A month before the Norwegian team will kick of their winter with the nationals at Beitostølen, head coach Bjørn Kåre Ingebrigtsen is very optimistic.

With a time advantage of almost five minutes, 29-year-old Tim Hug has won his fifth consecutive national title since 2011 on the past weekend in Einsiedeln. Starting 29 seconds after jumping winner Tobias Birchler, Hug’s victory was not challenged at all.

Simon Ammann defended his title at the Swiss national championships on the Andreas Kuettel hill in Einsiedeln on Sunday.

One day after clinching the season's opener of the alpine snowboard Europa Cup tour in Landgraaf, Holland, Nadya Ochner has celebrated a back-to-back win.

Nadya Ochner (ITA) and Alexander Payer (AUT) have claimed victory in the first of two parallel slaloms which are currently staged in Landgraaf, Holland, as season's opener for the 2015-16 Europa Cup tour.

The Russian national championships of the men and ladies were held this week on the Olympic hills from Sochi 2014.

The start of the snowboard competition season in the Northern Hemisphere season usually takes place in the Netherlands.

It has been quiet around the Slovenian Nordic Combined team in the past few months but on the past weekend, the summer nationals 2015 were held and it was team leader Marjan Jelenko who came out on top of the result lists.

Ernest Yahin is the best Russian Nordic Combined athlete of the summer 2015.

The titles at the Slovenian National Championships in Kranj on Sunday went to Peter Prevc and Ema Klinec.