Alexandra Pretorius won the Grand Prix in Courchevel ahead of Daniela Iraschko and Jacqueline Seifriedsberger. Surprising winner of today’s Grand Prix in Courchevel came Alexandra Pretorius! Who? Alexandra Pretorius – a 16 year old Canadian who hardly ever appeared in international competitions before. She attended the FIS cups in Villach last month where she came second and third. Just about ...
Japan won the launching mixed team competition in Courchevel ahead of Germany and Austria. The result of the first mixed team competition, that was held today in the evening in Courchevel, was extraordinarily close. Only 2.4 points were between the first and the third place. How close this result was gets evident when one considers the fact, that eight jumps ...
Jacqueline Seifriedsberger and Daniela Iraschko jumped best in the official training for the mixed team event toningt. The two Austrian girls, that will compete in tonight’s mixed team competition, performed really strong in the official training that was held this morning. A 95.0 meter jump in the first training round by Jacqueline Seifriedsberger was the farthest one of this training. ...
This week the mixed-team event and the Ladies Summer Grand Prix will premiere in Courchevel. On Tuesday evening the long-awaited premiere of the mixed-team event is scheduled. In this new competition format, that is also included in the program of the World Championships next winter, two ladies and two men per nation take part. As no such competition has been ...
Strong performance of the German team at the Alpen Cup competitions in Bischofsgrün. After winning already the competition in Pöhla on Friday, Germany’s Katharina Althaus won also the two OPA Alpen Cup competitions in Bischofsgrün on Saturday and Sunday. The competition on Saturday was totally dominated by the German team. Althaus won by jumping 66.0 meters twice. Veronika Zobel (62.5 ...
Katharina Althaus wins in Pöhla ahead of Svenja Würth and Manuela Malsiner. The inaugural competition of the Alpen Cup was held on the K60 in Pöhla on Friday. 24 jumpers from five countries participated in this event. Winner came Germany’s Katharina Althaus whith two jumps on 60.5 and 62.5 meters. Second came her team-mate Svenja Würth, who was only fourth ...
Three competitions will be held in Pöhla and Bischofsgrün (GER) from Friday to Sunday. A new competition series in Ladies Skijumping will be introduced this weekend. The Alpen Cup, the junior series organized by OPA (Organisation of ski federations from Alpine countries), celebrates its birth with a competition in Pöhla on Friday and two competitions in Bischofsgrün on Saturday and ...
FIS Cup was kicked-off this weekend with two competitions on the K-90 in Villach. A special premiere was held this weekend in Villach. For the first time ever two FIS Cup competitions for Ladies were held. Like at the men, the FIS Cup is the third division behind World and Continental Cup. Still some weeks ago, the competitions were announced ...
The team is in a good condition. Training continues in Hinterzarten this week. The French Ladies National Team (Coline Mattel, Julia Clair, Léa Lemare and Caroline Espiau) held a four-day training camp in Courchevel on the K90 last week. Prior to this, the girls went through a long period of hard physical training. Anaïs Geoffray missed this training camp, because ...
Atsuko Tanaka leaves Japanese team and will jump again for Canada. Two years ago Atsuko Tanaka, Canadian of Japanese background, left the Canadian Ski Team and since jumped for the Japanese Team. Now she returned to her old home and wants to start for the Canadian Team again. “I was in Japan for 2 years because I wanted to go ...