FIS suspends another three Norwegian athletes under investigation

Following yesterday’s announcement of five provisional suspensions, today FIS has notified another three athletes of Norway’s Men’s Ski Jumping team that they are under investigation by the FIS Ethics and Compliance Office for their alleged involvement in illegal equipment manipulation. 

Robin Pedersen, Kristoffer Sundal, and Robert Johansson, members of the Norwegian team that competed at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships Trondheim 2025, are provisionally suspended, with immediate effect, from participating in FIS events and events organized by a National Ski Association. 

Upon request from the external investigators of the FIS Independent Ethics and Compliance Office, on Tuesday, 11 March, FIS seized all the jumping suits used by Norwegian teams in Trondheim 2025 – in both Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined, in both the men’s and women’s competitions.  

These seized suits were submitted to an inspection, which found no irregularities in the equipment used by the Women’s Ski Jumping team and by both the Men’s and Women’s Nordic Combined teams. However, the suits used by the Men’s Ski Jumping team raised additional suspicions of manipulation, which have resulted in the provisional suspensions announced today. 

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These are serious matters that absolutely do not allow for any speculation, not the least since confidentiality is one of the core principles to ensure a fair investigation by the FIS Independent Ethics and Compliance Office. 

FIS is respectful of the privacy of all individuals involved and their families. We are certain that members of the media will show the same consideration until the legal processes have been concluded. 

Upon completion of the investigations, any charge of a breach of the FIS Rules on the Prevention of the Manipulation of Competitions will be heard and adjudicated by the FIS Ethics Committee. 

Any individual can anonymously report a suspected breach of FIS governance, ethics, or integrity regulations through the FIS Integrity Line.