Snow Ruyi National Ski Jumping Centre

National Ski Jumping Centre
国家跳台滑雪中心
National Ski Jumping Centre; 国家跳台滑雪中心
Snow Ruyi (雪如意)
Constructor(s)	China Railway Construction Engineering Company
Location	Chongli District, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China
Opened	3 December 2021; (FIS Continental Cup)
Size
K–point	125 metres (410 ft); 95 metres (312 ft)
Hill size	140 metres (460 ft); 106 metres (348 ft)
Hill record	LARGE HILL:; 142 metres (466 ft); Ryōyū Kobayashi; (12 February 2022); - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -; NORMAL HILL (W):; 108 metres (354 ft); Urša Bogataj; (5 February 2022); - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -; NORMAL HILL (M):; 107.5 metres (353 ft); Danil Sadreev; (6 February 2022); - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -; LARGE HILL (NOR.KB):; 142.5 metres (468 ft); Vinzenz Geiger; (14 February 2022); - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -; NORMAL HILL (NO.KB):; 108 metres (354 ft); Ryōta Yamamoto; (9 February 2022)
Top events
Olympics	2022

The National Ski Jumping Centre (Chinese: 国家跳台滑雪中心; pinyin: Guójiā Tiàotái Huáxuě Zhōngxīn), nicknamed Snow Ruyi (Chinese: 雪如意; pinyin: Xuě Rúyì), is a Chinese ski jumping hill in Chongli District, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China, opened in 2021.^[2]

It is located 180 kilometres (110 mi) northwest from Beijing and hosted the 2022 Winter Olympics in ski jumping and Nordic combined.^[3] After the Olympics, the facilities shall serve as a national training centre, potentially also including junior hills to be built. Hill was designed by Zhiang Li, and got its widely known name after "Ruyi", a traditional Chinese ornament symbolizing good luck.^[4]^[5]

Beside summer ski jumping on plastic, the flat finish (jump out) area of the hill stadium, with grandstand capacity for 6,000 people, will be also used as a football (soccer) pitch in the summer.

History

In 2017, construction started and was planned to be completed in 2019. But due to the unconventional location in between two hills, the elaborate works were done in November 2020.

The Olympic ski jumping stadium was then inaugurated with a celebration on 21 December 2020. One month later, on 19 January 2021, CCP general secretary Xi Jinping visited the Olympic sports facilities.^[6]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all international test events, including World Cup and Continental Cup, in the 2020–21 season had to be cancelled. Premiere jumps were hosted at Continental Cup in December 2021.^[7]^[8]

German ski jumper David Siegel, also a hill record holder at 141 metres (463 ft), won the premiere event on large hill at Continental Cup.^[9]

On 5 February 2022, Slovenian female ski jumper Urša Bogataj, became the first olympic champion with gold at new normal hill (HS106) and also set hill record at 108 metres (354 ft) in the first round.^[10]^[11]

On 6 February 2022, Japan ski jumper Ryōyū Kobayashi became the Olympic champion at men's normal hill (HS106) event. Danil Sadreev from Russia set hil record in 1st round at 107.5 metres (353 ft).^[12]^[13]

On 7 February 2022, Slovenian national team (Nika Križnar, Timi Zajc, Urša Bogataj and Peter Prevc) won historic first ever ski jumping mixed team event in Olympics history with the outstanding record advantage of 111.2 points in front of the runner-up Russia. Third place took Canada, a totally unexpected result. Four women's disqualifications due to the irregular dress equipment in teams of Japan, Austria, Germany and Norway, did change the course of the event, especially for the podiums, but did not in any way influenced in a battle for gold, where Slovenia firmly held strong lead from the beginning of the competition.^[14]^[15]

Due to controversy of four disqualifications at the ski jumping mixed team event and complaints of several national teams, Agnieszka Aga Baczkowska who is responsible for equipment control, told the media what was actually happening behind the scenes. She explained that some of the four disqualified female had the dresses even up to 10 cm too big according to the FIS rules, it was obvious even on the eye.^[16]

On 9 February 2022, German Vinzenz Geiger won gold medal at Nordic combined Individual normal hill/10 km (HS 106) event. Japanese Ryōta Yamamoto tied absolute hill record at 108 metres (354 ft).^[17]

On 12 February 2022, Marius Lindvik became the Olympic champion at men's large hill (HS140) event. Ryōyū Kobayashi was leading after 1st run, where he set absolute hill record at 142 metres (466 ft).^[18]

On 14 February 2022, German Vinzenz Geiger set the absolute hill record at 142.5 metres (468 ft) on Nordic combined training. Austria won gold medal at Men's large hill team (HS 140) event later that day.

Olympics

Ski jumping

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Location in China

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Location in Asia

No.	Date	Hill	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's individual
3	5 February 2022	HS106	Urša Bogataj	Katharina Althaus	Nika Križnar
Men's individual
16	6 February 2022	HS106	Ryōyū Kobayashi	Manuel Fettner	Dawid Kubacki
24	12 February 2022	HS140	Marius Lindvik	Ryōyū Kobayashi	Karl Geiger
Mixed team
1	7 February 2022	HS106	Slovenia Nika Križnar Timi Zajc Urša Bogataj Peter Prevc	ROC Irma Makhinia Danil Sadreev Irina Avvakumova Evgenii Klimov	Canada Alexandria Loutitt Matthew Soukup Abigail Strate Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes
Men's team
10	14 February 2022	HS140	Austria Stefan Kraft Daniel Huber Jan Hörl Manuel Fettner	Slovenia Lovro Kos Cene Prevc Timi Zajc Peter Prevc	Germany Constantin Schmid Stephan Leyhe Markus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger

Nordic combined

Cross-country skiing was held in Kuyangshu Nordic Center.

No.	Date	Hill	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual 10 km
24	9 February 2022	HS106	Vinzenz Geiger	Jørgen Graabak	Lukas Greiderer
6	15 February 2022	HS140	Jørgen Graabak	Jens Lurås Oftebro	Akito Watabe
Men's team relay 4 x 5 km
10	17 February 2022	HS140	Norway Espen Bjørnstad Espen Andersen Jens Lurås Oftebro Jørgen Graabak	Germany Manuel Faißt Julian Schmid Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger	Japan Yoshito Watabe Hideaki Nagai Akito Watabe Ryota Yamamoto

World Cup

Women

No.	Date	Hillsize	Winner
	13 February 2021	HS106	cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
	14 February 2021	HS106	cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
236	14 December 2024	HS106
237	15 December 2024	HS106

Men

No.	Date	Hillsize	Winner	Second	Third
	13 February 2021	HS140	cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
	14 February 2021	HS140	cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Profile

Normal hill

Inrun
Length	100 m
Speed	90.8 km/h
Incline	35°
Take-off table
Height	2.37 m
Length	6.5 m
Incline	11°
Landing zone
Max incline	34°
Size
Top to bottom difference	114.7 m
Hill size (HS)	106 m
Construction point (K-point)	95 m
Hill record
Men (SKI JUMPING) (6 February 2022)	107.5 m (353 ft) Danil Sadreev
Men (NORDIC COMBINED) (9 February 2022)	108 m (354 ft) Ryōta Yamamoto
Women (5 February 2022)	108 m (354 ft) Urša Bogataj

Large hill

Inrun
Length	105.2 m
Speed	94.6 km/h
Incline	35°
Take-off table
Height	3.12 m
Length	6.98 m
Incline	11°
Landing zone
Max incline (K-point)	34°
HS incline	31°
Size
Top to bottom difference	136.2 m
Hill size (HS)	140 m
Construction point (K-point)	125 m
Hill record
Men (SKI JUMPING) (12 February 2022)	142 m (466 ft) Ryōyū Kobayashi
Men (NORDIC COMBINED) (14 February 2022)	142.5 m (468 ft) Vinzenz Geiger
Women	no events held yet there

References

^ "National Ski Jumping Center Built by China Railway Construction Engineering Group Wins Top National Award".
^ "Why name National Ski Jumping Center Snow Ruyi". ecns.cn. 28 October 2021.
^ "Beijing 2022 Olympic Venues: Zhangjiakou zone". olympics.com. 1 February 2022.
^ ""Snow Ruyi" illuminates the city of Zhangjiakou on its first public appearance". xinhuanet.com. 22 December 2020.
^ "Olympia 2022 in China: Ein ganzes Dorf muss dem Mega-Event weichen". fr.de. Frankfurter Rundschau. 1 February 2022.
^ "习近平冬奥行丨走进国家跳台滑雪中心和国家冬季两项中心" (in Chinese). 中央广播电视总台央视新闻. 2022-01-19.
^ "FIS Continental Cup; Women's opening event_HS106" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 4 December 2021.
^ "FIS Continental Cup; Men's opening event_HS140" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 4 December 2021.
^ "COC-M: David Siegel wins premiere event in China". International Ski Federation. 4 December 2021.
^ "Women's individual olympic normal hill event 2022" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 5 February 2022.
^ "Winter Olympics 2022 - Ursa Bogataj takes gold medal in women's ski jumping normal hill final". eurosport.com. 5 February 2022.
^ "Ryoyu Kobayashi wins normal hill competition at Olympics". abcnews.go.com. 6 February 2022.
^ "Dawid Kubacki with the bronze medal after phenomenal jumps at the Olympics in Beijing". polanddaily24.com. 6 February 2022.
^ "Slovenia wins ski jumping mixed team gold at Beijing 2022". xinhuanet.com. 7 February 2022.
^ "Slovenia leaps to first ever ski jumping mixed team gold at Beijing 2022". olympics.com. 7 February 2022.
^ "Diskvalifikacije skakalnih dresov še burijo duhove: spregovorila je stroga kontrolorka" (in Slovenian). Siol. 8 February 2022.
^ "Germany's Vinzenz Geiger wins Olympic gold in Nordic combined". foxnews.com. 9 February 2022.
^ "Norway's Marius Lindvik stuns Ryoyu Kobayashi to win ski jumping gold in the large hill". eurosport.com. 12 February 2022.

External links

beijing2022.cn official
Snow Ruyi skisprungschanzen.com

40°54′31″N 115°27′56″E / 40.908528°N 115.465694°E / 40.908528; 115.465694

[1] "National Ski Jumping Center Built by China Railway Construction Engineering Group Wins Top National Award".

[2] "Why name National Ski Jumping Center Snow Ruyi". ecns.cn. 28 October 2021.

[3] "Beijing 2022 Olympic Venues: Zhangjiakou zone". olympics.com. 1 February 2022.

[4] ""Snow Ruyi" illuminates the city of Zhangjiakou on its first public appearance". xinhuanet.com. 22 December 2020.

[5] "Olympia 2022 in China: Ein ganzes Dorf muss dem Mega-Event weichen". fr.de. Frankfurter Rundschau. 1 February 2022.

[6] "习近平冬奥行丨走进国家跳台滑雪中心和国家冬季两项中心" (in Chinese). 中央广播电视总台央视新闻. 2022-01-19.

[7] "FIS Continental Cup; Women's opening event_HS106" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 4 December 2021.

[8] "FIS Continental Cup; Men's opening event_HS140" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 4 December 2021.

[9] "COC-M: David Siegel wins premiere event in China". International Ski Federation. 4 December 2021.

[10] "Women's individual olympic normal hill event 2022" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 5 February 2022.

[11] "Winter Olympics 2022 - Ursa Bogataj takes gold medal in women's ski jumping normal hill final". eurosport.com. 5 February 2022.

[12] "Ryoyu Kobayashi wins normal hill competition at Olympics". abcnews.go.com. 6 February 2022.

[13] "Dawid Kubacki with the bronze medal after phenomenal jumps at the Olympics in Beijing". polanddaily24.com. 6 February 2022.

[14] "Slovenia wins ski jumping mixed team gold at Beijing 2022". xinhuanet.com. 7 February 2022.

[15] "Slovenia leaps to first ever ski jumping mixed team gold at Beijing 2022". olympics.com. 7 February 2022.

[16] "Diskvalifikacije skakalnih dresov še burijo duhove: spregovorila je stroga kontrolorka" (in Slovenian). Siol. 8 February 2022.

[17] "Germany's Vinzenz Geiger wins Olympic gold in Nordic combined". foxnews.com. 9 February 2022.

[18] "Norway's Marius Lindvik stuns Ryoyu Kobayashi to win ski jumping gold in the large hill". eurosport.com. 12 February 2022.

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