Sara Takanashi best in official training, Katja Pozun won qualification. The Ladies World Cup continues this weekend in Schonach, after a two-week Christmas break. As usual here in Schonach, the competitions are hosted together by the Ski Clubs of Schonach and Schönwald, a neighboring town that abandoned it’s own K85 jumping hills some years ago and since uses the K95 ...
Finland’s Julia Kykkänen broke her collarbone after falling at home. Bad luck for Julia Kykkänen. The best Finish jumper of the last years fell totally unlucky in her own backyard in Lahti and thereby broke her collarbone. A surgery to fix the rupture will be done on Monday. After that a plan for the healing process will be evaluated. At ...
Ranked seventh in the overall World Cup, Carina Vogt is currently the best German jumper. Right before the World Cups in Schonach and Hinterzarten Ladies-Skijumping.com Editor Stefan Diaz talked to her. Ladies-Skijumping.com: Hello, Carina. We will have four World Cups in Germany in the next two weeks. Isn’t it time for the first German podium of this winter?Carina Vogt: Certainly ...
Ema Klinec won both OPA Alpen Cups this weekend in Winterberg. Ramona Straub and Barbara Klinec second and third. The first two Alpen Cup competitions of this winter were held in Winterberg, Germany, this weekend. Winner on both days came Slovenia’s Ema Klinec. On Saturday she won with a pair of jumps of 77.0 and 76.5 meters. Second came Germany’s ...
Sara Takanashi won in Ramsau ahead of Coline Mattel and Daniela Iraschko. Overall World Cup leader Sara Takanashi (JPN) won today’s World Cup competition in Ramsau and so celebrated her second season win. There was sunny and nice weather all day, but during the competition, that was held in the evening, there was some tailwind almost all the time. Because ...
Alissa Johnson won the Qualification in Ramsau, Jacqueline Seifriedsberger best in official training. The World Cup continues tomorrow in Ramsau, Austria, and there finally a competition will be held in a snowy setting. A big contrast to the first World Cups in Lillehammer and Sochi where only the jumping hill was snow-covered. Already today official training and qualification were held. ...
After Elena Runggaldier’s fall at yesterday’s World Cup in Sochi a concussion was diagnosed. Italy’s Elena Runggaldier suffered a severe fall in the second round of the World Cup competition in Sochi on Sunday. After the dangerous fall 22-year-old was quickly able to leave the outrun on her own, but further hospital examination diagnosed a mild concussion. In the first ...
Coline Mattel and Daniela Iraschko share the first place in Sochi. Sara Takanashi third. The second World Cup in Sochi today can just be described by three facts: Nice jumps, nice weather and an exceptional result. In the end the competition did not have one but two winners, as Austria’s Daniela Iraschko and France’s Coline Mattel both scored 231.1 points ...
Sarah Hendrickson won the first World Cup in Sochi ahead of Sara Takanashi and Anette Sagen. Sarah Hendrickson (USA) won the first Word Cup on the K95 hill in Sochi, Russia, where the 2014 Olympic Games will be held. With a pair of jumps of 103.5 and 103.0 meters she won ahead of Japan’s Sara Takanashi (106.0 and 104.0 m), ...
Aircraft with jumpers hit by lighting on the way to Sochi. Seifriedsberger best in official training. Next stop for the Ski Jumping World Cup is Sochi, Russia. There the athletes have the chance to try out the facilities for their Olympic premiere next winter. The jumping hills are located in Krasnaya Polyana, a mountain area above the city of Sochi. ...