The International Olympic Committee has added two new events to the ski jumping program for the 2026 Winter Games: the women’s large hill and the men’s super team.

The women’s large hill resembles the other three individual events. It only is the second-ever individual event for women at the Olympic level. 

The men’s super team varies slightly from the traditional men’s team event, which it replaces, in that two jumpers compete together in three scored rounds as opposed to four athletes competing in two scored rounds. Super team events only recently became a part of the international ski jumping catalog, appearing on the World Cup circuit for the first time during the 2022-23 season.

All of the individual ski jumping medalists from Beijing are expected to compete at the 2026 Winter Olympics — including Japan’s Ryoyu Kobayashi, Slovenia’s Nika Kriznar and Germany’s Karl Geiger — except for Ursa Bogataj, who carried Slovenia to its first two Olympic ski jumping golds in Beijing. After a knee injury paused her career in December 2022, Bogataj officially retired in February 2025.

However, the return of Norwegian stars Marius Lindvik and Johann Andre Forfang is in question due to an ongoing investigation by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation into alleged equipment tampering. Lindvik, who won gold in the men’s large hill in Beijing, and Forfang, who claimed one gold and one silver at the 2018 Winter Games, were suspended from competition for the rest of the World Cup season in March. It is unclear when hearings or verdicts will take place. 

Below is the medal table from Beijing:

In response to the alleged equipment manipulation carried out by the Norwegian ski jumping team in March, the International Ski and Snowboard Federation, or FIS, implemented a series of changes regarding equipment and equipment control ahead of the 2025-26 World Cup season.

Among the changes are modifications to equipment standards, including stricter measurements for the upper thigh, the thicknesses and lengths of gloves and the overall fit of the boots. Additionally, the FIS has updated the equipment inspection process it uses before and after every race, introducing an enhanced 3D measurement system and new officials to monitor athletes’ preparations before a race.

The FIS also has introduced a new sanction system for equipment violations. If a jumper is disqualified from an event due to an equipment violation, they receive a yellow card. A subsequent violation results in a red card and a suspension from the following event. In that case, the athlete’s country also loses its quota spot in that World Cup competition.

The rules limiting each jumper to one suit per season and stating that the suits must be kept by the FIS until 30 minutes before an athlete’s training or competition remains in place.

At just 20 years old, Slovenia’s Nika Prevc is in a league of her own. During a dominant 2024-25 World Cup season, Prevc topped the podium 15 times in individual events, secured her second consecutive Crystal Globe, collected the most points of any woman ski jumper in one World Cup season and, the day before her 20th birthday, jumped a world record twice during training sessions. She also stands as the reigning world champion in both the normal and large hill, marking the first time a woman has claimed both titles at the same championship. Suffice it to say, Prevc — who comes from a family of highly-decorated ski jumpers — is an athlete to watch as Slovenia attempts to defend its titles from Beijing.

Daniel Tschofenig has his eyes on the 2026 Winter Olympics, too. The 23-year-old from Austria made history during the last World Cup season, becoming the first ski jumper born in the 21st century to win the Four Hills Tournament, a prestigious ski jumping tournament composed of four World Cup events which takes place in Germany and Austria every year. He ended the 2024-25 campaign atop the World Cup rankings, securing his first Crystal Globe. 

Tschoefenig's girlfriend, Canada's Alexandria Loutitt, aimed to make her second Olympic appearance at the 2026 Games but tore her ACL at a Summer Grand Prix event in Milan Sept. 19, rendering her unable to compete. In Beijing, Loutitt aided in Canada’s bronze-medal effort in the inaugural Olympic mixed team ski jumping event in Beijing — the country’s first-ever Olympic medal in the sport. During her breakout 2023 season, Loutitt became the first Canadian woman to win a World Cup event, as well as the first Canadian world champion in the sport, and set a women’s ski flying world record in the process.

Historic ski jumping giants Norway, Austria and Poland collected a combined third of the total medals awarded in Beijing. Since then, Austria and Norway have continued to shine, while Poland seems to have lost some of the momentum it found behind athletes like Kamil Stoch in the early 2000s.

Austria dominated the 2024-25 World Cup season. Emerging star Daniel Tschofenig and Beijing gold medalists Jan Hoerl and Stefan Kraft grabbed the top-three spots in the men’s World Cup rankings last season, and Jacqueline Seifriedsberger, Lisa Eder and Eva Pinkelnig secured the fifth, sixth and seventh spots, respectively, in the women’s competition. The country also won the men’s and women’s Nations Cup titles in 2023 and 2024.

Norway, which holds the most Olympic ski jumping medals with 36 (12 gold), also has remained a dominant force in ski jumping. During the 2022-23 season, Halvor Egner Granerud grabbed the men’s overall World Cup title and the overall title at the Four Hills Tournament. On the women’s side, Norwegians collected a medal of every color at the 2025 World Championships: a gold in the women’s team event and bronzes in the women’s normal hill (Anna Odine Strom) and the women’s large hill (Eirin Maria Kvandal). There, Norway also took home the top prize in the mixed team event.

Poland, however, has seen mixed results since the Beijing Olympics. Olympic veterans Stoch and Dawid Kubacki have struggled to find the podium since the 2022-23 World Cup season, and the country has placed sixth in three of the last four men’s Nations Cups. It has failed to crack the top 10 in the women’s since Beijing. 

At the 2022 Games, underdog Slovenia collected three ski jumping medals, including its first two Olympic golds. Ursa Bogataj claimed the top prize in the women’s normal hill, while teammate Nika Kriznar took bronze in the same event. Both jumpers, along with Peter Prevc and Timi Zajc, powered Slovenia to gold in the inaugural Olympic mixed team event. Although Bogataj and Prevc since have retired, the country has plenty of emerging and veteran talent to maintain its competitive status.

Kriznar and Zajc have continued to compete. Moreover, Prevc’s siblings, Domen and Nika, have soared to the top of the men’s and women’s ski jumping worlds in the years since Beijing. They each set a world record in March, and the duo became the first sibling pair in ski jumping to win individual World Cup competitions in the same weekend.  

Slovenia also owned two top-10 spots on both the men’s and women’s World Cup rankings at the end of last season: Anze Lanisek (4th) and Domen Prevc (10th) in the men’s, and Nika Prevc (1st) and Ema Klinec (ninth) in the women’s.