Jan Matura Explained

Jan Matura
Birth Date:29 January 1980
Birth Place:Český Krumlov,
Czechoslovakia
Club:Dukla Liberec
Personalbest:224.5 m (737 ft)
Vikersund, 26 January 2013
Seasons:19992001 (nordic combined)
20022017 (ski jumping)
Wins:2 (ski jumping)
Totalpodiums:4 (ski jumping)
Individual Starts:10 (nordic combined)
265 (ski jumping)
Team Starts:44 (ski jumping)
Updated:5 May 2017

Jan Matura (born 29 January 1980) is a Czech former nordic skier competing from 1999 to 2001 and a former ski jumper competing from 2002 to 2017.

Nordic combined

Matura finished eighth in the 4 × 5 km team event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. His best results at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 34th in the 15 km individual at Ramsau in 1999. At the World Cup level, Matura's best finish was ninth in a 15 km individual event in Germany in 1999. In Nordic combined, his overall best career finish was third twice in 7.5 km sprint events (1998, 2000).

Ski jumping world cup

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Matura finished ninth in the team large hill and 21st in the individual normal hill events.

His best FIS Nordic World Ski Championships occurred at Oberstdorf in 2005 where he finished seventh in the team normal hill and 23rd in both individual events. Matura's best finishes at the Ski-flying World Championships occurred at Kulm in 2006 where he finished eighth in the team and 28th in the individual events.

His best individual World Cup result is a double victory in Sapporo on 19 and 20 January 2013.

Standings

 Season Overall
scope=row align=center66 N/A N/A
scope=row align=center72 65 N/A N/A 43
scope=row align=center51 51 N/A N/A 57
scope=row align=center44 43 N/A N/A 43
scope=row align=center34 40 N/A N/A 31
scope=row align=center57 54 N/A N/A
scope=row align=center44 41 N/A N/A 55
scope=row align=center66 51 N/A
scope=row align=center53 45 40 N/A 40
scope=row align=center27 42 25 N/A N/A
scope=row align=center52 47 N/A N/A
scope=row align=center10 19 6 N/A N/A
scope=row align=center26 20 8 N/A N/A
scope=row align=center40 28 34 N/A N/A
scope=row align=center33 27 42 N/A N/A
scope=row align=center63 53 N/A

Wins

No.SeasonDateLocationHillSize
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1 align=center rowspan=219 January 2013   Ōkurayama HS134 (night) LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"2 20 January 2013   Ōkurayama HS134 LH

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