Vikersundbakken

The Vikersundbakken before the conversion

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The Vikersundbakken is a ski flying hill in Vikersund. The hill is used regularly for World Cup show jumping and ski flying World Championships. Several years was the Vikersundbakken after Letalnica in Planica and Heini Klopfer ski jump in Oberstdorf, the third largest hill in the world. That changed in 2010, as a modification of HS 207 HS 225 took place and the Vikersundbakken thus made ​​the largest ski flying hill.

Special

The hill has a tilt angle of 40.37 ° to the start of all the steepest hills regularly used in the World Cup. She was the first ski jump which was equipped with floodlights for night jumping.

Name of the jump

The hill is sometimes referred to as Skiflygingsbakken. But this is not the name of the hill, but simply the Norwegian word for ski jump.

History

In Vikersund since 1894 jump competitions were held on different hills. In 1936 the first ski jump was built on the site of the present Vikersundbakkens. This was enlarged over the years and 1964/65 expanded the ski jump. In the years 1966 and 1967 the ski flying world record was improved three times on the hill. Before the Ski Flying World Championships 2000, the hill was expanded and enlarged to a design point of 185 meters. Due to the reconstruction of the Holmenkollen in Oslo Vikersund 2009 was also the venue for the closing event of the Nordic Tournament.

In recent years there have been discussions about whether the plant expanded or closed and instead a new ski jump near the Holmenkollen will be built. The plan of a ski jump in Oslo, however, was discarded and the existing hill in Vikersund was converted to a K- point of 195 meters and a hill size of 225 meters, so that flights would be possible to 250 meters. Two World Cup competitions took on the not yet completely finished plant instead of in February 2011, where new world records were set in both the first training session as well as in qualifying. On 11 February 2011 the Norwegian Johan Remen Evensen jumped in training with 243 meters a first unofficial world record he could outdo himself with a jump on 246.5 meters in the qualifying round. In May 2011 the Ministry of Education secured to a further financial grant of several million euros for the full completion of the installation. 2012 Ski Flying World Championship was held in Vikersund.

Specifications

Development of the hill record

Gentlemen

Ladies

Further jumps

In addition to the ski jump is a HS 117 large hill. On this regularly Continental Cup, both in men and in women discharged. From August to November 2008, this previously HS 100 (K 90) for HS 117 has been removed.

International Competitions

Called all be organized by the FIS jump competitions.