Austria’s Daniela Iraschko-Stolz has to quit the running World Cup season immediately. She suffered a meniscal laceration during training on Monday in Seefeld. Already on Tuesday morning Iraschko-Stolz was operated by Dr. Christan Hoser at “Sanatorium Hochrum”. The surgery of the left knee went successful and complication-free. If the healing process runs fine, she has to take a break of ...

Sofya Tikhonova won both FIS Cup competitions this weekend in Rasnov. Ursa Bogataj takes the overall Cup. The only two FIS Cup competitions of this winter were held this weekend in Rasnov, Romania. Venue for this competitions was the K64/HS71 hill, so also junior athletes were able to compete there. A handful of jumpers from Kazakhstan and Hungary made use ...

Bad luck for Slovenia’s Anja Tepes: During training on the hill in Planica yesterday the 22-year old re-injured her knee. Anja Tepes fell severely last March in Oslo and thereby damaged her cruciate ligament, her collateral ligament and her meniscus. As she felt some movement in her knee when landing a training jump yesterday in Planica, she went to hospital ...

The injury Ramona Straub suffered through her fall in the Continental Cup in Lahti on Saturday is worse then expected. Germany’s Ramona Straub is the next who signs her name to the long list of jumpers with a torn ACL. She fell on Saturday in the Continental Cup competition in Lahti, and thereby suffered this injury. Straub landed her second ...

Anna Häfele won on Sunday in Lahti ahead of Juliane Seyfarth and Sofya Tikhonova. Second Continental Cup in Lahti – second double victory for Germany. Yesterday’s best two jumpers, Juliane Seyfarth and Anna Häfele, were also today able to celebrate a double win. The winner of yesterday, Seyfarth, came second today, while Häfele was victorious. To win this competition Häfele ...

Olympic Champion Carina Vogt traveled back home to Germany yesterday. A large crowd welcomed her back home today and celebrated a big party on the market square of her hometown. In the morning a reception was held in the sports hall of Carina Vogt’s hometown Waldstetten. Although about thousand people had gathered there to welcome her home, the atmosphere felt ...

Juliane Seyfarth won on Saturday in Lahti ahead of Anna Häfele and Anna Odine Strøm. After a break of almost two month, the Continental Cup continues this weekend in Lahti, Finland. Although no World Cups are held at the moment, only 21 Jumpers from six nations gathered there, as the Olympic athletes are using this weekend to take a rest. ...

The medals were given tonight to Carina Vogt, Daniela Iraschko-Stolz and Coline Mattel. One day after the historic Ladies Skijumping competition at Olympic Games, Carina Vogt, Daniela Iraschko-Stolz and Coline Mattel received their medals on the Medals Plaza in the center of Sochi Olympic Park. A large crowd of people with the Olympic flame in their back created a very ...

Carina Vogt won at the Olympic Games in Sochi. Silver was taken by Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, Bronze by Coline Mattel. A piece of sports history was written today in Sochi. For the first time ever a Ladies Skijumping competition was held at Olympic Games. For other new events at the Olympics it is just normal that both, women and men compete, ...

Carina Vogt is on the first place after the first round ahead of Coline Mattel and Sara Takanashi. Carina Vogt (103.0 m) leads after the first round ahead of Coline Mattel (99.5m) and Sara Takanashi (100.0 m). Evelyn Insam (98.5 m) is fourth, Daniela Iraschko-Stolz (98.5 m) fifth. Maja Vtic (100.5 m) on the sixth place is 6.7 points behind ...