Ski jumper Abigail Strate earns bronze in Austria for 1st World Cup medal of season [Video]

Canada’s Abigail Strate collected bronze on Sunday for her first World Cup ski jumping medal of the season.

Strate, from Calgary, scored 226.6 points over two jumps on the normal-size hill in Hinzenbach, Austria.

She covered 86.5 metres on her first jump and 87.5 on her second.

“It feels really good. I wasn’t trying to expect anything but being in third afer the first round, I haven’t been in that position this year, so it was a bit stressful,” Strate told Ski Jumping Canada one day after turning 24. “Today, I decided I was going to go for it. It either works or it doesn’t. In a top sport like this the margin is so small you can’t be half in.

“I have been playing it safe this year, but I reached the point where I said ‘we are doing it. I know I can do it.’ I proved that …