Sara Takanashi won both Continental Cups in Trondheim this weekend ahead of Sarah Hendrickson. Maren Lundby and Coline Mattel took third places. The only two competitions in this summer’s Continental Cup series were held this weekend in Trondheim. A lot of nations were present there with their A-teams, so the competitions were held on a very high sporting level, despite ...
Sara Takanashi won the second Grand Prix competition in Almaty on Sunday ahead of Katharina Althaus and Maja Vtic. Sara Takanashi is simply the best jumper of this summer, and so it was no surprise, that she won also the second Grand Prix competition today in Almaty. With jumps of 99.0 and 100.0 meters she was clearly ahead of Germany’s ...
Sara Takanashi won the first of two Grand Prix competition in Almaty ahead of Irina Avvakumova and Yuki Ito. The first of the only two Grand Prix competitions of this summer was held today in Almaty, Khazakstan. After yesterday’s official training it was no big surprise, that Japan’s Sara Talamashi won the competition hands down. With jumps of 101.0 and ...
No big surprises in the official training in Almaty. Sara Takanashi and Yuki Ito performed strong. The only two Grand Prix competitions of this summer will be held this weekend in Almaty, Kazhakstan. 29 jumpers from 10 countries have made it there to compete on the HS106 hill. Already today an official training was held Clearly the best jumper today ...
Anastasiya Gladysheva and Michaela Dolezelova won the FIS Cups in Frenstat this weekend. The next competitions of this summer’s FIS Cup were held on the weekend in Frenstat. 22 jumpers from the United States, Poland, Russia, Romania and from the hosting Czech Republic gathered there for two competitions on the K95/HS106 hill. Winner of the first competition came Russia’s Anastasiya ...
Italy’s Lisa Demetz resigns from active sports. In an interview with the Italian winter sports website neveitalia.it Demetz states, that differences between her and the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) were the reason for this step. 25-year old Demetz was – together with Elena Runggaldier – one of the pioneers of Ladies Ski Jumping in Italy. Her biggest success was ...
Germany’s talent Agnes Reisch won all four OPA Alpen Cup competitions in Pöhla and Bischofsgrün. Summer competitions in Pöhla and Bischofsgrün have a rich tradition in Ladies Skijumping. Pöhla was one of the first places were Ladies Competitions were held, and Bischofsgrün annually hosted Continental Cup before the World Cup was introduced. Now the hills (HS65 and HS71) in both ...
Gianina Ernst won the FIS-Cup on Saturday in Hinterzarten, on Sunday she shared the fist place with Svenja Würth. Although we have to wait until the end of September for the first and only Grand-Prix-weekend of this summer, competitions in the lower-ranked series are already held. And so 22 jumpers from Germany, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Romania, Kazakhstan and Hungary met ...
Bad news for Canada’s Atsuko Tanaka. The 22 year old tore her Cruciate Ligament. The Canadian of Japanese origin spent time in Japan and did training on the hill in Sapporo. In a training unit there on June 14 she injured her left knee. Yesterday, back in Canada, it was diagnosed that her ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) is torn. She ...
FIS Congress in Barcelona decided upon competition schedules and rule modifications. The FIS Congress gathered this week in Barcelona and confirmed the calendars for the upcoming season and slightly changed the competition rules. In the future the qualification will reduce the number of competitors in a World Cup to 40. The prize money of 19890 CHF will now be divided ...