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Bulau was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1993, inducted into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame in 1994 and inducted into the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame in 1998. [2] On October 22, 2014, Horst Bulau was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame , [ 3 ] witnessed by his wife, Kerry, and three children, Kiefer, Zofia and Rainer.
Polish ski jumper Andrzej Stękała came out as gay following the death of his longtime partner, Damian. Stękała, 29 — a member of the Polish national team and bronze medalist at the 2020 Ski ...
Especially at the International Ski Flying Week in Planica 1974, where the Swiss seriously crashes after the second jump, he constantly criticizes the jury for choosing a too long distance along the in-run and expecting too much from him. He also calles their behavior a "scandal". Steiner later voluntarily chooses a shorter distance for the in-run.
Matti Ensio Nykänen (pronounced [ˈmɑtːi ˈnykænen] ⓘ; 17 July 1963 – 4 February 2019) [1] was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1981 to 1991. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers of all time, [3] having won five Winter Olympic medals (four gold), nine World Championship medals (five gold), and 22 Finnish Championship ...
Andreas Däscher (9 June 1927 – 4 August 2023) was a Swiss ski jumper who is best known for developing the parallel style, or Däscher technique, in the 1950s. This technique became widely used throughout ski jumping until the early 1990s. This technique was the standard technique until the V-style was developed by Jan Boklöv in 1985.
Masahiko Harada (原田 雅彦, Harada Masahiko) (born 9 May 1968) is a Japanese former ski jumper.He is best remembered for a meltdown at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, which cost the Japanese national team a victory, and his subsequent redemption at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano; the latter of which led to him being affectionately called "Happy Harada".
Wolfgang Steiert (19 April 1963 – 12 December 2024) was a German [1] ski jumper and coach. He served as head coach of the German national ski jumping team from 2003 [ 2 ] to 2004. Steiert competed at the 1985 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships , finishing in 24th place in the men's 70-meter ski jump event. [ 3 ]
Polish ski jumper Andrezj Stekala penned a heartbreaking post on social media mourning his partner of eight years, who died in November. Stekala, 29, came out as gay in the emotional post on Jan ...