Local hero Eric Frenzel proved to be the best athlete in the first individual competition of the summer and claimed the victory in Oberwiesenthal today. In very warm and sunny weather Frenzel had a start-finish victory and ended his race 11.3 seconds earlier than his teammate Johannes Rydzek.

Riders in the FIS Snowboard World Cup Halfpipe had to fight fog and falls in today’s finals at Audi quattro Winter Games NZ 2015 with Japan’s Raibu Katayama and Cai Xuetong from China eventually taking the men’s and women’s titles in a contest characterized by its increasingly high standard of riding.

Kento Sakuyama won a FIS Grand Prix competition for the first time. In front of his home crowd in Hakuba, the Japanese, who was already third on Saturday, won with jumps on 130.5 m and 127 m and 265.2 points ahead of his teammate Taku Takeuchi and Czech Jakub Janda.

Michael Neumayer surprisingly won the first FIS Grand Prix competition in Hakuba, Japan.

Next stop in the men's Continental Cup is Frenstat pod Radhostem in the Czech Republic, were two competitions will be held on Friday and Saturday.

The winner of summer’s first Provisional Competition Round comes from Japan. With 105 metres and a total of 135.8 points, Akito Watabe topped the result list ahead of France’s Francois Braud (101 m; 123.9 p.) and local hero Eric Frenzel (100.5 m; 119.8 p.).

It will be eight athletes for the Austrian team for this years Summer Grand Prix in Oberwiesenthal, Montafon, Oberstdorf and Sochi, as the Austrian Ski Federation published today.

OESV Ski Cross Head Coach Gerold Posch invited seven athletes to Switzerland to tweak their giant slalom skills whilst also testing some new material.

Like their Ski Jumping counterparts, the Nordic Combined athletes are kept busy during the summer with a Summer Grand Prix series, which has its first competition on Saturday, 29th August 2015 in Oberwiesental (GER).

The 2015 Kangaroo Hoppet was held on Saturday August 22 at Falls Creek in north-east Victoria.