The U.S. National Team received the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award. The Women’s Sports Foundation honored the U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping Team with the 2011 Wilma Rudolph Courage Award as part of the 32nd Annual Salute to Women in Sports Awards Gala in New York City. Team members and their supporting foundation, Women’s Ski Jumping USA (WSJ-USA), were recognized for their ...

The Austrian team absolved a special training unit in a wind tunnel. The Austrian ladies team absolved a special training unit in the climate wind tunnel of RTA Rail Tech Arsenal in Vienna. The team wants to make an extraordinary well preparation for the upcoming first Ladies World Cup season, so not only the top athletes Daniela Iraschko and Jacqueline ...

Ladies-Skijumping.com took a closer look at the new jumping suit design. Before the summer season, new jumping suits for ladies were introduced. As the summer was a transitional phase, both suit types, new and old, were allowed in international competitions. In the upcoming winter, only the new suits will be permitted. Ladies-Skijumping.com took a closer look at those new suits: ...

Ema Klinec, Spela Rogelj and Ramona Straub won the Ladies Cup competitions in Ziri. Besides of the Continental Cup in Trondheim also two competitions of the Ladies Cup, the junior series in Ladies Skijumping, were held on this weekend. Venue for these competitions was the K60 hill in Ziri, Slovenia. 23 jumpers from Austria, Germany, Italy and Slovenia participated in ...

Daniela Iraschko won the final Summer CoC-competition in Trondheim ahead of Jaci Seifriedsberger and Katharina Althaus. After their double win yesterday, Daniela Iraschko and Jaqueline Seifriedsberger dominated also the final Continental Cup competition today. It was a close fight between the two Austrians. In the first round both jumped 104.0 meters, in the second Seifriedsberger jumped on 95.5 and Iraschko ...

Jaci Seifriedsberger and Daniela Iraschko share the first rank in Trondheim, Coline Mattel third. The Continental Cup in Trondheim on Saturday does not have one winner, but two. The Austrians Daniela Iraschko and Jacqueline Seifriedsberger finished equally on points and so shared the first rank. They both scored 257.0 points for their jumps on 101 and 96 meters (Iraschko), respectively ...

Jacqueline Seifriedsberger outperformed all opposition in Trondheim’s official training. The final competitions of this summer’s Continental Cup are held this weekend in Trondheim. Today two official training rounds were held on the K90 there. With jumps on 101 and 103 meters Austria’s Jacqueline Seifriedsberger clearly performed best in this training. “I like the hill here, but I am a little ...

Elisabeth Raudaschl, Manuela Malsiner, Barbara Klinec and Nadine Kostner won at the Ladies Cup in Gallio. Already on the weekend two more competitions of the Ladies Cup, the junior series in Ladies Skijumping, were held on the HS66 in Gallio. Now we finally received the results of these competitions. As usual the competitions were held in three age groups, Girls, ...

Switzerland’s Bigna Windmüller will not participate in any competition of the upcoming season. Switzerland’s Bigna Windmüller decided to take a one-year break from ski jumping. She had a complicated last year and was fighting an infectious mononucleosis. “At the moment I do not feel able to restart training and to face the sporting challenges”, she said on Swiss-Ski.ch. She wants ...

Ema Klinec, Katharina Althaus and Verena Pock won the Ladies Cup competitions in Berchtesgaden. Two competitions of the Ladies Cup, the junior series in Ladies Skijumping, were held this weekend on the HS 64 in Berchtesgaden. As usual at this series, the competitions were held in three age groups, Girls, Juniors and Ladies. Girls: Klinec unbeatable Slovenia’s Ema Klinec, who ...