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2013 Chaikovsky RUS
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In
early March of 2013, the Old Boys of
the ski jumping world assembled in Chaykovsky,
in the Perm Region of Russia, for the International
Masters Championships. This town with about
80 thousand people is in the Ural Mountains
about 200 km south-west of the city of Perm
and about 1000 km east of Moscow.
(We find several
other spellings of "Chaykovsky" which is transliterated
from Russian.)
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Logo of IMC 2013 In early March
of 2013, the Old Boys of the ski jumping world assembled
in Chaykovsky, in the Perm Region of Russia, for
the International Masters Championships. This town
with about 80 thousand people is in the Ural Mountains
about 200 km south-west of the city of Perm and
about 1000 km east of Moscow. (We find several other
spellings of "Chaykovsky" which is transliterated
from Russian.) Perm region Coat of Arms
The 2103 IMC on the shiny new Chaykovsky jumping
facility (below) offered competition on four hills:
K-95, 65 & 40 meters (20 m. for the "Golden
Oldies"), plus cross country for Nordic Combined
competition, and two team events.
Five brand new hills in Chaykovsky, K-95, 125, 65,
20 & 40, ready for the Old Boys.
This wonderful facility was completed in 2012 and
the first jumps were taken in February of that year.
In March, they hosted the Russian National Championships.
The web site skisprungschanzen.com reports that
110 million Euros were spent for new jumps, biathlon
course, and a hotel, and that the new facility is
affiliated with a winter sports school for 150 students.
The jumps are in two clusters separated by about
100 meters and each group boasts its own chair lift.
In 1998 when the IMC was hosted in Perm, Russia,
not far from Chaikovsky, we learned that ski jumping
was alive and well in the Ural Mountains. Skiers
who had not come to the previous events in Scandinavia
or the U.S. turned out in large numbers and showed
their skills in jumping and their strength in cross
country skiing. It was no surprise then when in
2013 Russia fielded a team of 109 excellent athletes
(plus 4 pre-masters 25-29), the largest national
team ever seen at IMC. It is sad that so many of
these fine competitors are unable to travel west
when the IMC is not in their back yard. Also sad
was the small turnout of visiting teams in Chaikovsky.
Only eight nations were represented and the visiting
teams were all smaller than usual. We can guess
the reasons -- long trip, high costs, bad economic
times, and more -- but it is sad to see such a small
turnout. In 2012 we had 17 nations in Sczcyrk, POL,
having set the record of 18 the previous year in
Harrachov, CZE. The number of athletes in Chaikovsky
was large only because of the huge home-team.
We have been pleased in the past when every nation
at the IMC takes home a medal, but this year three
of the eight teams went home empty-handed. The 178
athletes posted 388 individual results, compared
to the record of 408 results by 191 skiers at Taivalkoski
in 2008.
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A
Brief Statistical Summary
A
quick count in the result sheets show that
178 skiers from 8 nations recorded 388 finishes.
Here are two tables -- one showing the team
sizes and medal counts, and the other showing
class sizes in the five events.
NAT team .. medals.. Ages K-20 K-40 K-65 K-95 NC Total
size G S B --------------------------------------
----------------------- 75-79 3 4 1 0 3 11
AUT 1 0 0 0 70-74 4 4 1 0 3 12
FIN 19 9 10 8 65-69 3 8 5 2 5 23
GBR 1 0 0 0 60-64 11 15 9 4 10 49
GER 7 1 3 0 55-59 8 16 11 5 7 47
NOR 34 12 13 10 50-54 18 15 7 9 49
RUS 113* 20 17 23 45-49 14 20 10 10 54
SWI 2 3 0 0 40-44 13 22 10 8 53
UKR 1 0 0 0 35-39 10 24 14 7 55
----------------------- 30-34 2 11 11 4 28
178 45 43 41 (25-29) 4 3 7
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*includes 4 premasters Totals: 29 104 123 66 66 388
We have also
prepared a list of all 178 competitors in IMC-2013
showing the skiers' nations and how they placed
in each event. Take
a look |
Meetings of the IMC Committee
produced a new Board to lead the movement for the
next two years. The Board consists of Manuela Steinke
& Klaus Gu"nther of Germany and Stein Arne
Hoel of Norway but the roles and titles of these
three were not designated. The meetings did not
name a host for IMC 2014.
Chaykovsky organizers produced results in .pdf files,
one for each age group on each hill, plus Nordic
Combined, 57 files in all. Results for the Nordic
Combined jumping in class 50-54 are not available
so we have linked to the full jumping results instead.
Nine of the 14 skiers shown there competed in the
Nordic Combined cross country race. Here are links
to the results.
Here
are the names of the medalists from IMC2013
in Chaikovsky ››
Skijumpeast.com,
18.03.2013
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