Abigail Strate (born 22 February 2001) is a Canadian ski jumper , born in Calgary , Alberta. Strate began ski jumping at six years old, and entered her first international competition when she was ten, in Utah . In her participation at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics , Strate won Canada's first Bronze medal in Ski jumping, in the mixed team event. Strate also notably ranked 23rd in the Women's Normal Hill Individual event, with a total of 161.9 points. In her free time, Strate enjoys spending time outside by mountain biking , beekeeping , gardening, and caring for her chickens.
6-738: Strate competed in four events at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021 , finishing 27th on the normal hill, 28th on the large hill, 11th on the women's team normal hill and finally 10th in the mixed team normal hill. Strate lives and trains in Slovenia for 8 months a year with the Canadian women's team, as the jumps at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary were shut down. In January 2022, Strate
12-404: A result of the ban, WADA plans to allow individually cleared Russian athletes to take part in the 2021–2022 World Championships and 2022 Winter Olympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but they will not be permitted to compete in team sports. The title of the neutral banner has yet to be determined; WADA Compliance Review Committee head Jonathan Taylor stated that
18-561: The IOC would not be able to use " Olympic Athletes from Russia " (OAR) as it did in 2018, emphasizing that neutral athletes cannot be portrayed as representing a specific country. Russia later filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the WADA decision. The Court of Arbitration for Sport, on review of Russia's appeal of its case from WADA, ruled on 17 December 2020 to reduce
24-520: The penalty that WADA had placed. Instead of banning Russia from sporting events, the ruling allowed Russia to participate at the Olympics and other international events, but for a period of two years, the team cannot use the Russian name, flag, or anthem and must present themselves as "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team". The ruling does allow for team uniforms to display "Russia" on the uniform as well as
30-652: Was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team . On February 7, Strate won the bronze medal as part of Canada's entry into the mixed team competition, alongside Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes , Alexandria Loutitt , and Matthew Soukup . This was Canada's first ever Olympic medal in the sport of ski jumping. This biographical article relating to Canadian ski jumping is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021 The 42nd FIS Nordic World Ski Championships were held from 24 February to 7 March 2021 in Oberstdorf , Germany. It
36-791: Was the third time that the World Championships have been held in Oberstdorf, having previously hosted the event in 1987 and 2005. On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with laboratory data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated. As
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