Ski jumping at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Large hill individual
| Men's large hill individual at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
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Gold medallist Simon Ammann
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| Venue | Whistler Olympic Park | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 19–20 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 61 from 18 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning Score | 283.6 | ||||||||||||
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Simon Ammann |
 Switzerland
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Adam Małysz |
 Poland
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Gregor Schlierenzauer |
 Austria
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The Men's large hill individual ski jumping competition for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia. It started on 19 February and ended on 20 February.Austria's Thomas Morgenstern was the defending Olympic champion in this event.Andreas Küttel of Switzerland was the defending world champion in this event. Two test events took place at the Olympic venue on 24–25 January 2009, both won by Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer. On the 25th, Schlierenzauer set the hill jumping record with a jump of 149.0 metres (488.8 ft) which was also tied by Finland's Ville Larinto. The last World Cup event in this format prior to the 2010 Games took place on 6 February 2010 in Willingen, Germany and was won by Schlierenzauer.
A qualifying round for this event took place on 19 February with a trial qualification at 08:30 PST and a qualification round at 10:00 PST the same day.
^ 1: These skiers were pre-qualified; they did perform jumps in the qualification round, but were not ranked with the non-pre-qualified jumpers.
The final took place on 20 February. Consisting of two jumps, the top thirty jumpers after the first jump qualify for the second jump. The combined total of the two jumps was used to determine the final ranking. A practice round for competition took place at 08:30 PST with the first and second rounds of the event taking place at 11:30 PST and 12:30 PST, respectively.
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