B4-Sunday News, November 16, 1980 sport Ski-jumper a lightweight in size only TORONTO (UPC) - Steve Collins, Canada’s champion ski-jumper, has added 12 pounds and two inches to a meager frame that was pushed around by the wind a lot last year. But, at 110 pounds he is sall nowhere near his weight in Courage. Collins, a 16-year-old Ojibwa Indian, shook the most jaded veterans of the sport last year with a rookie tour that was arguably the best the world has seen. “You must not be afraid in jumping,” the champ said Woman record NEW YORK (UPI) Grete Waitz has been miles ahead of other female marathoners - literally and figuratively - and she never minded. She simply paced herself by the men in the field. : “As long as there are other runners, ['m happy,” Waitz said recently after winning the women’s division of the New York City Marathon for the third straight year with a third consecutive world record time. Sure, it’s easy to be happy when you see the last of your female challengers a third of the way through a 26-mile, 38S-yard race. You now you're going to win and you just worry about records. “At the halfway mark. I understood I had a chance to before leaving for Europe to begin intensive training this month. “Besides, I do what I do because it’s so much fun. I love to fly very far and very fast.” Have a look at the record: As a 15-year-old he -won the World Cup 90-meter event at Lahti, Finland, breaking the national record with a 124meter leap (407 ft.). His point total in the World Junior Championship was the highest ever recorded. run a record but I was not sure because of the wind,” said Waitz, who passed 31- year-old Olympic champion Lasse Viren around the 10- mile point and wasn’t even thinking about the other women - despite her claims to the Contrary. Winning the women's race may assume more of Waitz’ attention in the future. For, while she won handily , the next five female finishers all set personal bests, with Boston's Patti Lyons-Catalano bettering the American record she ran a month ago by 36 seconds. “This race was different,” admitted Waitz, a 27-year- old Norwegian = school teacher, “Because Patti is in much better shape.” He placed 9th in the 90- meter event at the Lake Placid Olympics, missing a bronze medal when winds needed to boost his ride died on the second jump. - He became the youngest skier ever to capture the World Ski Flying cham- pionship which is a no-holds barred jumping contest. Collins soared 172 meters or about a tenth of a mile. He won the Big Thunder International meet in his hometown of Thunder Bay, Ont. marat Catalino's time of 2 hours, 29 minutes and 33 seconds is still significantly slower than Waitz’ 2:25:41. Considering the fact six months ago, in Boston, Catalano’ was delighted with a personal best of 2:35:08, however, it’s an impressive improvement. 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North Vancouver 985-2131 sunday news north shore news Now, meet Collins and be thorougly surprised: Last year he was a shade over 98 pounds and every bit of 5 feet 2% inches, and only slightly more imposing this season at 110 and 5-ft 5. Boyish in appearance and a shy adolescent in_ his bearing, it is only on “the hill” that Collins is separated from his peers by an un- eanny lack of terror. “I do not think about falling or crashing. I have wanted to jump since I was 11 Years old,” he said. “I oner in Waitz made a_ stunning entrance into the running scene with a world record 2:32:30 - nearly seven minutes slower than this year’s mark. Ingrid Christensen, placing third in only her third marathon, lowered her personal best by tried hockey and downhill (skiing), but jumping was more fun. I like the snow and I like the outdoors.” The son of Mary and Charlies Collins, who works for the parks department in Thunder Bay, Steve has already acquired several nicknames from the European press such as “Big Chief of the Hill” and “the Canadian Eaglette”. He explains his success in words more mature and less truncated than last season when he hardly talked to reporters. But a youngster’s oudook remains prominent. “I don’t think about the future. I don’t want to stop jumping and I want to do it until it’s not fun anymore.” “He is quick, so very quick in his jumps, but primarily it's his temporament,” said Canadian team coach Bill Bakke at a recent press conference to preview the team’s 1980-81 World Cup tour opening in West Germany Dec. 30. a big hurry 4:33 to 2:34:24. Britain’s Carol Gould came in fourth, 5“ minutes faster than she'd ever run before, followed by Gillian Adams and Laurie Binder, who both shaved more than 30 seconds off their personal best. 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