Beezie Madden (USA), finished the final round with a score of 41.66, while riding her horse Simon. Madden had to win a jump off over Steve Guerdat (SUI) to take home the title. Madden is only the 5th woman in history to win the title.
The Olympic champ Steve Guerdat (SUI) finished second in the WC standings after losing a jump off against American Beezie Madden for the overall title. Guerdat and his horse, Nino Des Buissonnets, finished the final round with a score of 30.33.
American Beezie Madden talks about her historic win, as she becomes only the 5th woman in the history of the tournament to win the title.
Jurij Tepes (SLO) ends the season with a bang, helping his team win yesterday and today he scores his first solo world cup win, he finishes 13th of the season.
In the Ski flying final Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT) couldn’t crack the top ten, finishing 11th, but it didn’t matter as her won the overall World Cup by 621 points, his first Globle win was in 2009.
Andreas Wank (GER) probably wishes the World Cup ended one day sooner, as he wipes out hard, taking one of his skis to his groin and walking away gingerly.
In 1972, the first Ski Flying World Championships were hosted on the new “Velikanka”, which is one of the most unusual ski jumps in the world.
In 1972, the first Ski Flying World Championships were hosted on the new “Velikanka”, which is one of the most unusual ski jumps in the world.
Ander Bardal jumped 230 meters on his frist jump the biggest of the day, and although he couldn’t quite control the landing (hurting his points), he helped Norway take 2nd on the day and 2nd in the World Cup.
Martin Koch and Gregor Schlierenzauer posted Austria’s biggest jumps of the day, as they finished 3rd, enough to secure their overall world cup victory.
Jurij Tepes posted two big jumps that helped Slovenia win the final team event. Solvenia would finish 4th of the season.
Piotr Zyla (POL) finished in a tie for 1st with Gregor Schlierenzauer after they both finished with 270.1 points. Zyla finished in 3rd place in the final overall standings.
Anja Tepes (SLO) took a hard fall after landing awkwardly in her 2nd run. Tepes would finish the competition in 29th place.
American Sarah Hendrickson talks about how excited she is to win the last event of the World Cup season.
Piotr Zyla (POL) and Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT) discuss how special it is to close out the World Cup season with a tie in the final event.
Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT) finished the final event tied for 1st place with Piotr Zyla (POL). Schlierenzauer won the overall standing with 1496 points.
Sara Takanashi (JPN) finished 2nd in the final event of the WC season with a score of 260. American Sarah Hendrickson finished 1st in the event and 2nd overall.
Sarah Hendrickson (USA) won the competition with a score of 262.8, over 2nd place Sara Takanashi (JPN). Takanashi went on to win the overall standing with Hendrickson taking 2nd place.
Norway’s capital Oslo is one of the most traditional places for Winter sports that you can find. With a population of about 600,000, Oslo and its winter sports arena in Holmenkollen have been the setting for a great number of ski events.
Kamil Stoch (POL) talks about how he won his second consecutive Ski Jump after a bad 1st jump.
Kamil Stoch (POL) picked up his second win in a row when he finished with 280.4 points, beating out 2nd place Richard Freitag (GER). Kamil Stoch also became the Ski Jumping champ at Val di Fiemme last month.
Richard Freitag (GER) finished with 278.7 points, losing to Kamil Stoch by 1.7 points. Freitag has finished on the podium 3 times in his past 4 WC events.
Granåsen is a ski jumping hill, located in Granåsen skicenter in Trondheim, Norway. The hill frequently hosts World Cup and Continental Cup competitions arranged by FIS. The hill sports one K-90 hill and one K-124 hill.
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships have been held in various numbers and types of events since 1925 for men and since 1954 for women.
Kamil Stoch shows how happy he is to be the World Champ.
In 2011 Thomas Morgenstern (AUT) took Silver on the large hill, today he takes a spill, fortunately it’s nothing but a little egg in the ski jumping stars face.
Peter Prevc (SLO) is having a pretty gold championship, scoring bronze on the normal hill and now silver on the large hill, his first solo championship medals.
On the large hill, 25 year old Kamil Stoch (POL) wins his first World Title, with two jumps in the 130 meter range, winning by 6.1 points.
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships have been held in various numbers and types of events since 1925 for men and since 1954 for women.
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships have been held in various numbers and types of events since 1925 for men and since 1954 for women.
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships have been held in various numbers and types of events since 1925 for men and since 1954 for women.
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships have been held in various numbers and types of events since 1925 for men and since 1954 for women.
With the ski jump in the books, Haavard Klemetsen holds the lead over Mario Stecher. Klemetsen finished with a winning score of 125.6.
Mario Stecher (AUT) finished with a score of 121.7 and is now behind race leader Klemetsen (NOR). Stecher will get another shot to move up in the ranks in the men’s 10km race.
Racing bib 37, Bryan Fletcher (USA), finished with a score of 92.5 and is currently sits 19th going into the men’s 10km race.
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships have been held in various numbers and types of events since 1925 for men and since 1954 for women.
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships have been held in various numbers and types of events since 1925 for men and since 1954 for women.
Anders Jacobsen talks about Team Norway’s win and World Cup lead.
Andreas St. Jernen and Anders Jacobsen post the biggest jumps of the day at 211 and 212 meters, helping Norway win by 47.8 points.
Team superstar Gregor Schlierenzauer under performed, but Stefan Kraft put up two big jumps at 205.5 and 208 meters, helping the team take the silver.
Being disappointed about German winter sportsmen not being allowed to participate in the Olympic Winter Games 1948 in St. Moritz, the three ski jumpers from Oberstdorf had the idea to build their own giant ski jump.
Richard Freitag (GER) talks about the hard work and training that went into getting his big win today.
Andreas Stjernen (NOR) finished with a score of 409.5, losing to Freitag (GER) by just .3 points. Stjernen sits in 22nd in the overall standings.
Racing bib number 23, Richard Freitag (GER) won in front of him home crowd finishing with a score of 409.8 points. Freitag sits in 7th in the overall standings with 542 points.
Being disappointed about German winter sportsmen not being allowed to participate in the Olympic Winter Games 1948 in St. Moritz, the three ski jumpers from Oberstdorf had the idea to build their own giant ski jump.
Jaka Hvala (SLO) talks about his first World Cup win.
19 year old Jaka Hvala (SLO) has previously assisted Slovenia in reaching the podium for Team events, but with the biggest jump of the day, 142.5 meters, he landed his first ever solo win.
Taku Takeuchi (JPN) gets his first podium this season with great scores, beating World Cup leader Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT) by 1.5 points.
In Summer 2006, the most modern ski jump in Europe located at the foot of the mountain Schwarzberg was opened. Since then it offers attractive training and competition conditions to both national and international athletes.
Bardal Anders (NOR) puts up the second biggest jump of the day at 142.5 meters, helping Rune Velta, Tom Hilde and Anders Jacobsen win second.
Peter Prevc (SLO), with the biggest jump on the day at 143 meters, helps his teammates Jurij Trepes, Jaka Hvala and Robert Kranjec win by 19.4.
The Mühlenkopfschanze in Willingen is the largest “large hill ski jump” in the world, because jumps of over 150m are possible. Along with the Bloukova Velikanka in Planica, it is the only jumping hill with a K-Point of 130m.
Harrachov has for several decades been a traditional organizer of the FIS World Cups and the FIS Ski Flying World Championships. In 2008, Harrachov celebrated 100 years of organized skiing events.
Robert Kranjec (SLO) gets the win by 11 points, the only athlete with two 230m jumps in the competition.
Michael Neumayer (GER) lands on the podium with the biggest jump in the second round over Gregor Schlierenzauer.
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