FIS Ski Jumping Summer Grand Prix ready for takeoff

The world’s top ski jumpers will be taking part in the FIS Grand Prix, starting in Courchevel (FRA) on August 9-10. The summer Ski Jumping series was first held for the men in 1994, with a women’s tour added in 2012.

For the first time since 2009, the Grand Prix returns to Italy. Predazzo, the hill that will stage Ski Jumping at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, hosts the fourth round from September 18-20. With the facility only recently finished, this will be the first FIS competition held on the hill and serve as a test event for the Games.

The final two rounds of the six-stop series in October will be hybrid events. While most summer Ski Jumping competitions feature porcelain in-run tracks and plastic matting on the landing side, these two will have ice tracks to provide solid preparation weeks ahead of the World Cup.

Lara Malsiner (ITA) will defend her women’s Grand Prix title, with Paweł Wąsek (POL) bidding for back-to-back men’s triumphs after overhauling Austrian star Stefan Kraft last year.

Summer Grand Prix 2025 schedule

• Courchevel (FRA) August 9-10

• Wisła (POL) August 16-17

• Râșnov (ROU) September 13-14

• Predazzo (ITA) September 18-20

• Hinzenbach (AUT) October 18-19*

• Klingenthal (GER) October 25-26

   

  *men only as Hinzenbach is a World Cup stop for the women

New format and equipment regulations for Summer GP

A new competition format will be launched at the opener in Courchevel. In the men’s event, the 50 starters are divided into 10 groups of five. The top two in each group qualify for the final round, plus the best five jumpers (lucky losers) who failed to make the top two. There are 40 athletes in the women’s - split into eight groups of five - with four lucky losers ensuring a 20-strong final (25 for the men).

All of the finalists start from zero with only the final jumps counting towards the result, guaranteeing high tension and excitement.

The Grand Prix will also see the introduction of new sanctioning procedures for equipment-related infractions. Among those are yellow cards for equipment violations, with a second transgression resulting in a red card and suspension from the subsequent event.

“Apart from being a popular competition series, the Grand Prix is also a very important test phase,” says FIS Men’s Ski Jumping Media Coordinator Horst Nilgen. “As ski jumpers spend most of their training time in the summer on plastic matting, the Grand Prix offers a direct comparison with other athletes.

“FIS regularly tests new formats at the summer competitions. This would not be possible in winter during an ongoing World Cup season, so everyone involved benefits from the competition series in summer.”