On Friday, Alexandria Loutitt turned the primary Canadian to win a World Cup ladies’s ski leaping occasion, successful gold at an everyday hill competitors in Zao, Japan.
The 19-year-old from Calgary completed first with 240.3 factors after jumps of 98.5 and 95 metres.
“It feels fully surreal,” Loutitt mentioned.
“It was the perfect feeling to see the one subsequent to my identify. And I am additionally very glad that I am not the one robust Canadian. Our end result exhibits that it isn’t simply pure luck.”
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Horst Bulau was the final Canadian to win a males’s World Cup ski leap in 1983. The one different Canadian to win the boys’s World Cup ski leap gold was Steve Collins in 1980.
Eva Pinkeling was second on Friday (231.8 factors) and fellow Austrian Chiara Kreuzer was third (228.6). Abigail Strate of Calgary was eleventh.
“Ummmm? apparently I simply gained a World Cup,” Loutitt posted on Twitter.
A group occasion is scheduled for Saturday and one other regular hill occasion is ready for Sunday.
Loutitt had two fourth-place finishes earlier this season. She gained Olympic bronze within the first combined group ski leaping occasion on the Beijing Video games final yr.
The final Canadian to achieve the World Cup ladies’s ski leaping podium was Calgary’s Taylor Henrich, who had two third-place finishes in 2015.

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