Lars Bystoel staged an upset in the Olympic ski jumping competition on Sunday to give Norway their first gold medal of the Turin Games.
The 27-year-old, usually stronger on the large hill, clinched victory in the normal hill individual event with a well-executed jump of 103.5 metres in the final round.
Finland's in-form Matti Hautamaeki took silver and Bystoel's team mate Roar Ljoekelsoey won the bronze.
Russia's Dmitry Vassiliev, surprise leader at the halfway stage of the competition, jumped poorly in the second round and slipped to 10th.
Finland's Janne Ahonen and Jakub Janda of the Czech Republic -- the two favourites for the Olympic title -- also failed to make the podium.
Ahonen was in the silver medal position after the first round but a jump of 100 metres in the final round pushed him down to sixth.
Janda never really figured, jumping 99 metres in the first round and 100 in the second to finish 13th.
Bystoel had looked strong in practice this week on the smaller of the two hills at Pragelato but lay in seventh place at the halfway stage and did not appear to be a threat to the favourites.
He leapt cleanly, however, and although his combined jumps were half a metre shorter than Hautamaeki's he won enough style points to take gold.
