The FIS Ski Flying World Ski Championships 1998 took place on 25 January 1998 in
Oberstdorf,
Germany for the record-tying fourth time, matching that of
Planica,
Slovenia. Oberstdorf hosted the
championships previously in
West Germany in
1973,
1981, and
1988.
Japan's
Kazuyoshi Funaki would go on to win the gold medal in the
individual large hill event at the
1998 Winter Olympics in
Nagano nearly three weeks later. As of 2009, he is the only person to win the Ski Flying World Championships and a
Winter Olympic gold medal in the same year.
Dieter Thoma became the first person to medal for two different nations at the championships with his bronze (He won the championships in
1990 while competing for West Germany.).