Andreas Felder succeeds on Harald Rodlauer as ladies head coach in Austria. Andreas Felder is the new head coach of the Austrian ladies’ team. The 52-year old Tyrolean takes over fromHarald Rodlauer, who switches to the men after serving in this position for three years. The former wold-class jumper (25 World Cup victories in the 1980s) works as a coach ...

FIS published a calendar draft for the upcoming season after it’s spring meeting, that was held this weekend in Zurich. There are still some gaps in this calendar and all dates and may change until their confirmation at the FIS congress in July. 05.12.14 Lillehammer13.12.1414.12.1420.12.1421.12.1410.01.15 Sapporo11.01.15 Sapporo17.01.15 Zao18.01.15 Zao24.01.15 Oberstdorf25.01.15 Oberstdorf31.01.15 Hinzenbach01.02.15 Hinzenbach07.02.15 Rasnov08.02.15 Rasnov14.02.15 Ljubno15.02.15 Ljubno20.02.15 Falun (World Championships ...

Winter is almost over, but Norway, Canada, France, Slovenia and Russia held their National Championships on the last weekend of March. Norway held it’s nationals on the K90 in Molde. Maren Lundby won this competition by jumping 98.0 meters twice. Line Jahr jumped even 98.5 meters in both rounds, but came only second as she scored less style points. Third ...

Sara Takanashi won the World Cup final in Planica ahead of Yuki Ito and Julia Clair. Crystal Globes awarded to Takanashi and Japanese team. Sara Takanashi won also the World Cup final, that was held today in the morning on the large hill in Planica. And once more she was simply a class of her own: She jumped 135.0 and ...

Sara Takanashi performed best in the official training for the season final in Planica. Horrible crash of Manuela Malsiner! The best 30 jumpers of this season’s World Cup meet this weekend in Planica for a final competition on the large hill. There were quite difficult wind conditions there today, so only one official training round was held. A second round ...

Bigna Windmüller retires from active sports. Switzerland’s national ski association “Swiss-Ski” announced in a press release on Mondy, that Bigna Windmüller decided to quit her career at the age of 23. Windmüller’s best World Cup result was a third place in Zao this January. At the World Cup im Rasnov three weeks ago a rupture of her anterior cruciate ligament ...

Wendy Vuik from the Netherlands made her last World Cup jump today in Falun! Wendy Vuik says “goodbye”. The 25 year old jumper from the Netherlands made her last World Cup jump today in Falun, before the competition was cancelled. “I competed for ten years and I simply know that this is the right time to quit. I had a ...

The second World Cup competition in Falun on Sunday was cancelled due to strong winds. There is blue sky and sunshine here in Falun today, but it is simply too windy to allow for a regular competition. In the morning a trial round was started, but in order to begin the competition on time it had to be aborted after ...

Sara Takanashi won on Saturday in Falun ahead of Yuki Ito and Julia Kykkänen. Due to strong winds in the afternoon, the competition was postponed. The weather forecast was right: Next to sun and blue sky there was heavy wind Falun all day. Gusts of up to 13 meters per second made it simply impossible to jump. At first the ...

Sarah Hendrickson received a new knee surgery on Thursday. America’s Sarah Henrickson received a new knee surgery on Thursday. After recovering from an ACL rupture suffered last summer, the 19-year old had just returned to the jumping hills at the Olympics in Sochi. But since then she felt a pain in her right knee, that made this new surgery necessary. ...