Norway earns first women's ski-jumping team world title

The home team reaches gold

Norway won its first women's team world title in ski jumping at Trondheim's Granåsen on 1 March 2025. Anna Odine Strøm, Ingvild Synnøve Midtskogen, Heidi Dyhre Traaserud and Eirin Maria Kvandal scored 904.5 points across the normal-hill competition. Austria finished second with 885.1 points, while Germany took bronze with 846.5.

The winning margin was 19.4 points over Austria and 58.0 over Germany. Norway had taken bronze at each of the previous three World Championships women's team competitions. This victory changed its result from a consistent place on the podium to the championship's leading position, at the edition held in its own country.

Eight scored jumps decide the title

The event used four athletes per team, with one jump from each athlete in the opening round. Twelve teams entered that round, and the leading eight qualified for a second set of four jumps. The final points total thus combined eight jumps for each of the teams that reached the decisive round.

Norway led after the opening round with 445.3 points. Germany was 5.6 points behind at that stage and Austria 8.9 points behind. Norway added 459.2 points in the second round and remained first in the completed classification, while Austria moved ahead of Germany for silver. Its lead over Austria grew from 8.9 to 19.4 points across the two rounds.

Austria and Germany complete the podium

Austria's team consisted of Lisa Eder, Julia Mühlbacher, Jacqueline Seifriedsberger and Eva Pinkelnig. Germany fielded Juliane Seyfarth, Katharina Schmid, Agnes Reisch and Selina Freitag. Austria finished 38.6 points ahead of Germany in the final table. The medal result followed Austria's 2021 title and Germany's victories in 2019 and 2023.

Slovenia, including individual normal-hill champion Nika Prevc alongside Ema Klinec, Tina Erzar and Katra Komar, placed fourth with 792.9 points. Japan was fifth with 756.2. Italy finished sixth on 653.6, the United States seventh on 613.7 and China eighth on 587.3. These eight nations contributed two rounds of scored jumps to the final result.

A milestone in a developing championship event

The women's team competition first appeared at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2019. Trondheim was therefore its fourth edition, and Norway became the third nation to win it. The four editions had produced German, Austrian, German and Norwegian champions, illustrating a different historical sequence from the individual events held alongside it.

Finland placed ninth in the first-round classification with 280.8 points, followed by Czechia on 266.8, Poland on 238.9 and Kazakhstan on 112.9. Their totals came from a single round because they did not progress. Comparing those totals directly with the eight-jump scores of the finalists would obscure the event format.

The Norwegian gold was part of a wider Trondheim ski-jumping programme containing women's individual normal-hill and large-hill events, men's individual and team events, and a mixed-team contest. It remains a specific four-athlete normal-hill title, distinct from those other medals.