Alex Loutitt earns ski jumping bronze medal with 'good takeoffs' in Slovenia

Canada's Alexandria Loutitt captured World Cup bronze in women's ski jumping on Saturday for her sixth podium finish of the season.

The 20-year-old from Calgary posted a two-jump total of 258.9 points in the normal hill competition to finish behind gold medallist Eva Pinkelnig of Austria and silver medallist Nika Prevc of Slovenia.

Despite reaching the podium, Loutitt felt she could have done better.

"This is one of my favourite hills and has been since the first day I was here, but I wasn't really happy with my jumps to be honest," Loutitt said. "I am happy though to know I can be on the podium even without good jumps."

Loutitt posted jumps of 89 and 88.5 metres.

"The takeoffs were good, but my flying wasn't working so my style was suffering and it just didn't come together," she said.

When I woke up this morning I did not expect to be jumping in front of 10,000 fans… but that energy was exactly what I needed ❤️‍