Profiling the Flying Ladies: File 1.2 (her story, part 1): Carina Vogt - The beginning of the story - First FIS Continental Cup points, podium, victory

Greetings!

This is the second part of Carina Vogt's profile, which will take a closer look for Carina's Continental Cup years in ski jumping, season by season. Let's go straight into the story.





Carina Vogt's story (season by season):

2004/2005 Season:

The only available information from 2004/2005 season, is that 12-year-old Vogt participated in one FIS Race. It took place in Meinerzhagen in Germany. On 15th of August, 2005, Vogt was ranked 45th in her FIS debut. Competition was won by Slovenian Monika Pogladic, ahead of Lindsey Van from the United States of America and Austrian Daniela Iraschko (currently Iraschko-Stolz). All the 53 jumpers were allowed to jump twice. The youngest competitor was 7-year-old Vera Bagdaschwilli! During that time, FIS Cup was the second highest ranked Cup at the time, right behind Continental Cup.

2005/2006 Season:

There is no available information about Carina Vogt from this particular season. The reason isn't available from my sources.

2006/2007 Season:

Vogt made her Continental Cup debut in Klingenthal, Germany, August 6th, 2006. She finished in 31st, only one separated her from qualifying for the second round.
   In winter season, Vogt participated in eight Continental Cup competition, scoring points in all the competitions. She began by finishing in very high 7th, on 14th of January, 2007, in Villach Austria. Competition was won by another German, Ulrike Graessler, who was followed by Austrians Jacqueline Seifriedsberger and Daniela Iraschko. The next day, January 15th, in Italian Dobbiaco, Vogt finished in her highest position of the season, which was 6th place, Norwegian Anette Sagen took 1st. Vogt's lowest position was 26th in Baiersbronn, Germany, 14th of February, 2007. Three days later, she concluded her Continental Cup season with 12th place in Schonach, Germany. In overall standings, Vogt was 26th with 169 points, but there were 20 competitions during the season, which is a good result, as she didn't participate even in a half of the season! Sagen won with 1340 points, 2nd was Graessler with 1252 points, and Van finished in 3rd with 1045 points.
   One month after the competition in Schonach, FIS Ski Junior World Championships' medals were given in Tarvisio, Italy. On the first round, Vogt jumped 91.5 meters, and she took current 2nd with 115.5 points, one point behind leading Italian Lisa Demetz. In the first round's results, TOP2 kept their positions, and they were followed by Slovenian Maja Vtic, and Canadians Nata de Leeuw and Katie Willis. On the second round, Willis set pressure by flying 92.5 meters with great style. As Nata de Leeuw was disqualified on the second round, TOP3 jumpers were the only obstacle for Willis' gold. Vtic jumped 90.0 meters, and she lost by one point. Carina Vogt prepared for her jump: 90.0 meters with good style would be enough for the medal. Vogt launched herself into the air, but she landed at 88.5 meters, which was gave her current 3rd. Demetz kept her nerves, and took the gold medal a jump of 90.0 meters. TOP5: 1. Lisa Demetz ITA 229.5 points, 2. Katie Willis CAN 228.0 p, 3. Maja Vtic SLO 227.0 p, 4. Carina Vogt GER 223.5 p, 5. Juliane Seyfarth GER 208.5 p. It must have been a slight disappointment for Carina, but I'm sure that she knew that there were going to be lots of good results in this sort of events.

2007/2008 Season:

During summer part of the season, Vogt participated in four competitions. In Bischofsgruen, Germany, she was 10th. Three days later, August 15th, she landed on 11th place. Vogt achieved her best finishing position Bischofshofen, as she was 6th. She didn't qualify in her last summer season competition for the second round, because she finished in 45th. Those four competitions were in the Ladies Summer 4 Hill tournament, which Vogt concluded in 16th with 748.0 points. The tournament was won by Iraschko with 957.4 points.
   Vogt jumped in six competitions during winter in Continental Cup. In Notodden, Norway, she was 8th and 10th. Over a month later, 23rd of January, 2008, she finished in 27th in Dobbiaco, Italy. Vogt's last three competitions were in Germany. In the first competition in Breitenberg, she took positions 17 and 20.
   Vogt's final competition of the season began in a good way, as she flew 85.5 meters on Baierbronn's HS90 hill, which gave her 113.5 points, and 7th place after the first round. The first place was shared by Canadian Atsuko Tanaka and Austrian Jacqueline Seifriedsberger with 120.0 points. Sagen was 3rd, only one point behind the leaders. On the second round, Vogt sat on the starting bench, pushed herself, she gained speed of 85.7 km/h (53.263 mph), launched herself into the air, and she landed at 89.5 meters with great style. She took the lead with 236.0 points, and they were enough to keep her in the lead until the TOP3 of the first round. Continental Cup leader, Anette Sagen 89.0 meters, and despite Norwegian's worse points from style, Vogt had to give up the first position. Atsuko Tanaka flew over the HS line, 91.0 meters, and she took the lead from Sagen. Seifriedsberger couldn't keep the lead, as Austrian jumped 84.0 meters and her total score of 231.0 gave her 4th place in the overall results. Tanaka won, Sagen was 2nd and Vogt took her first ever podium in ladies' Continental Cup thanks to the best score of the second round, 122.5 points.
   In the Continental Cup, Vogt was 18th with 237 points. The overall standings were topped once again by Sagen with 1400 points. Iraschko was 2nd with 928 points, and Seifriedsberger came in 3rd with 801 points. There were 16 competitions during the season, which also showed Vogt's strong form. With a very positive podium, Vogt could look forward to the next season with a nice smile on her face.

2008/2009 Season:

Unfortunately, ski jumpers seem to have syndrome: after a good season, comes a more difficult one; Vogt didn't avoid the syndrome. In summer, she participated in eight Continental Cup competitions. Vogt's finishing positions were: 16th, 24th, 23rd, 11th, 23rd, 21st 24th and 40th. Her best competition was in Bischofshofen, Austria, on 17th of August, and the worst one was on 27th of September in Oberstdorf, Germany.
   Winter season went a bit better, but she finished only once in TOP10 during her six starts. On 10th of January, 2009, Vogt was 23rd, and the next day 30th in Schonach. One week later, she couldn't her podium from the previous season in Baiersbronn, as she finished in 24th and 18th. She participated in two competitions on HS100 hill in Notodden, Norway. First of the competitions, was her best one in the season, judging by the finishing position. After the first round, Vogt was 9th with a jump of 84.5 meters. On the second round, she landed at 84.0 meters, and she finished in equal 10th with Jessica Jerome. The next day, February 14th, 2009, Vogt took 12th place. It must be noted, that there were only 25 competiors in Notodden, whereas Baiersbronn had 39.
   With 77 points, Carina Vogt was 37th in Continental Cup's overall standings. Anette Sagen was the best with 1091 points, Daniela Iraschko 2nd with 932, and with 927 points, 3rd place was taken by Ulrike Graessler. Vogt had a tough season behind herself, and it was time to climb closer to the top.

2009/2010 Season:

Summer season in Continental Cup was quite similar compared to the previous one. Vogt had the best competition on 8th of August, as she finished in 14th in Bischofsgruen, Germany. In Oberwiesenthal, on 14th of Augutst, she finished in 37th. In the other competitions, Vogt was ranked 26th, 21st and 20th. All of the competitions were held between 8th and 15th of August, 2009.
   Vogt joined winter's Continental Cup in Baiersbronn Germany. As she hadn't competed in nearly five months, her shape was unknown. With number 20, Vogt flew incredibly 94.0 meters, 4 meters over the Hill Size line! She got from style points between 15.0 and 16.0. Her score was 125.0, and she took the lead. She kept the lead, until Anette Sagen's jump. Norwegian flew 93.5 meters, but her points on style were between 16.0 and 17.0 points. Sagen was leading after the first round with 131.0 points, followed by Vogt and another Norwegian, Line Jahr, who also got 125.0 points. Current Continental Cup leader Daniela Iraschko flew 91.0 meters on the second round, and she started her climb from 6th place. Jacqueline Seifriedsberger and Jessica Jerome couldn't beat Iraschko. Vogt sat on the starting bench. She pushed herself, gained the highest speed of the round, 84.8 km/h (52,704 mph). Vogt launched herself into the air, and her skis touched the ground at 88.5 meters. Computers calculated for a while, and total score of 245.0 appeared on the screen, which meant that Vogt got the lead by 0.5 points! Vogt's first victory was in hands of two Norwegians. Jahr didn't even cross the K-point, as she landed at 84.0 meters. Sagen fought for meters, but 85.5 meters didn't seem to be enough. As Norwegian got worse points from style, it was for sure! Carina Vogt won her first ever Continental Cup competition in Baiersbronn, on 2nd of February, 2010!!! German was extremely happy and celebrating! TOP6: 1. Vogt GER 245.0 points, 2. Iraschko AUT 244.5 p, 3. Sagen NOR 242.5 p, 4. Jahr NOR 235.5 p, 5. Runggaldier ITA 226.5 p, 6. Johnson USA 225.5 p.

Happy podium from the left: Daniela Iraschko, Carina Vogt, Anette Sagen. baiersbronn, Germany. 2nd of February, 2012.

   The next day Vogt finished in 8th, as Iraschko took the win. Three days later, ladies had arrived in Schonach, another German skiing center. In the first competition, Vogt was equal third with Sagen after the first round with 109.5 points, 16.5 points behind leading Iraschko, Ulrike Graessler was 2nd. On the second round, Vogt landed at 94.0 meters, only two meters before the Hill Size line. Sagen flew 92.0 meters, which wasn't enough to beat the German. Graessler tried to challenge her team mate, but 89.0 meters wasn't enough to keep her even in TOP4. Iraschko jumped 90.0 meters, but it was enough for the win, even though Vogt scored the biggest amount of points on the second round. These results ment the second podium in four days, and Carina's third one in Continental Cup! TOP5: 1. Iraschko AUT 241.0, 2. Vogt GER 229.0, 3. Sagen NOR 226.0, 4. Seyfarth GER 221.0, 5. Graessler GER 220.5. The next competition was in Schonach, but it was held 17 days later than the previous one, because two competitions in Braunlage were cancelled. Vogt did good job, by jumping two solid jumps and finishing in 6th.
   The next event for Vogt was FIS Ski Junior World Championships in Hinterzarten, Germany. Despite her great position in overall Continental Cup at the moment, she was given starting number 9 among 41 athletes. Obviously, it didn't do good for Vogt, as she jumped 95.0 meters and her score of 111.0 points was enough only for 10th place after the first round. TOP5 jumpers on the results had numbers 21, 33, 37, 32 and 26. It's a sign of better conditions, but there is a possibility that Vogt didn't pull of a perfect jump. On the second round, Carina topped the speed rankings with 91.9 km/h (57,116 mph), and she landed at 103.0 meters. Swiss Bigna Windmueller succeeded better with her landing, as she flew 100.5 meters and overtook Vogt by 1.5 points. Sara Takanashi, Anna Ruprecht, Melanie Faisst and Juliane Seyfarth failed one after another to beat the TOP2. Sarah Hendrickson kept her nerves, and took the lead from Swiss jumper by 8.0 points by jumping 97.5 meters. When Coline Mattel flew 101.0 meters, Vogt's medal chances were gone. Italian Elena Runggaldier took the gold: Italian jumped 106.5 and 102.0 meters, and collected 267.5 points, 9.5 more than Mattel. TOP6: 1. Elena Runggaldier ITA 267.5, 2. Coline Mattel FRA 258.0, 3. Sarah Hendrickson USA 249.5, 4. Bigna Windmueller SUI 241.5, 5. Carina Vogt GER 240.0, 6. Jacqueline Seifriedsberger AUT 239.5. Vogt was probably disappointed, but she still had right to participate in two more FIS Ski Junior World Championships.
   A week after the Junior World Championships, Vogt returned to the Continental Cup. She finished 9th and 21 st in Ljubno. A week after that she was 14th in the first competition in Villach, but the second one lasted only one round for her, as she jumped on HS98 hill 60.5 meters, which brought her 47th position in the race. Last four competitions were held at the beginning of March. On 1st and 2nd of March, Vogt finished in 5th in Zao, Japan. On 6th and 7th of March, the final competitions were held in Zakopane. In the first one, Vogt was 15th, and she concluded her season with a 10th place in the competition.
   Generally speaking, the season was a success: two podiums, first Continental Cup win, and 8th place in the overall standings with 441 points (11 starts of 18 possible!). The only minor minus were the FIS Ski Junior World Championships, but she still had time. Vogt had a great season behind herself.

2010/2011 Season:

For some unkown reason, Vogt couldn't participate during the summer. From this particular season, she has only ten results. All of them are from the winter season, which was also the first season, where wind and gate compensation were included to the rules.
   Her first competition was the best one in Continental Cup, considering the finishing position. After the first round, Vogt was 15th with a jump of 84.5 meters (+6.0/0.0) and 94.5 points. On the second round she improved by flying 89,5 meters (+4.3/0.0) and gathering 199.3 points in total, which gave her 11th place in the official results. In two competitions in Hinterzarten, Vogt was 15th and 17th. In Braunlage, eight days after the competition in Schonach, she equaled her season's best. The next day she was 13th.
   Carina took a pause from Continental Cup, as she was chosen to represent Germany in Junior World Championships. She was still fighting for her first medal ever. Vogt had the last number, 51. She topped the speed rankings with 88.4 km/h (54.941 mph), but something didn't go right: 92.5 meters with a bad landing gave her again 10th position after the first round, and she was 11.5 points from the medal. On the second round she was the fastest, 87.8 km/h (54.568 mph), but she didn't fly more than 92.5 meters. 227.0 points in total brought her 8th place, which probably wasn't 18-year-old jumper's goal. Coline Mattel took the gold with 257.5 points, Slovenian Spela Rogelj was 2nd with 254.0 points, and bronze went to Japan with Yuki Ito and 252.0 points.
   One and a half week later, Vogt was back in the Continental Cup, and took 15th and 20th in Brotterode, Germany. She concluded her season in Ramsau, finishing 16th and 17th. In the overall Continental Cup standings, Vogt collected 154 points in 9 of 22 competitions. Not bad. This season was another tough one, but new chances would be given, as for the next season FIS decided to organize first ever Ladies World Cup season!

In the last part, we will catch up with Carina Vogt's World Cup history so far, and her greatest achievements. Don't forget to check it out, as it will be released during tomorrow, 20th of March, 2015. Enjoy your day, and thank you for reading! :)

Links (sources and social media):
Previous part of Vogt's profile (basic information)
Next part of Vogt's profile (beginning of the World Cup career)
Picture used in the beginning
Carina Vogt's biography on fis-ski.com
Wikipedia article about Carina Vogt (German)
Carina Vogt's best Continental Cup season, 2009/2010, (PDF-file), fis-ski.com
Carina Vogt's fanpage on Facebook

Resan till Falun 2015 - Trip to Falun 2015: Part 2: New countries taking over the podium in Oslo

Greetings! Here's the second part of our mini-series Resan till Falun 2015. Speaking of which, the first training day in Falun for ladies on the HS 100 hill has been completed. Therefore, it's a good moment to go back to year 2011 in history of FIS Ladies Ski Jumping World Ski Championships.

First World Ski Championships in Ladies' Ski Jumping in Liberec brought more activity around ladies' ski jumping. Amount of participants increased from 36 to 43, and new nations, such as China and Russia joined in. Among new jumpers, there was a debut-making jumper, who later would become a successful jumper: Sara Takanashi from Japan. Some of the TOP20 names from Liberec got out of the way for newer jumpers: Germans Magdalena Schnurr (7th in Liberec), and Jenna Mohr (15th), Canadians Nata de Leeuw (11th), and Katie Willis (19th), and Norwegian Helena Olsson Smeby (16th). In addition, wind and gate compensation were included for the first time in Ski Jumping in the World Ski Championships. In these reports, compensation points will be shown in this way: (wind/gate). After this general overview, let's get to the events.

Thursday 24th of February, 2011. Holmenkollen, Oslo, Norway (Training)

Midstubakken HS106 hill was prepared for Ladies' practice. According to yet another confusing statistics, the first jumper was Russian Maria Notova. To be honest, the statistics are unreadable: one result list shows absence Jaqueline Seifriedsberger from all of the training rounds, another shows similar absence of  complete TOP10 excluding Seifriedsberger, Lindsey Van and Jessica Jerome. Only some assumptions can be made: Daniela Iraschko was listed as 2nd, 1st and 1st in the results. The first training round was (may have been) won by Sara Takanashi. Information about wind, and even jumpers' results altered in every possible way from one result list to another. I'll leave links to the results here below, to show you, how badly FIS must have messed up:
Results of training (PDF-file), Holmenkollen, Oslo, 2011, first version
Results of training (PDF-file), Holmenkollen, Oslo, 2011, second version
Results of training (PDF-file), Holmenkollen, Oslo, 2011, third version

Friday 25th of February, 2011, Holmenkollen, Oslo Norway (Trial Round and World Championship competition)

42 jumpers appeared for a foggy trial round at Midstubakken hill in Oslo. Wind altered between 0.17 m/s from behind the hill to 1.83 m/s towards. The youngest participant in Ladies' Ski Jumping, Sara Takanashi with her incredible jump of 105.0 meters (-9.2/0.0). Takanashi's jump from gate 22 was the longest one during the round, and it brought her a total score of 70.8 points, which were enough to top the results' list. She was followed by Iraschko. Austrian started her jump three gates lower, gate 19, and with gained speed of 87.3 km/h (54,257 mph) she flew 95.5 meters (-8.1/+9.5). Iraschko lost 8.4 points to Takanashi. TOP3 was completed by Coline Mattel. French jumper, 5th in Liberec, landed at 91.5 meters (-0.1/+6.4) and scored 59.3 points. Second longest jump of the round was presented by another Japanese jumper, Ayumi Watase: 100.0 meters (-12.8/0.0) gave her 6th position with total score of 57.2. The defending World Champion Lindsey Van didn't show her best on the training round, having landed at 89.0 meters (-11.5/+6.4) and finishing 17th with 42.9 points. Iraschko seemed to be in great shape once again, but could she convert her good training jumps into great jumps in the competition, or would Sara Takanashi grab the gold?

First competition round was started from gate 21. Foggy weather, and altering wind from towards between 0.06 m/s and 2.03 m/s brought their own effects into the competition. Maria Notova from Russia sat on starting bench with number 1. Her jump's distance was 69.5 meters (-8.9/0.0), and total score 46.6 points meant that Notova's competition lasted only one round, she finished 38th. First jump above 80.0 meters was presented by Italian Roberta D Agostina, who decided to skip the tricky trial round. Italian jumper's 84.0 meters (-12.5/0.0) brought her 28th place after the first round. Maren Lundby in front of her home public wanted to show her skills. Norwegian didn't disappoint viewers, as she flew 89.5 meters (-7.8/0.0) and took the lead from D Agostina by 19.2 points! Finn Julia Kykkaenen challenged Lundby with her jump of 91.5 meters (-13.3/0.0), but Norwegian kept her position only by 0.5 points, Lundby's joy didn't last for much longer, as jumper 19, Alissa Johnson from the United States of America landed at 91.0 meters (-8.3/0.0). Johnson's lead was 3.0 points. Best wind conditions (according to the statistics) were used well by Evelyn Insam. Italian capitalized on 2.03 m/s wind towards the hill and flew 94.5 meters (-14.2/0.0). Her score of 97.8 points gave her 6th position after the first round. Italian's were allowed to enjoy first two positions, when number 32, Elena Runggaldier's jump ended at 97.5 meters (-5.6/0.0). First jump over hill's K-point Longest jump of the round gave her 113.4 points, and she kept lead of the competition for quite a while.

World Cup's current TOP10 performed incredibly variating jumps. Slovenian Maja Vtic jumped 88.5 meters (-9.4/0.0), which was enough for 18th place after the first jump. Defending World Champion Lindsey Van was expected to show her best in the competition. Unfortunately, it didn't go that way. Van didn't capitalize on decent wind conditions, and surprised negatively by landing as early as at 75.0 meters (-8.1/0.0), 20.0 meters earlier than hill's K-point! Jumper from the United Statestook 26th position after her jump. With a slight possibility to qualify, but already lost medal battle, defending Champion had no other choice than accept the situation. Silver medalist from Liberec, Ulrike Graessler was next. German flew 94.0 meters (-7.3/0.0), and squeezed herself between two Italians in the current results. Juliane Seyfarth from Germany, and Jaqueline Seifriedsberger from Austria nearly assisted Lindsey Van with getting on the second round. In the end, jumpers with numbers 37 and 38 finished 31st and 32nd. Jessica Jerome with number 39 didn't perform much better than two previous jumpers, but her 84.0 meters (-5.2/0.0) brought her 21st place after the first round. Number 40, German Melanie Faisst was 19th with 88.0 meters (-9.2/0.0). Eva Logar showed more expected jump: 91.0 meters (-1.8/0.0), and it was enough for 4th place in the results of first round. Mattel continued from where she left: 5th position after the first round, having jumped 92.0 meters (-6.7/0.0) and collected 98.8 points. Austrian coach decided to take a small risk: he lowered starting position by one for Iraschko. Iraschko didn't hesitate, as she flew 97.0 meters (-4.0/+3.2) and took the lead with 118.2 points. Results of the round meant that there would be a new World Champion. TOP10 + medalists from Liberec: 1. Iraschko AUT 118.2, 2. Runggaldier ITA 113.4, 3. Graessler GER 103.2, 4. Logar SLO 102.7, 5. Mattel FRA 98.8, 6. Insam ITA 97.8, 7. Johnson USA 96.7, 8. Demetz ITA 94.8, 9. Takanashi JPN 94.7, 10. Lundby NOR 93.7 ... 13. Sagen & Jahr NOR 92.4 ... 34. Van USA 61,4

Fog dominated Midstubakken hill as well, as the second round was about to start. Wind altered also partially behind the hill: 0.25 m/s from behind the hill to 1.26 m/s towards the hill. Czech Vladena Pustkova began the second round. Pustkova's 78.5 meters (-6.9/0.0) allowed her to finish the competition in 29th place. Second round's first jump over 90.0 meters was performed by Canadian Taylor Henrich. 16-year-old jumper flew 92.0 meters(-6.5/0.0) and went 8 places up to finish 18th. Melanie Faisst was one of the TOP10 World Cup jumpers, who disappointed audience on the first round. German jumped on the second round 92.0 meters (-6.2/0.0), and went from 19th to 9th. The biggest climb was made by Slovenian Maja Vtic. She flew 97.0 meters (-6.6/0.0), and improved by 13 places from 18th to 5th! Vtic's jump 3rd best of the round. Despite good trial round's jump, Ayumi Watase didn't impress with her first competition jump. Her second jump in competition was better, as her skies touched the ground at 93.0 meters (-7.4/0.0), and with that jump she took second place behind Vtic. Bronze medalist from Liberec, Anette Sagen didn't jump on her best level: on the second round Norwegian landed at 80.5 meters (-5.0/0.0), and went down to 22nd position. In comparison, her team mate Line Jahr went from equal 13th with Sagen to 10th place. After 20 jumpers, Vtic was in the lead, followed by Watase and Faisst.

First round's TOP10 had a challenging task to beat Vtic from the lead. The final hope of Norwegians, Maren Lundby tried to complete the mission, but her jump of 85.5 meters (-5.2/0.0) allowed her to take current 5th, right behind Line Jahr, best Norwegian of the day. 14-year-old Sara Takanashi didn't allow Watase to be the best Japanese jumper. Takanashi flew 93.0 meters (-6.7/0.0), but she couldn't beat Vtic. Third Italian in TOP10, Lisa Demetz couldn't had to give up 5 positions as she landed at 83.0 meters (-2.9/0.0) Alissa Johnson's attempt got an unfortunate end, as she couldn't keep her landing balanced after her 81.0 meters' (+1.8/0.0) flight, and the incident dropped her on the 20 position in the overall results. Moreover, Johnson got the worst wind conditions of the round. Evelyn Insam wanted to Demetz' fate to drop out of TOP10: Insam managed it by flying 87.5 meters (-6.7/0.0), and being 4th after her jump. Coline Mattel wanted to get the medal she had lost on the second round in Liberec. French jumper got up in the air, and landed at 97.0 meters (-5.8/0.0), and was first to beat Vtic, with total of 211.5 points. Eva Logar repeated Takanashi's deed, as Slovenian beat her team mate with a jump of 88.5 meters (-3.8/0.0). Logar took current 2nd, 1.9 points ahead of Vtic. Ulrike Graessler was the remaining jumper, who could defend her medal from Liberec, but she failed as well: 79.5 meters (-8.8/0.0) dropped her 16 places to 19th... Mattel had medal for sure, but TOP2 had quite a gap to other jumpers. Elena Runggaldier brought Italian's first medal in history of ladies' ski jumping by jumping 93.5 meters (-5.5/0.0), and gathering 218.9 points. If wind conditions didn't change, Iraschko would need a jump 91.5 meters or more. Wind conditions remained unchanged, Iraschko spread her skies into V-position, flew 97.0 meters (-5.5/0.0), landed in style, and celebrated her first World Championship medal, gold. Austrian remained calm, and could bury the disappointment from two years earlier.

TOP 10:
1. Daniela Iraschko  AUT    97.0 meters + 97.0 meters, 231.7 points
2. Elena Runggaldier  ITA    97.5 m + 93.5 m, 218.9 p
3. Coline Mattel  FRA   92.0 m + 97.0 m, 211.5 p
4. Eva Logar  SLO   91.0 m + 88.5 m, 197.9 p
5. Maja Vtic  SLO   88.5 m + 97.0 m, 196.0 p
6. Sara Takanashi  JPN   92.0 m + 93.0 m, 195.0 p
7. Ayumi Watase  JPN   89.0 m + 93.0 m, 192.8 p
8. Evelyn Insam  ITA   94.5 m + 87.5 m, 188.1 p
9. Melanie Faisst  GER   88.0 m + 92.0 m, 185.1 p
10. Line Jahr  NOR   89.5 m + 84.5 m, 181.3 p

Windy conditions affected competition a lot. Unfortunately even added compensation points aren't enough to cover the loss in meters. In addition, during jumpers flight conditions may get worse or better, and as a result jumper gets either too much extra, or loses too many points. Also, changing the gate is a risk during changing conditions, as one fantastic jump may result in multiple jumpers failure and decreasing competition's entertainment. TOP3 was in their own class, and they had multiple points' differences between themselves. Competition at Holmenkollen gave another boost for ladies' ski jumping's popularity.

All time medal standings, FIS World Ski Championships Ladies' Ski Jumping:
1. the United States of America  1 - -
1. Austria  1 - -
3. Germany  - 1 -
3. Italy  - 1 -
5. Norway  - - 1
5. France  - - 1

Second of Resan till Falun 2015 is completed. There were a lot of changes compared Liberec, but I hope you enjoyed this second part as well. I'm planing to write to FIS about their statistics issue, and start working with the very first Weekend Analyses of Ladies' Ski Jumping, Championship edition. Remember to follow, so you won't miss all the action. Enjoy your day, and hope you'll join this trip to find about Val di Fiemme, Italy! :)

Links:
Official results (PDF-file), World Ski Championships, ladies' ski jumping, Oslo, 2011
Results of the 1st round (PDF-file), World Ski Championships, ladies' ski jumping, Oslo, 2011
Trial Round results (PDF-file), World Ski Championships, ladies' ski jumping, Oslo, 2011
Detailed information about Oslo's HS100 hill