{"id":56412,"date":"2025-11-28T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rukanordic.com\/?p=56412"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:34:02","slug":"ski-jumping-season-started-last-weekend-tight-fight-continues-at-ruka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rukanordic.com\/en\/ski-jumping-season-started-last-weekend-tight-fight-continues-at-ruka\/","title":{"rendered":"Ski jumping season started last weekend &#8211; tight fight continues at Ruka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ski Jumping\u2019s World Cup started last weekend in Lillehammer, Norway. The winners were Japanese jumper <strong>Ryoyu Kobayashi<\/strong> and Austrian <strong>Daniel Tschofenig<\/strong>. Eventually, 29-year-old Kobayashi collected 290.5 points while Tschogenig finished with 311 points.<\/p>\n<p>The best Finn was <strong>Antti Aalto<\/strong> who finished 21st and 24th. Another Finn was <strong>Vilho Palosaari <\/strong>who also competed in Lillehammer. Palosaari, however, didn\u2019t make it through the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The current ski jumping season has started with a rush. The season started last weekend in Lillehammer and continues immediately in Falun, Sweden. Falun is a familiar competition venue from cross-country skiing, but in the last 20 years there has been only one ski jump competition.<\/p>\n<p>Last year in Ruka, the winners were both German jumpers: <strong>Pius Paschke<\/strong> and <strong>Andreas Wellinger. <\/strong>On the contrary, this season has started badly for Germany. Pasche was in 27th place in Norway. Experienced 35-year-old Paschke has won six World Cup competitions but recently his jumps have left something to be desired.<\/p>\n<p>The ski jump weekend will start on Friday at 6 PM with the qualification round. Jumping continues on Saturday at 4 PM when the competition is set to begin. A compact 2nd round will take place on Sunday, as the qualification is in the morning and the competition starts in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Finnish Ski Jumping Team at\u00a0 Ruka Nordic<\/p>\n<p>Antti Aalto<br \/>\nNiko Kyt\u00f6saho<br \/>\nJarkko M\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4<br \/>\nEetu Nousiainen<br \/>\nVilho Palosaari<br \/>\nKasperi Valto<br \/>\nPaavo Romppainen<\/p>\n<p>Text: Konsta Niininen<br \/>\nPictures: Emmi Ovaska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ski Jumping\u2019s World Cup started last weekend in Lillehammer, Norway. The winners were Japanese jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi and Austrian Daniel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":56406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[58,60,94,100],"class_list":["post-56412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ski-jumping","tag-ruka-nordic-en","tag-fis-world-cup-ruka-nordic-en","tag-fis-world-cup"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ski jumping season started last weekend - tight fight continues at Ruka - Ruka Nordic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rukanordic.com\/en\/ski-jumping-season-started-last-weekend-tight-fight-continues-at-ruka\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ski jumping season started last weekend - tight fight continues at Ruka - Ruka Nordic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ski Jumping\u2019s World Cup started last weekend in Lillehammer, Norway. 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