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Why the figures need confirming
The ski jumping rulebook found for this site is a FIS-hosted marked-up version of ICR Book III whose cover merges two editions ("October 2025" and "June 2026"). The Nordic combined rulebook, ICR Book VII, is likewise a marked-up version showing changes approved between October 2025 and June 2026. In both, deleted and added text run together, so a number may belong to the old wording or the new. Each rule below is given with its article as it appears in those files, and each needs confirming against a clean June 2026 edition before it is relied on.
Ski jumping
How a jump is scored (ICR Book III, marked-up)
- Style: five judges score style; the highest and lowest are dropped and the other three added (art. 433.1). Wikipedia says each judge can give up to 20 points for flight, landing and outrun; that was not checked against the ICR text.
- Distance: a jump that reaches the hill's K point earns 60 distance points, and each metre beyond or short of it adds or subtracts a set value that depends on the hill: for example 2.0 points per metre for a K point of 80 m to 99 m, and 1.8 for 100 m to 134 m (art. 433.2).
- Total: style points plus distance points, never below zero (art. 433.3). Wind and gate compensation are applied too; the Nordic combined ICR refers to "Wind and Gate Compensation (when in use)" (art. 542.1). How the compensation is calculated was not researched.
Hill classes (ICR Book III, art. 411.1, marked-up)
| Class | Hill size (HS) |
|---|---|
| Small hill | Up to 49 m |
| Medium hill | 50 m to 84 m |
| Normal hill | 85 m to 109 m |
| Large hill | 110 m to 149 m |
| "Giant hill" (appears in the marked-up text) | 150 m to 184 m |
| Flying hill | 200 m and larger |
Teams are two or four jumpers depending on the format, and the result adds the jumpers' points (arts. 453.1 and 453.2). Ski flying has its own special rules (arts. 413 and 454); a search summary of the men's World Cup rules for 2025/2026 says ski flying World Cup events follow both those rules and article 454.
Equipment, suits and the Trondheim case
FIS's equipment specifications for cross-country, ski jumping and Nordic combined (cover: Edition 2026/2027; read from a marked-up copy: needs confirming against a clean copy) tie the maximum jumping-ski length to 145% of the athlete's body length, based on a minimum BMI of 21, with a grading table below that BMI (C.1.2.1.1). Helmets are compulsory in all ski jumping events and must carry the "RH2013" label used for alpine competition helmets (C.10). Suits for the top competitions must pass FIS technical approval and carry encoded NFC chips, and a suit changed after marking leads to disqualification (C.4.5). More is on race suits, airbags and cut protection.
Suits were at the centre of a case from the 2025 Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim. On FIS's official record: the FIS Ethics Committee approved a settlement agreement for two Norwegian jumpers on 22 August 2025, and in a decision of 8 January 2026 made three Norwegian team officials ineligible for at least 18 months from the decision date, less the provisional suspension served since 12 March 2025. The detail is on world championships.
Nordic combined
Nordic combined joins a ski jumping competition and a cross-country race. ICR Book VII (marked-up) names the formats below (arts. 528 and 540 to 545).
| Format (ICR Book VII, marked-up) | Order and start |
|---|---|
| Individual Gundersen (art. 540) | Jumping first, then the cross-country race. Only those who took part in the competition round of jumping may start, and the start gaps come from the jumping points. |
| Individual compact (art. 541) | Jumping first, then a race with fixed start intervals by jumping place, for example the leader at 0:00, second at 0:06 and third at 0:12. |
| Individual mass start (art. 542) | A mass-start race first, then one round of jumping in reverse order of the race result; the race winner gets zero points and the others minus points. |
| Team Gundersen (art. 543) | One round of jumping and a cross-country relay for teams of four, with race start gaps from the teams' jumping points. |
| Mixed team and team sprint | Named in the ICR; detail not recorded here. |
At the Olympics
FIS listed six ski jumping events at Milano Cortina 2026, held at Predazzo: women's and men's normal hill individual, women's large hill, men's large hill individual, the mixed team and the men's super team. FIS named the women's large hill and the men's super team as new for 2026.
Nordic combined had three Olympic events in 2026, all for men: individual Gundersen normal hill 10 km, individual Gundersen large hill 10 km and the team sprint, matching the Olympic programme in ICR Book VII (art. 528.1). The World Championships programme in the same book (art. 528.2) includes events for both women and men and a mixed team.
Women's events
- MPR News reported that the first Olympic women's ski jumping event was the normal hill on 11 February 2014 at Sochi.
- FIS says the first women's Nordic combined World Championship event was held at Oberstdorf on 27 February 2021.
- FIS reported on 24 June 2022 that the IOC Executive Board had declined its application for a women's Nordic combined normal hill event at Milano Cortina 2026, citing too few participating nations and missing interest outside Europe. FIS called the decision "surprising and disappointing", and said a first application, for Beijing 2022, had been declined in 2018. FIS also says women competed in Nordic combined at the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games.
2030
The Sports Examiner, in a report dated 7 July 2026 on the IOC Executive Board's 2030 programme decision, says that Nordic combined is removed from the 2030 Olympic programme and that a women's ski jumping super team event is added. The IOC's own release could not be opened for this site, and a FIS news item on the decision was seen only as a search result, so this is given as reported. See the Olympic programme.
Sources
- FIS, International Competition Rules Book III, Ski Jumping (marked-up version, October 2025 to June 2026)
- FIS, International Competition Rules Book VII, Nordic Combined (marked-up version, October 2025 to June 2026)
- FIS, World Cup Rules Ski Jumping Men 2025/2026 (marked-up; search-result summary)
- Wikipedia (secondary), Ski jumping
- FIS, Specifications for Competition Equipment: Cross-Country, Ski Jumping, Nordic Combined, Edition 2026/2027 (marked-up file)
- FIS, Daily Countdown: Olympic dreams become reality (7 February 2026)
- FIS, IOC declines Nordic combined women (24 June 2022)
- FIS, Women's Nordic combined at the World Championships Oberstdorf 2021
- MPR News, women's ski jumping makes Olympic debut (11 February 2014)
- The Sports Examiner, Alpes 2030: IOC Executive Board eliminates Nordic combined, adds freeride skiing (7 July 2026)
- FIS, Ski jumping: FIS Ethics Committee decision on the case of Brevig, Lobben and Livelten (15 January 2026)
- FIS, Ski jumping: update from FIS Ethics Committee (23 August 2025)
- FIS, Nordic combined cut from Olympic Winter Games (search-result summary only)