Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi jumped 291 meters from the Icelandic giant. In the long jump, too many things were not in accordance with the rules, says FIS hill boss Sandro Pertile to NRK.
The longest ski jumping performance of all time has the sport’s biggest country in Norway talking after the International Ski Federation FIS announced that the Japanese jumper would not By Ryoyu Kobayashi A jump of 291 meters can be accepted as a world record.
Kobayashi, 27, one of the biggest stars in hill jumping, jumped really far on Wednesday from the giant built by the energy drink company Red Bull in Iceland. Kobayashi attempted the record for two days.
Kobayashi himself has previously officially jumped 252 meters, the second longest result of all time. The world record of 253.5 meters was held by an Austrian by Stefan Kraft in the names since 2017. Kraft jumped his record from Vikersund airfield in Norway. On the same hill as Norway Silje Opseth jumped the women’s world record 230.5 meters last season.
Kobayashi’s improvement of 37.5 meters to the world record will not be recorded in the record books, the FIS announced shortly after the giant leap.
The FIS justified the matter with unofficial circumstances, i.e. the fact that the jump was made on a hill that was not approved by the FIS and the jump did not use the measurement system approved by the umbrella organization. It wasn’t a competition either, but a kidnapping organized for Kobayashi.
According to the FIS, Kobayashi’s equipment, such as the jump suit, should also have been found to be in accordance with the official rules, so that the jump could have been eligible for the record.
– This is not an official record. It’s probably the longest jump in the history of ski jumping, but too many things are not according to the rules, FIS Ski Jumping Sport Director Sandro Pertile comment for NRK.
Norwegian national team jumper by Johann André Forfang according to the general opinion among athletes is that Kobayashi’s result should be a world record.
– I understand that the FIS doesn’t want to consider it a world record, but for me it is. Kraft’s jump is no longer ME in my eyes. Hill jumpers will decide if this is a world record or not. Most of us consider it a record, Forfang told Norwegian broadcaster NRK.
NRK’s expert Johan Remen Evensen considers Kobayashi’s jump a world record, although he also understands FIS’s position on the matter. Norway’s Viaplay expert Andreas Stjernen is more absolute in his opinion.
– If I had a world record in my possession, I would feel that I wouldn’t have it anymore. Although the record was not set in the competition, it has been broken, Stjernen told NRK.
Somewhat similar record-breaking feats have been seen, for example, in athletics.
In October 2019 Eliud Kipchoge was the first person to break the two-hour mark in a marathon. The Kenyan champion ran a time of 1:59:40 in the event, where he had the help of a car that drove steadily at the target speed and more than 40 famous pacers.
Kipchoge ran the time in a separately organized record trial, and it was not accepted as the official ME time of the marathon. of Kenya Kelvin Kiptum came close to the two-hour mark when he broke the world record with a time of 2:00:35. He died in February in a car accident at the age of 24.