Ski jumping: Nika Prevc’s first world title
Early on Friday afternoon, the first ski jumping medals were awarded at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim (Norway). In the women’s individual event, contested on the Norwegian small hill, Slovenia’s Nika Prevc was expected to win.
Winner of the last six competitions on the World Cup circuit, she was the overwhelming favourite. With jumps of 98 and 100 metres, the overall leader held her nerve to become world champion for the first time in her career. She thus succeeds Katharina Schmid (90 and 86.5 metres), only nineteenth today, on the list of winners.
On the podium, on 8.4 points, she was joined by Germany’s Selina Freitag (99 and 103.5 metres) and Norway’s Anna Odine Stroem (99 and 96.5 metres), who scored 12.6 points.)
Eirin Maria Kvandal (98.5 and 101.5 metres), Abigail Strate (104.5 and 94.5 metres), Alexandria Loutitt (101 and 95.5 metres), Eva Pinkelnig (100 and 94.5 metres), Jacqueline Seifriedsberger (91 and 93.5 metres), Yuki Ito (97 and 90 metres) and Agnes Reisch (92 and 99 metres) entered the top 10.
Joséphine Pagnier at her best this season
La Chaunière’s Joséphine Pagnier, with jumps measured at 93 and 97.5 metres, achieved the best result of her winter by taking twelfth place, just shy of tenth. It was also her best placing in a world competition.
“I’m very happy with what I was able to do today. It’s been quite a complicated season for me, so I’m happy to have done everything I needed to be ready for the world championships,” she enthused in the mixed zone after her performance.
Emma Chervet (93 and 85.5 metres) took twenty-fifth place in her first world championship final.
Full results
- The full programme for the cross-country skiing, Nordic combined and ski jumping world championships in Trondheim, the highlight of the 2024/2025 season
- Four Frenchmen selected for the Trondheim Worlds
- Trondheim: small jump qualification for Nika Prevc, Joséphine Pagnier and Emma Chervet go through
- “I’m here for the right reasons”: two years after her breakthrough in Planica, Emma Chervet is at the Trondheim Worlds with real ambitions.
