Jim Denney (ski jumper born 1957)

James Jay "Jim" Denney ( born June 10, 1957 in Duluth, Minnesota ) is an American former ski jumper.

Career

His international debut Denney, the staretete for the Duluth XC Ski Club, at the Four Hills Tournament 1974/75. After this the 66th place on the Paul- Ausserleitner ski jump was his best individual result in Bischofshofen, he ended the tour ranked 72 overall. In the Four Hills Tournament 1975/76 he was able to increase his performances minimal, but again reached no Top 50 placement. The tour he finished with 655.3 points followed by 57 overall.

His first success came Denney at the U.S. Championships in 1976, where he clearly won the singles title. Shortly thereafter, he started in the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1976. After a 21st place on the normal hill he was ranked 18 on the large hill.

In the Four Hills Tournament 1976/77 he was in comparison to the previous season again show better jumps and closed the tour on rank 32. This placement repeated Denney at the Four Hills Tournament 1977/78.

In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1978, he reached # 14 on the normal hill. In the same year he won the jumping in Lahti. In the Four Hills Tournament 1978/79 Denney saw a further increase in performance. So he reached in Garmisch -Partenkirchen with eighth place for the first time a top- 10 finishes. It was also the single best result of his career. His most successful tour he finished ranked 23 overall. A year later, at the Four Hills Tournament 1979/80 Denney made ​​his debut in the World Cup Ski Jumping. But he could not convince in his first World Cup competition and therefore remained only for the tour, which he finished with 470.2 points as 64th in the World Cup squad.

At the U.S. Championships in 1980, he repeated his title in 1976 and subsequently went again at the Olympics. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, he landed while jumping on the normal hill on 36th From the large hill end, he was on a very good eighth.

Achievements

Four Hills Tournament rankings

Private

Denney taxes and studied economics at the University of Minnesota in Duluth and graduated successfully. He is the father of the eponymous Jim Denney, who was also active as a ski jumper. In 2008 he was recorded with his son in the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame.