Reply #36: Here's the only pic I could find of Paula von Lamberg jumping

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while wearing a skirt.

For some reason, it won't post directly.
Here's a link to google images that shows it:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=%22Paula%20von%20Lamberg%22&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Found this article in German with some history. Here's a Google translation of some of it:

http://www.skisprungschanzen.com/index.htm?/_imvisier/im_frauenskispringen.htm

A look at the evolution of women's ski jumping:
The history of women's ski jumping skiing is as old as the women themselves, as for men is also in Norway, the birthplace of the women's ski jumping because there should have been in 1862 in Trysil first jump attempt a Norwegian named Ingrid Vestby. From 1897 to the 10 years Ragna Pettersen says, is allegedly 12 meters have jumped on the Mesterbakken in Nydalen. End of the 19th Century, the city was located Asker, near Oslo, known by several ladies jumpings.
In the 20th Century, it was then also in other countries no longer a rarity, that girls could be seen on the jump hills. Thus, at the British Ski Championships 1911 in Switzerland, as the Englishwoman Hocking will be seven meters far jump. In the same year, however, sprang the noble Countess Paula Lamberg from Kitzbuehel 22 meters wide and is considered a pioneer of women's ski jumping in Central Europe. Worth mentioning is also a jumping in Trondheim, where the Gråkalbakken in March 1914 allegedly ENTERED twenty-eight Norwegian women to compete.



Great info, Berry Cool. The more times change...