Olympiaschanze

Olympic Hill St. Moritz

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The Olympic Ski Jump is a traditional ski jump in the famous Swiss ski resort of St. Moritz above the Lej Marsch.

History

In 1905, the so-called Julierschanze was built in St. Moritz. This was used until the middle of the last century but it has now expired.

1926/27, the Olympic ski jump was built in preparation for the 1928 Olympic Games to look elsewhere for 257,000 francs. The hill had initially a design point of 66 meters. On January 20, 1927, the official inauguration. The spectator capacity was at the time of the Winter Games 8,000 places. As already four years earlier in Chamonix Gold Silver went us to Norway ( Alf Andersen won before Sigmund Ruud ). Rudolf Burkert won third in the first winter sports medal for Czechoslovakia.

1948 were held for the second time, the competitions of the Olympic Games on the hill. The hill still had the profile from 1928, but the judges tower was laid and the first time - building a press box - on the opposite side. With Petter Hugsted also won at the fifth edition of a Norwegian ski jumping competition at the Winter Olympics. Second place went to veteran Birger Ruud, who won gold in Lake Placid and 1936 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen in 1932, before Leif Thor Schjelderup, so went after 1924 and 1932 for the third time all three medals to Norway. Starting in 1950, the Olympic ski jump was part of an international country jumping, called SSV Springer week or Swiss Four Hills Tournament, with competitions in Arosa, St. Moritz, underwater and Le Locle.

In the following years the hill was expanded several times and expanded. Due to the relative by the altitude of over 1800 meters, snow safety, the entrenchment of many national teams was used to snow training. From the beginning of the Ski Jumping World Cup and 1992 World Cup competitions were held on the Olympic hill. In 1998, when the Junior World Championships Nordic skiers were held in St. Moritz, the jumping of the ski jumpers and the combiner took place on the Olympic hill. Big tradition also had the Christmas jumping that counted on 26 December in recent years to Continental and was held annually until 2005. In 2006, the normal hill was shut down, the youth jumps, however, continue to be used.

In the summer of 2013 it was announced that the ski jumping facility to be rebuilt until the fall of 2015 and you want to subsequently bid to host of World Cup competition. Condition is, however, that in a referendum on 24 November 2013, the majority of St. Moritz for the new stimmt.Bei the referendum voted 55% of the St. Moritz for the new building.

International Competitions

Called all be organized by the FIS jump competitions.

Entrenchment

World Cup competitions were held on the Olympic hill until 1992. The last international event was a Continentalcupspringen on December 26, 2005, which the Czech Borek Sedlák could decide for themselves.

Junior competitions such as the FIS Cup made ​​here regularly station in 1998 was the Junior World Championships in St. Moritz instead. Wolfgang Loitzl of Austria was Junior World Champion. The team competition decided Germany itself.

Specifications

Hill record

Further jumps

• Falcunschanze ( K61 )
• Speretschanze ( K38 )
• Children's hill ( K15 )

None of the hills is covered with mats.