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Ski Jumping

FISU Regulations

The ski jumping events are organised in accordance with the most recent technical regulations of the International Ski Federation (FIS). The FISU regulations are always set up on the recommendations of the FISU Technical Chair and the FIS Technical Delegate in close cooperation with the Committee for Sports Regulations (CRS), and they are approved by the FISU Executive Committee. The programme and duration of the competitions are fixed by the Executive Committee in agreement with the Organising Committee and the CTI.
Duration of the competition – 8 days maximum.

Ski Jumping Competitions

Today’s ski jumping competitions are organised for men and women as follows: men - Normal Hill, Large Hill / women - Normal Hill / teams - Normal Hill, three (3) participants. The women’s competition of WU ski jumping was included into the sports programme as a demonstration discipline at the 22nd WU in Innsbruck, Austria, in 2005. Seven women participated (3 Austrian, 2 Japanese, 1 Norwegian, 1 Slovene). However, the first woman had already competed in 2003 in Tarvisio, Italy; it was Eva GANSTER (AUT), whose result was counted together with those of all male competitors. The competitions are supervised by the FISU Technical Chair and the FIS Technical Delegate, who chair all technical meetings concerned. Two jumping hills must follow the requirements of the International Ski Federation (FIS) and go through a homologation process.

Minimum Requirements

Sports No. of Events	Events	No. of Venues (Competition and Training)	No. of Events
Four (4) Events	Men: Individual Large Hill Individual Normal Hill Team Normal Hill	One (1) ski jumping venue with normal and large jumping hills complying with all recent FIS international standards (see the minimum requirements specific to ski jumping)	Three (3) Events
Four (4) Events	Women: Individual Normal Hill		One (1) Event

The History of Ski Jumping in FISU

Ski jumping is a very popular snow sports discipline which always arouses great interest among spectators and for TV broadcasting. At the 1960 Winter Universiade in Chamonix, France, ski jumping had its premiere with the participation of 16 male jumpers from 7 countries. Until that time ski jumping had been in the programme of the traditional International Winter Weeks which were held in 1951 in Bad Gastein, 1953 in Saint Moritz, 1955 in Yugoslavia, 1957 in Oberammergau and 1959 in Zell am See. The programme of the first WU edition included Special Ski Jump K 90. The competitions were dominated by Eastern European countries: men: Small Hill - K90, Gold – Albert Larinov (Soviet Union), Silver – Jaromir Nevlud (Czechoslovakia), Bronze – Milan Rojina (Yugoslavia).
Russian, Japanese and Slovenian ski jumpers were also among the very strong athletes. Athletes from those countries have dominated the WU ski jumping competitions for many years. A couple of Olympians also participated in Universiades: Dimitri IPATOV (RUS) – ranked 8th in Large Hill, 2006 OWG; Denis KORNILOV (RUS) – ranked 7th in Teams, 2006 OWG. From 1960 to 2011, ski jumping has been 24 times in the Winter Universiade programme.

Competition Facilities

In accordance with the FIS Regulations and for approval by the FISU Technical Committee, the Organising Committee shall provide for exclusive use:

one normal hill with FIS certification
one large hill with FIS certification

Ski jumping and Nordic combined will be moved to the programme of optional sports/disciplines after the 26th Winter Universiade in 2013 in Trentino. In 2014, ski jumping and Nordic combined will be included into the official programme of the World University Championships.