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Harrachov

Sportovní areál Čerťák

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Further jumps:	no
Year of construction:	1920
Conversions:	1955, 1979, 1998, 2003
Status:	operating
Ski club:	TJ Jiskra Harrachov
Coordinates:	50.767975, 15.431859 ✔

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History:

In Ptacince, a village near Harrachov, in 1922 a jump of a Czech ski club was set up, on which jumps on more than 30 meters were possible. After the later extension of the hill 1927, the German Willy Dick jumped a hill record of 49 m. At the beginning 1930’s they built a new ski jump with a wooden tower not far away in the same valley on which jumps on nearly 70 m were reached. In 1937 a storm destroyed the inrun tower – the damage could not be fixed and so the dilapidated.
At Čertak already in 1920, the first wooden 40 ski jump was built by the efforts of a German hotel owner. Over the years the ski jumping hill was often enlarged and a smaller one was added. Sudeten-German championships, German youth championships, and many exclusive international “Teufelsberg-Sprungläufe” (devil’s hill competitions) took place, whereby widths of over 60 or 30 m were reached. 1946 both ski clubs were united and jumping completely moved to Čertak. 1952 both hills were set up newly, but already at that time, there were ideas to build a 100 m ski jumping hill.
In 1955 the facility was completely changed. The large hill was profiled into a K70 and the smaller into a K50. Also a new 30 m “pioneer ski jump” was added, which became one year later the first Czech hill with mattings. In the 1970s this construction was dilapidating and so had to be renewed. In 1979 the facility was opened ceremoniously after deep changes. The large hill had become a K90, the middle ski jump a K70, and the small a new K40 ski jumping hill.
1998 the K90 hill was plastic covered and a ceramic inrun track was installed. The profiles of all three jumps are still kept up-to-date according to rules of the FIS, which is a merit of the local ski jump architect J. Slavik. However, due to lack of funds, the continuing maintenance is difficult. Thus, the K90 hill had to be temporarily closed from 2018 to 2020.
In the following years, the normal hill in Harrachov became primarily a venue for Nordic combined, hosting several World Cup events. The hill also served as an arena for the Czech national championships and various youth competitions, including domestic summer events on plastic in 2003.
In 2010–2011 Harrachov strengthened its position as an important centre for Nordic combined. Thanks to the plastic covering of the landing slope and the ceramic inrun tracks, the normal hill was for many years one of the main training locations for Czech Nordic combined athletes, as well as a regular stop in the OPA and FIS calendars.
At the same time, the larger hills of the complex – the large hill and the ski flying hill – hosted World Cup events and, for the last time in 2014, the Ski Flying World Championships. In the following years, the technical condition of both the ski flying hill and the other facilities deteriorated steadily, and in 2018 the K90 and K40 were also closed.
Despite the infrastructural problems, strong men’s and women’s FIS Cup competitions were still held on the normal hill in March 2016. The year 2017 brought the longest men’s jump ever recorded on the K90 – 102.5 m by Viktor Polášek, and in 2006 Roman Koudelka reached the same distance on plastic.
After several years of complete inactivity, a gradual revitalisation of the complex began. In 2022 the HS 100 normal hill was renovated and received a new FIS certificate, later extended until 2030. Thanks to this, Harrachov returned to the international youth competition calendar – in February 2023 and 2024 Alpen Cup Nordic combined events for women and men were held on Čerťák, and in February 2024 Jiří Konvalinka set a new winter hill record with a jump of 102.0 metres.
The normal hill of the Sportovní areál Čerťák, after renovation and its return to the international youth calendar, currently remains the most important operational part of the historic complex in Harrachov.

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Contact:

	TJ Jiskra Harrachov O. Jiroutek Harrachov 487 512 46 Harrachov Phone: +420 481 529 305 Fax: +420 481 529 456 jiskraharrachov@seznam.cz www.jiskra-harrachov.cz
	Sportovní areál Harrachov a.s. Rýžoviště 324 512 46 Harrachov Phone: +420 481 529 353 Fax: +420 481 529 320 areal@harrachov.cz www.skiareal.com

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