Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024: How to watch ski jumping at the 2024 YOG

Gangwon 2024, the fourth Winter Youth Olympic Games and the first to be held in Asia, is fast approaching.

The South Korean province, which also hosted the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, welcomes the world's best young athletes in January 2024.

Every winter Olympic sport, including ski jumping, is on the programme. Discover all the essentials you need to know about the sport at Gangwon 2024 as we begin the countdown towards the Opening Ceremony on 19 January 2024.

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Ski jumping at Gangwon 2024: Schedule and venue

Several PyeongChang 2018 venues will be re-used for Gangwon 2024.

The Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre, which hosted ski jumping during PyeongChang 2018 and saw Kamil Stoch, Andreas Wellinger and Maren Lundby take individual titles, will be repurposed for Gangwon 2024.

While the Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024 are set to take place from 19 January–1 February 2024, specific dates have not yet been set for the individual competitions.

Ski jumping at Gangwon 2024: Events and format

There are three ski jumping events at Gangwon 2024:

• Men's Normal Hill Individual

• Women's Normal Hill Individual

• Mixed Team

In the individual events, athletes have two jumps and the winner is decided by the highest combined score.

In the mixed team competition, every team includes two men and two women, who each get two jumps. The winner is decided by the highest combined score from all eight attempts.

How to qualify for ski jumping at Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games

The total quota of ski jumpers for Gangwon 2024 is 80 (40 men and 40 women), with four places (two men and two women), and one team place - comprised of two of those athletes - given to the host nation

An NOC may enter a maximum of one team in the Mixed Team event composed of two men and two women who are already qualified and entered for Gangwon 2024.

All NOCs ranked in the Marc Hodler Trophy Ski Jumping standings at the FIS Junior Nordic World Ski Championships 2023 (WJC 2023) and the Host Country are entitled to a quota of two male and two female athletes.

If a NOC has only one athlete qualified and entered, the NOC is allowed to enter a maximum of one athlete per gender from Nordic Combined who is already qualified and entered in the Nordic Combined events.

To be eligible to participate in the Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024, athletes must have been born between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2008.

Athletes must have also participated in FIS level or Continental Cup competitions during the YOG qualification period from 1 July 2022 to 17 December 2023.

For more details on ski jumping qualification at Gangwon 2024, click here.

Winter Youth Olympic Games ski jumping – previous stars

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics proved how important a pathway the Youth Olympic Games are in ski jumping.

Norway's Marius Lindvik won a normal hill silver medal on home snow at the Lillehammer 2016 YOG, which paved the way for his introduction to competing in the Continental Cup a year later.

He was not a medal favourite going into the Beijing 2022 Olympics, but stepped up to the plate to land a 140m-jump and pip Kobayashi Ryoyu to the men's large hill gold medal. Lindvik went on to seal the individual Ski Flying World Championships title.

Another Olympic champion to also taste victory in the YOG ranks is Andreas Wellinger, who was part of Germany's victorious team effort at the Innsbruck 2012 YOG.

Two years later, he helped his nation win team large hill gold at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, before he landed individual normal hill gold at PyeongChang 2018.

Wellinger's compatriot teammate at Innsbruck 2012 was Katharina Althaus, who to date owns three mixed team world championships medals, one women's team world title, and two individual normal hill Olympic silver medals from PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022.

Slovenia's Ursa Bogataj is one of the best women's ski jumpers in the world, having claimed Olympic gold in the individual normal hill and mixed team at Beijing 2022, and her Olympic journey began at the Innsbruck 2012 YOG with a bronze in the individual competition and silver in the team event.

Finally, Japan's Takanashi Sara won normal hill individual gold at Innsbruck 2012, before landing two individual normal hill world silver medals at senior level, and a bronze at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics.

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