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On April 6, 2011, the International Olympic Committee officially accepted women's ski jumping into the official Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. On February 11, 2014, Carina Vogt of Germany won the first gold medal for women's ski jumping at the Winter Olympic Games. [1]
Ski jumping has been included at the Winter Olympics since 1924 and at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships since 1925. Women's participation in the sport began in the 1990s, while the first women's event at the Olympics has been held in 2014. All major ski jumping competitions are organised by the International Ski Federation.
The FIS Ski Jumping World Cup is the world's highest level of ski jumping and the FIS Ski Flying World Cup as the subdivisional part of the competition. It was founded by Torbjørn Yggeseth for the 1979/80 season and organized by the International Ski Federation. Women began competing during the 2011/12 season.
This is a list of medalists from the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in ski jumping. Bold numbers in brackets denotes record number of victories in corresponding disciplines. The Winter Olympics from 1924 to 1980 were also the Nordic World Ski Championships. This meant that the Olympic champions were also World champions and received an ...
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 ...
Katharina Schmid (née Althaus, born 23 May 1996) is a German ski jumper.She is a seven-time world champion, including one individual title and six team titles, as well as a two-time Olympic silver medalist, making her one of the most decorated athletes in the history of ski jumping.
A maximum of 105 athletes (65 male and 40 female) will be allowed to qualify for the ski jumping events. The quotas will be allocated using the Olympic Quota Allocation List, which is calculated using the FIS World Cup, FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix and Continental Cup Standings from seasons 2020–21 and 2021–22 added together.
Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing and ski jumping.The Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics has been held since the first Winter Olympics in 1924, while the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup has been held since 1983.