Ski jumping has been included in the program of every
Winter Olympic Games
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. From
1924
Events
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through to
1956
Events
January
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, the competition involved jumping from one hill whose length varied from each edition of the games to the next.
Most historians have placed this length at 70 meters and have classified this as the ''large hill''. (Recent information from the
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Switzerland
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have had the K-points from 1924 to 1956 determined as shown below). In 1960, the
ski jump hill was standardized to 80 meters. In 1964, a second ski jump, the ''normal hill'' at 70 meters (K90) was added along with the 80 meters (K120) large hill. The length of the large hill run in 1968 increased from 80 meters to 90 meters (K120). The team large hill event was added in 1988. By 1992, the ski jumping competitions were referred by their K-point distances rather than their run length prior to launching from the ski jump (90 meters for the normal hill and 120 meters for the large hill, respectively) and have been that way ever since. For the
2006 Winter Olympics
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, the normal hill was designated as HS106 (K95) while the large hill was designated as HS140 (K125).
On April 6, 2011, the
International Olympic Committee
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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
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 compe ...
of Germany won the first gold medal for women's ski jumping at the Winter Olympic Games.
Events
Medal table
Sources (after the
2022 Winter Olympics
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):
''Accurate as of
2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...
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''Note: a tie for silver and no bronze medal in the 1980 normal hill competition.''
Number of ski jumpers by nation
*
1 Athletes did not start at the Games.
See also
*
List of Olympic venues in ski jumping
References
* Wallenchinsky, David (1984). Ski Jump, 90-meter Hill. ''The Complete Book of The Olympics.''
External links
FIS Ski jumping results at the Winter Olympics
{{Sports at the Olympics
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Skiing at the Winter Olympics
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