LILLEHAMMER 1994 Skispringen TEAM 2 Sprung - K120 Team Lillehammer 94 Winter Olympic Games

Large Hill, Team, Men
Date 22 February 1994
Status Olympic
Location Lysgårdsbakkene, Lillehammer
Participants 48 from 12 countries
Format Two jumps per team member, with both scored on distance and form. Four members per team, with all four jumps in each round to count towards team total.
Judge #1 Kyoichi Omori JPN
Judge #2 F. Morandini ITA
Judge #3 Räto Wohlwend SUI
Judge #4 Gerhard Wenninger AUT
Judge #5 M. Martinak SVK
Venue details K-Point: 123 m

Traditionally the domain of the Finns and Norwegians, the two nations had won all but one of the world and Olympic championships to be held, the 1994 Olympic title was to be decided between two nations who had never challenged for a major title beforehand. After the first round Germany and Japan were separated by less than a point but Jinya Nishikata and Takanobu Okabe performed well in the second round and with one man left for each nation Japan held the advantage. By the time Masahiko Harada stood at the top of the jump he knew what he had to do to ensure a Japanese victory. A jump of around 105 m would be enough and since he had made a leap of 122 m in the first round this appeared to be a relative formality. Instead the jump turned into a disaster as he mistimed his leap and landed at just 97.5 m. One of the defining images of the 1994 Games is of Harada kneeling in the snow with head in his hands as his team-mates stood in disbelief. Prior to 1994 only the best three jumps of each team counted per round but the rules were changed before Lillehammer and all jumps were now added to the team’s score. If the old rules had still been in place Japan would have recorded a clear victory.



1st place, gold medalist(s) 9 Germany
Hansjörg Jäkle
Christof Duffner
Dieter Thoma
Jens Weißflog 486.8

2nd place, silver medalist(s) 11 Japan
Jinya Nishikata
Takanobu Okabe
Noriaki Kasai
Masahiko Harada 486.0

3rd place, Austria
Heinz Kuttin
Christian Moser
Stefan Horngacher
Andreas Goldberger 472.0

4 12 Norway
Øyvind Berg
Lasse Ottesen
Roar Ljøkelsøy
Espen Bredesen 449.7


5 Finland
Raimo Ylipulli
Janne Väätäinen
Janne Ahonen
Jani Soininen 443.8

6 France
Steve Delaup
Nicolas Jean-Prost
Nicolas Dessum
Didier Mollard 414.7

7 Czech Republic
Ladislav Dluhoš
Zbyněk Krompolc
Jiří Parma
Jaroslav Sakala 401.9

8 Italy
Ivo Pertile
Andrea Cecon
Roberto Cecon
Ivan Lunardi 405.8

9 Slovenia
Matjaž Kladnik
Matjaž Zupan
Samo Gostiša
Robert Meglič 377.3

10 Sweden
Staffan Tällberg
Mikael Martinsson
Johan Rasmussen
Fredrik Johansson 320.7

11 United States
Randy Weber
Gregory Boester
Kurt Stein
Ted Langlois 235.2

12 1 Russia
Aleksey Solodyankin
Dmitry Chelovenko
Stanislav Pokhliko
Mikhail Yesin 198.0