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The official mascot of FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix Wisla 2014 is Gustaw. He symbolizes the friendly relationships between the organizers of FIS Grand Prix and the Wisla authorities. Additionally, he promotes the pro-ecological activities of the town.

A new competition format, which shall be used for the ski flying competitions next winter 2014/2015, will be tested during the FIS Grand Prix 2014, starting this weekend in Wisla.

During the team and individual competition of FIS Grand Prix Wisla 2014 (July, 24-26) we will see the best athletes in the world. 12 teams confirmed their arrival to Wisla, including ski jumpers from Austria, Norway, Germany, Switzerland and Slovenia. Poland, as the host nation, will benefit from the advantage of registering 12 athletes for qualifications. In the individual competition will take part Kamil Stoch - the double gold medalist from Sochi and the winner of the Crystal Globe for the season 2013/2014.

The FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix in Wisla is just around the corner. More and more teams are appearing on Adam Malysz’s hill to improve the shape before upcoming summer season. On Wednesday (16th of July) also the Polish representatives under Łukasz Kruczek and Maciej Maciusiak’s commend are beginning the trainings in Wisla.

On 19th and 20th of July it will be organized the Polish Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Championships. Among ski jumpers Jan Ziobro is the competitor, who will be defended the last year’s title, in group of nordic combiners the championship went to Paweł Słowiok. –We would like to invite to Wisla all fans of ski jumping and nordic combined-says Andrzej Wąsowicz, the Chief of Silesian-Beskid Ski Assosiation.

The open training of Polish ski jumpers has become a traditional event of a programme during FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix in Wisla. The coach Lukasz Kruczek and the Polish representation will meet their fans on Friday, 25th of July. The beginning of the training is planned for 11am.

The organizators of FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix in Wisla decided about putting up for sale additional sitting tickets in a new sector A7. Stand A7 takes up part of a standing sector B2, what automatically decreased the number of standing places in this sector. In total 6 thousand of tickets at every day of competitions are available for purchase.

The first meeting of a FIS Grand Prix Organizing Committee took place in Wisla’s Community Centre on 22nd of May. The world best ski jumpers with Olimpic champion Kamil Stoch will be competing in Wisla during both team and individual competitions ( 25th-26th of July).

Since 16th of May 2014 all ski jumping fans have had an opportunity to buy the tickets over the Internet. At each day of a competitions it is prepared about 6 thousand of tickets.

Andreas Wellinger won FIS Grand Prix individual competition, which took place on Adam Malysz’s hill in Wisla Malinka. German showed a great performance, landing twice on 132.5 metres. The second place in the competition went to Maciej Kot. Representantive of Poland reached 130 and 131 metres. Roman Koudelka from the Czech Republic came in third (128.5 and 131 meters).