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Eva Pinkelnig named to Austrian team for Rasnov Eva Pinkelnig Good news from the Austrian ski jumping team: 32-year-old Eva Pinkelnig, who suffered a splenic rupture in a crash in training last December, will compete in the World Cup in Rasnov (ROU). Women's individual competitions will be held on Rasnov on Thursday and Friday, a men's individual competition will take place on Friday, followed by a mixed team event on Saturday. While the Austrian men's top team with Stefan Kraft, Daniel Huber, Michael Hayboeck, Philipp Aschenwald, and Jan Hörl will...

Niklas Bachlinger and Thea Minyan Bjoerseth are Junior World Champions David Haagen, Niklas Bachlinger, Dominik Peter Niklas Bachlinger of Austria and Thea Minyan Bjoerseth of Norway claimed the indivdiual Ski Jumping titles at the Junior World Championships in Lahti (FIN) on Thursday. The 19-year-old Niklas Bachlinger, who made his World Cup debut in late January in Willingen, won the gold medal in his first Junior World Championships with jumps of 96 m and 95.5 m that earned him a total of 263.9 points. Only 0.6 points behind the winner, David Ha...

Simon Ammann Due to the bad weather forecast for Sunday, the schedule of the Continental Cup in Innsbruck (AUT) was changed and both competitions there were already held on Saturday. The first competition was won by Aleksander Zniszczol of Poland with 128 m and 127 m and a total of 259.5 points. This was already the eighth win in the Continental Cup for the 26-year-old. The second place went to Norway's Anders Haare, with jumps of 126.5 m and 125.5 m that earned him 248.5 points. The leader after the first round, local hero Niklas Bachlinger, came in third with 129.5 m and 125 m and 246.8 poi...

Maximilian Steiner The second competition of the Continental Cup in Engelberg on Monday became a duel of Austria vs. Slovenia. In the end, an Austrian came out on top in an extremely close race on the Titlis-hill. Maximilian Steiner, fifth yesterday, won the competition with his first jump of 135 m and the longest jump of the day of 143 and 280.1 points. The 24-year-old made it to the top of the podium again more than three years after his first COC win in August 2017. "I've not jumped over that red line in that many competitions, it was a real adrenaline rush. Jumping on this hill is a lot ...

Stefan Rainer Due to the bad weather forecast for Sunday, the third competition of the Continental Cup in Ruka (FIN) was rescheduled and held only a few hours after the second competition of the weekend on Saturday evening. And just like in the first two events on the Rukatunturi-hill, the win went to a ski jumper from Austria, this time the Austrians took all three spots on the podium. The weekend in Ruka ended just the way it started on Friday: With a victory of Stefan Rainer. The 21-year-old was second after the first round with his 134 m jump, he was then able to secure his second career ...