Ski flying

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Ski flying is an extreme version of ski jumping. The events take place on big hills with a K-spot on at least 185 meters. There are five ski flying hills in the world today. Vikersundbakken in Vikersund/Norway, Oberstdorf/Germany, Kulm/Austria, Letalnica in Planica/Slovenia and in Harrachov in the Czech Republic. The sixth hill, Copper Peak in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, is currently disused although there are some plans to rebuild it to FIS standards. [1] The biggest hill is in Planica, where all the longest ski jumps have been jumped. It's possible to jump over 200 meters in all the ski flying hills, and the current World Record is 239 meters, set by Norwegian Bjørn Einar Romøren in Planica 2005. The longest ever jump was actually 240 meters long, achieved by Janne Ahonen at the same competition, but it has not been homologated as the record because Ahonen fell as soon as he landed. Since 1972 there's been held a Ski-flying World Championship every second year.

Rank	Nation	Record holder	Length
1.	Norway	Bjørn Einar Romøren	239 meters
2.	Finland	Matti Hautamäki	235.5 meters
3.	Austria	Andreas Widhölzl	231 meters
4.	Slovenia	Robert Kranjec	229 meters
5.	Russia	Dimitri Vassiliev	228 meters
6.	Germany	Michael Neumayer	227.5 meters
7.	Poland	Adam Małysz	225 meters
8.	Japan	Daiki Ito	222.5 meters
9.	United States	Alan Alborn	221.5 meters
10.	United Kingdom	Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards	105 meters

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