Anette Sagen best in official training. Also Seifriedsberger, Hendrickson and Faisst performed strong. The Ladies Continental Cup continues tomorrow and on Saturday in Notodden. Some nations such as Japan or France are not attending the competition, nevertheless 48 jumpers are on the start list, as nations like Germany and Norway sent large teams. Already today two official training rounds were ...

Italy’s Nadine Kostner retired from jumping. Nadine Kostner has quit her career. The 19 year old member of the Italian national team (observation group) still competed during this summer in the Continental Cup and the Ladies Cup. Now she resigned from active sports. In her career she competed at 40 CoC-competitions and also appeared at the Junior World Championships 2011. ...

Sarah Hendrickson won the inaugural Ladies World Cup in Lillehammer ahead of Coline Mattel and Melanie Faisst. Sarah Hendrickson is the winner of the first Ladies World Cup competition in history. The 17 year old American won the competition this afternoon on the K90 in Lillehammer with a pair of jumps on 100.5 and 95.5 meters. Already after the first ...

Sarah Hendrickson was best in the trial round for today’s World Cup in Lillehammer. After already dominating yesterday’s official training, America’s Sarah Hendrickson was also the best in the trial round today. She got 94 points for her 103.5 meter jump and so was about 25 points ahead of the second ranked Anette Sagen (NOR, 93 m, 75.6 points). Austria’s ...

America’s Sarah Hendrickson performed best in the official training in Lillehammer on Friday evening. The first training round started with a delay of more then one hour due to difficult wind conditions. But also after the training eventually started, the wind did not calm down totally, so it was necessary to take some breaks. Best of the first training round ...

47 jumpers will participate tomorrow in the first Ladies World Cup ever in Lillehammer! The first Ladies World Cup season ever will be kicked off tomorrow. Lillehammer, host of the Olympic Games 1994, was chosen as venue for this inaugural event. The competition of the ladies will be held together with the men’s World Cup on the HS 100 there. Already ...

We finish our series of pre-season team checks with a close look at the team of the United States of America. 2009 World Champion Lindsey Van is still the embodiment of ski jumping in the U.S. There were not many competitions in the last years, where she did not make a top ten result. Only at her two appearances this ...

Ahead of the first World Cup season Ladies-Skijumping.com takes a close look at all national teams. Today Switzerland is in the focus. The Swiss team is very small this season. Bigna Windmüller is going to take a break this season, because she was fighting an infectious mononucleosis this year and still needs to regain strength. So her sister Sabrina Windmüller ...

Ahead of the first World Cup season Ladies-Skijumping.com takes a close look at all national teams. Today we continue this series with Slovenia. Slovenia’s best jumper, Eva Logar, will miss this season, as she tore her ACL some weeks ago. But with it’s high number of top-class jumpers the team has good chances to compensate her absence. Maja Vtic is ...

Green lights for Daniela Iraschko to compete at the World Cup premiere. Austria’s Daniela Iraschko now got the final clearance from her physician to start at the World Cup, that will be kicked-of on Saturday in Lillehammer. The 28 year old World Champion underwent a meniscus surgery three weeks ago. Before she had some pain in her knee for some ...