Coordinates	64°32′″N40°32′″N
Name	Ski jumping
Union	International Ski Federation
First	1808Eidsberg, Norway
Team	Individual or groups
Olympic	2010 }}

Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump and attempt to land as far as possible down the hill below. In addition to the length of the jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long (). Ski jumping is predominantly a winter sport, performed on snow, and is part of the Winter Olympic Games, but can also be performed in summer on artificial surfaces – porcelain or frost rail track on the inrun, plastic on the landing hill.

History

True ski jumping originates in Morgedal, Norway. Olaf Rye, a Norwegian lieutenant, was the first known ski jumper. In 1809, he launched himself 9.5 metres in the air in front of an audience of other soldiers. By 1862, ski jumpers were tackling much larger jumps and traveling longer. Norway's Sondre Norheim jumped 30 metres over a rock without the benefit of poles. His record stood for three decades. The first proper competition was held in Trysil. The first widely known ski jumping competition was the Husebyrennene, held in Oslo in 1879, with Olaf Haugann of Norway setting the first world record for the longest ski jump at 20 metres. The annual event was moved to Holmenkollen from 1892, and Holmenkollen has remained the pinnacle of ski jumping venues.

According to the International Olympic Committee's site:

Ski jumping has been part of the Olympic Winter Games since the first Games in Chamonix Mont-Blanc in 1924. The Large Hill competition was included on the Olympic programme for the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck.

Competition

Today, FIS Ski Jumping World Cup are held on three types of hills:

;Normal hill competitions :for which the calculation line is found at approximately . Distances of up to and over can be reached. ;Large hill competitions :for which the calculation line is found at approximately . Distances of over can be obtained on the larger hills. Both individual and team competitions are run on these hills. ;Ski-flying competitions :for which the calculation line is found at . The Ski Flying World Record of is held by Johan Remen Evensen, and was set in Vikersundbakken, Norway in February 2011.

Amateur and junior competitions are held on smaller hills.

Individual Olympic competition consists of a training jump and two scored jumps. The team event consists of four members of the same nation, who each jump twice.

Ski jumping is one of the two elements of the Nordic combined sport.

Summer jumping

Ski jumping can also be performed in the summer on a porcelain track and plastic grass combined with water. There are also many competitions during the summer. The World Cup (Summer Grand Prix) often includes those hills:

Hinterzarten K-95

Courchevel K-120

Einsiedeln K-105

Klingenthal K-125

Zakopane K-120

Hakuba K-120

Pragelato K-125

Liberec K-120

Kranj K-100

Wisla K-120

Szczyrk K-90

Hinzenbach K-85

Almaty K-120

Örnsköldsvik K-90

Ski jumping Fis-Cup and Continental Cup also have summer competitions and even more than the World Cup.

Women's ski jumping

On 26 May 2006, the International Ski Federation decided to allow women to ski jump at the 2009 Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic and then to have a team event for women at the 2011 world championships. FIS also decided to submit a proposal to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow women to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

On 28 November 2006, the proposal for a women's ski jumping event was rejected by the Executive Board of the IOC. The reason for the rejection cited the low number of athletes as well as few participating countries in the sport. The Executive Board noted that women's ski jumping has yet to be fully established internationally. Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee stated that women's ski jumping will not be an Olympic event because "we do not want the medals to be diluted and watered down," referring to the relatively small number of potential competitors in women's ski jumping.

It has been noted that while the number of women in ski jumping is not insignificant, the field has a much wider spread in terms of talent, in that the top men are all of a similar level of strength competitively, while the women are more varied, even in the top tiers.

A group of 15 competitive female ski jumpers filed a suit against the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) claiming that conducting a men's ski jumping event without a women's event in the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 would be in direct violation of Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The arguments associated with this suit were argued 20 to 24 April 2009 and a judgment came down on June 10, 2009 against the ski jumpers. The judge ruled that although the women were being discriminated against, the issue is a International Olympic Committee responsibility and thus not governed by the charter. It further ruled that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not apply to VANOC. Three British Columbia judges unanimously denied an appeal on November 13, 2009. The American actress and documentary film producer Virginia Madsen has chronicled the Canadian team's efforts in a film called ''Fighting Gravity'' (2009).

On April 6, 2011 the International Olympic Committee officially accepted women ski jumping into the official Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Records

All Pre-World Cup, Olympic Games, World Championships & World Cup events are included. (As of 20 March 2011) Matti Nykänen Finland Team Austria Team Toni NieminenJens WeißflogNoriaki Kasai <Adam MałyszJanne Ahonen Austria Team Austria Team Tommy IngebrigtsenAndreas KüttelNoriaki Kasai <Matti NykänenJanne Ahonen Norway Team Norway Team Gregor SchlierenzauerRoar LjøkelsøyJanne Ahonen <Jens WeißflogToni NieminenJens WeißflogToni NieminenJens Weißflog <Matti NykänenJanne AhonenJanne Ahonen Austria team Austria team Noriaki KasaiNoriaki KasaiNoriaki KasaiNoriaki KasaiGregor SchlierenzauerToni NieminenTakanobu OkabeToni NieminenAdam MałyszGregor SchlierenzauerGregor SchlierenzauerSepp BradlAndreas Goldberger (fall, invalid)Adam MałyszJohan Remen EvensenCortina d'AmpezzoLahti

Category
colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFF99">Ski jumping at the Winter Olympics	Olympic Games (1924-2010)
most individual victories	<	Simon Ammann	4
all medals	|	5	1984–1988
rowspan="3"	most team victories	|	2	1988–1992
	Germany Team	2
	Austria Team	2
most team medals	|	5	1992–2010
youngest winner individual (Albertville)	|	16 y, 261 d	1992
oldest winner individual (Lillehammer)	|	29 y, 214 d	1994
by No. of Olympic appearances	|	6	1992–2010
colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#A4C639">List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping	FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (1925-2011)
most individual victories	Adam Małysz	|	4	2001–2007
most individual medals	|	6	2001–2011
rowspan="2"	all medals	|	10	1995–2005
	Martin Schmitt	10
most team victories	|	8	1984–2011
most team medals	|	14	1984–2011
youngest winner individual (Thunder Bay)	|	17 y, 222 d	1995
oldest winner individual (Liberec)	|	29 y, 308 d	2009
by No. of Championships appearances	|	10	1989–2009
colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#FBCEB1">FIS Ski-Flying World Championships (1972-2010)
	Walter Steiner	|	2	1972–1977
	Sven Hannawald	2
	Roar Ljøkelsøy	2
most individual medals	|	5	1983–1990
all medals	|	7	1996–2008
rowspan="2"	most team victories	|	2	2004–2006
	Austria Team	2
rowspan="2"	most team medals	|	4	2004–2010
	Finland Team	4
youngest winner individual (Oberstdorf)	|	18 y, 47 d	2008
oldest winner individual (Bad Mitterndorf)	|	29 y, 228 d	2006
by No. of Championships appearances	|	9	1994–2010
colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#FFBF00">List of Four Hills Tournament winners	Four Hills Tournament (1952-2011)
most overall victories	Janne Ahonen	|	5	1999–2008
most individual victories	|	10	1983–1996
youngest winner individual (Oberstdorf)	|	16 y, 212 d	29 December 1991
oldest winner individual (Bischofshofen)	|	31 y, 169 d	6 January 1996
youngest winner overall	|	16 y, 220 d	1991–92
oldest winner overall	|	31 y, 169 d	1995–96
colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#BCD4E6">FIS Ski Jumping World Cup	World Cup (1979-2011)
	Matti Nykänen	|	4	1983–1988
	Adam Małysz	4
most individual victories	|	46	1981–1989
most individual podiums	|	108	1993–2010
most individual Top 10 results	|	245	1993–2011
most team victories	|	23	1990–2011
most team medals	|	45	1990–2011
most individual performances	|	396	1989-active
most team performances	|	39	1990-active
all performances	|	435	1989-active
most seasons	|	22	1989-active
most ski-flying individual victories	|	10	2006-active
youngest winner individual (Thunder Bay)	|	16 y, 184 d	1 December 1991
oldest winner individual (Kuopio)	|	38 y, 135 d	10 March 2009
youngest winner overall	|	16 y, 303 d	1991-92
oldest winner overall	|	29 y, 112 d	2006-07
most wins in one season individual	|	13	2008-09
most points in one season individual	|	2083 (points)	2008-09
colspan="3" align="center" bgcolor="#FE6F5E">Other records (all times)
first jump over 100m (Planica)	|	101m	1936
rowspan="2"	first jump over 200m (Planica)	|	202m*	1994
	Toni Nieminen (official)	203m
most jumps over 200m	|	114	1995-2011
world record (Vikersund)	|	246.5m	2011
first World Cup individual event	|	December	1979
first World Cup team event	|	March	1990

Scoring

The winner is decided on a scoring system based on distance, style, inrun length and wind conditions.

Each hill has a target called the ''calculation point'' (or ''K point'' or "critical point") which is a par distance to aim for. It is also the place where many jumpers land, in the middle of the landing area. This point is marked by the ''K line'' on the landing strip. For K-90 and K-120 competitions, the K line is at and respectively. Skiers are awarded 60 points if they land on the K Line. Skiers not landing on the K Line receive or lose points for every metre (3 ft) they miss the mark by, depending on if they surpass it or fall short, respectively. Thus, it is possible for a jumper to get a negative score if the jump is way short of the K line with poor style marks (typically a fall). The value of a metre is determined from the size of the hill. The K point is the point on the hill where the slope begins to flatten as measured from the take off.

In addition, five judges are based in a tower to the side of the expected landing point. They can award up to 20 points each for style based on keeping the skis steady during flight, balance, good body position, and landing. The highest and lowest style scores are disregarded, with the remaining three scores added to the distance score. Thus, a perfectly-scored K-120 jump - with at least four of the judges awarding 20 points each - and the jumper landing on the K-point, is awarded a total of 120 points.

In January 2010, a new scoring system was introduced to compensate for variable outdoor conditions. Aerodynamics and take-off speed are important variables that determine the value of a jump, and if weather conditions change during a competition, the conditions will not be equal for everyone and thus unfair. The jumper will now receive or lose points if the inrun length is adjusted. An advanced calculation also determines plus/minus points for the actual wind conditions at the time of the jump. These points are added or withdrawn from the original scores from the jump itself.

In the individual event, the scores from each skier's two competition jumps are combined to determine the winner.

Rules

Ski jumpers below the minimum safe body mass index are penalized with a shorter maximum ski length, reducing the aerodynamic lift they can achieve. These rules have been credited with stopping the most severe cases of underweight athletes, but some competitors still lose weight to maximize the distance they can jump.

Technique

The ski jump is divided into four separate sections; 1) In-run, 2) Take-off (jump), 3) Flight and 4) Landing. In each part the athlete is required to pay attention to and practice a particular technique in order to maximise the outcome of ultimate length and style marks.

Using the modern V-technique, pioneered by Jan Boklöv of Sweden in 1985, world-class skiers are able to exceed the distance of the take-off hill by about 10% compared to the previous technique with parallel skis. Aerodynamics has become a factor of increasing importance in modern ski jumping, with recent rules addressing the regulation of ski jumping suits. This follows a period when loopholes in the rules seemed to favour skinny jumpers in stiff, air foil-like suits.

Previous techniques first included the Kongsberger technique, developed in Kongsberg, Norway by two ski jumpers, Jacob Tullin Thams and Sigmund Ruud following World War I. This technique had the upper body bent at the hip, a wide forward lean, and arms extended to the front with the skis parallel to each other. It would lead to jumping length going from 45 meters to over 100 meters. In the 1950s Andreas Daescher of Switzerland and Erich Windisch of Germany modified the Kongsberger technique by placing his arms backward toward his hips for a closer lean. The Daescher technique and Windisch technique were the standard for ski jumping from the 1950s.

Until the mid 1970s, the Ski jumper would come down the in-run of the hill with both arms pointing forwards. This changed when the former East German Ski jumper Jochen Danneberg introduced the new in-run technique of directing the arms backwards in a more aerodynamic position.

The landing requires the skiers to touch the ground in the Telemark landing style. This involves the jumper landing with one foot in front of the other, mimicking the style of the Norwegian inventors of Telemark skiing. Failure to comply with this regulation will lead to the deduction of style marks (points).

Popularity

Ski jumping is popular among spectators and TV audiences in Scandinavia and Central Europe. Almost all world-class ski jumpers come from those regions or from Japan. Traditionally, the strongest countries are Finland, Norway, Germany, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Slovenia, and Japan. However, there have always been successful ski jumpers from other countries as well (see list below). The Four Hills Tournament, held annually at four sites in Bavaria, Germany and Austria around New Year's, is very popular.

There have been attempts to spread the popularity of the sport by finding ways by which the construction and upkeep of practicing and competition venues can be made easier. These include plastic fake snow to provide a slippery surface even during the summer time and in locations where snow is a rare occurrence.

Ski flying

List of ski flying hills

!Hill name	!Location	!Opened	!K-point	!Hill size	!Hill record
Vikersundbakken	Vikersund, Norway		K-195	HS 225
Letalnica Bratov Gorišek	Planica, Slovenia		K-185	HS 215
	Oberstdorf, Germany		K-185	HS 213
Čerťák	Harrachov, Czech Republic		K-185	HS 205
	Bad Mitterndorf, Austria		K-185	HS 200
Copper Peak	Ironwood, Michigan, United States		K-145	-

Ski flying is an extreme version of ski jumping. The events take place in big hills with a K-spot of at least . The difference between ski flying and "regular" ski jumping is subtle, but ski flying puts more focus on the ability to float through the air and less on pure jumping ability. Nonetheless, most of the top competitors in "regular" ski jumping tend to be among the best in ski flying competitions as well. However, some jumpers, such as Martin Koch of Austria, Johan Remen Evensen from Norway and Slovenia's Robert Kranjec are regarded as ski flying specialists.

The "father" of ski flying is Janez Gorišek, an engineer, sportsman and enthusiastic sport-promoter who designed the Planica ski-jump. There are five ski flying hills in the world today: Vikersundbakken in Vikersund, Norway; Oberstdorf, Germany; Kulm Austria; Letalnica, Planica, Slovenia; and Harrachov, Czech Republic. A sixth hill, Copper Peak in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, is currently disused, although there are plans to rebuild it to FIS standards. There are plans for more ski flying hills, even for an indoor ski flying hill in Ylitornio, Finland. The biggest hill is Vikersundbakken in Vikersund.

It is possible to fly more than in all the ski flying hills, and the current World Record is , set by Norwegian Johan Remen Evensen at Vikersund in 2011.

The ''Fédération Internationale de Ski'' (FIS) Ski flying World Championships started in 1972 and have been held on a mainly biennial basis, although there have been several occasions where events were held annually. The 2010 FIS World Championships in skiflying were organised in Planica, and in 2012 the FIS World Championships will take place in Vikersund, Norway.

Record number of official jumps over 200m

!Rank	!Ski Jumper	!#

As of 20 March 2011.

Notable ski jumpers

The most notable ski jumpers may be considered those who have managed to show a perfect jump, which means that all five judges attributed the maximum style score of 20 points for their jumps.

So far only 5 jumpers are recorded to have achieved this:

! Name	! Date	! Location	! Competition	! Rank
Anton Innauer			Ski flying (International ski flying weeks)
Kazuyoshi Funaki			Olympic Winter Games, large hill, second jump
Sven Hannawald			Worldcup competition, large hill, first jump
Hideharu Miyahira		Willingen	Worldcup competition, large hill, second jump
Wolfgang Loitzl			Four Hills Jumping, large hill, first jump

Sven Hannawald and Wolfgang Loitzl were attributed four times ''20'' (plus another ''19,5'') style score points for their second jump, thus receiving nine times the maximum score of ''20'' points within one competition.

Other notable ski jumpers can be found in the following lists:

Winners of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup

Winners of Olympic Winter Games / Ski Jumping

Winners of Nordic World Ski Championships / Ski Jumping

Winners of the Four Hill Jumping

Male

+Currently active	!Country	!Flag	!Name
Andreas Kofler
Gregor Schlierenzauer
Thomas Morgenstern
Wolfgang Loitzl
		Jakub Janda
Roman Koudelka
Borek Sedlák
Antonín Hájek
Lukáš Hlava
		Janne Happonen
Matti Hautamäki
Ville Larinto
Veli-Matti Lindström
		Michael Neumayer
Martin Schmitt
Georg Späth
Andreas Wank
Pascal Bodmer
		Sebastian Colloredo
Andrea Morassi
Roberto Dellasega
		Noriaki Kasai
Takanobu Okabe
Kazuyoshi Funaki
Daiki Ito
Shōhei Tochimoto
		Choi Heung-Chul
Choi Yong-Jik
Kim Hyun-Ki
Kang Chil-Gu
		Tom Hilde
Bjørn Einar Romøren
Anders Bardal
Johan Remen Evensen
		Kamil Stoch
Krzysztof Miętus
Marcin Bachleda
Maciej Kot
Dawid Kubacki
Łukasz Rutkowski
Rafał Śliż
		Robert Kranjec
Jernej Damjan
Peter Prevc
Rok Urbanc
Juri Tepes
		Simon Ammann
Marco Grigoli
		Denis Kornilov
Dimitry Vassiliev
		Emmanuel Chedal
Peter Frenette
		Vladimir Zografski

Female

Anette Sagen Eva Ganster Lindsey Van Jessica Jerome Daniela Iraschko Elena Runggaldier Evelyn Insam Lisa Demetz Coline Mattel Anna Hafele Magdalena Schnurr Ulrike Grässler Line Jahr Jacqueline Seifriedsberger Juliane Seyfarth Eva Logar Maja Vtič Anja Tepeš Špela Rogelj Manja Pograjc

Unsuccessful

/ Vinko Bogataj - Best known as "The Agony of Defeat man" because of the constant use of footage of his spectacular tumble in the title sequence of ''ABC's Wide World of Sports'' Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards - Popular favourite at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Important venues

;Ski jumping World Cup Engelberg, Switzerland Harrachov, Czech Republic Kranj, Slovenia Kulm, Austria Kuusamo, Finland Liberec, Czech Republic Planica, Slovenia Predazzo, Italy Sapporo, Japan Pragelato, Italy Trondheim (Granåsen), Norway Vikersund (Vikersundbakken), Norway Villach, Austria Willingen, Germany Zakopane, Poland ;Four Hills Tournament Oberstdorf, Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Innsbruck (Bergisel), Austria Bischofshofen, Austria

;Nordic Tournament Lahti, Finland Kuopio (Puijo), Finland Lillehammer (Lysgårdsbakkene), Norway Oslo (Holmenkollbakken), Norway

National records

1.		Johan Remen Evensen			2011
2.		Gregor Schlierenzauer		Vikersund	2011
3.		Janne Happonen		Vikersund	2011
4.		Simon Ammann		Vikersund	2011	Fischer
5.		Antonin Hajek		Planica	2010	Fischer
6.		Robert Kranjec		Vikersund	2011	Fischer
7.		Adam Małysz		Vikersund	2011	Fischer
8.		Dimitri Vassiliev		Planica	2005	Fischer
9.		Michael Neumayer		Planica	2005
10.		Noriaki Kasai		Planica	2010	Fischer
11.		Alan Alborn		Planica	2002	Fischer
12.		Emmanuel Chedal		Planica	2009	Fischer
13.		Andrea Morassi		Planica	2011	Elan
14.		Isak Grimholm		Planica	2007	Elan
15.				-	-	-
16.		Radik Zhaparov		Planica	2007	-
17.		Martin Mesik			2006	-
18.		Jens Salumäe		Planica	2004	-
19.		Stefan Read		Planica	2007	Elan
20.		Choi Heung-Chul		-	-	Fischer
21.		Vitaliy Shumbarets		Planica	2009	Elan
22.		Petar Fartunov		Planica	2009	-
23.		Christoph Kreuzer		-	-	-
24.		Gabor Geller		-	-	-
25.		Baris Demirci		-	-	-
26.		Dmitry Chvykov		-	-	-
27.		Florin Spulber		-	-	-
28.		Tian Zhandong		-	-	-
29.		Glynn Pedersen		-	-	-
30.		Kakhaber Tsakadze		-	-	-
31.		Filipciuc Ivan		-	-	-
32.		Mark Wayne Evans		-	-	-
33.		Ferdinand Gomez		-	-	-
34.		Sarahn Czizkabika		Gibswil	2011	-
35.		Bozo Cvorovic		Zabijak	-	-

Water ski jumping

The ski jump is performed on two long skis similar to those a beginner uses, with a specialized tailfin that is somewhat shorter and much wider (so it will support the weight of the skier when he is on the jump ramp). Skiers towed behind a boat at fixed speed, maneuver to achieve the maximum speed when hitting a ramp floating in the water, launching themselves into the air with the goal of traveling as far as possible before touching the water. Professional ski jumpers can travel up to . The skier must successfully land and retain control of the ski rope to be awarded the distance.

An extreme version of this sport named Ski Flying was promoted by Scot Ellis and Jim Cara, in which boat speeds and ramp heights are boosted because physics have proved that the standard line and traditional boat speed is outrun by the skier and the pro skier was ahead of the boat, being held back by the line.

See also

Four Hills Tournament

Freestyle skiing

List of FIS Ski Jumping World Cup team medalists

List of the longest ski jumps & World records

Medicinernes Skiklub Svartor

Ski jumping at the Winter Olympics

Ski jumping World Cup

Skiing and Skiing Topics

Notes

External links

skijumping.de - Biggest German website about ski jumping

skijumpingcentral.com A great English language ski jumping resource

Olympic Ski Jumping History

World's longest ski jump Bjørn Einar Romøren video

International Ski Federation Scoring, rules, measurement of jumps, etc. can be found here.

Norge Ski Club / Training area The oldest ski jumping club in the United States.

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Name	Robert Kranjec
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}} Robert Kranjec (born July 16, 1981 in Kranj) is a Slovenian ski jumper who has competed since 1998. He won a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in the Team Large Hill event.

His first victory in a World Cup competition was at Kuusamo, Finland in 2005. The following years he could not reach any top results except for ski flying competitions.

In 2010 he celebrated his second World Cup victory at Tauplitz, Austria. After two more successful ski flying competitions at Tauplitz and Oberstdorf, in which he achieved the second place each time, he won the ski flying World Cup 2009/10.

Although he often jumps only average at Normal and Large Hills, he belongs to the world's best active ski flying athletes.

He's the current holder of the national record, 232 m, set in Vikersundbakken in 2011.

World Cup victories

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Coordinates	64°32′″N40°32′″N
Name	Hafdís Huld
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Hafdís Huld Þrastardóttir
Birth date	May 22, 1979
Origin	Iceland
Genre	Pop
Years active	2003–present
Label	Red Grape Records
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Hafdís Huld Þrastardóttir is an Icelandic singer and actress, formerly of GusGus.

Biography

Hafdís toured the world as a 15-year-old with Icelandic band GusGus. After leaving the band she started writing her own songs, and collaborated with FC Kahuna, co-writing their singles "Hayling" and "Machine Says Yes". Elsewhere she sang with dance producers Ewan Pearson and Tom Middleton. During the same period, she made two feature films and modelled clothing for Extreme Sports. She later studied at the London Centre of Contemporary Music, graduating with a Distinction in 2006.

Hafdís was featured on the track "The News (A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Microsoft Inc.)" on the conceptual rap album ''Deltron 3030'' in 2000. Her official debut album ''Dirty Paper Cup'' was released in 2006 on MVine/Red Grape Records and won the award of best pop album at the Icelandic music awards. She was also nominated for best video with "Tomoko". The result of productive collaborations with a number of highly respected co-writers including Jim Abbiss, Boo Hewerdine, Pascal Gabriel and Chris Corner. The album was universally acclaimed by the press in the UK and Europe and received national radio play on BBC Radio 1, Radio 2 and 6 Music and also won the Icelandic Music Award in early 2007 for Best Pop Album. The album features a cover of The Velvet Underground's "Who Loves the Sun" with a ukulele accompaniment. This was one of four singles released from the album. The b-sides of all the singles were tracks from the album.

Shortly after releasing the album in October 2006, Hafdís and her band were asked to go on tour with Paolo Nutini on an 8-date sold-out tour of the UK. On these dates and her headline shows Hafdís performs with a three-piece band of Sarah Croft, Alisdair Wright and Steve Ling. The band use guitars, keyboards, ukulele, xylophone and banjo. Hafdís also toured venues and festivals across the UK and Europe, taking in The Glastonbury Festival, The Secret Garden Party, The Big Chill and Camden Crawl in the UK, Hultsfred Festival in Sweden, Airwaves in Iceland, Spot Festival in Denmark, Les Femmes S'en Melent and Europavox in France and the Midnight Sun Festival in the Czech Republic. In 2007 she supported Mika in London and performed at In the City in Manchester and South by Southwest in Texas, United States.

In February 2007, a headline UK tour was cancelled due to a serious lung infection, from which she took 6 weeks to recover. The dates were re-scheduled to May 2007. On the re-scheduled dates she performed "Boys and Perfume", a song from her (then unreleased) second album.

During a radio interview with Phill Jupitus on BBC 6 Music (8 August 2006), she revealed she was obsessed by chocolate and the colour pink, claiming that they came from God. Jupitus later claimed she was the 'most mental guest' he'd ever had in the studio.

Hafdís was one of the guest vocalists on Tricky's 2008 album ''Knowle West Boy'', performing on the track "Cross to Bear".

Hafdís recorded an a cappella version of the Sam Brown classic "Stop!", which was used on a pan-European TV ad campaign for Mercedes-Benz. A fully-instrumented version of the track charted in Iceland in 8 October 2008 and had a worldwide release on 24 November 2008.

During 2009 Hafdís recorded a second solo album, ''Synchronised Swimmers''. Two singles from the album went to number 1 in the Icelandic singles chart: "Kongolo" (which means "spider" in Icelandic and was written about the urban climber Alain Robert) reached number 1 in July 2009 and the title track from the album reached the top spot in October 2009. The album was released in Iceland in October 2009 and went straight into the chart at number 2. The album is available outside of Iceland, since July 2010.

Discography

Studio albums

''Dirty Paper Cup'' (2006)

''Synchronised Swimmers'' (2009)

Singles

''Synchronised Swimmers''

''Kónguló''

''Stop!''

''Tomoko''

''Ski Jumper''

''Diamonds On My Belly''

''Who Loves the Sun''

Filmography

Film

''Íslenski draumurinn'' (aka ''The Icelandic Dream)'' (2000)

''Villiljós'' (aka ''Dramarama)'' (2001)

TV

''A Legend to Ride'' (1997)

External links

Hafdís Huld interview at musicOMH.com

Hafdís Huld interview at Phoenix FM

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Peter Prevc (born September 20, 1992) is a Slovenian ski jumper who has competed since 2007. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, he finished seventh in the individual normal hill, eighth in the team large hill, and 16th in the individual large hill events.

Prevc's best World Cup finish was fifth in the team large hill event at Finland in March 2010 while he best individual finish was 14th three times all in 2010. Prevc won a bronze medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo in the Team Large Hill event.

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is a Japanese ski jumper.

She placed first in the Continental Cup competition in Ramsau in January 2011. She placed sixth in the 2011 World Championship in Oslo.

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