FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2006
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The FIS Ski-Flying World Ski Championships 2006 took place on 12-15 January 2006 in Bad Mitterndorf
Bad Mitterndorf
Bad Mitterndorf is a town in Salzkammergut, Styria in Austria. Situated between Salzburg and Graz, it is a popular winter sports resort and also as a location for walking and cycling in the summer. Bad Mitterndorf is the site of two health spas with thermal baths, an outdoor swimming pool and...

, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 (The International Ski Federation
International Ski Federation
The International Ski Federation, known by its name in French, Fédération Internationale de Ski is the main international organisation for ski sports...

 has location listed as Kulm
Kulm (venue)
Kulm is a ski flying hill located in Tauplitz, Austria. It is one of only five venues of this type in the world, allowing for jumps of 200 metres and over...

, the ski jumping
Ski jumping
Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump and attempt to land as far as possible down the hill below. In addition to the length of the jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long...

 venue located in Bad Mitterndorf.) for the fourth time. Bad Mitterndorf hosted the championships previously in 1975
FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1975
The FIS Ski-Flying World Ski Championships 1975 took place in Bad Mitterndorf, Austria.-Individual:-Medal table:-References:* - accessed 25 November 2009....

, 1986
FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1986
The FIS Ski-Flying World Ski Championships 1986 took place in Bad Mitterndorf, Austria for the second time. Bad Mitterndorf hosted the championships previously in 1975. It also marked the first time a nation won more than one medal at the same championships with host nation Austria earning gold and...

, and 1996
FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1996
The FIS Ski-Flying World Ski Championships 1996 took place on 11 February 1996 in Bad Mitterndorf, Austria for the third time. Bad Mitterndorf hosted the championships previously in 1975 and 1986. At these championships, the number of jumps expanded from two to four.-Individual:11 February...

. Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 repeated as team champion while Roar Ljøkelsøy
Roar Ljøkelsøy
Roar Ljøkelsøy is a Norwegian ski jumper. Ljøkelsøy's early career was not particularly brilliant. While considered almost flawless technically, he did not win an individual World Cup event until 25 January 2003, at age 26...

 repeated as individual champion. A record four nations won medals.

Individual

13-14 January 2006.
Medal Athlete Points
Gold 788.0
Silver 762.4
Bronze 752.2


Morgenstern had the longest jump of the competition with a 210.5 m final round jump. Widhölzl led after the first round, but Ljøkelsøy took the lead after the second round and never looked back.

Team

15 January 2006.
Medal Team Points
Gold
Roar Ljøkelsøy
Roar Ljøkelsøy
Roar Ljøkelsøy is a Norwegian ski jumper. Ljøkelsøy's early career was not particularly brilliant. While considered almost flawless technically, he did not win an individual World Cup event until 25 January 2003, at age 26...


Lars Bystøl
Lars Bystøl
Lars Bystøl is a Norwegian ski jumper who has won one Olympic gold medal, one World Cup event, two FIS Nordic World Ski Championships bronze medals in the team large hill events , and a gold medal in the FIS Ski Flying World Championships...


Bjørn Einar Romøren
Bjørn Einar Romøren
Bjørn Einar Romøren is a Norwegian ski jumper representing Øvrevoll Hosle IL in Bærum.His first World Cup victory came in Bischofshofen, Austria during the Four Hills Tournament in January 2003. He has later won several World Cup competitions as well as two FIS Nordic World Ski Championships...


Tommy Ingebrigtsen
Tommy Ingebrigtsen
Tommy "Tiger'n" Ingebrigtsen is a former Norwegian ski jumper who represented Byåsen in Trondheim. He won the large hill competition at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 in Thunder Bay, Ontario at only 17 years of age...

1497.9
Silver
Janne Ahonen
Janne Ahonen
Janne Petteri Ahonen is a former Finnish ski jumper who has competed in the world cup between 1992-2011. A legendary ski jumper, he is widely considered one of the best and most successful athletes in the history of the sport...


Tami Kiuru
Tami Kiuru
Tami Petri Antero Kiuru is a retired Finnish ski jumper.At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2003, he won a gold medal in the team large hill event. At the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2004 event, he won a bronze medal in the individual competition and a silver medal in the team...


Matti Hautamäki
Matti Hautamäki
Matti Antero Hautamäki is a Finnish ski jumper.-Biography:Matti made his first ski-jumping attempts at the age of seven near his home town of Oulu. When his older brother Jussi and his friend Lauri Hakola moved to Kuopio, Matti followed them...


Janne Happonen
Janne Happonen
Janne Mikael Happonen is a Finnish ski jumper who has competed since 2002. He represents Puijon Hiihtoseura as his ski club....

1477.2
Bronze
Michael Neumayer
Michael Neumayer
Michael Neumayer is a German ski jumper who has competed since 2001. He won a silver medal in the team normal hill at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf and finished 32nd in the individual normal hill at those same championships.Neumayer also won a bronze in the team event...


Georg Späth
Georg Späth
Georg Späth is a German ski jumper who has competed since 1999. He won a silver medal in the team normal hill at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf and finished 5th in the individual normal hill at those same championships.Späth won a bronze medal in the team event at the...


Alexander Herr
Alexander Herr
Alexander Herr is a German ski jumper who competed 1993 to 2006, them came out of retirement in 2009 to compete for the 2010 Winter Olympics...


Michael Uhrmann
Michael Uhrmann
Michael Uhrmann is a German ski jumper who has competed since 1995. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won a gold medal in the team large hill event at Salt Lake City in 2002....

1374.0


Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

's Robert Kranjec
Robert Kranjec
Robert Kranjec is a Slovenian ski jumper who has competed since 1998. He won a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in the Team Large Hill event....

had the longest jumps in both rounds of competition at 207.0 m. Slovenia would unfortunately finish fifth because none of his other teammate could go further than 180.5 m.

Medal table

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2 0 1 1 2
3 0 1 0 1
4 0 0 1 1
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