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Facts & Figures about the World Cup in Lahti

Facts & Figures - Lahti
Facts & Figures - Lahti - FIS

Kasai can be first non-European to reach 50 individual WC podiums

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Noriaki Kasai's third place finish in Falun on Wednesday was his 49th individual World Cup podium. In this weekend's individual events on Friday or Sunday, he can reach 50 World Cup podiums.

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Kasai can become the 12th man, and the first non-European, to reach 50 World Cup podiums.

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The 11 men to have already achieved 50 individual World Cup podiums all come from one of five countries: Austria (5), Finland (2), Germany (2), Poland (1) and Switzerland (1).

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Kasai would be the fifth active jumper to reach 50 after Janne Ahonen (FIN, 108), Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT, 85), Thomas Morgenstern (AUT, 76) and Simon Ammann (SUI, 73).

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If Kasai makes the podium on Friday, his 50th podium will come exactly 22 years to the day after his first, and at the same venue. On 28 February 1992, 19-year-old Kasai came third on the normal hill in Lahti, behind Toni Nieminen (FIN) and Ernst Vettori (AUT).

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Among his current rivals, Peter Prevc (SLO) and Andreas Wellinger (GER) were not born when Kasai made his first World Cup podium, while Thomas Diethart (AUT) was only three days old.

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If Kasai is on the podium on both Friday and Sunday, he will equal Andreas Felder (AUT) in 11th place on the all-time list with 51 individual World Cup podiums.

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Kasai owns almost one quarter of all Japanese individual World Cup podiums in men's ski jumping: 49 out of 201.

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Kasai has made five individual World Cup podiums this season. If he makes his sixth in Lahti, this season will equal 1992/93 as his second best World Cup season in terms of most podiums. His best season was 1998/99, when he made 14 podiums.

Finns look for first Lahti podium in eight years

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The last Finnish jumper to be on a World Cup podium on home snow in Lahti was Janne Happonen, who won there in 2006.

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Since then, the best Finnish result in Lahti has been fourth, by Harri Olli in 2009 and Anssi Koivuranta in 2012 – both on the normal hill.

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Of the three Finnish jumpers who participated in Falun, Ahonen and Koivuranta both missed qualifying for the final round, while Lauri Asikainen finished ninth for his best ever World Cup result. His previous best was 16th.

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In the last four team events in Lahti, Finland has finished eighth three times and sixth once. Their last team win in Lahti came in 2002.

Prevc back on top of World Cup standings

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With his second-place finish in Falun, Prevc overtook Kamil Stoch (POL) to reassume the No. 1 spot in the World Cup standings by 17 points with three weeks remaining in the season.

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Prevc can become the second man representing Slovenia to win the World Cup overall title after Primoz Peterka (SLO), who won in 1996/97 and 1997/98.

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Those two titles for Peterka are the only time a jumper representing Slovenia has finished in the top three in the men's World Cup standings, something Prevc seems almost assured to do this season.

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Stoch can become the second Polish man to win the overall World Cup title after Adam Malysz, who won it four times (2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03 and 2006/07).

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Kasai sits in third place in the standings, 182 points behind Prevc. No Japanese man has ever won the overall World Cup title, but Kasai has a long way to go to catch Prevc and Stoch.

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Kasai was third in the standings in both 1992/93 and 1998/99. If he is third again this season, he will be the third man to finish third three or more times after Ahonen and Felder, who both did it four times.

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Schlierenzauer has dropped to fifth in the World Cup standings after Falun. He has never finished lower than fourth in the standings in a full season in his career (he came ninth in 2010/11 but missed the early part of the season through injury).

Slovenia go for fourth straight WC team win

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Although they did not win a medal in Sochi, Slovenia have won three consecutive World Cup team events since March 2013.

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If Slovenia win again on Saturday, it will be only the second time in World Cup history that one country has won four or more consecutive team events.

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The only previous occasion was when Austria won six in a row from November 2010 to November 2011.

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Before their current streak began, Slovenia had only ever won three World Cup team events.

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Slovenia and Olympic champion Germany will battle for fourth place on the all-time team victory list. They have both won six World Cup team events, behind only Austria (25), Finland (15) and Norway (12).

FIS-ski.com 27 February 2014

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