Clint Jones

Clint Jones
Clint Jones 2008
nation	United States
birthday	5th October 1984
place of birth	Monroe ,  United States
Career
society	Steamboat Springs Winter Sports
status	not active
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	February 26, 2000
Overall World Cup	47th ( 2001/02 )
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	2. ( 2002 )
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 3 5 2

Clinton "Clint" Jones (born October 5, 1984 in Monroe , Wisconsin ) is a retired American ski jumper .

Career

Clint Jones grew up in Steamboat Springs and skied for the first time at the age of two. He came to ski jumping at the age of five through his brother Robbie, and in 1999 he became the youngest American champion in history. On February 26, 2000 Jones started in the World Cup for the first time and just missed his first points as 32nd. At the end of November 2001 he took ninth place in Kuopio, the best World Cup result of his career. At the 2001 World Championships in Lahti , Finland , he was 38th on the large hill and 37th on the normal hill. Two years later he reached the World Championships 2003 in Predazzo , Italy , he was 32nd on the normal hill and 40th on the large hill.

On January 2, 2002, Jones won the Continental Cup jumping competition at Bergisel in Innsbruck - at the 2002 Junior World Championships in Schonach in the Black Forest , he was seventh in the individual competition. After finishing second overall in the 2002 Summer Grand Prix , Jones celebrated a double victory at the Continental Cup in Park City at the end of September . At the ski flying world championship in 2002 in Harrachov , Czech Republic , he finished 38th. Two years later he reached the second round at the Ski Flying World Championships 2014 in Planica, Slovenia , finishing 22nd. At the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf he reached 32nd place on the normal hill.

Overall, he took part in the Winter Olympics twice. Neither in 2002 in Salt Lake City nor in 2006 in Turin did he reach the second round and finished 42nd (2002) and 47th (2006). With the US team he finished eleventh in Salt Lake City and 14th in Turin.

Together with Alan Alborn , he formed a two-man World Cup team for years until he ended his career in 2007. Since the US Ski Association then stopped the financial contributions to the team, Jones had to end his career as well.

He is currently the head coach of the US ski jumping team.

successes

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2001/02	47.	55
2002/03	50.	44
2003/04	53.	25th
2004/05	67.	15th

Summer Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2002	02.	354
2004	44.	016
2005	36.	036

Continental Cup victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 2, 2002	innsbruck	Large hill
2.	September 28, 2002	Park City	Large hill
3.	September 29, 2002	Park City	Large hill

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
2001/02	028.	318
2002/03	149.	020th
2004/05	131.	011
2005/06	093.	028
2006/07	053.	108

Web links

• Clint Jones in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Clint Jones in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography of Clint Jones on us-skijumping.com ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 3  
2. ↑ Skijumping Coaches usaskijumping.com, accessed March 3, 2014