OLDER NEWS
Older news about
ski jumps:
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2008-11-12: Works
at Vikersund running on schedule
Since August the
construction works on former HS 100 ski jumping hill at Vikersund,
which is converted into HS 117 large hill, have been running. The shaping of
the profile was already done, the landing hill even covered with artificial
snow and now cooling pipes for the inrun trail are installed. The new multipurpose
building shall also be completed on time for the season final of Nordic
Combined im march 2009.
More
information on www.vikersund.no.
© vikersund.no
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2008-11-01: Holmenkollen becomes more and more expensive
Since
two weeks the deconstruction of Holmenkollen ski jump at
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2008-10-16: Dismounting of inrun
of Holmenkollen has
started
Today
on 16:30 the picewise dismantling of the legendary
inrun tower of the landmark of
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Animation and photos of picewise removal works, as well as a video of
today.
2008-10-16: Plastic hill opening at Garmisch-Partenkirchen
On
up-coming Sunday, 2008-10-19, a jumping hill festival is taking place at the
ski stadium of Partenkirchen from 13 pm on in order
to inaugurate the new plastic covering of Olympiaschanze
K125. Among others some women and men of the German national ski jumping teams
are participating.
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2008-08-31: Construction
of Malinka at Wisła (POL) soon completed
After many delays and now
three and a half years of construction time the new Malinka
120 meter ski jump at Wisła, the hometown of
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2008-08-06:
Ski jump constructions at Garmisch
and Bad Freienwalde (both GER)
After the new Olympic Ski
Jump HS 140 at
At Bad Freienwalde the construction of a new K60 jump at Papengrund is nearly completed, the opening of the hill
will take place on August 23.
2008-07-27: Fewer
jumps in
After the Kohlepp-Schanze K58 at Furtwangen
had to be removed already in fall 2006, now a reconstruction of the jump
definitely won’t take place. Also the Adlerschanze HS
93 at Schönwald, on
which even Ladies COC competitions have been hosted until last winter, will be
given up. Due to financial reasons in the future larger competition will only be
organized on Langenwaldschanze HS 96 at Schonach, which is only some few
km away, but has to be modernized soon. In return the dilapidated smaller ski
jumps in Upper Valley of Schonach will be given up and
young jumpers have to practise on the three youth hills of Schönwald.
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2008-06-07: 300
German ski jumps in the archive
With Pockau and
Schellerhau now
there are totally 300 ski jumping hills from
2008-05-29: Vikersund and Val
di Fiemme WSC hosts
At the FIS Congress
tonight it was announced that after 1977, 1990 and 2000 Nowegian
Vikersund is going to organize the Ski Flying WSC for
a fourth time in 2012.
The Nordic Ski WSC 2013
was given to
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2008-05-25: Decision
about up-coming WSC hosts to be made – Conversion at Vikersund
From Monday on the FIS
Congress 2008 is going to take place at Capetown, on
Thursday the host of up-coming World Championships will be announced. For
Nordic Ski WSC 2013 Falun, Lahti, Oberstdorf, Val die Fiemme and
Zakopane are
applying. For Ski Flying WSC 2012 for the first time with Harrachov and
Vikersund two
candidates are competing.
Independent of the
placing of Ski Flying WSC, this summer the normal hill ski jump of VIkersund will be converted, the K90 will be enlarged into
HS 123.
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2008-04-15: Decision
about new Holmenkollen
Yesterday afternoon the
definitive plans and schedule for the construction of the new ski jumping hill
at Holmenkollen in
2008-03-08: Preliminary decision
about possible flying hill at
Last week the Finish Skiing Association Hiihtoliitto announced to subsidize mainly the maintenance
of existing ski jumping facilities at
2008-03-08: Schlierenzauer new record holder at Lillehammer
At qualification for yesterday’s Nordic Tournament
competition on Lysgårdsbakken
at
Additionally there is now
a photo gallery and no pictures of the jump.
2008-02-24: Google
Earth section becomes Bird’s Eye View
The Google Earth link
collection was supplemented with references on Google Maps and Windows Live Saerch Maps and is now called Bird’s Eye View.
2008-02-20: Update
of ski flying hill at Oberstdorf (GER)
Just in time for the Ski
Flying WSC beginning today with training and qualification Heini-Klopfer-Schanze
HS 213 at Oberstdorf, the data and history of the ski
jump were over-worked and amended with new and recent photos. Furthermore there
is a new photo gallery with pictures of the history of the hill from 1950 until
today.
More
info about the SFWSC on www.skifliegen-oberstdorf.com.
2008-02-15:
First competition jumps at Szczyrk (POL)
At today’s training for
FIS-Cup at Szczyrk finally the first competition
jumps on the new Skalite-HS 106 could be performed.
The first hill record was set up by
At Liberec (CZE)
2008-02-04: New
hill records at Otepää (EST) and Villach (AUT)
On Friday David Unterberger jumped on a new distance record of 103.5 m on Villacher Alpenarena during
Austrian National Junior Championships. On the new K90 ski jump of Otepää
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2008-01-17: New
K90 at Otepää to be inaugurated
In past two years the Tehvandi sports centre at Estonian Otepää
including a K70 ski jumping hill was amended by a new plastic covered K90 ski
jump, which will be inaugurated tomorrow night.
Photo: FIS
/ Margus Ansu
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2008-01-16: 200
Norwegian jumps inside the archive
With
three new ski jumps at Fyllingsdalen, Nøtterøy and
Sauherad,
where was a duell for the very first 100 meter jump
with Planica in 1936, there are now exactly 200 bakken from the home country of ski jumping listed in the
archive.
2008-01-14: New
ski jump at Szczyrk to be inspected
After there had been a a big question about the hosting of Junior WSC at Polish Szczyrk in February for a long time, the date from 3rd to
10th February has already been fixed by the FIS last week. Tomorrow the nearly
completed Skalite ski jump will now be homologated
and the Hill Size of K95 determined on 108 m. The construction of the jump had
only begun in late summer 2007.
Further
information and photos on www.skijumping.pl.
2008-01-08: First
jumps on the Olympic hills of Whistler (CAN)
Last week the first
competitions on both new Olympic ski jumping hills for Vancouver 2010 were
hosted in the line with Canadian national championships. On HS 140 Stefan Read
set a first record of 133 meters. US-American Lindsey Van jumped 105.5 m on HS
106 and clearly emphasized the ladies’ ambitions of being allowed to take part
in Olympic Winter Games, too.
2008-01-06: Schlierenzauer jumps
record at Bischofshofen
During the qualification for
yesterday’s Four Hills Tournament replacement competition for
2008-01-01:
Schlierenzauer record holder at
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
2007-12-01: Schlierenzauer jumps new hill record at Kuusamo
At today’s individual
World Cup competiton on Ruka-HS
142 Austria’s Gregor Schlierenzauer
improved the five year old hill record of Sigurd Pettersen by one meter on 147.0 m.
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2007-12-01: 5 years Ski Jumping Hill Archive
Today
before 5 years the Ski Jumping Hill Archive opened its gates for the very first
time. What has started in 2002 with not much more than the ski jumps
represented in World Cup, includes now data, photos and background information
to nearly 1100 bakken all over the world. Furthermore
there are news from the wolrd of ski jumps and
interesting categories just as “Closer Look”, “Google Earth” or “Projects”. At
this point a sincere thank-you to all supporters of the website and, of course,
to the steadily increasing number of visitors!
For
the anniversary the Olympiaschanze at Garmisch-Partenkirchen was
over-worked and a special page with photos and data of the old jump created.
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2007-11-28: Ski
jump
Due to problems with hydraulic pumps the
positioning of the new inrun tower of around 14 m. € expensive new K125 ski
jump of Garmisch overrun its time and took from
yesterday afternoon until tonight, but now the around 550 tons heavy steal-
construction was come to its final position 62 meters above ground.
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2007-11-13: Training
at Pragelato (ITA) soon possible
After the preparation of Olympic ski jumping
hill at Pragelato had already begun with the cold
snap in late October, from up-coming Saturday on the K95 ski jump will be ready
for ski jumping. If meteo conditions stay good, the
large hill will also be prepared for practising jumps until next week.
Just click to enlarge the photos!
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2007-11-12: 250,000
visitors at Ski Jumping Hill Archive
2007-10-24: Ski
jump construction at Whistler far proceeded
Meanwhile both Olympic ski jumping hills
for the Games at Vancouver 2010 in Whistler (K125 & K98) are only short
before completing. The photo gallery includes many new photos made during FIS
homologation some days ago.
2007-10-22: New hill record at Oberstdorf
Last Saturday during Austrian Championships
Gregor Schlierenzauer set
up a new hill record of 145.5 meters on Schattenbergschanze
in Oberstdorf.
2007-09-25: New category Projects
Now there is a new category called “Projects” included
in the Ski Jumping Hill Archive, which gives a short overview over all recently
running works on ski jumping hills, further constructions and future projects.
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