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FRIDAY JUMPING . . .
SATURDAY JUMPING . . .
SUNDAY JUMPING . . .
NORDIC COMBINED
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The 2005 Flaming Leaves Ski Jumping Festival in Lake Placid offered three days of international competition on the 90 meter hill, with eleven nations represented. Saturday and Sunday events were Continental Cup competitions, with the international field of men and women ski jumpers warming up on Friday with the final USSA SuperTour event of the summer.
With the Continental Cup events came the most up-to-date, high-tech support systems for starting, distance measuring and scoring. To regulate the jumpers up at the start, a three color light system was used. It had a red light telling the jumper to wait, but with a digital count-down clock warning the athlete when the light would change to amber, which said "Get on the start bar". When all was ready, the green light came on, saying "GO". This green light lasts only five seconds, after which the light goes back to red and if the skier hasn't left the bar, he/she is disqualified. This system kept the competition marching right along.
Distance measuring was done with the same computer/video system that was used in 2002 at the Park City Olympics, and is used now for World Cup and Continental Cup competition. Scoring was done by WIGEDATA, but it appeared that the ORDA crew was present to get all the numbers displayed on the scoreboard.
The weatherman warned of a huge rain event possibly lasting through the weekend and ushering out the last mild weather of the fall, but Friday stayed warm and dry under thick gray clouds. Heavy rains fell Friday night, but by Saturday morning, the front had passed, temperatures dropped about twenty degrees, and the rain was largely finished. The men competed in the morning, enjoying a good updraft for many of the jumpers. By afternoon, the wind had dropped and most of the ladies found a very gentle updraft. Good jumping conditions!
Sunday morning the men competed under cloudy skies, and in the afternoon, the women had to deal with stronger winds, but the rain stayed away. The wind was so strong at 1:30 start time that officials canceled the trial round and started competition (with no trial) at 2:15.
U.S. Women's Coach Casey Colby called it "the most consistent head wind that I have ever dealt with for a competition, everyone had good air."
The three day jumping festival was organized by the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) with the help of a corps of hardworking ORDA and NYSEF volunteers. Posted below you will find a few pictures from the three days with links to the individual results files, which are all relatively large pdf files.
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The Friday 90 meter SuperTour jump
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SuperTour Podium
Mechler, Bachleda, Jones,
Skupien, Musiol
[ SEE MENS RESULTS ]
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Ladies Podium
Sagen, Tanaka, Graessler,
Lindsey Van
[ SEE WOMENS RESULTS ]
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Junior Medalists
Delaney, Madden, Frenette
(Missing: Schauer, Bliss, Schott)
[ SEE JUNIOR RESULTS ]
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SuperTour Winner
Brian
Welch
(right), of
Scarborough
Maine,
took home
the cash as
the winner of
the summer
SuperTour
series.
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The Saturday 90 meter Continental Cup jump
The Sunday 90 meter Continental Cup jump
Friday Nordic Combined competition
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On Friday, Matt Cook laid out a cross country roller-ski course for a Nordic Combined Sprint event.
One Canadian athlete joined fifteen U.S. skiers who took their NC points from the first jump of the Friday
morning jumping and ran a 7.5 km. Gundersen-handicap race in the afternoon. Here are the results.
Mens Class:
Fin bib Athlete Name DIV/NAT Jumping .....XC Race..... Final
rnk Pts. rnk fin time Start time
Club (Gap) race time rnk time behind
1 1 Billy "Beru" Demong EAS 99.0 1 18:38 0:00 0:00
NYSEF 00.0 18:38 3
2 4 Eric Camerota IMD 79.5 4 19:33 1:18 0:55
NSF -19.5 18:15 2
3 3 Jason "Slick" Myslicki CAN 83.5 3 19:54 1:02 1:16
Altius SC -15.5 18:52 4
4 9 Jedediah Hinkley EAS 65.0 9 20:22 2:18 1:44
Andover Outing Club -34.0 18:04 1
5 5 Carl Van loan EAS 78.5 5 20:41 1:22 2:03
Andover Outing Club -20.5 19:19 5
6 3 Skyler Keate IMD 87.0 2 22:04 0:48 3:26
NSF -12.0 21:16 9
7 11 Trevor Keate IMD 58.5 11 22:12 2:42 3:34
NSF -40.5 19:30 6
8 6 Alex Miller RMD 69.0 6 22:40 2:02 4:02
SSWSC -30.0 20:38 8
9 10 Davis Miller RMD 65.0 9 22:54 2:18 4:16
SSWSC -34.0 20:36 7
10 7 Fletcher, Bryan RMD 67.5 7 23:23 2:06 4:45
SSWSC -31.5 21:17 10
11 8 Willy "Downtown" Graves EAS 66.0 8 23:42 2:14 5:04
Brattleboro Outing Club -33.0 21:28 11
12 13 Logan Oxford IMD 57.0 12 25:19 2:50 6:41
NSF -42.0 22:29 12
13 12 Peter Freire EAS 57.0 12 26:08 2:50 7:30
NYSEF -42.0 23:18 13
Junior Men's Class:
1 2 Delaney, Colin EAS 92.5 2 25:54 0:04 0:00
NYSEF -1.0 25:50 1
2 1 Alex Madden EAS 93.5 1 27:59 0:00 0:00
NYSEF 27:59 2
Junior Women's Class:
1 1 Tara Geraghty-Moats EAS 40.0 1 28:39 0:00 0:00
28:39 1
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