Ema Klinec, Spela Rogelj, Ursa Bogataj, Maja Vtic and Katja Pozun won the first Ladies Cup competitions of this season. The first competitions of this Summer were held on the weekend in Kisovec. The inaugural competitions of this season’s Ladies Cup, the international junior series in Ladies Skijumping were held there. As usual in this series, the competitions were held ...

The calendar for the Ladies Cup, the junior series in Ladies Skijumping has been released. After it’s successful first run in the last year, the Ladies Cup Skijumping will be arranged also in the 2011/2012 season. This junior ski jumping series is a competition platform for girls from twelve upwards on mid-size jumping hills (50 to 80 meters). The Ladies ...

With six CoC-wins and Gold and Bronze medals at Worlds and Junior Worlds, France’s Coline Mattel was the breaking jumper of the last winter season. Ladies-Skijumping.com editor Stefan Diaz talked to her about this successful winter and her preparations for the upcoming World Cup. Ladies-Skijumping.com: Coline, the last season was the most successful one in your career so far. You ...

Primož Peterka was assigned as assistant coach to the Slovenian ladies team. The coaching staff of Slovenia’s ladies team will face a minor change in the next season. Matjaz Triplat remains head coach of the ladies team, but he will be supported by the two-time World Cup overall winner Primož Peterka as assistant coach. Already in the last week, the ...

The Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) recruited Harald Rodlauer as new Ladies Skijumping head coach. The changes in the coaching stuff of the national teams continue. After Switzerland, Norway and Germany also Austria replaced it’s head coach now. Josef “Sepp” Walluschnig, who coached the team in the last couple of years, switches to the men’s second team as assistant coach. Under ...

Germany has now released it’s squad list for the upcoming season. Germany’s national ski association, Deutscher Skiverband (DSV), nominated it’s teams for the 2011/12 season. Thirteen athletes claimed a place in the squad, that consists of two training groups and a promotion group. In addition to the training groups, all athletes are ranked from A to C by performance criteria. ...

Switzerland’s Salome Fuchs underwent a further knee surgery last week.   The troubles Switzerland’s Salome Fuchs is having with her knee keep going on. After tearing her left knee’s ACL at a training jump on Einsiedeln’s K70 last June, she underwent two surgeries and there was good hope that she could jump again in February. But unfortunately the healing process ...

Austria will run the upcoming season with ten athletes in three teams. Austria has nominated it’s teams for the next season. Unsurprisingly last winter’s overall CoC winner Daniela Iraschko and Jacqueline Seifriedsberger are forming the national team. Cornelia Roider and Katharina Keil are in the B-team. Members of the six-strong junior team are Chiara Hölzl, Michaela Kranzl, Verena Pock, Elisabeth ...

Twelve athletes in three groups are in Italy’s team for the 2011/12 season. Barbara Stuffer takes time out. The Italian Winter Sports Federation (Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali – FISI) has nominated it’s teams for the 2011/12 season. 12 athletes in three groups are in the team. The Group “A” with Lisa Demetz, Roberta D’Agostina, Evelyn Insam and Oslo silver medallist ...

Germany’s Deutscher Skiverband installed Andreas Bauer as new head coach, Daniel Vogler remains assistant. After Switzerland and Norway, also Germany makes some changes in it’s coaching staff. Germany’s national ski association, Deutscher Skiverband (DSV), has installed Andreas Bauer as new national coach for Ladies Skijumping. Daniel Vogler, who worked in an honorary capacity as head coach during the last 11 ...