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Tholibakken:

K-Point:	ca. 40 m
Hill record:	47.0 m

Further jumps:	no
Plastic matting:	no
Year of construction:	1932
Operating until:	1946
Status:	destroyed
Ski club:	Otta IL
Coordinates:	61.769352, 9.527131 ✔

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Tholibakken was Otta’s main ski jumping hill during the interwar period. It was situated on the so-called “baksida” along the river Otta, on the slope in the Tholia area, opposite the town centre. In winter it took only a few minutes to walk from Otta – one simply crossed the frozen river – which made the Sunday competitions in Tholibakken a major social event for locals and visitors alike. According to available sources, at the peak of its activity Otta Idrettslag organised two-day events here: on Saturday a cross-country race of around 15 km with a loop via Aasaaren, and on Sunday a ski jumping competition at Tholibakken, serving as the programme’s main attraction. The competition of February 1939 is particularly well remembered, when about 500 spectators gathered on the slopes around the landing hill. The star of the day was the famous Norwegian ski jumper Johanne Kolstad, who opened the contest with an exhibition jump, while in the men’s event Reidar Lien from Dombås won with distances of 38 and 39.5 metres.
Tholibakken’s profile was rather unusual: the landing hill crossed the old road leading to the Tho farms, over which wooden ramps were laid and covered with snow during competitions to extend the landing zone all the way to the riverbank. Eventually, the construction of a new, wider “baksidesveg” on this side of the valley destroyed the terrain of the hill, and ski jumping at Tholia gradually faded after the war – a development which later led to the construction of Pillarguribakken in 1952. In Otta Idrettslag’s 1977 anniversary booklet, the club states directly that Tholibakken no longer exists – it was completely destroyed by the road, and only traces of the former landing slope remain on the hillside above the Otta river.

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	1937:	42.0 m	Oddvar Stenersen
	:	47.0 m

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