The Raw Air 2017 was the first edition of Raw Air, a ten-day tournament for men in ski jumping and ski flying held in Norway between 10–19 March 2017. It was part of the 2016–17 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup season. Fatih Arda İpcioğlu represented his country in qualifications of Lillehammer as first Turkish ski jumper in history of the World Cup competitions.
On 18 March 2017, the world record was improved twice at Vikersundbakken; firstly, Robert Johansson jumped 252 metres (827 ft), and about 30 minutes later Stefan Kraft landed at 253.5 metres (832 ft).
Competition
Prize money The competition had a record high prize money of €100,000 in total for top 3 competitors in overall standings: €60,000 for the title, €30,000 for the second place and €10,000 for the third place.
Format The competition was held on four different hills in Oslo, Lillehammer, Trondheim, and Vikersund. It lasted for ten consecutive days with total of 14 rounds from individual events, team events and qualifications (prologues).
EventsRounds Individual36 (3x2) Qualifications (prologue)44 (4x1) Team24 (2x2)Total914
Judges JudgeCountryJudges by hillsOsloLillehammerTrondheimVikersundPascal MalecAEADDDid not judgePeter KnollBABAADid not judgeInge EriksrødCBCDid not judgeMasahiko TakahashiDCDEEDid not judgeMartino De CrignisEDEBBDid not judgeKjersti Haugen EspelidDid not judgeCCDid not judgeGeir Steinar LoengDid not judgeAADid not judgeMark ServoldDid not judgeBBDid not judgeMarit Nybelius StubDid not judgeCCDid not judgePeter KimmigDid not judgeDDDid not judgeJože BerčičDid not judgeEEDid not judgePetra NordmanDid not judgeACA Hermann GshwentnerDid not judgeBEBMarek PilchDid not judgeCBCNasyr NasyrowDid not judgeDADNicolai SebergsenDid not judgeEDE
Jury Walter Hofer is the World Cup race director, Borek Sedlák as his assistant and Arne Åbråten as main coordinator of Raw Air: HillTechnical delegate Technical delegateassistant Chief competition Control equipmentBeforeAfter Oslo Sandro Pertile Werner Rathmayr Svein Granerud Morten Solem Sepp GratzerLillehammer Christian Kathol Pekka Hyvärinen Kristian BrendenTrondheim Michael Lais Hroar StjernenVikersund Franck Salvi Aljoša Dolhar Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl
Nations NationTotalCompetitors13 Lindvik, Granerud, Søberg, Haukedal, Fannemel, Bjerkeengen, Bjøreng, Hilde, Aune, Johansson, Forfang, Tande, Stjernen 8 Peter Prevc, Domen Prevc, Bartol, Dežman, Semenič, Damjan, Lanišek, Tepeš7 Murańka, Hula, Ziobro, Kubacki, Stoch, Kot, Żyła7 Fettner, Hayböck, Kraft, Schiffner, Schlierenzauer, Kofler, Huber6 Ito, Kasai, Junshirō Kobayashi, Ryōyū Kobayashi, Sakuyama, Takeuchi6 Eisenbichler, Freitag, Geiger, Leyhe, Wank, Wellinger6 Polášek, Štursa, Vančura, Janda, Koudelka, Matura5 Karpenko, Muminov, Sokolenko, Tkachenko, Zhaparov 5 Ammann, Deschwanden, Peier, Schuler, Karlen5 Aalto, Ahonen, Larinto, Määttä, Nousiainen4 Bresadola, Colloredo, Dellasega, Insam4 Bazhenov, Klimov, Nazarov, Romashov4 Bickner, Glasder, Larson, Rhoads1 Descombes Sevoie1 Boyd-Clowes1 Arda İpcioğlu1 Nurmsalu
Schedule
Map of hosts
Individual DatePlaceHillSizeWinnerSecondThirdEventRoundsRaw Air bib1110 March 2017 Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS134 LH Andreas Wellinger Peter Prevc Richard Freitag prologue1R Andreas Wellinger 2211 March 2017 Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS134 LH Stefan Kraft Piotr Żyła Michael Hayböck team2R Stefan Kraft3312 March 2017 Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS134 LH Stefan Kraft Andreas Wellinger Markus Eisenbichler individual2R 4413 March 2017 Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS138 (night) LH Markus Eisenbichler Richard Freitag Stefan Kraft prologue1R 14 March 2017 Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS138 (night)LHstrong wind; cancelled after 26 of 50 jumpers and moved to Vikersund in one round individual2R5515 March 2017 Trondheim Granåsen HS140 (night) LH Kamil Stoch Andreas Stjernen Andreas Wellinger prologue1R Andreas Wellinger 6616 March 2017 Trondheim Granåsen HS140 (night)LH Stefan Kraft Andreas Stjernen Andreas Wellinger individual2R Stefan Kraft 17 March 2017 Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS225 FHstrong wind; rescheduled one-round competition from Lillehamer was converted to prologue individual1R77 17 March 2017 Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS225 (night) FH Kamil Stoch Andreas Wellinger Domen Prevc prologue1R Andreas Wellinger 8818 March 2017 Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS225 FH Stefan Kraft Kamil Stoch Andreas Wellinger team2R9919 March 2017 Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS225 FH Kamil Stoch Noriaki Kasai Michael Hayböck individual2R Stefan Kraft 1st Raw Air Overall (final standings after 9 events) Stefan Kraft Kamil Stoch Andreas Wellinger14R
Team DatePlaceHillSizeWinnerSecondThirdNote1111 March 2017 Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS134LH both rounds count individual in Raw Air overall 2218 March 2017 Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS225FH both rounds count individual in Raw Air overall
Raw Air standings