Christian Meyer is new head coach of the Norwegian team. He signed a contract until 2014. The Norwegian ski federation “Norges Skiforbund” has installed Christian Meyer as new head coach for the ladies team. The contract he signed expires after the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. Meyer is successor to Frode Håre, who coached the team in the last four years, ...
The Swiss national ski association “Swiss Ski” has presented Sven Arnold as new coach of the ladies team. There will be a major change in the Swiss team next season. Pipo Schödler, who served as coach of the ladies’ team for many years, switches to the men’s team. There he will manage the second training group in the future. New ...
FIS presented a final calendar draft for the first Ladies World Cup season, that will be held next winter. At it’s sub-committee meeting last weekend in Zurich, FIS presented a final calendar draft for next winter’s Ladies World Cup and for the summer and winter Continental Cups. This draft can still be modified at the calendar conference in Portoroz in ...
The IOC has added Ladies Skijumping to the Olympic programme. The dream of all female jumpers has come true. Ladies Skijumping is added to the Olympic Winter Games programme in Sochi! The IOC made this decision today on it’s meeting in London. Also ski half-pipe, biathlon mixed relay, figure skating team and luge team are included to the Olympic programme. ...
Coline Mattel won in Chaux Neuve ahead of Julia Clair and Lea Lemare. On the weekend the French championships were held in Chaux Neuve. As there were only four Ladies on the start list, the competition was held together with the championships of the men. The Ladies jumped with the same inrun length as the men, so they were ...
Maren Lundby won the national championships in Sprova ahead of Gyda Enger and Silje Sprakehaug. On Saturday the Norwegian normal hill nationals were held on the HS 100 in Steinkjer-Sprova. There was heavy snowfall all day there, so only one competition round was held. There were seven competitors on the start list. By a jump on 96.5 meters Maren Lundby ...
All ski jumpers that attended the Continental Cups in Zao (Yamagata) were not harmed by the earthquake in Japan. The heavy earthquake that hit Japan today caused great anxiety also in the ski jumping family. Zao – where the final competitions of this winter’s Ladies Continental Cup were held on the last two days – is less then 100 km ...
The competition in Zao (Yamagata) on Thursday was cancelled due to strong wind. Like many times before in this winter, the weather conditions played there little game today. The final competition of this season’s Continental Cup, that was planned to be held in Zao, was cancelled due to strong wind. So Japan’s Yuki Ito, who won yesterday’s competition, remains the ...
Yuki Ito won in Zao ahead of Jacqueline Seifriedsberger and Maja Vtic. Japan’s Yuki Ito won the first Continental Cup in Zao on Wednesday. It is her first career win, after finishing third already four times. A pair of jumps on 94.0 and 87.0 meters was sufficient for her to win by 1.5 points ahead of Austria’s Jacqueline Seifriedsberger (93.5 ...
Jacqueline Seifriedsberger, Maja Vtic and Atsuko Tanaka performed best in the official training in Zao (Yamagata). The official training for the final Continental Cups of this winter was held today in the afternoon in Zao. In the first of the two training rounds, Slovenia’s Maja Vtic performed best by jumping 87.5 meters. Second of the round was Germany’s Melanie Faisst ...