Tag: FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
SKI JUMPING: Takanashi ends Lundby’s win streak at six in Ljubno
The conditions were much less than ideal, with so much wind that the qualifying round for the women’s jumpers in Ljubno (SLO) had to...
SKI JUMPING Preview: Kobayashi looks for 11th win this season; Lundby trying for six...
With two weeks to go to the World Nordic Championships, there are two more stops on the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup tour, starting...
SKI JUMPING: Zajc, Kobayashi and Stoch triumph in Obertsdorf Ski-Flying weekend
This was the first weekend of jumping off the massive ski-flying hills of more than 200 m, in this case the 235 m hill...
SKI JUMPING: Ski Flying season takes off in Obertsdorf!
Your typical hill for most men’s World Cup ski jumping competitions is 130-150 meters, certainly a challenge. But this week’s jumping will be off...
SKI JUMPING: Austria’s Kraft and Norway’s Lundby sweep weekend jumps
Two jumpers – Austria’s Stefan Kraft and Norway’s Maren Lundby – dominated the men’s and women’s competitions this weekend in Japan and Romania.
Kraft (AUT),...
SKI JUMPING Preview: Will Sapporo be a happy homecoming for Kobayashi?
Exactly halfway through the men’s World Cup schedule for 2018-19, the superstar of the first half of the circuit will be jumping in front...
SKI JUMPING: Veterans Kraft and Iraschko-Stolz collect wins in Zakopane and Japan
Good weekend for two of the storied jumpers in the history of the sport: Austria’s Stefan Kraft and Daniela Iraschko-Stolz.
Kraft, who dominated the 2016-17...
SKI JUMPING Preview: Kobayashi faces Stoch, Kubacki and Zyla … in Poland
The amazing season for Japan’s 21-year-old Ryoyu Kobayashi will get one of its sternest tests this week in Zakopane (POL), where he will face...
SKI JUMPING: Kobayashi equals all-time World Cup record of six consecutive wins
The amazing story of 22-year-old Japanese star Ryoyu Kobayashi continued at Val di Fiemme, as he won his sixth straight World Cup event, overwhelming...
SKI JUMPING Preview: Can Kobayashi keep his streak alive? How about Althaus?
The FIS Ski Jumping World Cup continues for the men in Val di Fiemme for the men and in Sapporo (JPN) for the women,...
SKI JUMPING: Kobayashi completes Four Hills sweep with win in Bischofshofen!
In the first 65 editions of the Four Hills Tournament, only Germany’s Sven Hannawald had managed to win the sport’s “Grand Slam” by winning...
SKI JUMPING: Kobayashi wins second Four Hills tourney at Garmisch
When Poland’s Kamil Stoch swept all four stages of the Four Hills Tournament last year for the first time since Sven Hannawald (GER), who managed...
SKI JUMPING: Kobayashi takes Four Hills opener in Obertsdorf
He did it again!
Japan’s Ryoyu Kobayashi had never won a World Cup event coming into the season. Now he has five wins in the...
SKI JUMPING Preview: Four Hills Tournament starts in Obertsdorf
It’s the end of the year – and the start of a new one – so it’s time for the famed Four Hills Tournament...
SKI JUMPING: Althaus sweeps first World Cups in Premanon
Is this the year for Germany’s Katharina Althaus?
Second in the World Cup seasonal standings to Norway’s Maren Lundby, Althaus is quickly stamping this season...
SKI JUMPING: Kobayashi stays in front in Engelberg
We’re still early in the 2018-19 World Cup season, but the question being asked is whether Japan’s 27-year-old Ryoyu Kobayashi is the real deal,...
SKI JUMPING Preview: Women’s jumping arrives for the first time in Premanon
The expansion of the women’s World Cup program from 17 to 25 events allows for new venues, like this week’s double at Premanon in...
SKI JUMPING Preview: Men get back on track in Engelberg
The men’s World Cup season has been in the midst of an unplanned break thanks to the cancellation of the jumping at Titisee-Neustadt (GER)...
SKI JUMPING: Germany sweeps Lillehammer Triple
The season opener for the women’s Ski Jumping World Cup was the Lillehammer Triple, not simply three events in three days, but also a...
SKI JUMPING: Kobayashi impressive at Nizhny Tagil
What’s gotten into Japan’s Ryoyu Kobayashi ?
Just 22, he came into this season with a grand total of one World Cup medal, a bronze...
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