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Vikersund

Vikersundbakken:

Hill Size: HS 207

K-Point: 185 m

Hill record: 219,0 m (Roland Müller AUT, 2004-03-06, COC)

Official hill record: 214,5 m (Michael Uhrmann GER, 2007-01-12, WC)

Women’s hill record: 174,5 m (Anette Sagen NOR, 2004-03-06)

Angle of inrun: 40,37°

Length of inrun: 107,34 m

Length of takeoff: 7,0 m

Angle of takeoff: 11,0°

Height of takeoff: 3,65 m

Speed: approx. 103 km/h

Landing angle: 35,0°

Year of construction: 1964, Conversion 1989 & 1999 à Conversion plans

Hill Size: HS 100

K-Point: 90 m

Hill record: 110,0 m (Lars Bystøl, 2001-12-29)

Women’s hill record: 104,5 m (Anette Sagen, 2004-11-28)

Angle of takeoff: 10,5°

Landing angle: 35,5°

Further jumps: K65 HR: 78,0 m (Petter Wettre, 2005-01-09)

WR: 71,5 m (Anette Sagen, 2001-01-21),

K45 HR: 49,0 m (Simen Grimsrud, 2006-02-19)

WR: 45,5 m (Gyda Enger, 2005-02-20),

K25 HR: 27,5 m (Terje Hilde, 1998-01-03)

WR: 25,5 m (Mari Backe, 2003-09-28),

K15 HR: 16,0 m (Mats S. Berggård, 2005-01-29)

WR: 14,5 m (Maren Lundby, 2003-03-15),

K10 HR: 9,5 m (Markus M. Gulbrandsen, 2000-03-11)

WR: 8,5 m (Marthe Jørstad, 2000-03-06)

Plastic matting: only K25, K15

Ski clubs: Vikersund IF, FlyingTeam,

Vikersund Skiklubb

à Photo gallery of the hills

The ski flying bakken HS 207 at day and night

History:

Vikersund is a small village at Tyrifjorden 80 km north of Norway’s capitol Oslo. Since the foundation of Vikersund IF in 1894 until 1935 the ski club had been hosting its ski jumping competitions on six different ski jumping hills. In 1984 a committee was announced, whose target was to find a well located hill for a new ski jump near Vikersund. This new ski jumping hill, which was opened with a 86 meter jump of Reidar Andersen, was inaugurated in February 1936.

This ski jump of Vikersund has been enlarged twice since its early days, at first in 1956, after that in 1964/65 into a ski flying hill, after a long and hart fight for the status as Norway’s ski fling hill with Rena IL at Østerdalen. In March 1966 the new ski flying hill was inaugurated and Bjørn Wirkola’s new world record lighted through the whole skiing world in this year. Later on the flying hill was converted several times, but the wind conditions at Vikersundbakken always made many problems during flying competitions. The last conversion of the ski flying hill took place for ski flying world championships in 2000, when it was enlarged into a complete K185 profiled hill, on which one can jump up to 220 meters. Although Sven Hannawald fell at 214 meters in 2000, he became world champion. The potentials of Vikersund were demonstrated during the first COC ski flying in 2004, when Austria’s Roland Müller flew up on 219 meters. This new hill record was unique, but Roland Müller even announced that it would be possible jump even some meters longer.

Then in 2004/2005 a project of a new ski flying hill at Rødkleiva near Oslo was published and Vikersund had to have serious doubts about longer being Norway’s national ski flying facility and general ski flying location. But today this plans are temporarily put on hold and at World Cup Ski Flying 2007 Austria’s Martin Koch even landed on 220.5 m during training, but couldn’t stand it.

The ski jumping facility of Vikersund doesn’t only consist of the ski flying hill HS 2007, there is a normal hill ski jump K90 (HS 100), too, which regularly hosts Continental Cup competitions of men and women, as well as pupils and training hills K65, K45, K25, K15, K10.

In August 2008 the conversion of former K90 ski jump into a K105 (HS 117) has started. The flying hill will be shaped newly for Ski Flying World Championships 2012, too.

Contact:

Skiflyvning Vikerund AS

Postfach 164

3371 Vikersund

Phone: +47 32 78 18 00

Fax: +47 32 78 18 01

skiflyvning@vikersund.no

www.vikersund.no

Vikersund IF

Per W. Holseter

Revfaret 11

3370 Vikersund