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The three new plastic covered hills during opening in 2008:

> the old jump

The three completed small jumps in 2007/2008:

Sprungzentrum:

Hill Size: HS 40

K-Point: 35 m

Hill record: 37,5 m (Philipp Aschenwald AUT, 2008-08-24

K-Point: 25 m

Hill record: 25,0 m (Maxi Schmalnauer AUT &

Gregor Aigner AUT, 2008-08-24)

K-Point: 15 m

Hill record: 15,0 m (Leon Hofmann GER, 2008-08-24)

Year of construction: New-construction 2006-2008

Further jumps: K90, K50

Plastic matting: all

Ski club: SC Lattella Wörgl, Wörgler Flughunde

History:

Already in 1908/09 Wörgl became a centre of ski jumping with the construction of the jump at Hennersberg. Many tournaments and championships were held there and early awoke passion and interest into this kind of sports at Wörgl.

During the period of Dr. Herbert Avanzini as chairman the construction of the ski jumping hill of Wörgl was started in 1932 with full activity and great support of the club members leaded by Franz Ecker. The estate for the new ski jumping hill was owned by the dairy cooperative of Wörgl, the community supported the construction 1932 with 500 man hours by the employment-creation programme against unemployment. On February 19, 1933 the opening competition could be held on this new ski jump. 28 jumpers took part and Sepp Klinger from Kitzbühel set up the first hill record with 50.5 m. Best snow conditions and wonderful winter weather made it a very nice tournament for 2000 spectators.

Directly after World War II only small ski jumping competitions were held. In 1947 the Tyrolian championships were hosted at Wörgl. In 1959 an enlargement and modernising the jump was necessary for the hosting of Austrian Nordic skiing championships.

From 1967 on many young jumpers were coached by Heinz Thurnbichler and they reactivated the olf youth ski jumping hill at Hennersberg. In the following years Wörgl developed to be the stronghold of Tyrolian youth ski jumpers. Since the jumps have been continuously improved and Wörgl was becoming the centre of ski jumping in whole Tyrolian lowlands.

But then in 1983 Hennersbergschanze had to be given up, because the ground was need for other constructions, nevertheless already in 1974/75 the large ski jumping hill was converted and inaugurated with large ski jumping events, at which the whole Austrian national team and many jumpers from foreign countries participated. Again the members of the ski club, leaded by chairman Willi Rieder, were the main factor for handing over the whole facility debt-free to the community in 1976, with their loads of voluntary working hours. In 1982 50 meter youth hill could be built and already in fall 1983 young jumpers could use the new 30 meter hill. Since 1992 it has been possible to cover the ski jumping facility with artificial snow. Now the ski jumping centre of Wörgl has three ski jumps which fulfil technical requirements of the FIS. They are host of large yearly national and international ski jumping concurrencies, in which world class jumpers take part, too.

In 2006 the over 200,000 € expensive modernisation of the ski jumping facility has begun. Main points are the improvement of infrastructure and all five ski jumps will be covered with plastic mattings for summer ski jumping.

In September 2007, the three smaller plastic covered ski jumping hills K35, K20 and K10 are nearly completed, but the landing hill of K90 was swapped away by heavy rain. The inauguration of the three smaller plastic covered hills was celebrated on August 24, 2008, but the works on K50 and K90 will maybe continue in spring 2009.