2015–16 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup

Summary

Peter Prevc, who was the runner-up in the previous two seasons, dominated the men's season. Prevc secured his first World Cup title by winning the second event in Almaty, six events before the end of the season. At the end of the season, Prevc broke several statistical records. He won the highest number of points in a single season (2303, the previous record being 2083 of Gregor Schlierenzauer from the 2008/09 season) and also recorded the highest number of victories, podium finishes, and average points per event in a season (15 victories, 22 podiums, and 79.41 points on average, the previous records being 13 victories, 20 podiums, and 77.15 points on average from Schlierenzauer's 2008/09 season).^[2] The point difference between the first and the second, 813 points, was also the highest ever.^[3] By winning the sky flying title, Prevc became the first ski jumper to win the title for three years in a row. In the overall standings, the defending champion Severin Freund finished second and Kenneth Gangnes finished third.

Prevc also won the prestigious 64th Four Hills Tournament. The tournament was broadcast in 57 different countries for 200 million viewers around the globe. Prevc won the competition with the highest total score ever with 1139.4 points and won three events out of four.^[4] At the FIS Ski Flying World Championships, which did not count for World Cup points, Prevc became the world champion in sky flying.

The event on 19 December 2015 in Engelberg, Switzerland, marked some interesting statistical features: Peter Prevc and Domen Prevc became first brothers in history who shared a ski jumping World Cup podium; Noriaki Kasai became the oldest contestant on a podium at 43 years and 196 days old; for the first time the oldest Noriaki Kasai (43) and the youngest Domen Prevc (16) participant of any competition both on podium and with record age difference between two on podium. The Prevc brothers finished on the podium again in Sapporo, where they were joined by Robert Kranjec.

Prevc also became only the third ski jumper who managed to win the event with falling or touching the ground upon landing, by winning the ski flying event in Vikersund on 14 February. Such a feat was previously achieved only by Andreas Goldberger in 1995 and Martin Schmitt in 1999.

In team events, Norway won three times, Germany twice, and Slovenia once. The Nations Cup was won by Norway, followed by Slovenia and Germany.

A total of 111,000 people (2,500 / 20,500 / 22,500 / 32,500 / 33,000) has gathered at hill test and 4 days of competitions at final in Planica.^[5]

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More information All, No. ...

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

All	No.	Date	Place (Hill)	Size	Winner	Second	Third	Overall leader	R.
871	1	22 November 2015	Klingenthal (Vogtland Arena HS140)	L 617	Daniel-André Tande	Peter Prevc	Severin Freund	Daniel-André Tande	[6]
		27 November 2015	Ruka (Rukatunturi HS142)	L cnx	cancelled due to strong wind and rescheduled in one round next day[7]			—
		[a]28 November 2015		L cnx	postponed one round event finally cancelled due to melting inrun
		28 November 2015		L cnx	strong wind cancelled after 43 of 70 jumpers due to strong wind (one of them rescheduled to Lahti on 19 February)[8][9]
		5 December 2015	Lillehammer (Lysgårdsbakken HS138 / 100)	L cnx	both large hill events were moved to normal hill due to strong wind[10]
		6 December 2015		L cnx
872	2	[b]5 December 2015		N 151	Severin Freund	Kenneth Gangnes	Andreas Stjernen	Severin Freund	[11]
873	3	[c]6 December 2015		N 152	Kenneth Gangnes	Peter Prevc	Johann André Forfang		[12]
874	4	12 December 2015	Nizhny Tagil (Tramplin Stork HS134)	L 618	Severin Freund	Peter Prevc	Joachim Hauer		[13]
875	5	13 December 2015		L 619	Peter Prevc	Michael Hayböck	Johann André Forfang	Peter Prevc	[14]
876	6	19 December 2015	Engelberg (Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137)	L 620	Peter Prevc	Domen Prevc	Noriaki Kasai		[15]
877	7	20 December 2015		L 621	Peter Prevc	Michael Hayböck	Kenneth Gangnes		[16]
878	8	29 December 2015	Oberstdorf (Schattenbergschanze HS137)	L 622	Severin Freund	Michael Hayböck	Peter Prevc		[17]
879	9	1 January 2016	Garmisch-Pa (Gr. Olympiaschanze HS140)	L 623	Peter Prevc	Kenneth Gangnes	Severin Freund		[18]
880	10	3 January 2016	Innsbruck (Bergiselschanze HS130)	L 624	Peter Prevc	Severin Freund	Kenneth Gangnes		[19]
881	11	6 January 2016	Bischofshofen (Paul-Ausserleitner HS140)	L 625	Peter Prevc	Severin Freund	Michael Hayböck		[20]
64th Four Hills Tournament Overall (29 December 2015 – 6 January 2016)					Peter Prevc	Severin Freund	Michael Hayböck	4H Tournament
882	12	10 January 2016	Willingen (Mühlenkopfschanze HS145)	L 626	Peter Prevc	Kenneth Gangnes	Severin Freund	Peter Prevc	[21]
FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2016 (15 – 16 January • Bad Mitterndorf)
883	13	24 January 2016	Zakopane (Wielka Krokiew HS134)	L 627	Stefan Kraft	Michael Hayböck	Peter Prevc	Peter Prevc	[22]
884	14	30 January 2016	Sapporo (Ōkurayama HS134)	L 628	Peter Prevc	Domen Prevc	Robert Kranjec		[23]
885	15	31 January 2016		L 629	Anders Fannemel	Johann André Forfang	Noriaki Kasai		[24]
		7 February 2016	Oslo (Holmenkollbakken HS134)	L cnx	cancelled due to thick fog after hour and a half[25][26] (rescheduled to Vikersund on 12 February)			—
886	16	10 February 2016	Trondheim (Granåsen HS140)	L 630	Peter Prevc	Stefan Kraft	Noriaki Kasai	Peter Prevc	[27]
887	17	[d]12 February 2016	Vikersund (Vikersundbakken HS225)	F 105	Robert Kranjec	Kenneth Gangnes	Noriaki Kasai		[28]
888	18	13 February 2016		F 106	Peter Prevc	Johann André Forfang	Robert Kranjec		[29]
889	19	14 February 2016		F 107	Peter Prevc	Stefan Kraft	Andreas Stjernen		[30]
890	20	[e]19 February 2016	Lahti (Salpausselkä HS130 / 100)	L 631	Michael Hayböck	Daniel-André Tande	Severin Freund		[31]
891	21	[f]21 February 2016		N 153	Michael Hayböck	Karl Geiger	Taku Takeuchi		[32]
892	22	23 February 2016	Kuopio (Puijo HS127)	L 632	Michael Hayböck	Daniel-André Tande	Stefan Kraft		[33]
893	23	27 February 2016	Almaty (Sunkar HS140)	L 633	Peter Prevc	Michael Hayböck	Severin Freund		[34]
894	24	28 February 2016		L 634	Peter Prevc	Severin Freund	Daniel-André Tande		[35]
895	25	4 March 2016	Wisła (Malinka HS134)	L 635	Roman Koudelka	Kenneth Gangnes	Noriaki Kasai		[36]
		5 March 2016		L cnx	cancelled due to strong wind[37]			—
896	26	12 March 2016	Titisee-Neustadt (Hochfirstschanze HS142)	L 636	Johann André Forfang	Peter Prevc	Kenneth Gangnes	Peter Prevc	[38]
		13 March 2016		L cnx	cancelled due to strong wind and rescheduled to Planica on 17 March[1][39]			—
897	27	[g]17 March 2016	Planica (Letalnica b. Gorišek HS225)	F 108	Peter Prevc	Johann André Forfang	Robert Kranjec	Peter Prevc	[40]
898	28	18 March 2016		F 109	Robert Kranjec	Peter Prevc	Johann André Forfang		[41]
899	29	20 March 2016		F 110	Peter Prevc	Robert Kranjec	Johann André Forfang		[42]
37th FIS World Cup Men's Overall (22 November 2015 – 20 March 2016)					Peter Prevc	Severin Freund	Kenneth Gangnes	World Cup Overall

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Standings

More information Rank, after 29 events ...

Overall Rank after 29 events Points 1 Peter Prevc (h.s.e.) 2303 2 Severin Freund 1490 3 Kenneth Gangnes 1348 4 Michael Hayböck 1301 5 Johann André Forfang 1240 6 Stefan Kraft 1006 7 Daniel-André Tande 985 8 Noriaki Kasai 909 9 Richard Freitag 680 10 Anders Fannemel 670

Nations Cup Rank after 35 events Points 1  Norway 7202 2  Slovenia 5760 3  Germany 5409 4  Austria 4652 5  Japan 3088 6  Poland 2154 7  Czech Republic 1881 8  Switzerland 793 9  Finland 256 10  France 228

Prize money Rank after 35 events CHF 1 Peter Prevc 248,800 2 Severin Freund 169,500 3 Kenneth Gangnes 168,300 4 Johann André Forfang 150,000 5 Michael Hayböck 149,100 6 Daniel-André Tande 132,000 7 Stefan Kraft 119,400 8 Noriaki Kasai 99,900 9 Anders Fannemel 94,950 10 Richard Freitag 88,350

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Ski Flying Rank after 6 events Points 1 Peter Prevc 530 2 Robert Kranjec 400 3 Johann André Forfang 348 4 Kenneth Gangnes 305 5 Noriaki Kasai 248 6 Severin Freund 247 7 Stefan Kraft 239 8 Michael Hayböck 227 9 Daniel-André Tande 179 10 Andreas Stjernen 177

Four Hills Tournament Rank after 4 events Points 1 Peter Prevc (h.s.e.) 1139.4 2 Severin Freund 1112.9 3 Michael Hayböck 1081.6 4 Kenneth Gangnes 1073.5 5 Stefan Kraft 1036.2 6 J. André Forfang 1035.5 7 Noriaki Kasai 1013.2 8 Anders Fannemel 1010.1 9 Richard Freitag 1001.4 10 Andreas Wank 974.4

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Summary

Sara Takanashi won her third overall title. She won 14 out of 17 events in held in the season and secured the title several events before the end.

Daniela Iraschko-Stolz finished second, while Maja Vtič finished third. No team events for women or mixed team events were scheduled this season. Since the last two events of the season were cancelled due to lack of snow, the award ceremony took place in Planica, together with men's.

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All	No.	Date	Place (Hill)	Size	Winner	Second	Third	Overall leader	R.
61	1	4 December 2015	Lillehammer (Lysgårdsbakken HS100)	N 057	Sara Takanashi	Maja Vtič	Maren Lundby	Sara Takanashi	[43]
62	2	12 December 2015	Nizhny Tagil (Tramplin Stork HS97)	N 058	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Sara Takanashi	Eva Pinkelnig		[44]
63	3	13 December 2015		N 059	Sara Takanashi	Yūki Itō	Chiara Hölzl		[45]
64	4	16 January 2016	Sapporo (Miyanomori HS100)	N 060	Sara Takanashi	Ema Klinec	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz		[46]
65	5	17 January 2016		N 061	Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	J. Seifriedsberger		[47]
66	6	[h]22 January 2016	Zaō (Yamagata HS106)	N 062	Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Maja Vtič		[48]
67	7	23 January 2016		N 063	Sara Takanashi	Maja Vtič	Ema Klinec		[49]
68	8	30 January 2016	Oberstdorf (Schattenberg HS106)	N 064	Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Ema Klinec		[50]
69	9	31 January 2016		N 065	Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Maren Lundby		[51]
70	10	4 February 2016	Oslo (Holmenkollbakken HS134)	L 005	Sara Takanashi	Maren Lundby	Irina Avvakumova		[52]
71	11	6 February 2016	Hinzenbach (Aigner-Schanze HS94)	N 066	Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Maren Lundby		[53]
72	12	7 February 2016		N 067	Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	J. Seifriedsberger		[54]
73	13	13 February 2016	Ljubno (Savina HS95)	N 068	Maja Vtič	Sara Takanashi	Špela Rogelj		[55]
74	14	14 February 2016		N 069	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Maja Vtič	Chiara Hölzl		[56]
75	15	19 February 2016	Lahti (Salpausselkä HS100)	N 070	Sara Takanashi	Maja Vtič	Yūki Itō		[57]
76	16	27 February 2016	Almaty (Sunkar HS106)	N 071	Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Jacqueline Seifriedsberger		[58]
77	17	28 February 2016		N 072	Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Maja Vtič		[59]
		5 March 2016	Râșnov (Trambulina Valea HS100)	N cnx	cancelled due to warm weather and lack of snow; since season final can't be rescheduled, women's crystal globe and nations cup trophy were awarded at men's final in Planica[60]			—
		6 March 2016		N cnx
5th FIS World Cup Women's Overall (4 December 2015 – 6 March 2016)					Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Maja Vtič	World Cup Overall

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Standings

More information Rank, after 17 events ...

Overall Rank after 17 events Points 1 Sara Takanashi 1610 2 Daniela Iraschko-Stolz 1139 3 Maja Vtič 908 4 J. Seifriedsberger 695 5 Chiara Hölzl 632 6 Maren Lundby 586 7 Irina Avvakumova 572 8 Yūki Itō 505 9 Ema Klinec 426 10 Špela Rogelj 415

Nations Cup Rank after 17 events Points 1  Austria 2886 2  Japan 2565 3  Slovenia 2290 4  Germany 1358 5  Russia 787 6  Norway 707 7  United States 445 8  Italy 382 9  France 298 10  Canada 229

Prize money Rank after 17 events CHF 1 Sara Takanashi 48,300 2 Daniela Iraschko-Stolz 34,095 3 Maja Vtič 26,970 4 J. Seifriedsberger 20,850 5 Chiara Hölzl 18,960 6 Maren Lundby 17,550 7 Irina Avvakumova 16,875 8 Yūki Itō 14,930 9 Ema Klinec 12,465 10 Špela Rogelj 12,255

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N – normal hill / L – large hill

All	No.	Date	Place (Hill)	Size	Winner	Second	Third	R.
Men's team
76	1	21 November 2015	Klingenthal (Vogtland Arena HS140)	L 058	Germany Andreas Wellinger Andreas Wank Richard Freitag Severin Freund	Slovenia Domen Prevc Jurij Tepeš Anže Lanišek Peter Prevc	Austria Michael Hayböck Gregor Schlierenzauer Manuel Fettner Stefan Kraft	[61]
77	2	[i]9 January 2016	Willingen (Mühlenkopfschanze HS145)	L 059	Germany Andreas Wank Andreas Wellinger Richard Freitag Severin Freund	Norway Andreas Stjernen Daniel-André Tande Kenneth Gangnes Johann André Forfang	Austria Stefan Kraft Manuel Poppinger Manuel Fettner Michael Hayböck	[62]
78	3	23 January 2016	Zakopane (Wielka Krokiew HS134)	L 060	Norway Anders Fannemel Andreas Stjernen Daniel-André Tande Kenneth Gangnes	Austria Stefan Kraft Manuel Poppinger Manuel Fettner Michael Hayböck	Poland Andrzej Stękała Maciej Kot Stefan Hula, Jr. Kamil Stoch	[63]
79	4	6 February 2016	Oslo (Holmenkollbakken HS134)	L 061	Slovenia Jurij Tepeš Domen Prevc Robert Kranjec Peter Prevc	Norway Daniel-André Tande Anders Fannemel Johann André Forfang Kenneth Gangnes	Japan Taku Takeuchi Kento Sakuyama Daiki Itō Noriaki Kasai	[64]
		20 February 2016	Lahti (Salpausselkä HS130)	L cnx	cancelled due to strong wind and rescheduled to Kuopio on 22 February[65][66]
80	5	[j]22 February 2016	Kuopio (Puijo HS 127)	L 062	Norway Kenneth Gangnes Daniel-André Tande Anders Fannemel Johann André Forfang	Germany Andreas Wank Richard Freitag Andreas Wellinger Severin Freund	Japan Taku Takeuchi Kento Sakuyama Daiki Itō Noriaki Kasai	[67]
81	6	19 March 2016	Planica (Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225)	F 017	Norway Kenneth Gangnes Daniel-André Tande Anders Fannemel Johann André Forfang	Slovenia Jurij Tepeš Anže Semenič Robert Kranjec Peter Prevc	Austria Stefan Kraft Manuel Poppinger Manuel Fettner Michael Hayböck	[68]

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Men

Ladies

Ski Flying

Four Hills Tournament

Men

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No.	Place	Qualifications	Competition	Size	Winner
1	Klingenthal	22 November 2015		L	Johann André Forfang
	Lillehammer	cancelled	5 December 2015	N	strong wind
2		6 December 2015			Roman Koudelka
3	Nizhny Tagil	11 December 2015	12 December 2015	L	Anders Fannemel
4		13 December 2015			Joachim Hauer
5	Engelberg	18 December 2015	19 December 2015		Anže Lanišek
6		20 December 2015			Anders Fannemel
7	Oberstdorf	28 December 2015	29 December 2015		Peter Prevc
8	Garmisch-Pa	31 December 2015	1 January 2016		Peter Prevc
9	Innsbruck	2 January 2016	3 January 2016		Michael Hayböck
10	Bischofshofen	5 January 2016	6 January 2016		Kenneth Gangnes
11	Willingen	8 January 2016	10 January 2016		Jurij Tepeš
12	Zakopane	22 January 2016	24 January 2016		Kamil Stoch
13	Sapporo	29 January 2016	30 January 2016		Taku Takeuchi Dawid Kubacki
14		31 January 2016			Joachim Hauer
15	Oslo	5 February 2016	cancelled		Stefan Hula
16	Trondheim	9 February 2016	10 February 2016		Daiki Itō
	Vikersund	not scheduled	12 February 2016	F	all competitors in competition
17		13 February 2016			Taku Takeuchi
18		14 February 2016			Joachim Hauer
19	Lahti	19 February 2016		L	Manuel Poppinger
20		21 February 2016		N	Dawid Kubacki
21	Kuopio	22 February 2016	23 February 2016	L	Kamil Stoch
22	Almaty	26 February 2016	27 February 2016		Maciej Kot
23		28 February 2016			Taku Takeuchi
24	Wisła	3 March 2016	4 March 2016		Roman Koudelka
25	Titisee-Neustadt	11 March 2016	12 March 2016		Domen Prevc
	Planica	not scheduled	17 March 2016	F	all competitors in competition
26		17 March 2016	18 March 2016		Maciej Kot
		not scheduled	20 March 2016		top thirty in season final only

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Women

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No.	Place	Qualifications	Competition	Size	Winner
1	Lillehammer	3 December 2015	4 December 2015	N	Julia Clair
2	Nizhny Tagil	11 December 2015	12 December 2015		Julia Clair
3		13 December 2015			Julia Clair
4	Sapporo	15 January 2016	16 January 2016		Urša Bogataj
5		17 January 2016	17 January 2016		Elena Runggaldier
6	Zaō	21 January 2016	22 January 2016		Špela Rogelj
7		23 January 2016			Ema Klinec
8	Oberstdorf	29 January 2016	30 January 2016		Yūka Setō
9		31 January 2016			Julia Clair
	Oslo	not scheduled	4 February 2016	L	top thirty competitors only
10	Hinzenbach	6 February 2016		N	Špela Rogelj
11		7 February 2016			Špela Rogelj
12	Ljubno	12 February 2016	13 February 2016		Špela Rogelj
13		14 February 2016			Nika Križnar
	Lahti	not scheduled	19 February 2016		all competitors in competition
	Almaty	not scheduled	27 February 2016		all competitors in competition
		not scheduled	28 February 2016		all competitors in competition

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Nations

More information Team, Men ...

Team	Men	Ladies
Austria	Heinz Kuttin (AUT)	Andreas Felder (AUT)
Bulgaria	Emil Zografski (BUL)
Canada	Gregor Linsig (CAN)	Gregor Linsig (CAN)
China
Czech Republic	Richard Schallert (AUT)	Jiří Hájek (CZE)
Estonia	Tambet Pikkor (EST)
Finland	Jani Klinga (FIN)	Kimmo Kykkaenen (FIN)
France	Gérard Colin (FRA)	Frédéric Zoz (FRA)
Germany	Werner Schuster (AUT)	Andreas Bauer (GER)
Italy	Walter Cogoli (ITA)	Janko Zwitter (AUT)
Japan	Tomoharu Yokokawa (JPN)	Tomoharu Yokokawa (JPN)
Kazakhstan	Janez Debelak (SLO)
Norway	Alexander Stöckl (AUT)	Christian Meyer (NOR)
Poland	Łukasz Kruczek (POL)	Sławomir Hankus (POL)
Romania		Csaba Magdo (ROU)
Russia	Matjaž Zupan (SLO)	Matjaž Triplat (SLO)
Slovenia	Goran Janus (SLO)	Stane Baloh (SLO)
South Korea	Wolfgang Hartmann (GER)
Switzerland	Pipo Schödler (SUI)
United States	Bine Norčič (SLO)	Vasja Bajc (SLO)

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