Ski flying
Ski flying was first started where?
Ski jumping
Ski jumping FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2012 Kamil Stoch Martin Koch (ski jumper) Robert Kranjec
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Ski Flying is an extension of ski jumping. The events take place on hills with a K-point of at least . The first ski flying hill was built in Planica in Slovenia. In 1936, the FIS started to regulate the construction of the jumping hills and issued international standards for their construction and maintenance. Back then, it was forbidden to build a ski jumping hill which made it possible to make jumps longer than 80 meters. Nevertheless the first-ever ski flying hill was built in Planica, Slovenia. It took several more years before competitions on this hill were approved by FIS. The "father" of ski flying is Janez Gorišek, an engineer, sportsman and enthusiastic sport-promoter who designed the Planica ski-jump. There are five ski flying hills in the world today: Vikersundbakken in Vikersund, Norway; Oberstdorf, Germany; Kulm Austria; Letalnica, Planica, Slovenia; and Harrachov, Czech Republic. A sixth hill, Copper Peak in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, is currently disused, although there are plans to rebuild it to FIS standards. There are plans for more ski flying hills, even for an indoor ski flying hill in Ylitornio, Finland. The biggest hill is Vikersundbakken in Vikersund. Jumps of more than have occurred at all ski flying hills. The current World Record is , set by Norwegian Johan Remen Evensen at Vikersund in 2011. The "Fédération Internationale de Ski" (FIS) Ski flying World Championships started in 1972 and occur biennially. The 2010 FIS World Championships in ski flying were organised in Planica, and in 2012 the FIS World Championships took place in Vikersund, Norway.1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 "Ski flying World Championships" individual day event wins in two series also counted as an individual "World Cup" win.
In 2010, the hill was being rebuilt. This process which was started after the 2008-09 Ski Jumping World Cup, extended the length of the hill to HS225, making it the world's largest ski jumping hill. Cost to renovate the hill was planned at 80 million kr (€10 million). Included in the cost was a new judges tower, a ski lift, a spectator area, and wind nets. Hill construction took place where the old hill that was demolished in 2009. Adjustments was the hill turned several degrees and built into the ground to avoid wind problems. Outrun was elevated in order for it to be the same levels as the rest of the jumping hills at Vikersund. The first ski flying competition in the hill took place in 1966 and the hill has been rebuilt on several occasions, most recently for the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships in 2000 where it was at a K185 position. It should be ready in time for the World Cup competition in February 2011. 
He was 3 years old when he first started skiing. A year later he started ski jumping. His received his first ski jumping skis from his uncle when he was six years old. He joined the club LKS Ząb as an eight-year old boy, where his first coach was Mirosław Małuda. Initially he trained in the sport of Nordic combined. At the 2006 Ski-flying World Championships in Kulm, Stoch finished 9th in the team event and 35th in the individual event. He competed at his first Olympics in 2006, in Turin, Italy. Having qualified for the finals in the normal hill and large Hill, he finished 16th and 26th respectively. He also qualified for the team competition (large hill) where Poland placed 5th. Stoch won the Polish Championship in 2007. At the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo, Stoch finished 5th in the team large hill and 11th in the individual normal hill. He also won a World Cup Summer Grand Prix competition in Oberhof 2007. In 2008, Stoch was 6th in the individual world cup in Val di Fiemme. In 2009, he was 4th in individual World Championship in Liberec on the normal hill. 
Martin "Mascht" Koch (born January 22, 1982 in Villach) is a retired ski jumper from Austria. Martin started his carrer in 1999, he has finished in the Top 3 in all ski jumping events eighteen times, including two victories with the first being on January 8, 2011 in Harrachov. Furthermore, he won a silver medal at the 2008 Ski-Flying World Championships, and six gold medals in team events at Olympic Games and world championships. He did his last jump on 22nd March in Planica, Slovenia but on the large hill, not the flying one. He was the holder of the Austrian national record with a jump of 241.5 metres. Koch is the nephew of Armin Kogler. 
Robert Kranjec (born 16 July 1981) is a Slovenian ski jumper who has competed since 1998. He won a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in the Team Large Hill event. He belongs to the world's best active ski flying athletes. On 25 February 2012, he won the Ski-Flying World Championship and thus became the Slovenia's third World Champion in ski jumping and the first in ski flying. He also set a new national record. Kranjec was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His first victory in a World Cup competition was at Kuusamo, Finland in 2005. The following years he could not reach any top results except for ski flying competitions. In 2010 he celebrated his second World Cup victory at Tauplitz, Austria. After two more successful ski flying competitions at Tauplitz and Oberstdorf, in which he achieved the second place each time, he won the ski flying World Cup 2009/10. Kranjec's most successful season was 2011–12. Apart from becoming the World champion in ski flying and winning the bronze medal in team competition at the 2012 Ski-Flying World Championship, he won two competitions in World Cup. Together with two additional podiums, Kranjec won the second ski flying World Cup in his career. 