As part of "Cup of Russia" the first ski jumps on the K125 Olympic hill for the Sochi 2014 Games at "RusSki Gorki" ski jumping center were performed on this weekend.

With the first jumps being performed on the three hills K125, K95 and K65 in the last days the "Snezhinka" ski jumping complex at Chaykovskiy was inaugurated and therewith the first modern ski jumping facility of Russia was handed over to its designation

The new large and normal ski jumping hills at Planica can not be jumped on already in February, they are likely to be completed only in summer

On February 5 Russian prime minister is going to pay a visit to the ski jumping hill construction site at Chaykovskiy and around a week later the first ski jump of Russian modernity will be inaugurated.

The Ski Jumping Hill Archive wishes a Merry Christmas to all its visitors!

The probably world's most modern inrun track was recently installed at the large hill of "RusSki Gorki" Jumping Center.

Works on the new ski jumping hills at Planica are running on full speeds, still in this ski jumping season first jumps on the Velikanka ski jumping hills HS 135 and HS 105 shall be performed.

In order to improve security and provide equal conditions during the New Year's competition at Garmisch-Partenkirchen a wind shelter gets installed at Olympia­schanze, as it was demanded by the FIS.

In order to secure future World Cups at Willingen by the construction of a new judges' tower and permanent flood-lighting, SC Willingen is asking ski jumping fans for support.

Category "Projects" and further new overview pages are available for a few days already. Furthermore, there are 1500 ski jumping facilities listed in the archive now.

Since the new Holmenkollbakken in Oslo was completed in 2010, the ski jump project of the Danish firm JDS Architects has been awarded with numerous architectural prizes.

The K90 ski jump at Kanzlersgrund in Oberhof will be enlarged into a HS 100 within two years.

The second edition of the column "Luis on Tour" continues at Oberstdorf, this time with a visit to the ski jumps at Schattenberg.

The infrastructure around the HS 134 large hill at Zakopane will be improved already before the winter. Additionally a new ice inrun track gets installed.

This is the first part of our new column "Luis on Tour", including a travel report to the ski flying hill and Karatsbichl at Oberstdorf.

From now on we have a new column on skisprungschanzen.com: "Luis on Tour: A ski jumping hill fan on the road" by Ski Jumping Hill Archive author and photographer Luis Holuch.

The sweepstake for 3 copies of the illustrated book "JUMP! - The most beautiful jumps in the world" has come to an end - and here are the lucky winners!

After only seven months of construction time the new HS 106 (K95) normal hill at Erdinger Arena is going to be offcially inaugurated on Friday, October 21, 2011.

In Romanian Râşnov a modern ski jumping facility for young ski jumpers was inaugurated after two years of construction time in end of August.

The realization of the necessary conversion works to the "Monsterbakken" at Vikersund and the finishing to the infrastructure for the Skiflying Worlds in February 2012 is progressing.

The recently in Hinzenbach presented illustrated book “JUMP!” shows 40 ski jumping facilities worldwide in impressive images. We raffle 3 copies!

The Nordic WSC 2015 was awarded to Falun in Sweden. Now the planning phase for the renovation of the shabby Lugnet ski jumps is at full speed. The hill profiles were approved already.

For the Nordic Worlds in 2013 only minor construction works are carried out on the ski jumping stadium at Predazzo.

There is good progress on the ski jumping hill construction works in Russia. Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev just inspected the hills for Sochi 2014 and a FIS delegation reviewed the state of construction works at Chaykovsky.

After the organization EYOF 2015 was awarded to Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg in November 2010, now the realization of the sports facility concept is proceeding - at Tschagguns a ski jumping facility with four hills will be developped.

After a 2 year deadlock of the ski jumping hill construction project at Nizhny Novgorod due to lacking financial means, now the decision for the construction was made. It shall start already this year.

In mid June the snow replacement "Skitrax JP", developed by Wolfgang Schmidt from Oberaudorf", celebrated its world premiere in the outrun of a ski jumping hill at Jämsänkoski in Finland. It shall at least make the same movements like in winter on snow possible!

Already in February 2011 the decision for the construction of "Planica Nordic Center" was made, but after a lot of delays only now bulldozers can come and start of with the modernization of "Bloudkova Velikanka" large hill.

For Nordic World Ski Championships in 2011 a new mormal hill was constructed at Oslo in 2009-2010. Now the Midtstubakken facility gets extended by four palstic covered junior hills.

In two weeks the summer grand prix will begin at Wisła in Poland for a first time. Before each GP competition, there will be an update with recent information on the particular ski jump.

The decision where the Olympic Winter Games 2018 will be held, will be made in Durban in one week. Here we have a glimpse on the three ski jumping hill concepts of the applicant cities Annecy, Munich and PyeongChang.

Nobody in Wisła isn't s sure that broken ski lift will be ready for Summer Grand Prix event on 16 & 17 July 2011. Construction company fails to meet the deadlines and widespread embarrassment rises. Simple faults during the extended construction time can cause a great, worldwide shame.

In this summer further works on the ski flying hill at Vikersund in Norway have to be carried out. As a consequence even longer jumps shall be made possible.

A landslide has spoilt the plastic covering of the WSC hill of 1997 in Trondheim already last week. This is especially annoying, because the ski jumping facility was renovated elaborately over the last years.

Last week a FIS inspection of the construction site for the ski jumps at Krasnaya Polyana took place. The works there are on schedule so far and already end of the year the Olympic hills of 2014 shall be completed.

The ski jumping facility "Le Praz" at Courchevel is the most important training center of France. Both larger hills are now adjusted to latest norms and their infrastructure is improved as well.

While the construction of the new ski jumping hill complex at Chaykovskiy is well underway, there are monetary issues at Nizhniy Tagil and works are far behind schedule.

Polish Karpacz in Lower Siliesia was until recently one of the most important ski jumping centres in all Poland, but now there are no running ski jumping hills here. City autorithies don't want to support this kind of sport, ski jumping section was closed and from the season 2009/2010 there wasn't any competition so the jump of Junior WSC 2001 is dilapidating.

After a turbulent wind lottery during New Year's competition in 2011 FIS puts up the installation of a windnet as a condition for the organizers of the World Cup event at Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

With the last added Norwegian ski jumps the restructuring of the Ski Jumping Hill Archive into its new design could be completed today!

In spring 2011 the current K90 normal size ski jumping hill in Erdinger-Arena at Oberstdorf will be replaced by a new-construction, because the most important training hill of the ski jumping center Oberstdorf is outdated already.

At Guttal in Heiligenblut in the Austrian national park "Hohe Tauern" the energy drink giant Red Bull is constructing a giant snow ski jumping hill, which is said to make jumps on more than 300 meters possible.

Already in early 2010 the plans of a modernization of the ailing ski jumping facilities in the "valley of ski jumps" Planica in Slovenia were published. Now the planing advanced one more step and the project cost was estimated on 25m Euro.

Today at lunchtime the first jumper went over the new Vikersund­bakken. With a Hill Size of 225 meters the Norwegian ski flying hill now is nominally the largest of its kind and so a new world record is expected during the World Cup Ski Flying on the weekend.

At the end of 1920's Hans-Heinz-Schanze was constructed in Johanngeorgenstadt in Saxony. With jumps up to 70 meters at that time it was the first large hill ski jump in Germany.

This year the Nordic World Ski Championships at Otepää (Estonia) and Universiade student games with the new ski jumping hill at Erzurum (Turkey) are staged at the same time.

Since spring 2010 the former K90 (HS 96) ski jump of Schonach in Black Forest has been converted and enlarged. Now the new ski jumping hill is going to be inaugurated on Wednesday, January 5, 2011.

Yesterday on Tuesday the "La Côté Feuillée" large hill ski jump at Chaux Neuve was opened after its enlargement from HS 100 to HS 118.

For 8 months the works on the new ski flying hill in Vikersund have been running and now the excavation work has been completed.

Unfortunately we couldn't report about the latest developments in conversions, completed construction measures and future projects of ski jumping hills during the conversion phase of the Ski Jumping Hill Archive from July to November. So here is a short listing of jumps that changed in the past months. ...

Just in time for the start of the World Cup season 2010-2011 and for the 8th anniversary of the website the Ski Jumping Hill Archive is now online with a new design. Beside a well-arranged layout with many new features there is now a Polish version, too.

In the face of the first Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck 2012 the exsiting K90 ski jump of Seefeld in Tyrol was replaced by a HS 108 / HS 75 double hill.

On October 19 and 20, 2010 the opening of the new plastic covered HS 94 ski jump at Hinzenbach near Eferding was celebrated with Austrian team and individual championships on the normal size hill.

For nearly 8 years now the Ski Jumping Hill Archive has been present in the WWW with information, photos and news about the jumping hills of the world. Over this period the layout and structure of the site have been more or less unchanged, in spite of a massiv growing content. But now the time has come to do a complete rework of the website in the context of web 2.0. Before the new ...

Since the last enlargement of the Letalnica ski flying hill at Planica and the resulting World Record of 239 meters by Bjørn Einar Romøren not much has changed around the world's flying hills. But now Vikersund has already started the enlargement of the flying hill and hopes to see a new World Record already in 2011.

From the beginnings on artificial snow and in summer in 1905, over the invention of plastic mattings in the GDR to matts-producers and today's development.

The final plans for the new-construction for WSC 2011: On 2008-04-14 finally the definitive concepts for the new-construction of Holmenkollen at Oslo, as well as for the normal hill Midtstubakken for the Nordic Skiing WSC 2011, have been released. In September 2007 the winning project “Nye Holmenkollen Fyr” by Copenhagen bureau JDS Architects and Eng. Florian Kosche ...

Ski jumping of women is becoming more and more popular, so the disciplin is included in the program of a Nordic WSC in Liberec for the first time and will possibly be Olympic for the first time in Sochi in 2014 - Here a view on the development of ladies ski jumping.

The history of ski flying – in the truest sense of the word: Beside the well-known ski flying on monstrous ski jumping hills there were other attempts to give skiers wings in the beginning of the 20th century as well.

First use of a new inrun track system at World Cup in Trondheim

Problems with ski jump constructions at Wisła and Szczyrk: As a result of the ski jumping boom after the success of mainly Adam Małysz, Poland started to improve and enlarge its ski jumping infrastructure. But meanwhile the ambitious projects at Wisła and Szczyrk, where the Nordic Junior World Championships will be hosted next winter, are stumbling seriously.

Where the ski jumping competitions of 2014 Winter Olympics will be hosted: A short presentation of the ski jumping facilities which are part of the PyeongChang, Salzburg and Sochi bids for the 2014 Winter Games.

In northern Finland a project to build up a roofed-over ski flying hill exists

In a bit more than 2 years the Nordic World Ski Championships will take place in Liberec in Czech Republic for a first time. The preparations for the big event are running already.

The first ski jumps on the Olympic Hill of Garmisch-Partenkirchen were performed in 1934. After World War II the characteristic steel inrun tower was set up in 1950 and now, 57 years later, it will be torn down and replaced by a sustainable new-construction.

At first oversleeping the development, but into the 70's highest successful - a brief outline about ski jumping history in Russia

Portrait of one of the best-known to the general public, if also not the best ski jumpers, Michael „Eddie The Eagle" Edwards

The planned conversions of the Holmenkollen at Oslo

The story of U.S. American ski jumper Anders Haugen, who became Olympic Medal Winner 50 years too late

In the following years the ski jumping boom around Adam Małysz in Poland shall bear fruits and the whole sports shall be based on solid foundations. Therefore now a support programme for ski jumping hills in whole Poland was started.

Audi returned to the ski jumping facility of Kaipola in Finland and climbed the inrun tower with an A6 quattro for a TV commercial, just like back in 1986

So far Norway has a ski flying facility at Vikersund, but now an argument has come up: Should Vikersund keep its status in the future and should the flying hill be enlarged, or would it be better to construct a completely new hill at Rødkleiva near Oslo?

Already since 1995 Willingen has been hosting World Cups, but especially after the jump new-construction of Mühlenkopschanze in 2000 the stage in Hessia became the highlight of the ski jumping season.

An immigrant and fascinated still active masters ski jumper wants to bring ski jumping to Australia and set up small ski jumping complex near Melbourne.

More than ten years after the destruction of Aschbergschanze there will be a new large hill at Klingenthal. With Vogtland-Arena a modern K125 is already under construction.

After three years of construction time, the new Bauhenk K100 at Kranj could be inaugurated in September. Finally Slovenia has a modern palstic covered ski jump for training and international competitions.

Wintersports are a serious issue - The article “My Moscow” by Anja Bröker from WDR online.

Nearly two years ago the construction of the new Olympic ski jumping hills for Torino 2006 Winter Games had started. Now we have a detailled view on planning and construction progress at Pragelato.

Due to a lack of time and money in Norwegian Høydalsmo a system was invented, that prepares the Huka normal hill automatically.

At Wisła, the hometown of Adam Małysz, the shabby Malinka-K105 ski jump shall be deconstructed and replaced by a new K120 large hill.

Meanwhile there courses offering ordinary ski jumping fans to step into the footprints of their famous role models: This is how the dream of flying becomes true!

Fox River Grove gets a new old inrun tower from Ely: In order to enlarge the existing 60 meter jump Carry Hill, the Norge Ski Club from Illinois makes use of the inrun tower of the ski hill in Ely, Minnesota, since it isn't used there anymore.

The location of the traditional Epiphany competition, the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze at Bischofshofen, is currently converted into a modern K125.

Oberstdorf is getting ready for the Nordic WSC 2005:
In winter 2005 Oberstdorf in the Allgaeu is going to host the Nordic World Ski Championships and before this main event the sports facilities are converted and modernized.