Alexandria Loutitt Explained

Alexandria Loutitt
Birth Date:7 January 2004
Birth Place:Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Height:164 cm
Club:Altius Nordic Ski Club
Personalbest:225m (738feet)
Vikersund, 19 March 2023
Seasons:2021–present
Individual Starts:48
Totalpodiums:8
Wins:1
Updated:21 March 2024

Alexandria Loutitt (born 7 January 2004) is a Canadian ski jumper.[1] [2] She is the first ski jumper from Canada to win a gold medal at the World Championships and the first Canadian woman to win a World Cup individual competition.[3] [4]

Loutitt trains in Slovenia, as the ski jumping facility at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary was shut down.[5] [6]

Career

Loutitt became captivated with ski jumping while watching the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. She attended the National Sports School in Calgary, Alberta, which allowed her to spend several months a year in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany for training as a teenager before joining the Canadian national team.[7]

Loutitt competed in four events at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021, finishing 46th on the normal hill, 38th on the large hill, 11th on the women's team normal hill and 10th in the mixed team normal hill.[2] In December 2021, Loutitt had her season's best performance on the World Cup circuit with a 14th-place finish in the large hill event in Lillehammer.[2]

In January 2022, Loutitt was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team.[8] [9] [10] On 7 February, Loutitt won the bronze medal as part of Canada's entry into the mixed team competition.[11] [12] This was Canada's first ever Olympic medal in ski jumping.[13] [14] [15] In March 2022, Loutitt would win the bronze medal at the 2022 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in the women's normal hill event.[16]

In January 2023, Loutitt won the normal hill event at the World Cup stop in Zaō, Japan. This marked the first ever victory for a Canadian woman in the competition.[17] The next month, she also became the first Canadian woman to win a world junior title in ski jumping, taking the individual normal hill gold in front of home fans in Whistler, British Columbia.[4] In March, Loutitt became the first-ever Canadian ski jumping world champion, winning the women's large hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2023 in Planica, Slovenia.[3] [4]

On 18 March 2023, in the first ever women's ski flying event in Vikersund, Loutitt set a new female world record with 222m (728feet).[18] Her record was surpassed the next day by Ema Klinec.[19]

Major tournament results

Winter Olympics

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FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

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World Cup

Standings

SeasonPositionPoints
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scope=row align=center2021–2232 94
scope=row align=center2022–2313 547
scope=row align=center2023–24align=center style="background:#FFDAB9"3 1,030

Individual starts

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2020–21
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2021–22
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2022–23
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2023–24
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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alexandria Loutitt. skijumpingcanada.com. Ski Jumping Canada. 30 January 2021.
  2. Web site: Alexandria Loutitt. olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. 30 January 2022.
  3. News: Alex Loutitt becomes 1st-ever Canadian ski jumping world champion at Slovenia event . 2 March 2023 . The Canadian Press . CBC Sports . 1 March 2023.
  4. Web site: Nichols . Paula . Alexandria Loutitt makes more history, crowned Canada's first ski jumping world champion . olympic.ca . Canadian Olympic Committee . 2 March 2023 . 1 March 2023.
  5. News: Barnes. Dan. 26 November 2021. Resilient Canadian ski jumpers kick off another World Cup season on the road. Toronto Sun. 30 January 2022.
  6. News: Gillespie. Kerry. 1 January 2022. Is this Canada's last generation of ski jumpers? 'We need to ensure that we stay relevant'. Toronto Star. 30 January 2022.
  7. News: Loutitt . Alexandria . Resilient in every sense — the Phoenix flies again. 14 April 2023 . cbc.ca. CBC Sports. 13 April 2023.
  8. Web site: Four ski jumpers nominated to Team Canada for Beijing 2022. Nichols. Paula. 21 January 2022. olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. 21 January 2022.
  9. News: 21 January 2022. Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes named to his fourth Canadian Olympic ski jump team. Canadian Press. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 21 January 2022.
  10. Web site: Four Calgarians nominated to compete in ski jumping at Beijing 2022. 21 January 2022. skijumpingcanada.com. Ski Jumping Canada. 30 January 2022.
  11. Web site: Canadian ski jumpers win Olympic bronze in mixed team event. 7 February 2022. cbc.ca. CBC Sports. 7 February 2022.
  12. News: 7 February 2022. Canada surprises with bronze medal in mixed team ski jump. Toronto Star. Canadian Press. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 7 February 2022.
  13. Web site: Canadians earn first ski jumping medal in history, winning team bronze. 7 February 2022. sportsnet.ca. Sportsnet. 7 February 2022.
  14. News: D'Andrea. Aaron. 7 February 2022. Canada wins first-ever Olympic medal in ski jumping at Beijing Games. Global News. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 7 February 2022.
  15. Web site: Canada wins first ever Olympic ski jumping medal in debut of mixed team event. Nichols. Paula. 7 February 2022. olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. 7 February 2022.
  16. Web site: Canada's Alexandria Loutitt Writes her Name in the History Books with World Junior Bronze Medal. 3 March 2022. skijumpingcanada.com. Ski Jumping Canada. 3 March 2022.
  17. Web site: Alexandria Loutitt wins Canada's 1st-ever gold in women's World Cup ski jumping. Canadian Press. 13 January 2023. cbc.ca. CBC Sports. 13 January 2023.
  18. Web site: Ema Klinec kot prva ženska prek 200 metrov, Kanadčanka z novim rekordom! . . 18 March 2023 . sl . 18 March 2023.
  19. Web site: Popoln dan Eme Klinec: zmaga, osvojena turneja in nov svetovni rekord . . 19 March 2023 . sl . 19 March 2023.