Evel Knievel 1972. On January 7 and 8, 1971, Knievel set the record by selling over 100,000 tickets to back-to-back performances at the Houston Astrodome. On February 28, he set a new world record by jumping 19 cars with his Harley-Davidson XR-750 at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California. The 19-car jump was filmed for the movie "Evel Knievel." Knievel held the record for 27 years until Bubba Blackwell jumped 20 cars in 1998 with an XR-750. In 2015, Doug Danger surpassed that number with 22 cars, accomplishing this feat on Evel Knievel's actual vintage 1972 Harley-Davidson XR-750. On May 10,
Ski jumping at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 Ski jumping at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 The ski jumping at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 was part of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 that took place in Sapporo, Japan, on February 24, February 25, and March 3, 2007. On March 3, 2007, at the Miyanomori (HS100) jumping hill, Slovenia's Rok Benkovič was the defending champion and finished 27th in this event at these games. Adam Małysz (Poland) won his fourth gold medal handily by having the longest jumps in both rounds of competition, the largest margin of victory in the event's history