Frida Westman
Frida Westman during FIS World Cup competitions in Oberhof in Thuringia, Germany in March 2022
Country Sweden
Born (2001-01-10) 10 January 2001 (age 23)
Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
Ski clubIF Friska Viljor
World Cup career
Starts7
Podiums1

Frida Westman (born 10 January 2001) is a Swedish ski jumper who competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She was the first Swedish female ski jumper at an Olympic Games. Westman has the best finish by any Swedish female ski jumper at a FIS Ski Jumping World Cup event.

Career

Westman competes for IF Friska Viljor,[1][2] and has been coached by Andreas Arén[3] and Isak Grimholm.[1]

In 2015, Westman won the Swedish Youth Championship 55 metre hill event.[4] In 2019, she suffered two cruciate ligament injuries.[5] In September 2020, she won two Norway Cup events in Lillehammer.[2] In February 2021, she made her FIS Ski Jumping World Cup debut in an event in Oberstdorf, Germany. She finished 35th in the competition.[6] At the 2021–22 FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup summer event in Oslo, Norway, she finished fifth.[7] At the 2021–22 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, Westman finished 18th in the event in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. It was the best ever result for a Swedish women at a World Cup event. The weekend after, she finished 13th in an event in Lillehammer, Norway,[8][9] and she later came 10th in the event in Ramsau am Dachstein, Austria.[10]

Westman was selected for the 2022 Winter Olympics.[11] She was the first Swedish female ski jumper at any Olympics,[11][12] and the first Swedish ski jumper of any gender since 1994.[12] She finished 16th overall in the normal hill event.[13][14] Later in the month, she finished ninth in the training competition prior to the World Cup event in Aigner-Schanze, Austria,[15] and finished fourth in the two competitive events at that location.[16] In April 2022, Westman was critical of the Federation Internationale de Ski for not allowing women to compete in ski flying.[17] She came second in a 2022–23 FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup summer event in Lillehammer, Norway.[18]

Personal life

Westman is from Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.[5] She now lives in Trondheim, Norway,[2] having moved to the country in August 2019 to attend a school focused on ski jumping.[19] Her father Magnus Westman competed in ski jumping at the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1994 Winter Olympics.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b ""Hoppas det ger ett ökat intresse"". Expressen (in Swedish). 16 February 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Frida Westman vann dubbelt upp i Norges cupen" (in Swedish). Swedish Ski Federation. 29 September 2020. Archived from the original on 25 February 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Andreas Arén sportsligt ansvarig för svensk backhoppning" (in Swedish). Swedish Ski Federation. 5 October 2020. Archived from the original on 25 February 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  4. ^ ""Jag vill vara med i VM och OS"". Skaraborgs Allehanda (in Swedish). 8 March 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Två korsbandsskador på ett år: "Det känns orättvist men jag kommer aldrig ge upp hoppningen"". Skaraborgs Allehanda (in Swedish). 1 February 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Talangen Frida Westman klar för final i backhoppnings-VM". Sveriges Television (in Swedish). 24 February 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  7. ^ "COC in Oslo: Katharina Althaus' spectacular win". Ladies' Ski Jumping. 18 September 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Frida Westman skrev svensk backhoppningshistoria". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 5 December 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Frida Westman skrev svensk backhoppningshistoria". Norra Skåne (in Swedish). 5 December 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  10. ^ "WC in Ramsau: Kramer wins again". Ladies Ski Jumping. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  11. ^ a b "Frida Westman hoppar i OS". 8 Sidor (in Swedish). 4 February 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  12. ^ a b c "Frida Westman om sitt första OS – glasögonstrulet och mötet med van de Poel". Skaraborgs Allehanda (in Swedish). 16 February 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  13. ^ Round 1 results
  14. ^ Final results
  15. ^ "PŚ Pań w Hinzenbach: Treningi dla Kramer i Kriznar (lista startowa konkursu drużynowego)" (in Polish). Ski Jumping. 25 February 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  16. ^ "Nika Kriznar takes the win in Hinzenbach". International Ski Federation. 27 February 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  17. ^ "Frida Westman om förbudet mot skidflygning: "Diskriminerande"". Sveriges Television (in Swedish). 13 April 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  18. ^ "Women's Summer HS98: Lillehammer (NOR)" (PDF). FIS. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  19. ^ "Friska Viljors Frida Westman flyttade till Norge –för att bli en bättre backhoppare: "Här finns helheten"". Skaraborgs Allehanda (in Swedish). 2 November 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2022.

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