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unusual facts about Ski Jumping



Alexander Pointner

Alexander Pointner (born January 1, 1971 in Grieskirchen, Oberösterreich) is the head coach of Austria ski jumping team.

Autrans

At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, it hosted the biathlon, cross country skiing, Nordic combined, and the ski jumping normal hill events.

Christoph Kreuzer

Christoph Kreuzer (born September 9, 1982, in Villach, Austria) is a Dutch ski jumper.

Economy of Utah

Former Olympic venues including Utah Olympic Park and Utah Olympic Oval are still in operation for training and competition and allows the public to participate in numerous activities including ski jumping, bobsleigh, and speed skating.

Hemmo Silvennoinen

Hemmo Valio Silvennoinen (November 6, 1932, Kesälahti - December 4, 2002, Vantaa) was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s.

Jacob Tullin Thams

He won the first Olympic ski jumping gold medal in 1924, and became the third person (after Gillis Grafström who competed in one sport only and boxer/bobsleigh crew member Eddie Eagan) to medal in both the Winter and Summer Olympics in 1936 as a member of the silver medal-winning Norwegian 8-metre sailing team.

Jari Porttila

He focuses usually on skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined, Formula One, and ice hockey, but is able to commentate on almost everything in sports.

Jeff Hastings

Jeffrey Paul "Jeff" Hastings (born June 25, 1959, in Mountain Home, Idaho) was an American ski jumper who competed in the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo in 1984.

Kazuyoshi Funaki

During those games, he became only the second person to ever achieve perfect marks from all five judges (20 points is the highest attainable mark), following Toni Innauer who had achieved this masterpiece already in 1976 and preceding Sven Hannawald (2003), Hideharu Miyahira (2003) and Wolfgang Loitzl (2009).

Markus Eggenhofer

Markus Eggenhofer (born 11 December 1987 in Radstadt) is an Austrian ski jumper.

Matti Pulli

Matti Pulli (born September 8, 1933 in Terijoki, Finland, now Zelenogorsk, Russia) is a former Finnish Olympic ski jumping coach.

Mattihan se sopan keitti

Mattihan se sopan keitti is a Finnish cookery web television series presented by ski jumping legend Matti Nykänen.

Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte

The commune hosted the ski jumping individual large hill event for the 1968 Winter Olympics held in neighboring Grenoble, which was on the Le Moucherotte.

Schanzen Einsiedeln

The Einsiedeln now hosts the World Cup of ski jumping the Summer Grand Prix competitions in both Ski jumping and Nordic combined every year.

Ski jumping at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Ski jumping at the 1964 Winter Olympics consisted of two events held from 31 January to 9 February, with the large hill event taking place at Bergiselschanze, and the normal hill event at Seefeld.

Ski jumping at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Ski jumping at the 1984 Winter Olympics consisted of two events held from 12 February to 18 February, taking place at Igman Olympic Jumps.

Stefan Horngacher

Stefan Horngacher (born September 20, 1969 in Wörgl) is a former Austrian ski jumper who competed from 1988 to 2002.

Sverre Fredheim

He competed in ski jumping at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, where he placed sixth in ski jumping.

Tomáš Zmoray

Tomáš Zmoray (born in Banská Bystrica on July 26, 1989) is a Slovak ski jumper who has competed since 2005.

Toni Innauer

Anton ("Toni") Innauer (born 1 April 1958 in Bezau, Vorarlberg) is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed during the late 1970s and early 1980s.


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Andreas Wellinger

He won the summer Grand prix FIS Ski Jumping in 2013, ahead of Slovene ski jumper Jernej Damjan.

Balbergbakken

In Lillehammer's bids for the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics, Balbergbakken was the proposed site of ski jumping.

Birger Ruud

In 1987, a bronze sculpture of Birger Ruud, by the Norwegian sculptor Per Ung, was set up in Ruud’s native town of Kongsberg, and in 1991 he was awarded the Egebergs Ærespris for his achievements in ski jumping and alpine skiing.

Bronisław Czech

Four years later, at the 1932 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid, New York, Czech was 7th in the Nordic combined, 12th in ski jumping and 18th in the 18 km cross-country event.

Combined

Nordic combined (skiing), the combination of cross country skiing and ski jumping as a single event

Gyda Enger

She made her debut in the Continental Cup, the highest level in women's ski jumping, on 8 March 2006 with a 19th place in Vaaler.

Helmut Recknagel

For his ski jumping efforts, Recknagel was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1960 (Shared with Sixten Jernberg, Sverre Stensheim, and Tormod Knutsen).

Johan Remen Evensen

Just four days ahead of the 2012 Ski-Flying World Championships at Vikersund in Norway Johan Remen Evensen announced that he would retire from ski jumping effective immediately.

Lindsey Van

Van won a gold medal in the inaugural women's ski jumping event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec and has a total of eight Continental Cup victories in her career.

Mark Konopacke

Konopacke is originally from Iron Mountain Michigan and holds 2 national titles in ski jumping (1988, Ishpemping MI, and 1991, Steamboat Springs CO - tie Jim Holland)

MTV Max

The channel got a full license in January 2004 and with its possibilities, Formula 1, ice hockey's SM-liiga, Finnish Floorball League, boxing, ski jumping, alpine skiing and some other sports broadcasts were added to the channel's programming.

Planica

Between 1985, when Matti Nykänen flew 191 m, and 2011, new world records have always been set at Planica rather than any other ski jumping hill (e.g., Kulm in Austria, Harrachov in the Czech Republic, Oberstdorf in Germany, or Vikersundbakken in Norway).

Sarah Hendrickson

She attended Park City High School until 2011 when she began competing in World Cup competitions for Ski Jumping, at which time she moved to The Winter Sports School in Park City, where she graduated in November 2012.

Satre Hill

In 2011, it was the site of the ski jumping portion of the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) Nordic Combined Junior Olympics, the first time this competition has been held in Salisbury.

SK Ondur

In 1900 the club moved to Muren near Øverland in Bærum, where a cabin Ondurstua and a small ski jumping hill was also established.

Steinar Bråten

After his active career Bråten has worked as a coach for the national ski jumping team and is currently working at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Olympiatoppen where he conducts research related to technical jumping.

Valery Kobelev

The crash was named the worst ski jumping crash ever by sports commentator Arne Scheie.

Vladimir Belussov

His best known successes were at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, where he won a gold medal for the Soviet Union in the individual large hill event, and at the Holmenkollen ski festival, where he won the ski jumping competition twice (1968, 1970).