Canada’s Atsuko Tanaka had a lot of misfortune in the last season. A knee injury just weeks before the World Championships in Liberec prevented her from participating. Ladies-Skijumping.com editor Stefan Diaz talked to her. Ladies-Skijumping.com: In the last season there were the first World Championships in ladies ski jumping ever. Unfortunately you had an injury right in front of the ...
No team event in 2011 By now there won’t be a ladies team competition at the 2001 World Championships in Oslo. The FIS Council decided at its spring meeting in Vancouver on June 12th not to include a ladies team event to the program of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo. With that decision the FIS Council declined ...
Julia Kykkänen (15) from Lahti is the only Finish competitor on the Ladies Continental Cup. Ladies-Skijumping.com editor Stefan Diaz had the opportunity to have a chat with the aspiring athlete. Read here, what we were talking about. Ladies-Skijumping.com: The last ski jumping season was your second in the Continental Cup. You took the 41st Rank in the overall standings and ...
Technical delegate stopped girls from flying as trial jumpers in Vikersund. The decision was revised later on. Like in the recent years some female jumpers registered as trial jumpers at the skiflying world cup in Vikersund. Wednesdays trial round was stopped by the FIS Technical Delegate Marko Mlakar (SLO) just in the moment, when Line Jahr (NOR) was on the ...
Anette Sagen and Jenna Mohr win the CoC finals in Sapporo. Sagen secures the victory in the overall Continental Cup 2008/09. Due to bad weather condition the competition planed for Friday had to be rescheduled to Saturday. Also the competitions on Saturday in Sapporo were held under difficult weather conditions, with snow and changing winds. The first competition on that ...
Anette Sagen won both competitions in Zao. Iraschko twice on the second rank. Anette Sagen (NOR) won Tuesday’s competition with two outstanding jumps to 99.0 and 97.0 meters. She had a clear margin of 20 points to second place which was shared by Daniela Iraschko (AUT) and Izumi Yamada (JPN). For Yamada it was the first podium this winter, after ...
Lindsey Van is the first World Champion in the history on ski jumping. With the day’s longest jump to 97.5 m she beat second placed Ulrike Grässler and third Anette Sagen. In the first round there was snowfall and wind from behind so it was difficult to jump for all jumpers and only few jumps went over the K-point. Coline ...
Four training rounds were held in Liberec. Two Czech jumpers fell and were not able to participate in further trainings. Daniela Iraschko won two of four training rounds held. Due to strong winds the first training round on Tuesday was abandoned after twelve year old competitor Natalie Dejmkova (CZE) fell during her jump. She was not able to start in ...
Daniela Iraschko won both Continental Cups in Notodden. Anette Sagen and Lindsey Van also performed well. On both competitions only 25 jumpers were in the start list, as many teams are already doing specific training for the upcoming world championships in Liberec. Nevertheless the presence of many of the best jumpers made it a high-class competition. After the first round ...
Anette Sagen won the second competition in Ljubno. Iraschko and Grässler came respectively second and third. After the first round Daniela Iraschko (AUT) was slightly ahead of Anette Sagen (NOR) and Ulrike Grässler (GER) who shared the second place. The competition’s longest jump to 85.5 m in the second round was enough for Sagen to place on the first rank ...