The men's normal hill individual ski jumping competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Pragelato, Italy. It began on 11 February, and concluded on 12 February.

Lars Bystøl of Norway won his country's first gold and his second international victory of the season, beating Matti Hautamäki to the title by only one point.

Dmitry Vassiliev could have won Russia's second ski jumping gold medal ever because he had the best jump in the first round. But as the last starter in the second round, he failed and finished tenthMen's Normal Hill - Final, from NBCOlympics.com, retrieved 12 February 2006

This was the last highly ranked official event participated by Masahiko Harada - who won 2 Olympic medals in Nagano and 1 in Lillehammer - and it was after a break of over 3 years from participating in Ski jumping World Cup. Unfortunately for him, he was disqualified in the qualifying and did not compete in the final. Later he started only in FIS Cup event in Sapporo.

Results

Qualifying

Fifteen skiers were pre-qualified, on the basis of their World Cup performance, meaning that they directly advanced to the final round. These skiers still jumped in the qualifying round, but they were not included with non-pre-qualified skiers in the standings. The fifty-four skiers who were not pre-qualified competed for thirty-five spots in the final round.

Rank Name Country Score Notes 1 Noriaki Kasai 132.5 2 Dmitry Ipatov 129.0 3 Dmitry Vassiliev 128.5 4 Michael Neumayer 127.0 4 Michael Möllinger 127.0 4 Robert Mateja 127.0 7 Alexander Herr 125.5 8 Tami Kiuru 125.0 9 Daiki Ito 123.0 9 Martin Koch 123.0 11 Kamil Stoch 122.5 12 Borek Sedlák 120.0 13 Ildar Fatchullin 119.0 14 Sebastian Colloredo 118.0 15 Jens Salumae 117.5 16 Primož Peterka 117.0 16 Denis Kornilov 117.0 16 Alan Alborn 117.0 19 Guido Landert 116.0 20 Jan Matura 115.5 21 Jernej Damjan 114.5 21 Stefan Read 114.5 23 Janne Happonen 114.0 24 Stefan Hula 110.5 25 Radik Zhaparov 110.0 26 Ivan Karaulov 109.0 26 Li Yang 109.0 28 Rok Benkovič 108.0 28 Maksim Anisimov 108.0 30 Andrea Morassi 107.5 30 Kim Hyun-Ki 107.5 32 Jaan Jüris 107.0 33 Simon Ammann 106.0 33 Jan Mazoch 106.0 35 Clint Jones 104.5 36 Choi Heung-Chul 104.0 36 Choi Yong-Jik 104.0 38 Tommy Schwall 103.0 39 Tian Zhongdan 102.0 40 Alessio Bolognani 100.5 41 Gregory Baxter 100.0 42 Martin Mesik 97.5 42 Graeme Gorham 97.5 44 Kang Chil Ku 96.5 45 Petr Chaadaev 95.5 46 Jim Denney 91.5 47 Volodymyr Boschuk 88.5 48 Alexey Korolev 86.5 49 Petar Fartunov 85.0 50 Michael Nell 83.5 51 Georgi Zharkov 77.5 * Andreas Kuettel 134.5 * Andreas Kofler 134.5 * Janne Ahonen 133.5 * Adam Małysz 130.5 * Matti Hautamäki 130.0 * Andreas Widhölzl 129.0 * Takanobu Okabe 127.5 * Georg Späth 123.5 * Jakub Janda 121.5 * Roar Ljøkelsøy 120.5 * Michael Uhrmann 120.5 * Bjørn Einar Romøren 118.0 * Thomas Morgenstern 117.0 * Robert Kranjec 102.0 * Lars Bystøl DSQ DQ Masahiko Harada DSQ DQ Nikolay Karpenko DSQ DQ Sigurd Pettersen DSQ

Final The final consisted of two jumps, with the top thirty after the first jump qualifying for the second jump. The combined total of the two jumps was used to determine the final ranking.

Rank Name Country Jump 1 Rank Jump 2 Rank Total Lars Bystøl131.06135.52266.5 Matti Hautamäki 131.0 6 134.5 3 265.5 Roar Ljøkelsøy 132.0 5 132.5 4 264.5 4 Michael Uhrmann 128.010 136.0 1 264.0 5 Andreas Küttel 133.5 4 129.0 8 262.5 6 Janne Ahonen 134.5 2 127.0 9 261.5 7 Adam Małysz 130.0 8 131.0 5 261.0 8 Michael Neumayer 129.5 9 131.0 5 260.5 9 Thomas Morgenstern 134.5 2 125.0 12 259.5 10 Dmitry Vassiliev 135.0 1 123.5 13 258.5 11 Andreas Kofler 127.0 11 130.5 7 257.5 12 Georg Späth 124.5 17 126.5 10 251.0 13 Jakub Janda 123.5 18 125.5 11 249.0 13 Michael Möllinger 126.5 12 122.5 15 249.0 15 Bjørn Einar Romøren 125.5 15 122.5 15 248.0 16 Kamil Stoch 125.5 15 121.5 17 247.0 17 Andreas Widhölzl 120.5 20 123.5 13 244.0 18 Daiki Ito 126.0 13 117.5 19 243.5 19 Dmitry Ipatov 121.5 19 121.0 18 242.5 20 Noriaki Kasai 126.0 13 115.0 20 241.0 21 Alexander Herr 119.0 22 112.0 23 231.0 21 Jan Matura 120.0 21 111.0 27 231.0 23 Takanobu Okabe 118.024 111.525 229.5 23 Martin Koch 118.0 24 111.5 25 229.5 25 Robert Mateja 115.028 114.021 229.0 26 Radik Zhaparov 115.0 28 112.0 23 227.0 27 Sebastian Colloredo 113.5 30 113.0 22 226.5 28 Janne Happonen 116.0 26 109.0 28 225.0 29 Stefan Hula 115.5 27 102.5 29 218.0 30 Primož Peterka 118.5 23 96.5 30 215.0 31 Tami Kiuru 113.0 31 —— 32 Jens Salumäe 112.0 32—— 33 Maksim Anisimov 110.5 33 —— 34 Denis Kornilov 110.0 34 —— 35 Jernej Damjan 109.0 35 —— 36 Jan Mazoch 108.5 36 —— 36 Andrea Morassi 108.5 36 —— 38 Simon Ammann 107.0 38 —— 38 Borek Sedlák 107.0 38 —— 40 Alan Alborn 106.5 40 —— 41 Robert Kranjec 105.5 41 —— 42 Stefan Read 105.0 42 —— 43 Kim Hyun-Ki 104.5 43 —— 44 Ildar Fatchullin 102.5 44 —— 44 Li Yang 102.5 45 —— 46 Ivan Karaulov 102.0 46 —— 47 Clint Jones 97.5 47 —— 48Guido Landert 97.0 48 —— 49 Rok Benkovič 91.5 49 —— 50 Jaan Jüris 88.5 50 ——

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