall leader was introduced later, from the 1988/89 season onwards.