Frida Westman

Frida Westman (born 10 January 2001) is a Swedish ski jumper who competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She was the first Swedish female ski jumper at an Olympic Games. Westman has the best finish by any Swedish female ski jumper at a FIS Ski Jumping World Cup event.

Career

Westman competes for IF Friska Viljor, and has been coached by Andreas Arén and Isak Grimholm. In 2019, she suffered two cruciate ligament injuries. In September 2020, she won two Norway Cup events in Lillehammer. At the 2021–22 FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup summer event in Oslo, Norway, she finished fifth. At the 2021–22 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, Westman finished 18th in the event in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. It was the best ever result for a Swedish women at a World Cup event. The weekend after, she finished 13th in an event in Lillehammer, Norway, and she later came 10th in the event in Ramsau am Dachstein, Austria.

Westman was selected for the 2022 Winter Olympics. She was the first Swedish female ski jumper at any Olympics, and the first Swedish ski jumper of any gender since 1994. Later in the month, she finished ninth in the training competition prior to the World Cup event in Aigner-Schanze, Austria, and finished fourth in the two competitive events at that location. In April 2022, Westman was critical of the Federation Internationale de Ski for not allowing women to compete in ski flying. She came second in a 2022–23 FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup summer event in Lillehammer, Norway.

Personal life Westman is from Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. Her father Magnus Westman competed in ski jumping at the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1994 Winter Olympics.