When Janko Zwitter came aboard as Canada’s ski jumping coach in 2021, he faced a choice. With the final ski jumping hill in Canada closed, the team could either integrate with the Americans south of the border or centralize itself in Slovenia for training.
Alexandria Loutitt, Canada's first-ever World Champion in ski jumping, has captured 10 World Cup medals, including two golds, since Canada won a surprising mixed-team bronze medal at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. When Janko Zwitter came aboard as Canada's ski jumping coach in 2021, he faced a choice.
"Every year, you're facing new challenges. Bringing them together was the easiest at the beginning. Now to hold them together is the next challenge. But the challenges for Zwitter go beyond the hill — as coach, he must manage each individual athlete who made the choice to uproot their life and fully commit to high-performance training in pursuit of Olympic glory.
Like Zwitter, Gartner originally hails from Austria but has lived in Canada for 38 years. In a strange coincidence, both coaches attended the same ski academy back home. "In Slovenia, ski jumping is like hockey is in Canada, right? It is a national sport in the winter and Slovenians love their ski jumpers and really support the sport broadly," she said.
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