2011–12 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup

The 2011–12 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was the 33rd World Cup season in ski jumping for men, the 15th official World Cup season in ski flying and the 1st World Cup season in history for women, who previously competed only in the Continental Cup.^[1]

2011–12 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	Anders Bardal	Sarah Hendrickson
Nations Cup	Austria	United States
Ski flying	Robert Kranjec	—
Four Hills Tournament	Gregor Schlierenzauer	—
FIS Team Tour	Austria	—
Competition
Edition	33rd	1st
Locations	18	7
Individual	26	13
Team	6	—
Cancelled	1	1
Rescheduled	4 (2 Ind + 2 Team)	2
←2010–11 2012–13→

The men's World Cup began on 27 November 2011 in Kuusamo, Finland and ended on 18 March 2012 in Planica, Slovenia. Women's World Cup began on 3 December 2011 in Lillehammer, Norway and ended on 9 March 2012 in Oslo, Norway.^[2]

26 men's individual events on 18 different venues in 10 countries and 13 women's individual events on 7 different venues in 7 countries had been organised on two different continents (Europe and Asia). There were also 6 men's team events. 2 individual events (1 men, 1 women) were cancelled. And 6 events (2 men's individual, 2 Men's team and 2 women's individual) were rescheduled.

Peaks of the season were FIS Ski Flying World Championships, the Four Hills Tournament and FIS Team Tour.

Map of world cup hosts

Europe Lahti Lillehammer Engelberg Kuusamo Harrachov Zakopane Planica Oslo Predazzo Trondheim Ljubno 4HT Team-To. Other Only (W)
Germany Oberstdorf Willingen Garmisch Hiterzarten		Austria Innsbruck Bischofshofen Kulm Hinzenbach		Asia Sapporo Zaō

Men's Individual

Calendar

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

All	No.	Date	Place (Hill)	Size	Winner	Second	Third	Overall leader	R.
759	1	27 November 2011	Kuusamo (Rukatunturi HS142)	L 531	Andreas Kofler	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Thomas Morgenstern	Andreas Kofler	[3]
760	2	3 December 2011	Lillehammer (Lysgårdsbakken HS100/138)	N 144	Andreas Kofler	Richard Freitag	Kamil Stoch		[4]
761	3	4 December 2011		L 532	Andreas Kofler	Severin Freund Anders Bardal			[5]
762	4	9 December 2011	Harrachov (Čerťák HS142)	L 533	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Daiki Ito	Anders Bardal		[6]
763	5	11 December 2011		L 534	Richard Freitag	Thomas Morgenstern	Severin Freund		[7]
764	6	17 December 2011	Engelberg (Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137)	L 535	Anders Bardal	Martin Koch	Thomas Morgenstern		[8]
765	7	18 December 2011		L 536	Andreas Kofler	Kamil Stoch	Anders Bardal		[9]
766	8	30 December 2011	Oberstdorf (Schattenberg HS137)	L 537	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Andreas Kofler	Thomas Morgenstern		[10]
767	9	1 January 2012	Garmisch-Pa (Gr. Olympiaschanze HS140)	L 538	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Andreas Kofler	Daiki Ito		[11]
768	10	4 January 2012	Innsbruck (Bergiselschanze HS130)	L 539	Andreas Kofler	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Taku Takeuchi		[12]
769	11	6 January 2012	Bischofshofen (Paul-Ausserleitner HS140)	L 540	Thomas Morgenstern	Anders Bardal	Gregor Schlierenzauer		[13]
60th Four Hills Tournament Overall (30 December 2011 – 6 January 2012)					Gregor Schlierenzauer	Thomas Morgenstern	Andreas Kofler	4H Tournament
		14 January 2012	Bad Mitterndorf (Kulm HS200)	F cnx	cancelled due to strong wind and snow and rescheduled on 15 January[14]
770	12	[a]15 January 2012		F 086	Robert Kranjec	Thomas Morgenstern	Anders Bardal	Andreas Kofler	[15]
771	13	15 January 2012		F 087	Anders Bardal	Daiki Ito	Kamil Stoch		[16]
772	14	20 January 2012	Zakopane (Wielka Krokiew HS134)	L 541	Kamil Stoch	Richard Freitag	Andreas Kofler		[17]
773	15	21 January 2012		L 542	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Richard Freitag	Anders Bardal		[18]
774	16	28 January 2012	Sapporo (Ōkurayama HS134)	L 543	Daiki Ito	Anders Bardal	Kamil Stoch		[19]
775	17	29 January 2012		L 544	Daiki Ito	Kamil Stoch	Andreas Kofler		[20]
776	18	4 February 2012	Val di Fiemme (Trampolino dal Ben HS134)	L 545	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Severin Freund	Thomas Morgenstern		[21]
777	19	5 February 2012		L 546	Kamil Stoch	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Anders Bardal		[22]
778	20	12 February 2012	Willingen (Mühlenkopfschanze HS145)	L 547	Anders Bardal	Roman Koudelka	Daiki Ito	Anders Bardal	[23]
		15 February 2012	Klingenthal (Vogtland Arena HS140)	L cnx	cancelled due to strong wind and rescheduled on 16 February[24]			—
		[b]16 February 2012		L cnx	ather 90 minutes of waiting finally cancelled again due to strong wind[25]
779	21	18 February 2012	Oberstdorf (Heini-Klopfer HS213)	F 088	Martin Koch	Daiki Ito	Simon Ammann	Anders Bardal	[26]
4th FIS Team Tour Overall TWO TEAM EVENTS INCLUDED (11 – 19 February 2012)					Austria	Norway	Slovenia	FIS Team Tour
FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2012 (25 February • Vikersund)
		4 March 2012	Lahti (Salpausselkä HS130 / 97)	L cnx	cancelled due to strong wind and moved to normal hill HS97[27]
780	22	[c]4 March 2012		N 145	Daiki Ito	Anders Bardal	Lukáš Hlava	Anders Bardal	[28]
781	23	8 March 2012	Trondheim (Granåsen HS140)	L 548	Daiki Ito	Richard Freitag	Simon Ammann		[29]
782	24	11 March 2012	Oslo (Holmenkollbakken HS134)	L 549	Martin Koch	Severin Freund	Robert Kranjec		[30]
783	25	16 March 2012	Planica (Letalnica b. Gorišek HS215)	F 089	Robert Kranjec	Simon Ammann	Martin Koch		[31]
784	26	18 March 2012		F 090	Martin Koch	Simon Ammann	Robert Kranjec		[32]
33rd FIS World Cup Men's Overall (27 November 2011 – 18 March 2012)					Anders Bardal	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Andreas Kofler	World Cup Overall

Standings

Overall Rank after 26 events Points 1 Anders Bardal 1325 2 Gregor Schlierenzauer 1267 3 Andreas Kofler 1203 4 Daiki Ito 1131 5 Kamil Stoch 1078 6 Richard Freitag 1031 7 Thomas Morgenstern 1014 8 Severin Freund 857 9 Robert Kranjec 829 10 Roman Koudelka 796 Ski Flying Rank after 5 events Points 1 Robert Kranjec 355 2 Martin Koch 302 3 Simon Ammann 278 4 Daiki Ito 275 5 Anders Bardal 212 6 Kamil Stoch 193 7 Thomas Morgenstern 178 8 Gregor Schlierenzauer 168 9 Severin Freund 153 10 Roman Koudelka 124

Nations Cup Rank after 32 events Points 1  Austria 6935 2  Norway 4530 3  Germany 4353 4  Slovenia 3412 5  Japan 2827 6  Poland 2638 7  Czech Republic 2178 8  Russia 918 9  Switzerland 753 10  Finland 611 Four Hills Tournament Rank after 4 events Points 1 Gregor Schlierenzauer 933.8 2 Thomas Morgenstern 908.0 3 Andreas Kofler 896.9 4 Anders Bardal 895.0 5 Roman Koudelka 881.2 6 Daiki Ito 852.1 7 Severin Freund 843.4 8 Kamil Stoch 843.0 9 Taku Takeuchi 842.6 10 Richard Freitag 820.4

Prize money Rank after 32 events CHF 1 Gregor Schlierenzauer 165,700 2 Andreas Kofler 159,300 3 Anders Bardal 156,450 4 Thomas Morgenstern 140,400 5 Daiki Ito 118,550 6 Richard Freitag 117,600 7 Kamil Stoch 111,950 8 Severin Freund 99,200 9 Martin Koch 95,000 10 Robert Kranjec 94,850 FIS Team Tour Rank after 4 events Points 1  Austria 3055.9 2  Norway 3030.0 3  Slovenia 2994.9 4  Germany 2966.0 5  Czech Republic 2892.4 6  Japan 2878.1 7  Poland 2799.6 8  Finland 1902.3 9  Russia 1861.2 10  Switzerland 1123.3

Women's Individual

Calendar

All	No.	Date	Place (Hill)	Size	Winner	Second	Third	Overall leader	R.
1	1	3 December 2011	Lillehammer (Lysgårdsbakken HS100)	N 001	Sarah Hendrickson	Coline Mattel	Melanie Faisst	Sarah Hendrickson	[33]
		6 January 2012	Schonach (Langenwaldschanze HS108)	N cnx	cancelled due to high temperatures and lack of snow (rescheduled to Hinterzarten on 7 January)			—
2	2	[d]7 January 2012	Hinterzarten (Rothaus-Schanze HS108)	N 002	Sabrina Windmüller	Lindsey Van	Lisa Demetz	Sarah Hendrickson	[34]
3	3	8 January 2012		N 003	Sarah Hendrickson	Sara Takanashi	Jessica Jerome		[35]
4	4	14 January 2012	Val di Fiemme (Trampolino dal Ben HS106)	N 004	Sarah Hendrickson	Daniela Iraschko	Anette Sagen		[36]
5	5	15 January 2012		N 005	Sarah Hendrickson	Daniela Iraschko	Ulrike Gräßler		[37]
		28 January 2012	Szczyrk (Skalite HS106)	N cnx	cancelled due to technical reasons and replaced as COC in Zakopane (as World Cup rescheduled to Zaō on 3 March as the second competition)[38]			—
		29 January 2012		N cnx	cancelled due to technical reasons and replaced as COC in Zakopane
6	6	[e]4 February 2012	Hinzenbach (Aigner-Schanze HS94)	N 006	Daniela Iraschko	Sarah Hendrickson	Katja Požun	Sarah Hendrickson	[39]
7	7	5 February 2012		N 007	Daniela Iraschko	Sarah Hendrickson	Lindsey Van		[40]
8	8	11 February 2012	Ljubno (Savina HS95)	N 008	Sarah Hendrickson	Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko		[41]
9	9	12 February 2012		N 009	Sarah Hendrickson	Sara Takanashi	J. Seifriedsberger		[42]
10	10	3 March 2012	Zaō (Yamagata HS100)	N 010	Sarah Hendrickson	Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko		[43]
11	11	[f]3 March 2012		N 011	Sara Takanashi	Sarah Hendrickson	Ulrike Gräßler		[44]
12	12	4 March 2012		N 012	Sarah Hendrickson	Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko		[45]
13	13	9 March 2012	Oslo (Midtstubakken HS106)	N 013	Sarah Hendrickson	Sara Takanashi	Anette Sagen		[46]
1st FIS World Cup Women's Overall (3 December 2011 – 9 March 2012)					Sarah Hendrickson	Daniela Iraschko	Sara Takanashi	World Cup Overall

Standings

Overall Rank after 13 events Points 1 Sarah Hendrickson 1169 2 Daniela Iraschko 779 3 Sara Takanashi 639 4 Ulrike Gräßler 546 5 Lindsey Van 482 6 Anette Sagen 454 7 Katja Požun 422 8 Melanie Faißt 409 9 Jessica Jerome 395 10 Coline Mattel 328

Nations Cup Rank after 13 events Points 1  United States 2228 2  Germany 1601 3  Japan 1251 4  Austria 1173 5  Slovenia 934 6  Norway 828 7  France 496 8  Italy 466 9  Switzerland 130 10  Finland 80

Prize money Rank after 13 events CHF 1 Sarah Hendrickson 35,070 2 Daniela Iraschko 23,370 3 Sara Takanashi 18,750 4 Ulrike Gräßler 15,930 5 Lindsey Van 14,415 6 Anette Sagen 13,200 7 Katja Požun 12,090 8 Melanie Faißt 11,940 9 Jessica Jerome 11,520 10 J. Seifriedsberger 9,510

Team events

Calendar

All	No.	Date	Place (Hill)	Size	Winner	Second	Third	R.
Men's team
		26 November 2011	Kuusamo (Rukatunturi HS142)	L cnx	cancelled due to strong wind and postponed on next day
55	1	[g]27 November 2011	Kuusamo (Rukatunturi HS142)	L 043	Austria Wolfgang Loitzl Andreas Kofler Gregor Schlierenzauer Thomas Morgenstern	Japan Junshiro Kobayashi Shohei Tochimoto Taku Takeuchi Daiki Ito	Russia Dimitry Vassiliev Anton Kalinitschenko Roman Trofimov Denis Kornilov	[47]
56	2	10 December 2011	Harrachov (Čerťák HS142)	L 044	Norway Tom Hilde Bjørn Einar Romøren Vegard-Haukø Sklett Anders Bardal	Austria Thomas Morgenstern David Zauner Andreas Kofler Gregor Schlierenzauer	Slovenia Jernej Damjan Jure Šinkovec Peter Prevc Robert Kranjec	[48]
57	3	11 February 2012	Willingen (Mühlenkopf HS145)	L 045	Norway Anders Fannemel Rune Velta Vegard-Haukø Sklett Anders Bardal	Austria Martin Koch Andreas Kofler Thomas Morgenstern Gregor Schlierenzauer	Germany Maximilian Mechler Andreas Wank Severin Freund Richard Freitag	[49]
58	4	[h]19 February 2012	Oberstdorf (Heini-Klopfer HS213)	F 012	Slovenia Jurij Tepeš Jure Šinkovec Peter Prevc Robert Kranjec	Austria Thomas Morgenstern Martin Koch Andreas Kofler Gregor Schlierenzauer	Norway Anders Fannemel Rune Velta Tom Hilde Anders Bardal	[50]
4th FIS Team Tour Overall THREE INDIVIDUAL EVENTS INCLUDED (11 – 19 February 2012)					Austria	Norway	Slovenia
		3 March 2012	Lahti (Salpausselkä HS130 / 97)	L cnx	HS130 event cancelled and moved to HS97 due to weather condtitions
59	5	[i]3 March 2012		N 002	Austria Thomas Morgenstern Gregor Schlierenzauer Martin Koch Andreas Kofler	Germany Andreas Wank Maximilian Mechler Severin Freund Richard Freitag	Poland Maciej Kot Klemens Murańka Aleksander Zniszczoł Kamil Stoch	[51]
60	6	17 March 2012	Planica (Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS215)	F 013	Austria Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Kofler Gregor Schlierenzauer Martin Koch	Norway Rune Velta Anders Fannemel Bjørn Einar Romøren Anders Bardal	Germany Maximilian Mechler Severin Freund Andreas Wank Richard Freitag	[52]

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

• Sarah Hendrickson, 17, in her 1st season – the WC 1 in Lillehammer; it also was her first podium
• Richard Freitag, 20, in his 3rd season – the WC 5 in Harrachov; first podium was 2011–12 WC 2 in Lillehammer
• Sabrina Windmüller, 24, in her 1st season – the WC 2 in Hinterzarten; it also was her first podium
• Daiki Ito, 26, in his 11th season – the WC 16 in Sapporo; first podium was 2004–05 WC 12 in Bischofshofen
• Daniela Iraschko, 28, in her 1st season – the WC 6 in Hinzenbach; first podium was 2011–12 WC 4 in Val di Fiemme
• Sara Takanashi, 15, in her 1st season – the WC 11 in Zaō; first podium was 2011–12 WC 3 in Hinterzarten

First World Cup podium

• Richard Freitag, 20, in his 3rd season – no. 2 in the WC 2 in Lillehammer
• Coline Mattel, 16, in her 1st season – no. 2 in the WC 1 in Lillehammer
• Melanie Faisst, 21, in her 1st season – no. 3 in the WC 1 in Lillehammer
• Taku Takeuchi, 24, in his 6th season – no. 3 in the WC 10 in Innsbruck
• Lindsay Van, 27, in her 1st season – no. 2 in the WC 2 in Hinterzarten
• Lisa Demetz, 22, in her 1st season – no. 3 in the WC 2 in Hinterzarten
• Sara Takanashi, 15, in her 1st season – no. 2 in the WC 3 in Hinterzarten
• Jessica Jerome, 24, in her 1st season – no. 3 in the WC 3 in Hinterzarten
• Daniela Iraschko, 28, in her 1st season – no. 2 in the WC 4 in Val di Fiemme
• Anette Sagen, 27, in her 1st season – no. 3 in the WC 4 in Val di Fiemme
• Ulrike Gräßler, 24, in her 1st season – no. 3 in the WC 5 in Val di Fiemme
• Katja Požun, 18, in her 1st season – no. 3 in the WC 6 in Hinzenbach
• Jacqueline Seifriedsberger, 21, in her 1st season – no. 3 in the WC 9 in Ljubno
• Lukáš Hlava, 27, in his 10th season – no. 3 in the WC 23 in Lahti

Victory in this World Cup (in brackets victory for all time)

• Gregor Schlierenzauer, 5 (40) first places
• Andreas Kofler, 5 (10) first places
• Daiki Ito, 4 (4) first places
• Martin Koch, 3 (5) first places
• Anders Bardal, 3 (4) first places
• Kamil Stoch, 2 (5) first places
• Robert Kranjec, 2 (4) first places
• Thomas Morgenstern, 1 (22) first places
• Richard Freitag, 1 (1) first place
• Sarah Hendrickson, 9 (9) first places
• Daniela Iraschko, 2 (2) first places
• Sabrina Windmüller, 1 (1) first place
• Sara Takanashi, 1 (1) first place

See also

• 2011 Grand Prix (top level summer series)
• 2011–12 FIS Continental Cup (2nd level competition)

Notes

1. Men's individual cancelled event from Bad Mitterndorf (14 January) was rescheduled on 15 January.
2. Men's individual cancelled event from Klingenthal (15 February) was rescheduled on 16 February (but finally cancelled).
3. Men's individual large hill HS130 event from Lahti (4 March) was moved to normal hill HS97.
4. Cancelled women's individual event from Schonach (6 January) was rescheduled to Hinterzarten on 7 January.
5. Women's individual event from Hinzenbach (4 February) was held in one round only due to weather conditions.
6. Cancelled individual event from Szczyrk (28 January) was rescheduled to Zaō (3 March); held only in one round due to weather conditions.
7. Men's team cancelled event from Kuusamo on 26 November was rescheduled on 27 November.
8. Men's team event from Oberstorf on 19 February had only one round due to bad weather conditions.
9. Men's team event from Lahti on 3 March was moved from large to normal hill.