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For the olympic sport:ski jumping -How many athletes are there? How many people watch it during the Olympics and after the Olympics? How many events are there per year?
Hi! Thanks for asking Wonder to find how many ski jumping athletes there are, viewing figures for the sport and how many events are there per year.
The short answer is ski jumping is one of the more popular winter sports when it comes to audience figures. A deep dive into my findings can be found below.
ATHLETES
VIEWING FIGURES - OLYMPICS
The most recent winter Olympics was the 2014 games in Sochi. While of course viewing figures will vary from country to country, some highlights of ski jumping TV audience are as follows:
--> Austria: coverage of the individual normal men's ski jumping was the most-watched broadcast, 1.5 million (1/5 of total TV audience), beating both Turin & Vancouver TV audience figures in the country. Men's individual large hill also pulled 1.2 million, nearly 1/2 of the early primetime TV audience for the entire country.
--> Poland: 10.4 million Polish watched the men's final, 1/4 of total TV audience and the biggest figures of both recent summer & winter games AND any sports broadcast for six months.
VIEWING FIGURES - NON-OLYMPICS
The 2013 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup held around 40% of total FIS disciplines broadcasting time, cumulating 1,090 hours of coverage and 2,315 million audience of live, delayed, highlights and news coverage. In 2014, ski jumping only saw around 21% of total FIS World Cup coverage, but an audience of 2,963, a 28% increase from the year before.
Jumping to 2015, the World Cup saw a slight dip in cumulative audience figures: 2,636 million, which matches FIS's assessment that the overall impact of ski jumping coverage is declining sightly from its peak in 2014. Similar to the Olympics, Germany and Poland figure notably among the top for 'event impressions' and cumulative audience totals, even when their broadcast hours are lower than Japan and Russia.
While very few figures exist for TV audiences for individual events (to find a basis of comparison to the Olympics), I was able to find an older figure of 35 million people globally watch the FIS Ski Flying World Championships
EVENTS PER YEAR
According to FIS, there were 87 events in the past year, 5 of which were at junior level. Therefore, there are approximately 82 ski-jumping events yearly, ranging from World Cup, local country tournaments and Grand Prixs.
Every year, the major events are the World Cup, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, FIS Ski Flying World Championships and the Four Hills Tournament. There are also lower competitive circuits like the Continental Cup, FIS Cup, FIS Race and Alpen Cup. The main summer competition is the Summer Grand Prix.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, although ski jumping has a relatively low participation rate due to the specialty nature of its venue and training equipment, it enjoys relative popularity compared to other winter sports. Among key countries, it is often the first or second-most watched winter sport, and enjoys healthy television coverage from broadcasters.
I hope this is helpful. Please feel free to ask Wonder if you have any more questions!