Jay Martin
Jay Warren Martin ( born September 8, 1944 in Minneapolis, Minnesota ) is an American former ski jumper.
Career
Martin, whose younger brother Jerry was also a ski jumper, started like this at the age of five years under the guidance of his father Ken with the skiing in Jimmy Johnson ski program in Theodore Wirth Park. Shortly thereafter, he began to ski jumping, trained by his father.
From 1960 to 1962 he was a member of the junior national squad. In 1962, he won the Central Division Junior Championships. Shortly after he won the U.S. Junior Championships in Steamboat Springs and received the trophy of Sons of Norway. After this victory, he won a scholarship at the University of Wyoming. In 1963, he won the Junior class at the U.S. Championships in Steamboat Springs. At the University a ski club was founded later, desser first chairman was Martin.
At the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 in Innsbruck, he was the first time the squad, but eventually did not start. In December, he made his international debut at the Four Hills Tournament 1964 /65. But they are also denied only in Oberstdorf, reaching there the 22th rank. At the end of the tour he took in spite of this only a result the 24th place in the overall standings.
In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1966 in Oslo Martin jumped to 58th on the normal hill and on the 29th place on the large hill. In the Four Hills Tournament 1966/67, with the eighth rank in Innsbruck he managed his best tour - single result. At the end of the tour, it was enough for Martin to 34th overall.
In his final Four Hills Tournament 1967/68, it did not further improve the previous year and was 54th overall. In Westby 1968 he won his first U.S. championship before he started shortly thereafter at the 1968 Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble in single of the large hill and reached rank 43.
Shortly after the games he ended his ski jumping career. In 1973 he was elected chairman of the Minneapolis Ski Club. He was for some time a member of the Board, including as treasurer. At the same time he worked as a coach at the club. From 1974 to 2005 he was program director for the Theodore Wirth Park and jumping at Bush Lake. Every year, he was responsible for eight jumping each jump and organized the entire alignment. After he also led the regional junior area and one of the first to promote youth cried equipment hire at his club into life, he bought a company for ski equipment. He called the company Martin 's Ski Cellar and led it out of his house. Later he paid juniors from across the United States.
At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid and the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City Martin was a member of the Hills team responsible for the preparation of the hills for the competitions.
For the new 70 -meter ski jump at Bush Lake Martin collected a total of $ 500,000, making possible the construction of the first hill in the United States that met the requirements of the FIS for the sweeps of jumping in the V- style.
Today is Martin jury member at national jumping as well as Technical Delegate. Among other things, he managed to jump in the U.S. Cup in 2013 and was second Technical Delegate at the 126th annual Ski Jumping in Ishpeming. In February 2012 he was a member of the jury at Westby Snowflake Ski Tournament at the Snowflake Ski Jump.
Achievements
Four Hills Tournament rankings
Awards
In 2008 he was admitted along with his brother in the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame. He was honored by an entry on the Olympic Wall in the Minnesota National Sports Stadium in Blaine by the state of Minnesota.