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Suusahüppemägi:
| K-Point: | 35 m |
| Plastic matting: | yes |
| Year of construction: | 2026 |
| Status: | under construction |
| K-Point: | 15 m |
| Further jumps: | K10 |
| Plastic matting: | yes |
| Year of construction: | 2025 |
| Status: | operating |
| K-Point: | 25 m |
  Hill record: |
26.0 m (Artti Aigro , 2012-02-11) |
 Hill record: |
26.0 m (Risto Raudberg , 2011-10-18) |
26.0 m (Kristaps Nežborts  , 2013-07-07) |
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 Hill record: |
22.5 m (Stella Kivi , 2019-02-16) |
| Hill record: |
22.5 m (Kamila Krustina , 2018-08-18) |
| Plastic matting: | yes |
| Conversions: | 1949, 1980, 2000 |
| Operating until: | 2019 |
| Year of destruction: | 2022 |
| Status: | destroyed |
| Coordinates: | 58.227437, 26.412745 ✔ 
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| K-Point: | 15 m |
| Plastic matting: | no |
| Year of destruction: | 2025 |
| Status: | destroyed |
| Coordinates: | 58.227631, 26.412908 ✔
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| K-Point: | 8 m |
| Hill record: |
7.5 m (Maria-Liisa Lainik , 2019-02-16) |
| Hill record: |
7.5 m (Aelita Krasiļščikova , 2016-08-27) |
| 7.5 m (Aelita Krasiļščikova , 2016-08-27) |
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| Plastic matting: | yes |
| Year of destruction: | 2025 |
| Status: | destroyed |
| Coordinates: | 58.227610, 26.413152 ✔
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| Further jumps: | no |
| Ski club: | Elva Suusaklubi |
| Coordinates: | 58.227437, 26.412745 ✔
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History:
The ski jumping hill in Elva was located in the forest by Lake Arbi, along Kalda tänav, just next to the town centre. Although the first ideas for creating such a facility appeared already before the Second World War, when a small wooden structure existed there, a fully developed ski jump was not built until 1980, initiated by the well-known Estonian ski jumper and coach Tõnu Haljand. He established a local training centre that, over the following decades, played a key role in developing young ski jumpers and Nordic combined athletes. Among those who began their careers on the Elva hill were Ago Markvardt, Janno Perv, Toomas and Andrus Ilves, Rain Pärn, and, in the younger generation, the Olympian Kristjan Ilves.
The complex consisted of three hills: the main K25 and the smaller K15 and K8. The K25 and K8 hills were covered with plastic mats, and the entire complex underwent modernisation around the year 2000, including the renovation of the tower structure and supporting facilities. The venue primarily served children and youth, and the local club, Elva Suusaklubi, held regular training sessions there. Numerous youth competitions were organised on the hill — both local events and official rounds of the Estonian Ski Association’s junior series, featuring athletes from Estonia and Latvia.
After 2010 the condition of the facility deteriorated increasingly quickly. At the beginning of 2022, the city authorities declared the wooden tower unsafe, and it was dismantled shortly afterwards. In the following years, the area of the former complex gradually fell into disrepair, as documented by numerous local publications and photographs.
However, the history of the Elva ski jump did not end with the demolition of the old facility. In 2025, construction began on a new winter sports park on the same slope. The first stage includes the creation of K10 and K15 hills with plastic mats and a small freestyle slope with a drag lift. In the following years, a larger K35 hill and a full training infrastructure are planned. The new complex is intended to continue Elva’s long-standing ski jumping traditions and once again serve as a centre for training young athletes.
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Data update
The construction year of now destroyed K-25 jump is 1980. It's reconstruction took place at 2000.
Location
58.22757, 26.41302
Info update for Elva
K8 hill has plastic matting installed. I have some pictures made and I can share them if there is a wish :)
Wo ist die kleinere Schanze? Ich bin in Elva gewesen (das Foto dieser Schanze ohne Matten wurde von mir gemacht), habe doch nur die K-25 bemerkt...
Es existiert noch eine K 8 ohne Matten - die K 25 besitzt wieder Matten!