Canada's Abigail Strate wins ski jump bronze medal at World Cup in Austria

Canada's Abigail Strate competes at the women's normal hill individual ski jumping World Cup event in Villach, Austria on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Darko Bandic

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HINZENBACH - Canada's Abigail Strate won bronze on Sunday for her first World Cup ski jumping medal of the season.聽

Strate, from Calgary, scored 226.6 points over two jumps on the normal-size hill. She covered a distance of 86.5 metres on her first jump and 87.5 metres on her second.

"I decided I was going to go for it," she said. "It either works or it doesn鈥檛. In a top sport like this the margin is so small, you can鈥檛 be half in."

Slovenia鈥檚 Nika Prevc won gold with 244.0 points and Germany鈥檚 Selina Freitag took silver (241.5).

It was Strate's sixth career World Cup medal.聽

Calgary's Nicole Maurer was 16th.

This report by 春色直播was first published Feb. 23, 2025.聽

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