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Melkkola
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Hyppyrimäki:
| K-Point: | 25 m |
  Hill record: |
23.0 m |
| Further jumps: | no |
| Plastic matting: | no |
| Year of construction: | 1940's |
| Year of destruction: | 1950's |
| Status: | destroyed |
| Coordinates: | 60.934903, 28.109374 ✔ 
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History:
It was a relatively small ski jumping hill located near the village of Melkkola (the former municipality of Lappee, today part of Lappeenranta). The facility was built in the 1940s as a fully natural hill: the slope in the area of the village of Suomalainen (a former small hamlet in the immediate vicinity of Melkkola, no longer existing as a separate settlement) was used, and the only constructed element was a small wooden inrun platform of about 2 metres. The hill had a K-point of 25 m, and the officially recorded hill record was 23 m.
In the publication “Kaakkois-Suomen hyppyrimäet 1930–2020”, the hill appears under the name Suomalaisen kylä K25 and is described as a “large” local training site, used mainly by boys from the surrounding villages of Simola and Melkkola in the 1940s and 1950s. It was on this hill that Raimo O. Suomalainen achieved his first successes, placing in the top ten in the youth district championships during the 1950s. There is no information indicating that any larger competitions beyond local club-level events were held in Melkkola.
The hill fell out of use and was dismantled in the 1950s, and no visible remains of the structure have survived in the terrain.
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