Daniela Iraschko won Wednesday’s competition in Rovaniemi ahead of Jessica Jerome and Lindsey Van. Iraschko and Jerome share the 1st rank in the overall standings now. It was a comprehensive victory for Austria’s Daniela Iraschko in today’s second Continental Cup competition in Rovaniemi. She jumped twice on 98.0 meters and thus beat her opponents by more then 20 points. It ...
Jessica Jerome won in Rovaniemi ahead of Daniela Iraschko and Line Jahr. America’s Jessica Jerome won the inaugural competition of this winter’s Continental Cup. On the Ounasvaaraa K90 hill in Rovaniemi, she came out on top by two jumps on 95.5 and 96.5 meters. It is the first victory in a CoC in her career. Austria’s Daniela Iraschko (93.0 and ...
Lindsey Van was best in Rovaniemi’s official training. Russian and Finnish team show up with new competitors. German team is unable to jump, as their luggage is missing. Tomorrow the inaugural competition of the 2010/2011 Continental Cup will be held in Rovaniemi. It is planned to hold 23 competitions at 12 venues till March. Highlight of the season will ...
Right before the beginning of the winter season, Ladies-Skijumping.com editor Stefan Diaz talked to Norway’s Anette Sagen about her expectations and on her difficult time in the summer. Ladies-Skijumping.com: You were unable to compete at the last CoC of the summer in Liberec because of your injured knee. Is everything fine again? Anette Sagen: Yes, my knee is actually a ...
A large number of athletes from America will attend the competitions in Scandinavia. Sigurd Pettersen is the team’s new assistant coach. The U.S. team will attend the first Continental Cups of this winter with a fairly large number of competitors. As many as nine jumpers will go on the trip to Scandinavia: Lindsey Van, Jessica Jerome, Alissa Johnson, Abby Hughes, ...
Gyda Enger won the Norwegian Championships in Vikersund. Line Jahr and Maren Lundby took second and third rank. The Norwegian Championships on the large hill in Vikersund (K105) were already held on Saturday. With jumps on 102.0 and 110.0 meters, Gyda Enger claimed victory. Second rank took Line Jahr (101.0 and 101.5 m), third Maren Lundby (91.5 and 99.0 m). ...
In June Switzerland’s Salome Fuchs tore her left knee’s ACL. Now Ladies-Skijumping.com editor Stefan Diaz talked to her about the recovery process. Ladies-Skijumping.com: How is the recovery of your knee going? Salome Fuchs: Well, after the second surgery everything just went very slowly. I had a lot of problems at first, the knee was aching and always swollen. But in ...
Anette Sagen was awarded a grant of 250.000 Norwegian Crowns by IOC member Gerhard Heiberg. Norwegian ski jumper Anette Sagen was awarded with a grant of 250.000 Crowns (about 31.000 €) by Norwegian IOC member Gerhard Heiberg. The ceremony took place during an opening of a restaurant in Oslo Holmenkollen. The prize was sponsored by Eiendomsspar AS. “There are ...
IOC placed the decision on an Olympic Ladies Skijumping competition on hold. At its meeting in Acapulco (MEX), the IOC Executive Board has put back the decision, if Ladies Skijumping will be Olympic in 2014. It is now planned to decide after the World Championships in Oslo in March. There the discipline will have to prove, that it is developed ...
Norway’s Mari Backe quit her career. Already after the last winter she has retired from skijumping and was not participating in this summer’s competitions anymore. The reason for her retirement was a lack of motivation. Right now she is working in a kindergarten, but plans to attend a school of physiotherapy next year. So maybe she will return to the ...