The Women's normal hill individual competition of the
Beijing 2022 Olympics was held on 5 February, at the
Snow Ruyi hill in
Zhangjiakou
Zhangjiakou (; ; ) also known as Kalgan and by several other names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province in Northern China, bordering Beijing to the southeast, Inner Mongolia to the north and west, and Shanxi to the southw ...
.
Summary
Urša Bogataj
Urša Bogataj (born 7 March 1995) is a Slovenian ski jumper. She is the 2022 Olympic champion in the women's normal hill individual event.
She made her World Cup
A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entitie ...
of Slovenia won the event; it was also her first Olympic medal.
Katharina Althaus
Katharina Althaus (born 23 May 1996) is a German ski jumper who has competed at World Cup level since the 2011/12 season. She finished runner-up in the 2017/18 season overall standings, and won individual silver medals at the 2018 and 2022 Winte ...
of Germany repeated her 2018 performance and won the silver medal, thereby becoming the first woman who won multiple Olympic medals in ski jumping.
Nika Križnar
Nika Križnar (born 9 March 2000) is a Slovenian Ski jumping, ski jumper.
Career
In the 2020–21 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, 2020–21 World Cup season, she won the overall title after finishing nine points above Sara Takanashi. At the 2022 Wint ...
, also from Slovenia, won bronze. It was Slovenia's first ever gold medal in ski jumping.
The 2018 champion,
Maren Lundby
Maren Lundby (born 7 September 1994) is a Norwegian ski jumper. She is one of the most successful ski jumpers, male or female, having won three consecutive World Cup overall titles (an all-time record), thirty individual World Cup wins, and gold ...
, withdrew from the Olympics. The 2018 silver medalist, Althaus, and the bronze medalist,
Sara Takanashi
(born 8 October 1996) is a Japanese 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 World Cup overall titles (an all-time fema ...
, both qualified.
Ema Klinec
Ema Klinec (born 2 July 1998) is a Slovenian ski jumper. In February 2021, she became the first Slovenian female ski jumping world champion after winning the normal hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021.
On 18 March 2023, Kli ...
competed as the
2021 World champion.
Marita Kramer
Sara Marita Kramer (born 25 October 2001) is a Dutch-born Austrian ski jumper.
Biography
Kramer was born in the Netherlands, but moved from Apeldoorn to Maria Alm in Austria aged 6 when her parents started a pancake restaurant. This was document ...
was leading the
2021–22 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup at the start of the Olympics, having won six out of eleven events before the Olympics. However, she had to withdraw from the games due to a coronavirus infection. In the World Cup ranking, she was followed by Althaus and Bogataj.
Althaus was leading after the first round, with Bogataj second and Križnar third. In the final round, Bogataj jumped six meters further than Althaus, and won the competition with an overall score of 239 points.
Qualification
Results
The final was started at 18:45.
Final results
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References
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Ski jumping at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Women's events at the 2022 Winter Olympics