Sara Takanashi won the Junior World Championships in Val di Fiemme ahead of Coline Mattel and Maren Lundby. This is Takanashi’s third title in a row, fifth medal for Mattel! Kudos! Sara Takanashi won the third Junior World Championships in a row. After Erzurum 2012 and Liberec 2013 she won also Fiemme 2014! With this victory Takanashi wrote history, as ...
The official trainings for the Junior World Championships in Val di Fiemme were held today in Predazzo. Maren Lundby and Sara Takanashi performed best. Right between the World Cups in Planica and Hinzenbach, the Junior World Championships take place this week in Val di Fiemme, Italy. The individual competiton will be held tomorrow, the team event is scheduled for Thursday. ...
Also Canada, Italy, Japan and Austria have now nominated their teams for the Olympics. Canada officially presented all it’s Olympic teams to the public on Sunday afternoon in Vancouver. The three-strong team for Ladies Ski Jumping will consist of Alexandra Pretorius, Atsuko Tanaka and Taylor Henrich. Pretorius, with two Grand Prix victories best Canadian jumper of the last two years, ...
Daniela Iraschko-Stolz won also the second competition in Planica ahead of Sara Takanashi and Carina Vogt. Austria’s Daniela Iraschko-Stolz won also on Sunday on the normal hill in Planica. Like on Saturday, Sara Takanashi from Japan and Carina Vogt from Germany took places two and three behind her. Again the weather was nice and sunny, but the slight tailwind that ...
Daniela Iraschko-Stolz wins on Saturday in Planica ahead of Sara Takanashi and Carina Vogt. A snow-covered landscape, blue sky, sunshine and temperatures about 0°. There were almost perfect conditions today in Planica for a ski jumping competition. Well, only almost, as there was a decent breeze of tailwind at the hill all the time that made it tough to jump ...
The official training in Planica on Friday was cancelled due to heavy snowfall. If the weather has a sense of humor, then it has to be a dark one. There was no snow in Europe this winter and there were green landscapes all around – even in the Alps. The lacking of snow was also the reason, why this World ...
Germany, Slovenia and the United States nominated their teams for the Olympic Games. Ulrike Grässler and Sarah Hendrickson part of their teams. Also Germany, Slovenia and the United States now have nominated their teams for the Olympic Games in Sochi. Germany and Slovenia are both eligible to nominate the maximum quota of four jumpers for the Games, the United States ...
After a five month break due to a knee injury Sarah Hendrickson restarted jumping. Reigning World Champion Sarah Hendrickson (USA) has successfully returned to ski jump training, just five months after sustaining a knee injury during a training jump in Obersdorf, Germany. For the past week, Hendrickson has been jumping the 90-meter hill at Utah Olympic Park in Park City ...
FIS has published the quotas for the Olympic Games in Sochi. 30 jumpers from 12 countries will compete. Anette Sagen out of Norwegian team. The International Ski Federation (FIS) has now published the quotas for the Olympic games in Sochi. These quotas, that are based on the overall World and Continental Cups from this and the last season, specify how ...
Sara Takanashi won on Sunday in Zao ahead of Carina Vogt and Bigna Windmüller. There was strong snowfall in Zao today, and so it was totally unclear if it would be possible to hold a competition at all. The trial round was canceled and the start of the competition was delayed a little, but eventually it was possible to hold ...