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Kongsberg
Beckerkjøkkenet
Data | History | Hill records | Map | Comments
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Storåsen:
| K-Point: | 35 m |
  Hill record: |
45.0 m (Birger Ruud , 1931-01-11) |
| Further jumps: | no |
| Plastic matting: | no |
| Year of construction: | 1900's |
| Status: | destroyed |
| Coordinates: | 59.676111, 9.625976 ✔ 
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History:
Kongsberg played a unique role in the history of ski jumping in Norway and worldwide. It was here, on 7 March 1909, that the first documented ski jumping competition was held, organized on the Persløkka hill. This event marked the beginning of the rapid development of the discipline in the region and gave rise to a local ski culture that, in the following decades, reached national significance.
The Storåsen hill, known locally as Kongsbergbakken, was built in the early 20th century on behalf of Kongsberg Skiklubb by Carl Urholdt and the estate manager Sigvart Dahl. The first jumps were made here in January 1903, and the official opening took place in February 1914. For many years, the maintenance of the hill was supported by an annual grant from Kongsberg Brennevinssamlag.
During the 1920s, numerous local competitions were held here, documented both in the press and in photographs preserved in the collections of the Norsk Bergverksmuseum. Contemporary reports describe jumps reaching around 45 metres during Sløyferennet in 1928, one of the last competitions held on this hill.
Storåsen played an important role in the development of ski jumping in Kongsberg – the Ruud brothers (Tormod, Sigmund, and Birger), who later became world and Olympic champions, could see the hill from their family home and used it for early training. When the older hills at Persløkka and Storåsen became too small, Sigmund Ruud identified the site for a much larger hill, Hannibalbakken, which opened in 1926. As major competitions moved to Hannibalbakken and Persløkka, the Storåsen hill fell out of use by the late 1920s, and today only the outline of the former landing slope remains visible in the terrain.
Among the well-known jumpers who competed at Kongsbergbakken were Olaf Fjerdingstad, Hjalmar Kristiansen, Einar Bakken, Herman Uleberg, Ove Thorsdalen, Nordal Kaldahl, and Sigmund Ruud.
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Hill record
On 11 January 1931 Birger Ruud (Norway) set a hill record of 45 m.