The National Ski Jumping Centre (), nicknamed Snow Ruyi (), is a Chinese ski jumping hill in Chongli District, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China, opened in 2021.
It is located northwest from Beijing and hosted the 2022 Winter Olympics in ski jumping and Nordic combined. 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.
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.
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.
German ski jumper David Siegel, also a hill record holder at , won the premiere event on large hill at Continental Cup.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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).
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).
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
No.DateHillGold Silver BronzeWomen's individual 3 5 February 2022 HS106 Urša Bogataj Katharina Althaus Nika KrižnarMen's individual 16 6 February 2022 HS106 Ryōyū Kobayashi Manuel Fettner Dawid Kubacki24 12 February 2022 HS140 Marius Lindvik Ryōyū Kobayashi Karl GeigerMixed team 1 7 February 2022 HS106 Men's team 10 14 February 2022 HS140
Nordic combined Cross-country skiing was held in Kuyangshu Nordic Center. No.DateHillGold Silver BronzeMen's individual 10 km 24 9 February 2022 HS106 Vinzenz Geiger Jørgen Graabak Lukas Greiderer6 15 February 2022 HS140 Jørgen Graabak Jens Lurås Oftebro Akito WatabeMen's team relay 4 x 5 km 10 17 February 2022 HS140
World Cup
Women No.DateHillsizeWinnerSecond Third 13 February 2021 HS106 cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic14 February 2021 HS106 236 14 December 2024 HS106 Katharina Schmid Eirin Maria Kvandal Nika Prevc 237 15 December 2024 HS106 Katharina Schmid Ema Klinec Lisa Eder274 16 January 2026 HS140 Nika Prevc Nozomi Maruyama Selina Freitag275 17 January 2026 HS140 Nika Prevc Anna Odine Strøm Nozomi Maruyama
Men No.DateHillsizeWinnerSecond Third 13 February 2021 HS140 cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic14 February 2021 HS140
Profile
Normal hill Inrun Length 100 m Speed 90.8 km/h Incline 35° Take-off tableHeight 2.37 m Length 6.5 mIncline 11° Landing zone Max incline 34° SizeTop to bottom difference 114.7 m Hill size (HS) 106 m Construction point (K-point) 95 m Hill recordMen (SKI JUMPING)(6 February 2022) 107.5 m (353 ft) Danil Sadreev Men (NORDIC COMBINED)(9 February 2022) 108 m (354 ft) Ryōta YamamotoWomen(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 tableHeight 3.12 m Length 6.98 mIncline 11° Landing zone Max incline (K-point) 34° HS incline 31° SizeTop to bottom difference 136.2 m Hill size (HS) 140 m Construction point (K-point) 125 m Hill recordMen (SKI JUMPING)(12 February 2022) 142 m (466 ft) Ryōyū KobayashiMen (NORDIC COMBINED)(14 February 2022) 142.5 m (468 ft) Vinzenz GeigerWomen no events held yet there
References
External links beijing2022.cn official Snow Ruyi skisprungschanzen.com