Per FIS standards, 20 countries will have at least one quota spot for this event at Sochi, which was mostly a male-only event until now.
This event has been on the Olympic schedule for some time, and it has produced major multiple winners over the years. In the individual normal hill event, there have been two multiple winners of that event--Birger Ruud (Norway) and Simon Ammann (Switzerland). Ruud won the event twice--at Lake Placid 1932, and again at Garmisch Partenkirchen 1936--and Ammann also won it twice as well, at Salt Lake City 2002 and Vancouver 2010. Ammann also won the individual large hill event twice, at Salt Lake City and again at Vancouver. Matti Nykanen (Finland) also won the event twice, at Sarajevo 1984 and Calgary 1988. Finland, Germany and Australia are the only countries to win multiple times in the team large hill category. The Fins won at Calgary and again at Albertville 1992, the Germans did it at Lillehammer 1994 and again at Salt Lake City, and the Austrians is the most recent to do so, at Turin 2006 and again at Vancouver.
Nykanen and Ammann are tied for most individual gold in this event at four a piece.
The venue for the ski jump at Sochi is the RusSki Gorski Jumping Center (pictured above), where the women's individual normal hill will make its Olympics debut.
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