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Brattebakken:

K-Point:	10 m
Further jumps:	K5
Plastic matting:	no
Year of construction:	2025
Status:	operating

K-Point:	70 m
Further jumps:	K40, K20
Plastic matting:	no
Year of construction:	2025
Status:	under construction

K-Point:	60 m
Hill record:	70.0 m (Ole Christen Enger , 1995-03-26)
Further jumps:	K20, K15
Year of destruction:	2024
Status:	destroyed

Further jumps:	no
Year of construction:	1929
Conversions:	1956, 1990, 1998, 2010
Ski club:	Sauda IL
Coordinates:	59.646762, 6.389586 ✔

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History:

Brattebakken is a ski jumping complex situated on a steep slope above the Engjahaugen residential area in the town of Sauda in Rogaland. The facility belongs to Sauda Idrettslag and serves as the most important ski jumping centre in the region. The first ski jump at this location was built in 1929, while the current largest hill – the 60-metre one – was constructed in 1956. In the following decades the complex was expanded, including the addition of the K20 hill in 1990, which allowed Brattebakken to serve both young beginners and more advanced athletes.
A golden moment in the history of the venue came with the Norwegian Junior Championships (junior-NM), held in Sauda on 17–18 February 1968. The ski jumping competition attracted the country’s best juniors, and the winners were Kjell Åsvestad in the younger category and Knut Kongsgård in the older category – names that later became part of Norwegian skiing history. Among the medalists was also Bjørn Kristiansen. In later years Brattebakken was regularly used for local competitions and training, and the hill record of 70 metres was set on 26 March 1995 by Ole Christen Enger.
A year later the venue became the site of a tragic accident in which the experienced amateur jumper Pål Petter Tangen died after a fall during a trial jump. This coincided with a marked decline in sporting activity on the largest hill; after 1995 no competitions were held there, and the facility gradually fell into disuse. Only in 2010, after nearly fifteen years of inactivity, was the large hill once again prepared for jumping, marking a new stage in the history of Brattebakken.
Already in the years preceding the reactivation of the facility, Sauda IL presented a concept for expanding the complex with a set of small, year-round ski jumping hills with synthetic surfaces, including K10, K12.5 and K20, and in later plans also K7 and K40. The aim of the project was to create a modern training infrastructure that would enable youth training for a larger part of the year and strengthen Brattebakken’s role as a regional ski jumping centre.
In the following years, the facility remained sportingly active – as late as 2023, competitions were still being held there and regular training sessions were conducted on the existing hills. The actual construction works related to the implementation of the new complex did not begin until autumn 2024, after the completion of the preparatory phase and the acquisition of the necessary administrative approvals. In 2025, intensive construction works were carried out, including the erection and concreting of the profiles of the smaller hills, as well as the expansion of infrastructure and technical facilities.
Since that time, Brattebakken has been gradually regaining its importance as a ski jumping centre in Sauda. Until the start of the main construction works, the facility was once again used for training and local competitions; however, during the implementation of the new complex, sporting activities have been temporarily suspended or relocated to other venues. The completion of the investment and the inauguration of the new hills are expected in the future to enable the return of regular youth training as well as the organization of club and regional competitions. According to current plans, the complex is moving towards a modern layout, including the enlargement of the largest hill to a standard of approximately K70.

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2) Karl Laurits Olsen wrote on 2024-12-25 at 19:41:

Hill record

Hill record: 70 m, Ole Christen Enger (Norway), 26 March 1995.

1) Tor Andreas Michalsen wrote on 2011-11-12 at 21:48:

Vi skal beyne å bygge ein k40 og ny k20 k12 k7 sommeren 2012

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