Taylor Henrich

Taylor Henrich
Taylor Henrich 2016
nation	Canada
birthday	November 1, 1995
place of birth	Calgary ,  Canada
Career
society	Altius Nordic Ski Club
National squad	since 2008
status	active
Medal table
Youth Olympics 0 × 0 × 1 × KM medals 1 × 0 × 2 ×
Youth Olympic Winter Games bronze 2012 Innsbruck team Canadian Championships gold 2012 Whistler Normal hill bronze 2013 Whistler Normal hill bronze 2013 Whistler Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	December 3, 2011
Overall World Cup	15th ( 2014/15 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 0 2
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	15th ( 2013 )
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	August 10, 2008
COC wins (individual)	01 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	04. ( 2014/15 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 1 0
last change: March 3, 2018

Taylor Henrich (born November 1, 1995 in Calgary ) is a Canadian ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Henrich started ski jumping at the age of seven as part of a summer camp in Canada Olympic Park. She made her international debut six years later on August 10, 2008 as part of the Ski Jumping Continental Cup in Bischofsgrün . After jumping behind the top jumpers in the first competitions without success, she was able to win her first points at the beginning of the winter season 2008/09 in Park City . After winning two more points in Vancouver, she paused from January 2009 to January 2011 before returning to the Continental Cup. After she was disqualified in Schonach and only reached places 31 and 43 in Hinterzarten , she jumped into the top twenty for the first time in Braunlage . On January 22nd and 23rd, 2011, she narrowly missed a top 10 placement in Ljubno with two eleventh places.

At the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2011 in Otepää , Estonia , Henrich von der Normalschanze achieved 25th place. In February 2011 she managed to jump into the points again in Ramsau am Dachstein before jumping to 18th place at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo .

On December 3, 2011 Henrich made her debut in the newly created ski jumping world cup for women. In Lillehammer , with 23rd place, she immediately achieved a place in the World Cup points. Despite this success she was still used in the Continental Cup team and reached 27th and 28th place in Notodden . After two unsuccessful World Cup competitions in Hinterzarten , Henrich received the nomination for the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in January 2012 . There she won bronze with the team and reached fifth place in the individual on the normal hill. Four weeks after the Games started Henrich at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships 2012 in Turkey's Erzurum and reached after two mediocre jumps to 17th place.

After she competed unsuccessfully in the Ski Jumping Grand Prix in Courchevel and Hinterzarten in summer 2012 , she achieved two good results in the Summer Continental Cup. At the Grand Prix show jumping in Almaty , she also won her first points in this summer series, which meant that Henrich was 24th overall.

After Henrich in November 2012 only mediocre in the World Cup season 2012/13 was started, she reached in Russian Sochi with space 12 was completed, a place in the top twenty. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme Henrich jumped from the normal hill to 41st place.

In the summer of 2013 and also in the World Cup that followed , Henrich achieved results among the top ten. At the 2014 Olympic premiere of women's ski jumping in Sochi, she took 13th place.

At the two COC competitions in Falun on January 18, 2018 , she achieved her first podium with second place and then her first victory in the Continental Cup. A week later she jumped on the podium for the first time in a World Cup competition in Oberstdorf when she finished third. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun, she finished fifth on the normal hill. In the final competition of the 2014/15 World Cup season on the large hill in Oslo , she came third again. In the overall World Cup ranking she finished 15th. She was unable to confirm these good results in the years that followed. Her best placement since then and only placement in the top ten was a fifth place in Nizhny Tagil in December 2015.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , she took 16th place in the individual competition and 12th place in the mixed team competition.

Henrich was the only Canadian female ski jumper to take part in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in 2018 . As 32nd of only 35 jumpers, she missed the final of the normal hill .

Henrich took part in two competitions of the Continental Cup in Nordic Combined in the 2018/19 season. In both competitions in Park City , she reached the podium with third place. At the same time, she was the first Canadian who could achieve a podium place in this competition series.

successes

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 18, 2015	Falun	Normal hill

statistics

Ski jumping

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2011/12	46.	008th
2012/13	35.	061
2013/14	22nd	214
2014/15	15th	230
2015/16	20th	226
2016/17	33.	074
2017/18	45.	008th

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2012	24.	030th
2013	15th	107
2015	30th	022nd
2016	32.	012
2017	21st	041

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
2008/09	70.	011
2010/11	37.	100
2011/12	35.	036
2014/15	04th	180

FIS Cup placements

season	space	Points
2012/13	18th	058
2018/19	27.	100

Nordic combination

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
2018/19	18th	120
2019/20	14th	156

Web links

Commons : Taylor Henrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Taylor Henrich in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (ski jumping)
• Taylor Henrich in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (Nordic Combined)
• Taylor Henrich on Ladies-Skijumping.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Taylor Henrich . Skispringen-News.de. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
2. ↑ Henrich becomes first Canadian female to reach podium in a Nordic Combined Continental Cup. In: nordiccombinedskicanada.com. January 9, 2019, accessed February 18, 2019 .