Looking forward to Falun
Looking forward to Falun
The next stop after ski flying in Vikersund is already the Nordic Ski World-Championships in Falun starting on Febraury 18th.
We'd like to give you an overview about what will happen and who will take part.
Here are the team nominations:
Norway will send Anders Bardal (who will return after breaking his wrist at the beginning of the year), Anders Jacobsen, Anders Fannemel (who recently scratched the world record in ski flying with 246m), Rune Velta, Johann Andre Forfang and Phillip Sjoeen.
Tom Hilde missed to qualify for the team.
The leadies team will consist of Gyda Enger, Line Jahr, yesterday's qualification winner Maren Lundby and Anna Odine Stroem.
Germany will send their best man Severin Freund, along Andreas Wellinger (who won the silver medal in the JWCS lately and will return to the elite after his bad fall in November 2014), Michael Neymayer, Richard Freitag, Markus Eisenbichler and Marinus Kraus.
The ladies will arrive with Katharina Althaus, Juliane Seyfarth, Ulrike Grässler and their best Carina Vogt.
Austria's men's team will be build by Stefan Kraft, Michael Hayböck, Gregor Schlierenzauer, Andreas Kofler, Manuel Poppinger and Thomas Diethart
For the ladies quite clearly, Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, Jacqueline Seifriedsberger, Chiara Hölzl and Eva Pinkelnig will travel to Falun.
Poland is taking the team that we've seen in the World-Cup lately. The names are: Kamil Stoch, Dawid Kubacki, Piotr Zyla, Klemens Muranka, Jan Ziobro and Aleksander Zniszczol.
Team Japan will consist of the living legend and our portrait athlete Noriaki Kasai, as well as Taku Takeuchi, Daiki Ito, Junshiro Kobayashi and Kento Sakuyama.
The Japanese ladies in Falun will be Sara Takanashi, Yuki Ito, Kaori Iwabuchi, Yurina Yamada and Yuka Seto.
Quite clearly, team France will be formed by Vincent Descombes Sevoie and Ronan Lamy Chappuis for the men and
Julia Clair, Lea Lemare and Coline Mattel for the ladies.
Switzerland is absolutely happy to have Simon Ammann back in the tracks, followed by Gregor Deschwanden and Kilian Peier.
Finland will nominate their athletes on Monday .
Their ladies are Julia Kykkänen and Susanne Forsström.
USA Ski Jumping nominated Nick Alexander and Will Rhoads, who was interviewed by us last week.
Their strong ladies are World-Cup winner Sarah Hendrickson, newcomer Tara Gerghty-Moats, Nita Englund (who recently gained the 2nd place in a World-Cup competition), Abby Hughes and Jessica Jerome.
And last but not least, Russia is taking Dimitry Vassiliev, Vladislav Boyarintsev, Ilmir Hazetdinov, Mikhail Maksimochkin and interestingly also Denis Kornilov to Falun.
The schedule for ski jumping is as follows:
19.02.15 17:00 ladies HS 100 qualification
20.02.15 17:00 ladies HS 100
+ 19:00 men HS 100 qualification
21.02.15 16:30 men HS 100
22.02.15 17:00 mixed team HS 100
25.02.1517:00 men HS 134 qualification
26.02.1517:00 men HS 134
28.02.1517:00 team men HS134
Falun presents the WCS again after they already hosted the World-Championships in 1954, 1974, and 1993. From February 18th to March 1st the world's best skiers will fight for medals in Sweden.
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"This time it will be something beyond all expectations – we
will bring the world closer to the joy of skiing!", says the official invitation.
Falun is Dalarna ́s largest municipality with over 57 000 inhabitants. The city has 14 nature reserves and a beautiful archipelago in the lake Runn,
just a minute away from the town centre. Falun is the cultural and sports centre of
Dalarna and has been listed as a World Heritage Site since 2001.
The ski jumping hill was renovated for winter jumping in November 2013 and for summer jumping in July 2014. Both hills - the HS100 (K90) and the HS134 (K120) feature new tracks, including a side cooling system; Large hill has an elevator and the normal hill has stairs. The hill construction mainly consists of steel and glass and the arena offers space for 25 000 spectators.
For sure, every place will be taken, when the arena opens on February 19th.
