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Bloudkova velikanka:

Hill Size: HS 138
K-Point: 125 m
Men Winter Hill record: 147.0 m (Jarl Magnus Riiber NOR, 2023-03-04, NC-WSC)
Men Winter Official hill record: 142.0 m (Peter Prevc SLO, 2014-03-23, WC)
Men Summer Hill record: 146.5 m (Bor Pavlovčič SLO, 2020-09-27)
Women Winter Hill record: 139.5 m (Maren Lundby NOR, 2023-03-01, WSC)
Women Summer Hill record: 133.0 m (Maja Vtič SLO, 2013-10-13, N-SLO)
Inrun length: 96.7 m
Inrun angle: 35°
Take-off length: 6.7 m
Take-off angle: 11°
Take-off height: 3.1 m
Speed: 95.2 km/h
Ratio h/n: 0.580
P-Point: 109 m
Landing angle: 33.550°
Hill certificate: Hill certificate
Plastic matting: yes
Year of construction: 2012
Status: operating
Coordinates: 46.478224, 13.719832 Google Maps OpenStreetMap
K125 (2012-...)K130 (2001-2002)K120 (1941-2001)K106 (1935-1941)K90 (1933-1935)

Srednja skakalnica:

Hill Size: HS 102
K-Point: 95 m
Men Winter Hill record: 106.0 m (Dejan Judež SLO, 2014-02-16)
106.0 m (Andraž Pograjc SLO, 2019-01-06)
106.0 m (Ryota Yamamoto JPN, 2023-02-23, NC-WSC)
Men Winter Official hill record: 105.0 m (Piotr Żyła POL, 2023-02-25, WSC)
Men Summer Hill record: 109.0 m (Vid Vrhovnik SLO, 2020-10-03, NC-N-SLO)
Women Winter Hill record: 103.5 m (Eva Pinkelnig AUT, 2024-03-21, WC)
Inrun length: 88.5 m
Inrun angle: 34°
Take-off length: 6.4 m
Take-off angle: 10.5°
Take-off height: 2.4 m
Speed: 88.38 km/h
Ratio h/n: 0.555
P-Point: 85 m
Landing angle: 35.17°
Hill certificate: Hill certificate
Plastic matting: yes
Year of construction: 2012
Status: operating
Coordinates: 46.478143, 13.720235 Google Maps OpenStreetMap

Srednja Bloudkova skakalnica (Skakalnica Stano Pelan):

Hill Size: HS 100
K-Point: 90 m
Men Winter Hill record: 110.0 m (Bine Zupan SLO, 2004-03-13)
Men Winter Official hill record: 102.5 m (Andreas Goldberger AUT, 1994-12-11, WC)
Women Winter Hill record: 105.5 m (Anette Sagen NOR, 2003-01-29, EYOF)
Take-off angle: 11°
Landing angle: 35°
Plastic matting: no
Year of construction: 1949
Conversions: 1989
Operating until: 2007
Year of destruction: 2011
Status: destroyed
Coordinates: 46.477433, 13.720719 Google Maps OpenStreetMap

Mladinske skakalnice:

Hill Size: HS 80
K-Point: 72 m
Men Summer Hill record: 82.0 m (Sergey Tkachenko KAZ, 2017-08-13, FIS)
Women Winter Hill record: 78.5 m (Tina Erzar SLO, 2022-03-06)
Women Summer Hill record: 78.0 m (Kamila Karpiel POL, 2017-08-13, FIS)
Inrun length: 81.7 m
Inrun angle: 33.6°
Take-off length: 6.3 m
Take-off angle: 10.5°
Take-off height: 1.9 m
Speed: 82.8 km/h
Ratio h/n: 0.518
P-Point: 65.4 m
Landing angle: 33.5°
Hill certificate: Hill certificate
Plastic matting: yes
Year of construction: 2012
Status: operating
Coordinates: 46.477536, 13.720786 Google Maps OpenStreetMap
Hill Size: HS 61
K-Point: 56 m
Men Winter Hill record: 63.0 m (Matej Plut SLO, 2020-02-09)
Men Summer Hill record: 63.0 m (Timon Brglez SLO, 2022-09-17)
Women Winter Hill record: 63.0 m (Nika Prevc SLO, 2020-02-09)
63.0 m (Nika Prevc SLO, 2020-03-01)
63.0 m (Nika Prevc SLO, 2020-03-01)
Women Summer Hill record: 62.5 m (Tina Erzar SLO, 2022-09-17)
Inrun length: 70.2 m
Inrun angle: 32.4°
Take-off length: 5.8 m
Take-off angle: 9.5°
Take-off height: 1.5 m
Speed: 76.3 km/h
Ratio h/n: 0.5
P-Point: 52.3 m
Landing angle: 32.75°
Hill certificate: Hill certificate
Plastic matting: yes
Year of construction: 2012
Status: operating
Coordinates: 46.477437, 13.720990 Google Maps OpenStreetMap

Otroške skakalnice:

Hill Size: HS 45
K-Point: 41 m
Men Winter Hill record: 43.5 m (Alexei Urevc SLO, 2020-02-29)
Women Winter Hill record: 43.5 m (Ajda Košnjek SLO, 2020-02-29)
Plastic matting: yes
Year of construction: 2012
Status: operating
Coordinates: 46.477105, 13.721401 Google Maps OpenStreetMap
Hill Size: HS 30
K-Point: 28 m
Men Winter Hill record: 29.5 m (Tit Voranc Božič SLO, 2018-02-17)
29.5 m (Tit Voranc Božič SLO, 2018-02-17)
Women Winter Hill record: 27.5 m (Mia Ingolič SLO, 2018-02-17)
Plastic matting: yes
Year of construction: 2012
Status: operating
Coordinates: 46.477178, 13.721561 Google Maps OpenStreetMap
Hill Size: HS 15
K-Point: 13 m
Plastic matting: yes
Year of construction: 2012
Status: operating
Coordinates: 46.477246, 13.721810 Google Maps OpenStreetMap

Skakalnice planiške šole:

K-Point: 40 m
Further jumps: K8
Plastic matting: yes
Year of construction: 1952
Status: destroyed
Coordinates: 46.477189, 13.721503 Google Maps OpenStreetMap
K-Point: 30 m
Plastic matting: no
Status: destroyed
Coordinates: 46.477272, 13.721736 Google Maps OpenStreetMap
Further jumps: no
Plastic matting: yes
Year of construction: 1933
Conversions: 2011-2013
Status: operating
Ski club: ŠD Planica
Coordinates: 46.478224, 13.719832 Google Maps OpenStreetMap

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History:

The history of ski jumping and flying of Planica began in the year 1931, when the secretary of the Yugoslavian Ski Association, Joso Gorec from Ljubljana, opted to build the "Dom Ilirija", which is nowadays known as "Dom Planica". Back in the day, this hotel offered luxurious rooms as well as tennis courts and a swimming pool, which is why high society, like politicians and peers chose it as their vacation destination.
Gorec dreamt of Planica being a ski resort, so this hotel was supposed to be only the beginning of it all. The year after, he asked his friend Stanko Bloudek to build a K80 ski jumping hill, which was the largest possible size according to the FIS rules back then. Ski flying did not exist as a discipline and was not even mentioned until then. Gorec had a well-known supporter with Sir Arnold Luun from England, who was convinced that the development of ski jumping and the hills was unstoppable. Eventually, FIS allowed jumping longer distances - but only for research purposes.
Bloudek started his work and found the ideal location for this new hill. But before the project could get started, another important step was yet to be made. The ground, the hill was supposed to be built at, was owned by local farmers, who grazed cattles there. Without the Catholic priest of Rateče, who convinced them that they needed to let progress and modernization happening, they would not have sold their land. But before the actual construction started, Bloudek ran out of money.
Luckily, Ivan Rožman stepped in. He was an engineer and also owned a construction company and drafted a K90, which was the hill which was built between October and December 1933. It was inaugurated two months later, before it saw its first of ten world records in total with the 92 meters of Birger Ruud. The journalists rushed to Rateče to send their telegrams, distributing the news about the record. They received replies which questioned if the news was a mistake since Planica did not exist on any maps they had. Ruuds brother Sigmund jumped even two meters further, but made snow contact. He became the man, who invented the term "mammoth hill".
However, Rožman was the unhappiest man at that time since the hill was named after Bloudek and not him. "Bloudkova velikanka" translated means "Bloudek's large" or "Bloudek's large hill". After a disput with Gorec, who stayed at his friend's side, Rožman, whose invention of snow cement actually secured the first international competition in Planica, backed off eventually. Only two years later, he died in the age of 36. The journalist Svetozar Guček took many efforts to give Rožman the (deserved) credit, but did not really succeed. Later on, his name was also added to the hill's name, but that did not take much recognition.
And so it was Bloudek's name, which was and is remembered. He continued his works in 1935 and enlarged the ski jump to a K106. Between March 3rd and 13th, the hill was completely re-designed: The take-off was pushed ten meters back, which could be done because the upper part of the inrun was extended by ten meters and raised by eight meters at the same time. Also the landing zone was reshaped and widened by cutting down quite a few spruces on both sides. The upper part of the porch was raised by two meters and the whole slope was shaped parabolic. This mainly happened by steeping the lower part of the landing slope. Now, it was also possible to "emergency" land jumps shorter than 50 meters.
After a request by Joso Gorec, a meeting with FIS President Nikolai Ramm Østgaard took place on March 13th. There, it was agreed that the hill now met FIS Standards and reached 2nd FIS grade for ski jumps. Consequently, international competitions (except FIS sanctioned) competitions could be held here. These quick measures where the final steps which made it eventually possible to jump more than 100 meters. On the 15th of March in 1936 Josef Bradl jumped 101.5 meters on Bloudkova velikanka, while his Norwegian opponents were only spectators because they were not permitted to start by their federation. Guček, who was present at this historic event, reported that they were crying. Interestingly, media reported that Bradl jumped 101 meters. But this was only caused due to the fact that the scoreboard only had space for three numbers and not four. So, the journalists were using this information for their reports. However, the trophy Bradl received for his achievement, which is showcased in the Salzburg ski museum in Werfenweng near Bischofshofen, had the correct distance engraved. Also Sigmund Ruud noted it correctly in his book.
Bloudkova velikanka remained THE world record hill, even in the 2nd world war. The German jumper Rudi Gehring increased the best mark on March 2nd 1941 first to 108 and then to 118 meters. On the same day, also the first Slovenian (back then Yugoslavian) jumpers beat the 100-meters-mark with Albin Novšak and Rudi Finžgar, who jumped 103 and 101 meters respectively. But only Finžgar's jump was counted as valid since his contact with the snow was only very light while Novšak clearly touched the ground.
After the World War II, the hill had to be renovated, which was no surprise considering the trouble at this time. So Stanko Bloudek prepared his hill again. But only one new world-record was jumped on the Bloudkova velikanka: In 1948, Swiss jumper Fritz Tschannen jumped 120 meters - in front of his compatriot Hans Feldmann, who was the first FIS delegate to be present at a competition in Planica. Feldmann even took the 120-meters-distance mark with him as a souvenir. Eventually, it was the last world record on the Bloudkova velikanka. It dropped behind the new hills Kulm in Austria and the Heini-Klopfer-Schanze in Oberstdorf. So the Bloudkova velikanka moved out of the ski jumping interest bit by bit. After the plans, to build a new flying hill started in 1954, the ski flying-competitions took place on the Letalnica.
That had the effect that the Bloudkova velikanka lost even more importance. But a lot of international competitions took place here. In the 1990’s, nearly in every year, world-cup-weekends took place in Planica. In 1990, 1993 and 1995 also team competitions took place. In 1998, the World Cup was held here for the last time. Noriaki Kasai jumped the latest hill record with 147.5 meters, which made it worthy "farewell" competition, which nobody could know back then. Until its demolition in 2010/2011 the hill decayed bit by bit after snow masses destroyed parts of the inrun and the knoll at the end of 2001.
The history of "Srednja Bloudkova", which was built in 1949 by Stanko Bloudek and his associate and collaborator Stano Peolan, continued a little bit longer. To honour Pelan, who also was an advisor of the Gorišek brothers, this normal hill was named after him. Between 1980 and 1985, the world-cup-competitions took place on it. Even Jens Weißflog won a competition. In 1984, he won the world-cup by winning the competition on Srednja Bloudkova. Matti Nykänen won the competition in the year before and also in 1986, after one-year-break. In turn, two years later, the Slovenian athlete Primoz Ulaga won “at home”; he was already on 3rd place in 1980. In the two years before that competition, world-cup in Planica took only place on the Bloudkova velikanka; today Letalnica. In 1989, Jens Weißflog won a second time. This time he beat Andreas Felder from Austria and the Finnish athlete and today coach Ari-Pekka Nikkola.
A world-cup should take place in 1993 on the normal hill again. At the 11th and 12th of December, the season was opened with two competitions. The Norwegian Espen Bredesen was the first athlete – in this season – who wore the yellow jersey, because of his victory. He beat Andreas Goldberger and Takanobou Okabe. The second competition took place on the large hill Bloudkova velikanka.
But only one more time, a world-cup-weekend took place on the “Srednija”: The season 1995/1996 was opened there, too. Kazuyoshi Funaki was the first winner in this season. Andreas Goldberger was on 2nd place and a young Finnish jumper named Janne Ahonen was on 3rd place. At the next day, Goldberger was a second time on the podium, but this time as winner. He beat Mika Laitinen (Finland) and Lasse Ottesen (Norway).
In 2003, the hill became the venue of the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), which included a women's competition for the first time. Anette Sagen from Norway took the victory with the hill record and an impressive advantage of 81 points. She also won the first COC competition two years later. Another two years later, the last competitions on the normal hill took place. Planica replaced Tarvisio as host of the Junior World Championships, which became necessary by a lack of snow in the Italian village. Afterwards, the hill decayed as well as the K40 and K8 school hills next to it, which were equipped with plastic mattings and were also built by Stanko Bloudek in 1952.
In July 2011 the construction works on Planica Nordic Center started, which was at the heart of Planica's application for the Nordic WSC 2017, without success. By fall 2012 the reconstruction of Bloudkova velikanka as a double hill with HS 139 and HS 104 was completed. The first jump on the new large hill was performed by Aleš Hlebanja aus Rateče, whose grandmother was one of the first to sell their piece of ground to the Republic of Slovenia, which was an essential for building the facility. Together with the Slovenian hero Primož Peterka, who tested the normal hill a day earlier, Hlebanja also made the inaugural jump. Both jumped parallel - Hlebanja on the large and Peterka on the normal hill. Half an hour later, the Slovenian national championships began; the first competition after the rebuilding. The first international competition was a Continental Cup, which were hosted in February 2013.
Until 2015 a total of 25m Euro has been invested also into the smaller hills (HS 80, HS 62, HS 45, HS 30, HS 15), the ski flying hill, cross-country trails and infrastructure. As the flying hill was not ready to use again in March 2014, the World Cup Final was moved to the large hill. At this first World Cup since Kasai's legendary hill record, also the women competed after they already had a World Cup weekend a couple of weeks earlier when Planica replaced Ljubno as a host due to a lack of snow.
In 2023, Planica hosted the Nordic Ski World Championships, which was also the first edition of this event in Slovenia.

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66)   Sascha Hädrich   wrote on 2024-03-25 at 18:34:

Schanzenrekord Eva Pinkelnig

Thank you very much, I have just entered it.
Sorry for the delay.

65)   555   wrote on 2024-03-25 at 10:06:

New women's HR at HS102 by Eva Pinkelnig (103.5 m)

Eva Pinkelnig set the new female's hill record at 103.5 meters on 21 March 2024 on Srednja skakalnica HS102

Please update it!

https://medias3.fis-ski.com/pdf/2024/JP/3328/2024JP3328RL.pdf

64)   Elis Cristian MIHAI   wrote on 2024-03-22 at 22:55:

NEW HILL RECORD ON THE NORMAL HILL (HS102) FROM PLANICA

In 21.03.2024 Eva Pinkelnig established a new hill record on the HS102 Normal Hill (Srednja skakalnica) from Planica, with a jump of 103.5 m in the final individual competition of the World Cup Women 2023-2024 Edition !

https://data.fis-ski.com/pdf/2024/JP/3328/2024JP3328RL.pdf

63)   Kryštof Adámek   wrote on 2023-12-25 at 22:18:

K30

K30 didnt have matting

62)   skisprungschanzen.com   wrote on 2023-03-11 at 21:05:

Official hill record

We consider the "Official hill record" the same as the FIS "WC hill record", which can only be set by ski jumpers during official rounds of WC, WSC, SFWC, and Olympics (and GP in summer). Thus, Riiber's amazing jump is not considered as "Official hill record". Nevertheless, it's still the "hill record" :-)

61)   pangik04   wrote on 2023-03-09 at 09:26:

Official record

Is the official record on this site based of World Cup Ski Jumping competition or the furthest jump? If the site is basing official record on World Cup ski jumping competition which seems to be the case for all official records on this site, the official record should not be changed to Riiber record. The FIS results after that record still state Prevc record as World Cup record.

60)   555   wrote on 2023-03-06 at 21:42:

Recognized 147 m as official record by:

RTV (Slovenian National RadioTelevision)
STA (Slovenian Press Agency)
SLOSKI (Slovenian Ski Association)
24ur/POP TV (biggest commercial TV in Slovenia)
Dnevnik, Delo (main Slovenian newspapers)
etc......

Although Slovenian TV commentators and journalist mentioned Pavlovčič 145 m (as winter longest jump) many times in those days, they reffered Prevc's 142 m as official.

All until Riiber didn't improve in and set new official HR at 147 m.

59)   555   wrote on 2023-03-06 at 21:11:

Prevc's 142 m is now ex (past tense)

Thanks for updating women's record.

Again, although Riiber is not "classic" ski jumper, he set the new "official" hill record, by improving the old one for five meters. The record (147 m) was set at the top level competition with international TV broadcast. I hear all the time from leading slovenian media, journalists and TV Slovenia (who covers and broadcast Planica International since 1960) this as new official hill record. And also from international media.

So please update it as official and take this in consideration and delete Prevc's record which is officially past time ex record now.To recap, Riiber's jump is now officially absolute the longest and official.

58)   555   wrote on 2023-03-06 at 18:25:

147 m by Riiber (hill record vs official hill record)

Although record distance 147 m by Riiber was set in nordic combined, it was set at highest level in the competition (Olympics, World Championships, World Cup), with International TV broadcast, so this should be marked as official world record. In all Slovenian and foreign media this is now considered as beating Prevc's old record, as now new (current) official hill record.

Another thing is if this was set at 2nd or 3rd league competition at Continetal Cup or some training with no video proof.

57)   555   wrote on 2023-03-06 at 18:17:

139.5 m by Lundby (new Women's hill record)

You still have labeled (up) Takanashi as record holder and Englund as longest jump.

Lundby jumped 139.5 m (three judges recognized it as valid-standing jump). As it was achieved at top level competition (Olympics, World Championships, World Cup) with professional video proof and International TV broadcast this is the new women's hill record. Please update it!

https://medias2.fis-ski.com/pdf/2023/JP/3035/2023JP3035RL.pdf

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