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Ski Jumping Canada is funded through partnerships Sport Canada, Canadian Olympic Committee, and the Snow Sports Consortium's key partners - Karbon is the National team's official clothing sponsor, along with Bracelayer Canada and SEIZ.
Alexandria Loutitt (born 7 January 2004) is a Canadian ski jumper. [1] [2] She is the first ski jumper from Canada to win a gold medal at the World Championships and the first Canadian woman to win a World Cup individual competition. [3] [4] Loutitt trains in Slovenia, as the ski jumping facility at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary was shut ...
Starting with his example in 1915 until late 1959, annual ski jumping competitions were held on Mount Revelstoke — the ski hill Nelsen designed — the longest period of any Canadian ski jumping venue. Revelstoke's was the biggest natural ski jump hill in Canada and internationally recognized as one of the best in North America.
Tim Ashburn says in his book The History of Ski Jumping that Norheim's longest jump on the circular track in Haugli ground in 1868 should have been measured at 9.4 metres alen [8] but that newspapers in Christiania reported that the length "was a little exaggerated", so the official record is everywhere written as 19.5 m.
Snowflake Ski Jump, Westby, Wisconsin (Four Hills SuperTour) 118 | 106; Silvermine Ski Jump, Eau Claire, Wisconsin [4] Abandoned. Papoose Peak Jumps, Squaw Valley, California (Site of 1960 Winter Olympics) 80 | 60 | 40; Bakke Hill, Leavenworth, Washington (Site of United States Ski Jumping Championships in 1955, 1959, 1967, 1974 and 1978)
In January 2022, Strate was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team. [8] [9] [10] On February 7, Strate won the bronze medal as part of Canada's entry into the mixed team competition, alongside Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes, Alexandria Loutitt, and Matthew Soukup. [11] [12] [13] This was Canada's first ever Olympic medal in the sport of ski jumping. [14 ...
Nels Nelsen Hill (orig.: Big Hill) is an abandoned ski jumping hill located in Mount Revelstoke National Park near the city of Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada. The original hill, Big Hill, was built in 1916 and was the first permanent ski jump in Canada. By 1933, three world length records had been set on the Big Hill. It fell out of use ...
The facility has six jumps ranging in size from K4 to K95. Of the six jumps at Canada Olympic park three are used year-round (the K18, K38, and K63). The K4 and the K89 jumps are used exclusively in the summer months. The largest jump, the K95 is no longer used for ski jumping and serves exclusively as a party venue.