Jim Denney (ski jumper, 1983)

Jim Denney
Full name	James Ryan Denney
nation	United States
birthday	5th July 1983
place of birth	Duluth , Minnesota ,  United States
size	177 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
society	Duluth XC Ski Club
National squad	since 2000
status	resigned
End of career	2006

James Ryan "Jim" Denney (born July 5, 1983 in Duluth , Minnesota ) is a retired American ski jumper .

Career

Denney made his international debut in the 2000/01 season in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup . In his first season he already managed to win three Continental Cup points and thus rank 127 in the overall ranking. In the following season 2001/02 he was able to improve significantly. From January he reached top 20 placements in almost all competitions. At the end of the season he finished 94th overall with 108 points.

His most successful season was the 2002/03 Continental Cup season . He was able to achieve three top 10 placements in Ishpeming in March 2003 , including a fifth place. Denney was able to surprise on the Zaō ski jump in Yamagata . Denney only had to admit defeat to the Japanese Yūsuke Kaneko and was on the podium for the first and only time in his career. He finished the season in 36th place overall.

As a result, he could no longer build on these good jumps. Until the end of his career, he did not achieve any top placements. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin he was part of the US team, but he missed the qualification on both the normal and the large hill. After the 2005/06 season he ended his active ski jumping career.

successes

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
2000/01	127.	003
2001/02	094.	108
2002/03	036.	207
2004/05	138.	008th

Private

Denney is the son of the eponymous Jim Denney , who was also active as a ski jumper. In 2008, he and his father were inducted into the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame .

Web links

• Jim Denney in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (father & son together)
• Jim Denney in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jim Denney on The-Sports.org (father & son together)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame . AmericanSkiJumping.com. Archived from the original on February 24, 2016. 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. Retrieved September 15, 2013.