2008–09 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup

The 2008–09 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was the 30th World Cup season in ski jumping and the 12th official World Cup season in ski flying with twelfth small crystal globe awarded.

2008–09 World Cup

Winners
Overall	Gregor Schlierenzauer
Ski Flying	Gregor Schlierenzauer
Four Hills Tournament	Wolfgang Loitzl
Nordic Tournament	Gregor Schlierenzauer
FIS Team Tour	Norway
Nations Cup	Austria
Competitions
Venues	20
Individual	27
Team	6
Cancelled	2 (1 Ind. + 1 Team)
Rescheduled	1
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

Season began in Kuusamo, Finland on 29 November 2008 and was finished in Planica, Slovenia on 22 March 2009. The individual overall winner was Austrian ski jumper Gregor Schlierenzauer, who won 13 of the 27 individual events and with that broke Janne Ahonen's single-season record of 12 wins in a season. Schlierenzauer's 20 podiums in a single season is also a new record.

Small crystal globe in Ski Flying returned after 2000/01 season and awarded to Schlierenzauer.

A first edition of the new team competition (2 team + 3 individual events counted) was organised in Willingen, Klingenthal and Oberstdorf which was named the FIS Team Tour was also introduced this season and the winner became the Team of Norway. Gregor Schlierenzauer also won Nordic Tournament and Nations Cup went to Team of Austria.

2 events (1 individual and 1 team) were cancelled and one moved from large to normal hill.

The Nations Cup, which is determined by adding all points gained by the participants of a country, in both individual and team competitions, was won overwhelmingly by Austria with 7331 points, more than three thousand points ahead of second-placed Finland (4270 points).

Map of world cup hosts

Europe Planica Lahti Lillehammer Pragelato Trondheim Engelberg Kuusamo Kuopio Vikersund Zakopane 4HT Team-To. Nordic Other
Germany Oberstdorf Willingen Klingenthal Garmisch		Austria Innsbruck Bisch. Kulm Asia Sapporo		Canada Whistler

Calendar

Men's Individual

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

All	No.	Date	Place (Hill)	Size	Winner	Second	Third	Overall leader
683	1	29 November 2008	Kuusamo (Rukatunturi HS142)	L 472	Simon Ammann	Wolfgang Loitzl	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Simon Ammann
684	2	6 December 2008	Trondheim (Granåsen HS131)	L 473	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Ville Larinto	Anders Jacobsen	Gregor Schlierenzauer
685	3	7 December 2008		L 474	Simon Ammann	Matti Hautamäki	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Simon Ammann
686	4	13 December 2008	Pragelato (Stadio del Tramp. HS140)	L 475	Simon Ammann	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Ville Larinto
687	5	14 December 2008		L 476	Fumihisa Yumoto	Simon Ammann	Johan Remen Evensen
688	6	20 December 2008	Engelberg (Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137)	L 477	Simon Ammann	Wolfgang Loitzl	Gregor Schlierenzauer
689	7	21 December 2008		L 478	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Wolfgang Loitzl	Simon Ammann
690	8	29 December 2008	Oberstdorf (Schattenberg HS137)	L 479	Simon Ammann	Wolfgang Loitzl	Dimitry Vassiliev
691	9	1 January 2009	Garmisch-Pa (Gr. Olympiaschanze HS140)	L 480	Wolfgang Loitzl	Simon Ammann	Harri Olli
692	10	4 January 2009	Innsbruck (Bergiselschanze HS130)	L 481	Wolfgang Loitzl	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Martin Schmitt
693	11	6 January 2009	Bischofshofen (Paul-Ausserleitner HS140)	L 482	Wolfgang Loitzl	Simon Ammann	Dimitry Vassiliev
57th Four Hills Tournament Overall (29 December 2008 – 6 January 2009)					Wolfgang Loitzl	Simon Ammann	Gregor Schlierenzauer	4H Tournament
694	12	10 January 2009	Bad Mitterndorf (Kulm HS200)	F 070	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Simon Ammann	Martin Koch	Simon Ammann
695	13	11 January 2009		F 071	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Harri Olli	Simon Ammann
696	14	16 January 2009	Zakopane (Wielka Krokiew HS134)	L 483	Wolfgang Loitzl	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Martin Schmitt
697	15	17 January 2009		L 484	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Wolfgang Loitzl	Simon Ammann
698	16	24 January 2009	Whistler (Wh. Olympic Park HS140)	L 485	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Wolfgang Loitzl	Matti Hautamäki	Gregor Schlierenzauer
699	17	25 January 2009		L 486	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Thomas Morgenstern	Ville Larinto
700	18	31 January 2009	Sapporo (Ōkurayama HS134)	L 487	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Thomas Morgenstern	Wolfgang Loitzl
		1 February 2009		L cnx	cancelled due to strong wind[1]			—
701	19	8 February 2009	Willingen (Mühlenkopfschanze HS145)	L 488	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Simon Ammann	Noriaki Kasai	Gregor Schlierenzauer
702	20	11 February 2009	Klingenthal (Vogtland Arena HS140)	L 489	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Anders Jacobsen	Wolfgang Loitzl
703	21	14 February 2009	Oberstdorf (Heini-Klopfer HS213)	F 072	Harri Olli	Anders Jacobsen	Johan Remen Evensen
1st FIS Team Tour Overall TWO TEAM EVENTS INCLUDED (7 – 15 February 2009)					Norway	Austria	Finland	FIS Team Tour
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 (27 – 27 February • Liberec)
		8 March 2009	Lahti (Salpausselkä HS130) (Salpausselkä HS97)	L cnx	moved to normal hill due to strong wind[2]			—
704	22	8 March 2009		N 143	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Simon Ammann	Dimitry Vassiliev	Gregor Schlierenzauer
705	23	10 March 2009	Kuopio (Puijo HS127)	L 490	Takanobu Okabe	Simon Ammann	Adam Małysz
706	24	13 March 2009	Lillehammer (Lysgårdsbakken HS138)	L 491	Harri Olli	Dimitry Vassiliev	Gregor Schlierenzauer
707	25	15 March 2009	Vikersund (Vikersundbakken HS207)	F 073	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Simon Ammann	Dimitry Vassiliev
13th Nordic Tournament Overall (3 – 9 March 2008)					Gregor Schlierenzauer	Harri Olli	Simon Ammann	Nordic Tournament
708	26	20 March 2009	Planica (Letalnica b. Gorišek HS215)	F 074	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Adam Małysz	Dimitry Vassiliev	Gregor Schlierenzauer
709	27	22 March 2009		F 075	Harri Olli	Adam Małysz	Simon Ammann Robert Kranjec
30th FIS World Cup Overall (29 November 2008 – 22 March 2009)					Gregor Schlierenzauer	Simon Ammann	Wolfgang Loitzl	World Cup Overall

Men's Team

All	No.	Date	Place (Hill)	Size	Winner	Second	Third
		28 November 2008	Kuusamo (Rukatunturi HS142)	L cnx	cancelled after two groups jumped in 1st round due to strong wind[3]
40	1	29 November 2008	Kuusamo (Rukatunturi HS142)	L 034	Finland Ville Larinto Kalle Keituri Harri Olli Matti Hautamäki	Austria Wolfgang Loitzl Martin Koch Gregor Schlierenzauer Thomas Morgenstern	Germany Felix Schoft Michael Uhrmann Martin Schmitt Michael Neumayer
41	2	7 February 2009	Willingen (Mühlenkopfschanze HS145)	L 035	Austria Thomas Morgenstern Markus Eggenhofer Andreas Kofler Wolfgang Loitzl	Norway Roar Ljøkelsøy Tom Hilde Anders Bardal Anders Jacobsen	Finland Ville Larinto Kalle Keituri Matti Hautamäki Harri Olli
42	3	15 February 2009	Oberstdorf (Heini-Klopfer HS213)	F 006	Finland Kalle Keituri Juha-Matti Ruuskanen Matti Hautamäki Harri Olli	Russia Denis Kornilov Pavel Karelin Ilya Rosliakov Dimitry Vassiliev	Austria Wolfgang Loitzl Markus Eggenhofer Andreas Kofler Martin Koch
1st FIS Team Tour Overall THREE INDIVIDUAL EVENTS INCLUDED (7 – 15 February 2009)					Norway	Austria	Finland
43	4	7 March 2009	Lahti (Salpausselkä HS130)	L 036	Austria Wolfgang Loitzl Martin Koch Thomas Morgenstern Gregor Schlierenzauer	Finland Ville Larinto Kalle Keituri Harri Olli Matti Hautamäki	Norway Anders Bardal Tom Hilde Johan Remen Evensen Anders Jacobsen
44	5	14 March 2009	Vikersund (Vikersundbakken HS207)	F 007	Austria Martin Koch Wolfgang Loitzl Thomas Morgenstern Gregor Schlierenzauer	Finland Matti Hautamäki Kalle Keituri Ville Larinto Harri Olli	Norway Johan Remen Evensen Bjørn Einar Romøren Anders Bardal Anders Jacobsen
45	6	21 March 2009	Planica (Letalnica b. Gorišek HS215)	F 008	Norway Johan Remen Evensen Tom Hilde Anders Bardal Anders Jacobsen	Poland Kamil Stoch Łukasz Rutkowski Stefan Hula Adam Małysz	Russia Denis Kornilov Pavel Karelin Ilya Rosliakov Dimitry Vassiliev

Standings

Overall Rank after 27 events Points 1 Gregor Schlierenzauer 2083 2 Simon Ammann 1776 3 Wolfgang Loitzl 1396 4 Harri Olli 974 5 Dmitriy Vassiliev 845 6 Martin Schmitt 829 7 Thomas Morgenstern 795 8 Anders Jacobsen 661 9 Martin Koch 601 10 Anders Bardal 598

Nations Cup Rank after 33 events Points 1  Austria 7331 2  Finland 4270 3  Norway 4175 4  Germany 3134 5  Russia 2345 6  Switzerland 2337 7  Japan 2044 8  Poland 1574 9  Slovenia 1319 10  Czech Republic 1048

Prize money Rank after 33 events Points 1 Gregor Schlierenzauer 524,500 2 Simon Ammann 334,000 3 Wolfgang Loitzl 274,000 4 Harri Olli 172,600 5 Dmitriy Vassiliev 95,000 6 Thomas Morgenstern 89,500 7 Anders Jacobsen 84,050 8 Ville Larinto 71,000 9 Matti Hautamäki 70,500 10 Adam Małysz 61,500

Ski Flying Rank after 6 events Points 1 Gregor Schlierenzauer 477 2 Harri Olli 372 3 Simon Ammann 370 4 Martin Koch 221 5 Anders Jacobsen 220 6 Dmitriy Vassiliev 200 7 Adam Małysz 192 Robert Kranjec 192 9 Matti Hautamäki 156 10 Anders Bardal 143

Four Hills Tournament Rank after 4 events Points 1 Wolfgang Loitzl 1123.7 2 Simon Ammann 1091.1 3 Gregor Schlierenzauer 1077.1 4 Martin Schmitt 1055.2 5 Dmitriy Vassiliev 1048.1 6 Anders Jacobsen 1027.9 7 Harri Olli 1019.2 8 Thomas Morgenstern 1001.0 9 Matti Hautamäki 991.4 10 Michael Neumayer 986.3

Nordic Tournament Rank after 4 events Points 1 Gregor Schlierenzauer 1114.9 2 Harri Olli 1114.3 3 Simon Ammann 1095.0 4 Dmitriy Vassiliev 1086.9 5 Adam Małysz 1066.9 6 Martin Schmitt 1056.4 7 Wolfgang Loitzl 1037.4 8 Thomas Morgenstern 1019.6 9 Martin Koch 1013.9 10 Matti Hautamäki 1012.0

FIS Team Tour Rank after 4 events Points 1  Norway 4083.8 2  Austria 4032.2 3  Finland 3960.4 4  Germany 3547.7 5  Russia 3511.3 6  Czech Republic 3201.5 7  Slovenia 2418.0 8  Japan 2122.2 9  Switzerland 1796.0 10  Kazakhstan 1787.0

See also

• 2008 Grand Prix (top level summer series)
• 2008–09 FIS Continental Cup (2nd level competition)