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ZAKOPANE, Poland - Adam Malysz of Poland won a ski jump on a large hill Sunday, followed by overall World Cup leader Janne Ahonen of Finland. Malysz, second in the standings, recorded his fourth victory of the season. Roar Ljoekelsoey of Norway finished third. Malysz totaled 278.2 points for two jumps of 132 meters. Ahonen finished with 270.9 points and jumps of 128.5 and 132 meters. Ljoekelsoey had 268.7 points and jumps of 127.5 and 131.5. Ahonen leads the World Cup standings with 1,526 points, followed by Malysz (994) and Jakub Janda of the Czech Republic (979).

BAD MITTERNDORF, Austria - Poland's Adam Malysz won a ski flying competition Sunday, becoming only the second jumper with more than one World Cup victory this season. Malysz had jumps of 207 and 209.5 meters on Kulm hill for 412.3 points. Austria's Andreas Widhoelzl, who beat Malysz to win on Saturday, finished second with 400.5 points. Finland's Risto Jussilainen was third with 396.9, his first top-three result in four years. "Today, everything worked out perfectly," said Malysz, whose other victory this season came in December in Harrachov, Czech Republic. Finland's Janne Ahonen, who has won 11 of 15 events this...

HARRACHOV, Czech Republic (AFP) - Polish ski jump star Adam Malysz claimed victory in the World Cup large hill event ahead of Janne Ahonen of Finland and Germany's Georg Spaeth. Ahonen, who had been hoping to score what would have been a record fifth consecutive victory, finished second to retain his lead of the World Cup. Malysz, who lit up the World Cup ski jump two seasons ago but had a less successful campaign last season, was awarded a total of 284.2 points for his two jumps of 143 and 136 metres. The 27-year-old double world champion led after the...

For the first time in history, Poland organized the Summer Grand Prix (SGP) ski jumping competition. The success was compound: Adam Malysz was again the winner this summer, and Zakopane reported a new spectator record. The SGP, an equivalent of the winter World Cup, is a prestigious event. For the first time this year, the International Skiing Federation (FIS) entrusted the organization of SGP's two competitions to Poland. In Zakopane Sept. 4 and 5, on the Wielka Krokiew hill, newly covered with a special PVC surface, the individual and team competitions took place. "Zakopane won the contest for the organization...