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RusSki Gorki Jumping Center
The RusSki Gorki Jumping Center is a ski jumping venue located in the Esto-Sadok village on the northern slope of Aibga Ridge in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. History It hosted the ski jumping and the ski jumping part of the Nordic combined event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in .... Two Olympic jumps of K95 (HS102) and K125 (HS140) are constructed for these games with scheduled completion in 2011. Additional hills for youth training of K72, K45 and K25 will be constructed with the Olympic hills. It was first used in 2012. Events Men women References Sochi2014.com profile Venues of the 2014 Winter Olympics Ski jumping venues in Russia Olympic Nordic combined venues Olympic ski jumping venues Sport in Krasnodar Kra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sochi
Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in the urban area. The city covers an area of , while the Greater Sochi Area covers over . Sochi stretches across , and is the longest city in Europe, the fifth-largest city in the Southern Federal District, the second-largest city in Krasnodar Krai, and the sixth-largest city on the Black Sea. Being a part of the Caucasian Riviera, it is one of the very few places in Russia with a subtropical climate, with warm to hot summers and mild to cool winters. Sochi hosted the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games in 2014. It hosted the alpine and Nordic Olympic events at the nearby ski resort of Rosa Khutor in Krasnaya Polyana. It also hosted the Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix from 2014 until 2021. It was also one of the host c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Wank
Andreas Wank (; born 18 February 1988) is a German former ski jumper who competed at World Cup level from 2004 to 2019. He currently works in a supporting role as part of the German national ski jumping team. Early career Wank began early on with ski jumping. At only 12 years old, he won the 2000 German schools championship (Deutsche Schülermeisterschaft). In 2001, he reached 3rd place in the Schülercup in the overall standings. He also earned 3rd place in the overall standings of the Germany Cup. In 2002, he was on the team for the German Championships. He won the silver medal in the team competition. A year later he started again in junior ranking and became German Vice-Junior Champion. In addition, he again reached 3rd Place in the overall standings of the Germany Cup. Later career From 2004, Wank started in the Continental Cup and achieved in his second jump in Rovaniemi, with his first podium place 3. Then Wank was in the National Group for World Cup jumping in Oberstdor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carina Vogt
Carina Vogt (born 5 February 1992) is a German former ski jumper. Career She won the first Olympic gold medal ever awarded for women's ski jumping, at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games. Vogt's international debut was in the Meinerzhagen competition. She participated in the FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup from 2006 to 2012. Vogt's debut in the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup took place in January 2012 in Hinterzarten. She achieved her first World Cup victory on 18 January 2015 in Zaō, Japan. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, she won the bronze medal in the mixed normal hill competition together with Ulrike Gräßler, Richard Freitag, and Severin Freund. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun, she won the gold medal in the individual normal hill competition. With the German team (Richard Freitag, Katharina Althaus, Severin Freund), she won another gold medal in the mixed normal hill competition. She was able to repeat both wins two years la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coline Mattel
Coline Mattel (born 3 November 1995) is a French former ski jumper. At the 2014 Winter Olympics she won a bronze medal becoming the first French ski jumping Olympic medalist. In World Championships in Oslo 2011 she took 3rd place. In World Cup she debuted on 3 December 2011 in Lillehammer where she took 2nd place, her first World Cup podium. Career Coline Mattel made her debut in Ladies Continental Cup in Schonach at the age of 11. In her first Junior World Championships in Tarvisio (Italy) in 2007 she was placed 18th. In the Junior World Championships 2009 in Strbske Pleso Mattel won the bronze medal in the individual competition. In World Championships in Liberec 2009 she took 5th place. She won one training round before the competition with a jump of 99 metres. In the FIS Junior Ski Jumping World Championships 2010 in Hinterzarten she won the silver medal and the gold medal in the FIS Junior Ski Jumping World Championships 2011 in Otepää Mattel took 1st place in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Iraschko-Stolz
Daniela Iraschko-Stolz ( Iraschko; born 21 November 1983) is an Austrian ski jumper and footballer. She is one of the ski jumping's most successful female athletes, having won the 2014/15 women's World Cup season, and has the third most individual female World Cup wins – 12 – as of March 2017. Since 2003 she has held the women's ski flying world record of , and remains the only woman to reach that distance. In football she has played at the highest levels of the domestic women's game. Career Ski jumping Iraschko-Stolz has competed in ski jumping since 2000. She is best known for her three individual victories at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival (2000, 2001, 2003). In 2009–10 she won the women's Continental Cup. She won the gold medal at the 2007 Winter Universiade in Turin, gold at the 2011 Ski Jumping World Championships in Holmenkollen, and silver at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. At World Cup level, she has nine individual wins and finished second overall in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anette Sagen
Anette Sagen (born 10 January 1985) is a Norwegian former ski jumper. Career She is one of the best female jumpers of all time. She received a lot of media attention in 2004, when she was denied the opportunity to jump K-185 in Vikersund, in spite of her good results. The struggle was over whether the quality of female ski jumpers was high enough to allow women to jump in these venues. Torbjørn Yggeseth, the chairman of the ski jump committee of the International Ski Federation, was Sagen's main opponent. The debate soon developed into a struggle over women's rights in the world of sports. Competing since 2003, Sagen won the women's ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 2004 and 2005, the last two years the event was held. She also has forty additional victories as of 2009. On 20 February 2009 Sagen won the bronze medal in the first ever World Championship ski jumping competition for women. After a plebiscite and the decision by the city council in Oslo, Sagen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Takanashi
(born 8 October 1996) is a Japanese Ski jumping, ski jumper. She is one of the most successful female ski jumpers to date, as well as one of the most successful athletes in the history of the sport, having won four FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, World Cup overall titles (an all-time female record), seven FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, World Championship medals, and a Winter Olympic medal. , Takanashi holds the record for the most individual World Cup wins, male or female, with 63. She also has three Guinness World Records certificates for the most podium finishes in the Ski Jumping World Cup, the most individual victories by a female in the Ski Jumping World Cup, and the most Ski Jumping World Cup individual victories in a career (overall). Career Takanashi placed sixth in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011, 2011 World Championship in Oslo. In the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, World Cup she debuted on 3 December 2011 in Lillehammer where she took fifth place. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Hendrickson
Sarah Catherine Hendrickson (born August 1, 1994) is an American retired ski jumper. She won the inaugural women's World Cup season in 2012, finished runner-up in 2013, and won an individual gold medal at the 2013 World Championships. Career Hendrickson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. She attended Park City High School until 2011, when she began competing in the Ski Jumping World Cup. During this she moved to The Winter Sports School in Park City, where she graduated in November 2012. In the first ever women's World Cup season in 2011/12, Hendrickson dominated by winning nine competitions; her first being on December 3, 2011 in Lillehammer. The 2012/13 season saw her win four World Cup competitions while finishing runner-up to nearest rival Sara Takanashi. Hendrickson was also able to win the women's event at the 2013 Ski Jumping World Championships in Val di Fiemme. On August 21, 2013 in Oberstdorf, Hendrickson suffered a serious knee injury which required reconstruc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daiki Ito
is a Japanese former ski jumper who competed at World Cup level between 2002 and 2022. Career He won two bronze medals in the team large hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships ( 2007, 2009). He won four world cup individual competitions. Competing in two Winter Olympics, Ito earned his best finish of fifth in the team large hill event at Vancouver in 2010, He finished 20th in the individual event and 5th in the team event of a FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2004. In the World Cup he has finished in the top 10 a total of fourteen times. This includes four podium finishes with his best result being second at Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous cit ... on 22 January 2006. World Cup Standings Wins References External links * * * {{DEFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taku Takeuchi
is a Japanese ski jumper who has competed since 2006. His best individual result was in 2013 when he finished 2nd at Klingenthal. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ..., Takeuchi finished fifth in the team large hill, 34th in the individual normal hill, and 37th in the individual large hill events. External links * 1987 births Living people Japanese male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers of Japan Ski jumpers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in ski jumping Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping {{Japan-skijumping-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reruhi Shimizu
is a Japanese ski jumper from Myōkō, Niigata. Shimizu's debut in FIS Ski Jumping World Cup took place in November 2012 in Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municip .... On 23 November 2013, he won bronze at a team event with Japan in Klingenthal at large hill. His first name, Reruhi, refers to Austrian military officer Theodor Edler von Lerch, who introduced skiing to Japan in 1911. References 1993 births Living people Japanese male ski jumpers Ski jumpers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic ski jumpers of Japan Olympic bronze medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in ski jumping Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics {{Japan-skijumping-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Diethart
Thomas Diethart (born 25 February 1992) is an Austrian former ski jumper who won the 2014 Four Hills Tournament. Career Diethart's debut in the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup took place in January 2011 in Innsbruck. He won his first podium, a third place, in Oberstdorf in 2013. His first world cup win took place just a few days later in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, when he won against his teammate Thomas Morgenstern and the Swiss Simon Ammann. After a 5th place in Innsbruck, he proceeded to win his second world cup jump in Bischofshofen, which also meant the triumph of the well-respected Four Hills Tournament. Diethart competed for Austria at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia in men's ski jumping in both the individual normal hill and large hill events. In the normal hill he qualified for the finals and placed fourth, while, in the large hill he did not qualify for the finals and placed 32nd. Then as part of the Austrian team along with Michael Hayböck, Thomas Morgenstern and G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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