One of the seven newly introduced sports is the Mixed Team Ski Jumping at the Winter Olympics 2022, know its rules, meaning, world record
To one’s surprise, for the first time at the Olympics, men and women will compete together in a mixed team event of ski jumping.
To bring advancement in gender equality at the Olympics Games, mixed events have been already featured since the inaugural edition of the Youth Olympic Games in 2010. Even many of them have also been subsequently introduced to the Olympic program.
What Is The New Ski Jumping Mixed Team Event At The Winter Olympics 2022, Rules, Meaning, World Record
Ski jumpers/Players will sit on a bar, with their entire calmness and, will wait for a green light to start. But if there is much of a gust, they have to slide back off the bar and onto a step to wait for the wind to settle down. With skis wide and long than those in other disciplines, jumpers go down a steep incline referred to as the in-run. The skiers try to avoid making contact with the sides of ice-filled channels that go as fast as 100 kph to help them fly to a longer distance.
Jumpers will be leading with their helmet, throw their hands back and crouch low into a tuck with a flat back for aerodynamics. Balance and flexibility are critical.
When the competition is about to end, both the participants, men and women will make a high jump without moving their upper body to create lift for flight. The most important part of this sport is the timing and technique in the take-off in the 15-second process from sitting on the bar to sliding to a stop in the snow.
The Format Of The Sport In The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games
This event will normally take place on the normal hill, it will use the same scoring method as the ski jumping men’s team competition.
Each team is divided up into a team of four athletes, two women and two men, who will compete in the following order: woman – man – woman – man.
The event will have one trial round and two rounds of competition. In the event, the eight best teams will qualify to the second round from the first competition round. They will then fight for the medals in the reverse order to the standings.
How To Follow The Sport In the Event And World Record
The National Ski Jumping Centre will show up the ski jumping competition including the ski jumping section of the Nordic combined event at Beijing 2022.
The ski jumping mixed team event will take place on 7 February. It will be the third set of medals awarded in the ski jumping competition, after both women’s (5 February) and men’s (6 February) individual normal hill events.
The Trial Round will start place between 18:28 and 19:07 local time, which will be followed by the first round of competition at19:45. The final round will start from 20:51 and is scheduled to finish by 21:27.
The world record for farthest ski jump is currently held by Austria’s Stefan Kraft after his 253.5-meter jump at the 2017 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup.