Lake Placid, NY
July 5, 2005

On the Independence Day weekend of 2008, Lake Placid, with an annual Fourth of July jump running for over 50 years, found itself in conflict with Steamboat Springs, CO on their new 70 meter hill. With just 13 skiers in the field, Lake Placid organizers broke with tradition and held a distance-only competition (no style judges) in which the competitors were free to choose any start point at the top of the tower. This evened the playing field, giving less talented jumpers the speed that they needed to jump to the bottom of the hill. The contest was decided by the total distance of each skier's best two of three jumps. Thirteen year old A.J. Brown of the Norge Ski Club outside of Chicago took full advantage, coming from a very high start and walking away with the victory. Brown was one of four Norge skier who made the trip to compete with nine Eastern skiers from Vermont, New Hampshire and New York. Nine of the 13 skiers flew past the 90 meter critical point of the hill.

Final Results Jumper Home Town dist dist total --------------------------------------------------------------- 1. A.J. Brown Fox River Grove, IL 98.5 98.5 197.0 2. Tara Geraghty-Moats Fairlee, VT 95.5 94.5 190.0 3. Cooper Dodds Hanover, NH 93.0 96.0 189.0 4. Peter Frenette Saranac Lake, NY 99.0 90.0 189.0 5. Connor Jacobsen Woodstock, IL 95.0 92.5 187.5 6. Andrew Bliss Lake Placid, NY 92.5 93.5 186.0 7. Kris Kowalczyk Chicago, IL 87.5 94.5 182.0 8. Jonathan Kling Louden, NH 90.0 90.0 180.0 9. Taylor Hoffman Lake Placid, NY 88.0 91.0 179.0 10. Zach Daniels Louden, NH 84.0 75.0 159.0 11. Spencer Knickerbocker Brattleboro, VT 76.0 77.0 153.0 12. Kevin Bickner Chicago, IL 68.0 65.5 133.5 13. Jon Farnham Lebanon, NH 53.5 53.0 106.5

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