1995–96 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup

The 1995–96 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was the 17th World Cup season in ski jumping and the 6th official World Cup season in ski flying with sixth small crystal globe awarded.

1995–96 World Cup

Winners
Overall	Andreas Goldberger
Ski Jumping (NH, LH)	Ari-Pekka Nikkola
Ski Flying	Andreas Goldberger
Four Hills Tournament	Jens Weißflog
Nations Cup	Finland
Competitions
Venues	21
Individual	28
Team	4
Cancelled	2
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

Season began in Lillehammer, Norway on 2 December 1995 and was finished in Oslo, Norway on 16 March 1996. The individual World Cup overall winner was Andreas Goldberger (third and last time in his career), his second Ski Flying small crystal globe and last of his 20 World Cup wins; and Nations Cup was taken by Team of Finland.

28 men's individual events on 20 different venues in 14 countries were held on the three different continents (Europe, Asia and North America); two individual events were cancelled due to bad weaher conditions in Trondheim and Harrachov (on both occasions cancelled in first round due to strong wind). Also four men's team event was held.

Peaks of the season were FIS Ski Flying World Championships (which also counted for World Cup for the third Championship in a row) and Four Hills Tournament.

For the 2nd season in a row Ski Jumping small crystal globe was awarded (NH and LH events).

Map of world cup hosts

Europe Planica Lahti Predazzo Oslo Engelberg Harrachov Falun Chamonix Lillehammer Kuopio Zakopane 4HT WC=SFW Other
Germany Oberstdorf Garmisch Oberhof		Austria Innsbruck Villach Kulm Bisch. United States Iron Mountain		Asia Sapporo

Calendar

Men's Individual

N – normal hill / L – large hill / F – flying hill

All	No.	Date	Place (Hill)	Size	Winner	Second	Third	Overall leader	R.
354	1	2 December 1995	Lillehammer (Lysgårdsbakken K90, K120)	N 120	Mika Laitinen	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Masahiko Harada	Mika Laitinen	[1]
355	2	3 December 1995		L 205	Janne Ahonen	Jinya Nishikata	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Janne Ahonen	[2]
356	3	8 December 1995	Villach (Villacher Alpenarena K90)	N 121	Masahiko Harada	Mika Laitinen	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Janne Ahonen Ari-Pekka Nikkola	[3]
357	4	10 December 1995	Planica (Bloudkova velikanka K120)	L 206	Mika Laitinen	Roar Ljøkelsøy	Janne Ahonen	Mika Laitinen	[4]
358	5	12 December 1995	Predazzo (Trampolino dal Ben K90)	N 122	Mika Laitinen	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Andreas Goldberger		[5]
359	6	16 December 1995	Chamonix (Le Mont K95)	N 123	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Janne Ahonen	Ralph Gebstedt		[6]
360	7	17 December 1995		N 124	Hiroya Saito	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Masahiko Harada	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	[7]
361	8	28 December 1995	Oberhof (Hans-Renner-Schanze K120)	L 207	Mika Laitinen	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Jens Weißflog	Mika Laitinen	[8]
362	9	30 December 1995	Oberstdorf (Schattenbergschanze K115)	L 208	Mika Laitinen	Jens Weißflog	Masahiko Harada		[9]
363	10	1 January 1996	Garmisch-Pa (Große Olympiaschanze K107)	L 209	R. Schwarzenberger	Espen Bredesen	Jens Weißflog		[10]
364	11	4 January 1996	Innsbruck (Bergiselschanze K110)	L 210	Andreas Goldberger	Jens Weißflog	Hiroya Saito	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	[11]
365	12	6 January 1996	Bischofshofen (Paul-Ausserleitner K120)	L 211	Jens Weißflog	Espen Bredesen	Ari-Pekka Nikkola		[12]
44th Four Hills Tournament Overall (30 December 1995 – 6 January 1996)					Jens Weißflog	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	R. Schwarzenberger	4H Tournament
366	13	13 January 1996	Engelberg (Gross-Titlis-Schanze K120)	L 212	Jani Soininen	Jinya Nishikata	Andreas Goldberger	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	[13]
367	14	14 January 1996		L 213	Andreas Goldberger	R. Schwarzenberger	Espen Bredesen		[14]
368	15	20 January 1996	Sapporo (Miyanomori K90) (Ōkurayama K115)	N 125	Jens Weißflog	Eirik Halvorsen	R. Schwarzenberger		[15]
369	16	21 January 1996		L 214	Ari-Pekka Nikkola Andreas Goldberger		Hiroya Saito		[16]
370	17	27 January 1996	Zakopane (Wielka Krokiew K116)	L 215	Primož Peterka	Andreas Goldberger	R. Schwarzenberger		[17]
371	18	28 January 1996		L 216	Andreas Goldberger	Primož Peterka	Ari-Pekka Nikkola		[18]
FIS World Cup 1995/96 = FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1996 (10 – 11 February • Bad Mitterndorf)
372	19	10 February 1996	Bad Mitterndorf (Kulm K185)	F 031	Janne Ahonen	Andreas Goldberger	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	[19]
373	20	11 February 1996		F 032	Andreas Goldberger	Christof Duffner	Janne Ahonen		[20]
374	21	17 February 1996	Iron Mountain (Pine Mountain K120)	L 217	Jens Weißflog	Andreas Widhölzl	Ari-Pekka Nikkola		[21]
375	22	18 February 1996		L 218	Masahiko Harada	Adam Małysz	Kimmo Savolainen		[22]
		24 February 1996	Trondheim (Granåsen K120)	L cnx	cancelled due to strong wind after longer break in first round[23]			—
376	23	28 February 1996	Kuopio (Puijo K90)	N 126	Kimmo Savolainen	Jaroslav Sakala	Janne Väätäinen	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	[24]
377	24	1 March 1996	Lahti (Salpausselkä K90, K114)	N 127	Masahiko Harada	Mika Laitinen	Adam Małysz Primož Peterka		[25]
378	25	3 March 1996		L 219	Masahiko Harada	Primož Peterka	Jani Soininen		[26]
379	26	9 March 1996	Harrachov (Čerťák K180)	F 033	Andreas Goldberger	Christof Duffner	Jaroslav Sakala	Andreas Goldberger	[27]
		10 March 1996		F cnx	cancelled after only two jums in first round due to strong wind[28]			—
380	27	13 March 1996	Falun (Lugnet K90)	N 128	Primož Peterka	Adam Małysz	Jens Weißflog	Andreas Goldberger	[29]
381	28	17 March 1996	Oslo (Holmenkollbakken K110)	L 220	Adam Małysz	Janne Ahonen	Masahiko Harada		[30]
17th FIS World Cup Overall (2 December 1995 – 17 March 1996)					Andreas Goldberger	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Janne Ahonen	World Cup Overall

Men's Team

All	No.	Date	Place (Hill)	Size	Winner	Second	Third	R.
8	1	9 December 1995	Planica (Bloudkova velikanka K120)	L 008	Finland Jani Soininen Mika Laitinen Ari-Pekka Nikkola Janne Ahonen	Japan Jinya Nishikata Kenji Suda Hiroya Saito Masahiko Harada	Norway Espen Bredesen Eirik Halvorsen Roar Ljøkelsøy Lasse Ottesen	[31]
9	2	23 February 1996	Trondheim (Granåsen K120)	L 009	Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola Jani Soininen Janne Ahonen Mika Laitinen	Japan Takanobu Okabe Jun Shibuya Masahiko Harada Hiroya Saito	Germany Gerd Siegmund Christof Duffner Dieter Thoma Jens Weißflog	[32]
10	3	2 March 1996	Lahti (Salpausselkä K114)	L 010	Japan Takanobu Okabe Jinya Nishikata Masahiko Harada Hiroya Saito	Germany Ralph Gebstedt Christof Duffner Dieter Thoma Jens Weißflog	Austria Martin Höllwarth Reinhard Schwarzenberger Stefan Horngacher Andreas Goldberger	[33]
11	4	15 March 1996	Oslo (Holmenkollbakken K110)	L 011	Austria Martin Höllwarth Reinhard Schwarzenberger Andreas Widhölzl Andreas Goldberger	Norway Paal Hansen Sturle Holseter Espen Bredesen Roar Ljøkelsøy	Germany Gerd Siegmund Michael Uhrmann Christof Duffner Jens Weißflog	[34]

Standings

Overall Rank after 28 events Points 1 Andreas Goldberger 1416 2 Ari-Pekka Nikkola 1384 3 Janne Ahonen 1054 4 Jens Weißflog 1028 5 Masahiko Harada 982 6 Mika Laitinen 914 7 Adam Małysz 751 8 Hiroya Saito 747 9 R. Schwarzenberger 724 10 Primož Peterka 670

Ski Jumping (JP) Cup Rank after 25 events Points 1 Ari-Pekka Nikkola 1288 2 Andreas Goldberger 1136 3 Masahiko Harada 982 4 Jens Weißflog 938 5 Janne Ahonen 868 6 Mika Laitinen 864 7 Hiroya Saito 723 8 Adam Małysz 706 9 Primož Peterka 670 10 R. Schwarzenberger 649

Ski Flying Rank after 3 events Points 1 Andreas Goldberger 280 2 Janne Ahonen 186 3 Christof Duffner 176 4 Urban Franc 132 5 Ari-Pekka Nikkola 96 Jaroslav Sakala 96 7 Roar Ljøkelsøy 93 8 Jens Weißflog 90 9 R. Schwarzenberger 75 10 Espen Bredesen 72

Nations Cup Rank after 32 events Points 1  Finland 5079 2  Japan 4162 3  Austria 3464 4  Germany 2919 5  Norway 2739 6  Slovenia 1311 7  Switzerland 1060 8  Czech Republic 851 9  Poland 832 10  France 579

Four Hills Tournament Rank after 4 events Points 1 Jens Weißflog 952.3 2 Ari-Pekka Nikkola 909.7 3 R. Schwarzenberger 882.1 4 Hiroya Saito 881.9 5 Christof Duffner 872.9 6 Janne Ahonen 869.1 7 Andreas Goldberger 859.6 8 Jinya Nishikata 845.2 9 Jani Soininen 841.1 10 Noriaki Kasai 838.9

See also

• 1995 Grand Prix (top level summer series)
• 1995–96 FIS Continental Cup (2nd level competition)