Ski jumping at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Normal hill individual
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Men's normal hill individual at the XXI Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Whistler Olympic Park | ||||||||||||
Dates | 12–13 February | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 61 from 18 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning Score | 276.5 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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The men's normal hill individual ski jumping competition for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held on 12 and 13 February 2010 at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia. It was the first medal event of the 2010 Games.
Sixty-one athletes took part in the qualifying round of the competition, from which 50 athletes advanced to the two competition rounds. Swiss athlete Simon Ammann had the longest jumps in both competition rounds, winning the gold medal. The silver medal was won by Polish jumper Adam Małysz who had the third best results in both the first and second competition rounds. German jumper Michael Uhrmann was in second place following the first jump, but did poorly on his second jump and ended up fifth in the overall standings. Gregor Schlierenzauer of Austria moved up from seventh place to win the bronze medal after jumping a full 5 meters (16 ft) longer on his second attempt.