Sara Takanashi won the large hill of the Miyasama International on Sunday. The 16-year-old Takanashi, who also won the normal hill on Friday, managed 136 meters on her first jump and 101 meters on her second. The Sochi Olympic gold medal hopeful totaled 213.6 points, winning by a margin of ...
Sara Takanashi collected her second medal of the Nordic skiing world championships after Japan won a gold in the mixed ...
Bradley Wilson of the United States and Miki Ito won World Cup dual moguls events on Sunday. In the men’s ...
Norwegian ski jumper Anders Bardal won his first major championship title on Saturday by taking gold in the normal hill event at the Nordic skiing worlds. Bardal had the longest jump of the day with 103.5 meters in the first round and finished with ...
Japan took the lead after the first half of the Nordic combined team event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships on Sunday. The team of Akito and Yoshito Watabe, Yusuke Minato and Taihei Kato surged into the lead in the jumping portion on ...
Lindsey Vonn’s right knee is healing quicker than her feelings over a world championship race she says should have been called off. The four-time overall World Cup champion remains unhappy about how she sustained a season-ending injury — two shredded ligaments and a broken ...
Overall ski jumping World Cup champion Sara Takanashi fell just short in her bid for gold at the FIS World Nordic Ski Championships on Friday, taking a silver medal behind American rival Sarah Hendrickson. The 16-year-old Takanashi, coming off four consecutive World Cup wins, ...
Newly crowned overall ski jumping World Cup champion Sara Takanashi will aim for her first gold medal at the FIS World Nordic Ski Championships on Friday. In an official practice on Thursday, the 16-year-old phenom had a leap of 101 meters to move into ...
Sara Takanashi became the youngest-ever winner of an overall World Cup skiing crown Sunday, claiming the women’s ski jumping title with her fourth consecutive victory and eighth of the season. The 16-year-old Takanashi marked 89.5 meters in the first round of jumps and followed ...
Austrian star Marcel Hirscher lived up to the expectations of the medal-hungry public in this ski-mad country by winning the men’s world slalom in dramatic fashion on Sunday. In what was a perfectly choreographed finish to the two-week world ski championships, Hirscher followed up ...
Sara Takanashi edged closer to the overall women’s ski jumping World Cup title Saturday with her third consecutive victory and seventh of the season. The 16-year-old Takanashi posted the day’s longest jump of 88.5 meters in the first round and followed up with an ...
