A R C H I V E - H I G H L I G H T S Tara Geraghty-Moats Secures FIS NC Series Title in Russia Finishes 2020 season with 660 points; Norway’s Marte Leinan Lund 2nd with 487 points After taking 2nd place in Wednesday’s jumping round, series leader Tara Geraghty-Moats started 2 sec behind jump winner Stefaniya Nadymova of Russia, then raced away from the field in the cross-country competiton in Nizhniy Tagil to win the 5K race by 33 sec … Results: Wed 03/11 jump Wed 03/11 final (click to enlarge pic) Tara put an exclamation point on her second consecutive season championship by finishing first in the final competion of the season on Thursday. Results: Thurs 03/12 Final rankings: 2020 season World Junior Championships - Oberwiesenthal GER Nordic Combined & Ski Jumping March 4-8 • NC-Women Results: Wed 03/04 Anna Malacinski 24th, Tess Arnone 25th • NC-Men Results: Wed 03/04 Niklas Malacinski 27th, Evan Nichols 29th • SJ--Men Results: Wed 03/05 Andrew Urlaub 18th, Decker Dean 21st Americans in FIS International Action Feb 22-23 Read the weekend update on the USANordic website … CLICK HERE • Trondheim WC-NC M Results: Sun 02/23 Fletcher 28th • Val di Fiemme COC-SJ M Results: Sat 02/22 Kevin Bickner 5th • Eisenerz COC-NC M Results: Sat 02/22 Shumate 13th, Loomis 20th, Good 24, Andrews 50 • Eisenerz COC-NC W Results: Sat 02/22 Geraghty-Moats 2nd, Malacinski 24th, Arnone 29th • Eisenerz COC-NC Team Results: Sat 02/22 Loomis, Geraghty-Moats, Malacinski, Shumate 4th • Eisenerz COC-NC W Results: Sun 02/23 Geraghty-Moats 2nd, Malacinski 23rd, Arnone 29th Clemens Aigner Wins Twice in Iron Mt, Sets New Hill Record Flies 144 meters (472 feet) on Sunday 10/16 A huge Saturday crowd saw Austria’s Clemens Aigner take first place in Continental Cup action. He put together flights of 133 and 129.5 meters A pair of Americans made the final round; Andrew Urlaub placed 27th and Decker Dean was 30th. On Sunday, Aigner won again, setting a new hill record of 144M* on his first jump, and 136 on his second. Urlaub was 27th again. He now leads the Continental Cup season standings after 20 of 30 events. WATCH VIDEO OF RECORD JUMP (J Asselin) Results: Sat 2/15 Sun 2/16 series standings USA’s Tara Geraghty-Moats Wins European Ski Marathon So THAT’s what she does when not competing in Nordic Combined or ski jumping! VIEW RESULTS She’s the most dominant female NC competitor in the world, and has been driving the level of women’s competition to be better … in fact she recently posted two second-place finishes. She has competed in several events on the US women’s ski jumping team, too. But on February 14, she won the women’s title in the annual European Ski Marathon in just over 2 hours. CLICK FOR RESULTS, click the Results link on page, use the drop list to find 2020, then “women’s overall.” CONGRATULATIONS, TARA! American Men & Women in Continental Cup Feb 8-9 Competition for both men & women held in Brotterode GER • Sat - Women Results: Sat 02/08 N Lussi 15th, J Highfill 23rd, C Larson 25th, S Macuga 26th • Sat - Men Results: Sat 02/08 A Urlaub 28th, C Larson 43rd, P Gasienica 50th • Sun - Women Results: Sun 03/09 N Lussi 19th, J Highfill 21st, C Larson 23rd, S Macuga 25th • Sun - Men Results: Sat 03/09 A Urlaub 24th, C Larson 41st, G Scharffs 57th Americans in FIS International Action Jan 31-Feb 02 Continental Cup Ski Jumping & NC in Planica SLO, World Cup NC in Seefeld AUT • Planica-SJ Results: Sat 02/01 Andrew Urlaub 28th • Planica-NC Results: Sat 02/01 Taylor Fletcher 5th Sun 02/02 Fletcher 14th, Jasper Good 45th We want to highlight Taylor Fletcher’s performance in NC at Planica. He finished 5th on Saturday, with the third fastest race time after finishing 42nd in the jump round. On Sunday, he placed 50th in the jump round, but had the fastest time in the race, finishing 14th overall. Congratulations to Taylor! Andrew Urlaub made it to the final round of 30 on Saturday in Planica’s ski jumping competition, and placed 28th overall, gaining valuable points in the series standings. High fives to Andrew! Midwest 5 Hills & US Cup Series in January & February Tournaments included jumps of various sizes, including FOUR OLYMPIC-SIZED HILLS! Read excellent article by USA Nordic’s Ben Berend on ski jumping in the midwest … CLICK HERE Red asterisk * indicates Olympic-sized hill. Blue asterisk * indicates “5 Hills” & US Cup event. • Jan 05 Sunday St Paul Ski Club, Maplewood MN small hills K46 NC race • Jan 18 * * Sat Flying Eagles Ski Club, Eau Claire WI am K85 us cup eve K85 NC • Jan 19 * Sunday Minneapolis Ski Club, Bloomington MN K70 us cup • Jan 21-22 * * Tue-Wed Ishpeming Ski Club, Ishpeming MI K90 us cup NC race • Jan 25-26 * Sat-Sun Norge Ski Club, Fox River Grove IL K70 us cup • Jan 31-Feb 1 * * Fri-Sat Snowflake Ski Club, Westby WI K108 us cup Fri Sat 5 Hills final Americans in FIS Competition Weekend of Jan 24-26 World Cup & Continental Cup Ski Jumping; World Cup Nordic Combined • Zakopane POL World Cup Ski Jumping Kevin Bickner qualifies for starting field of 50, places 39th Sunday Results: Sun 01/26 • Sapporo JPN Continental Cup Ski Jumping Decker Dean 40th, Patrick Gasienica 43rd, Casey Larson 46th Sunday Results: Sun 01/26 • Oberstdorf GER World Cup Nordic Combined Jared Shumate 39th, Ben Loomis 40th, Jasper Good 46th Sunday Results: Sun 01/26 Nordic Combined in Oberwiesenthal GER Jan 11-12 FIS CONTINENTAL CUP: USA’s Shumate 9th in jump round, races to 7th overall… personal best • NC - Jasper Good 18th, Jared Shumate 34th Results: Sat 01/11 • NC - Shumate 7th (9th in jump round), Good 32nd, G Andrews 48th Results: Sun 01/12

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Iron Mt/Kiwanis Ski Club … www.kiwanisskiclub.com US ski jumping history… www.americanskijumping.com