15/09/1999
Fifth and final FIS Grand Prix contest at Sapporo (JPN). First German GP overall
winner! Sven Hannawald gained his first GP title after ranking 4th in this contest. Incredible
performance since he chose a shorter inrun during the first run for safety reasons. Though
on top this day were two Austrians. Andi Widhölzl and Andi Goldberger won this
competition in front of Masahiko Harada. Go for results!
12/09/1999
Second FIS Grand Prix team contest at Hakuba (JPN). Quite a demonstration of the
Japanese team who won on their home hill in front of Austria. Germany and Finland became 3rd
and 4th.
11/09/1999
Fourth FIS Grand Prix contest at Hakuba (JPN). Second GP victory for Sven Hannawald
(GER). The GP overall leader won with 122.0 m and 123.5 m. Now he has the chance to win
the GP overall cup since there is only one more individual contest at Sapporo. Janne Ahonen and
Kazuyoshi Funaki became 2nd and 3rd.
3/09/1999
New problems for last winter’s shooting star Martin Schmitt. His former partner
Erich März has now brought him to court. The reason is that März’s agency
has helped Schmitt to a contract with RTL (German commercial channel who is going to broadcast
the events of the coming winter). März says that Schmitt has still some provisions to
pay. Schmitt has already contacted his lawyers to solve this problem.
22/08/1999
Third FIS Grand Prix contest at Stams (AUT). After having ranked 7th twice German
Martin Schmitt celebrated a great comeback on top of the ski jumping circuit. Masahiko Harada
(JPN) and Andreas Goldberger (AUT) ranked 2nd and 3rd. Youngster Wolfgang Loitzl (AUT) also
did quite well and became 6th on his home hill. In front of him were Sven Hannawald who
defended his top position in the overall ranking and Janne Ahonen.
19/08/1999
Last Continental-Cup summer contest at Markollen (NOR). And again it turned out to be a
German jumper’s day! This time Georg Späth won, in front of Bjarte Engen Vik (NOR),
a pretty great doing Nordic Combined, and Frank Löffler (GER). Next Conti-Cup contest
will be at Rena (FIN) on Dec. 12, 1999 when the main season opens.
15/08/1999
Day 2’s Continental-Cup contest at Zakopane (POL). German Dirk Else won this
competition. Adam Malysz (POL) and Bine Norcic (SLO) ranked 2nd and 3rd.
14/08/1999
Day 1’s Continental-Cup contest at Zakopane (POL). A very stabile jumping
Frank Löffler (GER) won the sixth Conti-Cup contest this summer. 3rd was Lukasz Kruczek
behind his team mate Wojiciech Skupien.
14/08/1999
Second FIS Grand Prix contest at Courchevel (FRA). Andreas Widhölzl (AUT) won this
contest quite unexpectedly since he had not even made it into the final round at Hinterzarten.
Masahiko Harada (JPN) and Andreas Goldberger (AUT) were 2nd and 3rd. German Sven Hannawald
became 8th after not quite satisfying jumps. Though in the Grand Prix overall standings he is
still 1st, but Janne Ahonen (FIN) who ranked 4th is only 2 points behind him.
8/08/1999
First FIS Grand Prix individual contest at Hinterzarten. Sven Hannawald confirmed
the great results of the past days. Within four days he won two individual contests and one team
contest (there were only three competitions *g*). Andreas Goldberger (AUT) was third behind
Janne Ahonen (FIN). Swiss Bruno Reuteler also did quite well – he was fourth.
7/08/1999
First FIS Grand Prix team contest at Hinterzarten. Though having to get along without
Dieter Thoma for a long time, the German team won the contest, followed by the Japanese
and the Austrian. The Swiss seem to be in surprisingly good condition after last season's mess.
They were 5th behind Finland.
6/08/1999
German ski jumper Dieter Thoma announced his retirement. After his 8th knee operation he had
serious problems recovering from it. Since he doesn’t think he can make it back to
the top ski jumping-circuit loses one of his most engaged and experienced athletes. All the
best, Dieter!
25/06/-26/06/1999
Without being noticed by people the jumpers of the Intercontinental-Cup
had their first official contest at Velenje (SLO). German Michael Uhrmann
won both contests.
22/06/-25/06/1999
German jumpers were on their way to Courchevel (FRA) to get into training
on the Olympic hill. Martin Schmitt showed equal stability and skills
to his last season’s powerful performance. Though his collegues
Sven Hannawald, Christof Duffner, Hansjörg Jäkle and Gerd
Siegmund made good jumps either.
19/06/1999
German jumpers Hansjörg Jäkle, Christof Duffner, and Alexander
Herr had a visit at the ski jumping chat. MORE
7/06/1999
German ski jumpers made their first jumps at Ramsau (AUT) since season’s
final.
May 1999
Martin Schmitt unexpectedly fired his manager Erich März. He’s
now represented by an agency.
17/05/1999
Schedule for the coming ski jumping season is out now!
Go for it!
2/04/1999
Martin Schmitt joins German soccer club Bayern München for some
practise. Quite a lot of female fans watched them so Martin Schmitt also
had to be protected by bodyguards.
27/03/1999
Big welcome party for German jumpers and their coaches at Hinterzarten
(Schwarzwald). Many many fans joined them to celebrate and honor their great
performances throughout the season. The whole event was recorded by SWR
and will be partly broadcasted on next Sunday's afternoon (4/04/1999).
22/03/1999
Hospital reports Valery Kobelev has finally regained conciousness.
He woke late in yesterday's evening. It seems that he will suffer no
longterm injuries.
21/03/1999
Day 3’s ski flying contest at Planica/Slovenia and world cup
final. Second German world cup ranking winner!! Martin Schmitt (GER) was
able to defend his one day-old
leadership with his 3rd rank and finished his unbelievable season even
better. Winner of this competition was Noriaki Kasai (JPN), 2nd Hideharu
Miyahira (JPN). Janne Ahonen (FIN) became 8th and 2nd of the world cup
ranking. MORE
20/03/1999
Day 2’s qualification at Planica/Slovenia. NEW WORLD RECORD! Norwegian
Tommy Ingebrigtsen beat the only one-day-old world record of Martin Schmitt
(GER). Ingebrigtsen flew 219.5 m which is exactely 0.5 m more than the
German.
19/03/1999
Day 1’s ski flying contest at Planica/Slovenia. Martin
Schmitt (GER) won and beat the last world record of Lasse Ottesen (NOR)
(212.0 m)
not only one time, but twice. But since he touched the ground in the end
his 219.0 m-flight
was not officially accepted. So only his second try at 214.5 is now
named as the latest world record. Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN) and Christoph
Duffner (GER) ranked 2nd and 3rd. Janne Ahonen (FIN) became 5th and
lost more than 50 points in the world cup ranking to his German
rival Martin Schmitt. MORE
18/03/1999
Day 1’s qualification at Planica/Slovenia. A fatal accident
occured when Valery
Kobelev (RUS) fell badly during the qualification. The hospital reports
he is seriously injured and has not regained conciousness yet. Get better
soon!!!!
14/03/1999
Season’s last ski jumping contest at Oslo/Norway.
Noriaki Kasai (JPN) won the traditional competition at Oslo, 2nd
was Martin Schmitt (GER) and 3rd Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN).
13/03/1999
Austrian jumper Andreas Widhölzl has become father. His
girlfriend Katharina got a little girl in the evening.
Congratulations!
11/03/1999
Ski jumping contest at Falun/Sweden. German shooting star Martin
Schmitt continued his great victory series. He earned his 9th
World Cup win by jumping 124.0 m twice. Hideharu Miyahira and
Masahiko Harada (both JPN) became 2nd and 3rd.
9/03/1999
Ski jumping contest at Trondheim/Norway. Two big surprises! World
Cup ranking leader Janne Ahonen (FIN) and Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN)
did not make it to the final round. That&146;s why the Finnish lost
quite a lot of World Cup points to Martin Schmitt (GER) who became
5th. Noriaki Kasai (JPN) gained one more win. Stefan Horngacher
(AUT) and Masahiko Harada (JPN) became 2nd and 3rd.
7/03/1999
Day 2’s ski jumping contest at Lahti/Finland. Due to bad wind
conditions this competition was cancelled.
6/03/1999
Day 1’s ski jumping contest at Lahti/Finland. Due to bad wind conditions
the contest was moved from the large hill (K 120) to the normal hill (K 90).
But since the wind conditions still remained critical Dieter Thoma and
Martin Schmitt (both GER) decided not to jump. They said the jury was not
able to control the wind’s fierceness. That’s why they were not willing to risk
their health. The decision of Martin Schmitt in particular was unexpected
since he lost important points to the Finnish world cup leader Janne Ahonen
who became 4th. However, the jury broke the contest off after the first round.
Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN) won this competition, in front of Reinhard
Schwarzenberger (AUT) and Sven Hannawald (GER). Very good results for
the remaining German jumpers. Christoph Duffner and Hansjörg
Jäckle (both GER) ranked 6th and 7th.
4/03/1999
Nordic tournament’s opening contest at Kuopio/Finland. 8th World Cup
victory for German Martin Schmitt. He beat Kazuyoshi Funaki and
Noriaki Kasai (both JPN) by jumping 128.5 and 124.5 m. World cup ranking
leader Janne Ahonen (FIN) became only 18th.
26/02/1999
World championship’s last ski jumping contest at Ramsau/Austria.
Big victory for the Japanese jumpers! Kazuyoshi Funaki gained the
gold medal on Ramsauīs normal hill, Hideharu Miyahira silver and
"oldie" Masahiko Harada bronze. MORE
23/02/1999
World championship’s team contest at Bischofshofen/Austria. What a surprise!
German team including Sven Hannawald, Christoph Duffner,
Dieter Thoma and Martin Schmitt won the first world championship’s team
gold medal!!! Despite two fumbles and really bad weather conditions
they jumped one inofficial and two official hill records. That's why
they outranked the Japanese team who clearly were the favorites.
Austria became 3rd. MORE
21/02/1999
World championship’s first ski jumping contest at Bischofshofen/Austria.
German shooting star Martin Schmitt gained his first gold medal by
jumping 126.0 and 129.5 m on the large hill of Bischofshofen. Surprisingly
Sven Hannawald completed the great German result by winning the silver
medal. Japanese Hideharu Miyahira became 3rd. MORE
11/02/1999
German championships at Oberwiesenthal. German jumper Alexander Herr
fumbled during the qualification. His knee is badly hurt and has to be
operated so he can not jump for the rest of this season. ALL THE BEST!!!!!
Day 2’s ski flying contest at Planica/Slovenia. Japanese jumper
Hideharu Miyahira won his first world cup competition of this season.
He was followed by Martin Schmitt (GER) who became world cup
ranking leader and Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN). MORE
According to hospitalīs reports Valery Kobelevīs condition has
stabilized, but still remained very critical.