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Odnesbakken
Flubergbakken (also ''Odnesbakken'') was a HS117 ski jumping hill located between Fluberg and Odnes in Norway, opened in 1926. It was part of Odnes Ski Senter and owned by Fluberg IL Ski Club. Hill was renovated in 1955, 1985, 2002, then demolished in 2008. They hosted nine Norwegian National Championships in 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993 and 2002. History On 21 February 1926, Norweg Erling Andersen fell at world record distance. On 18 February 1931, four invalid and two official List of longest ski jumps#Official world records, world records were set on this hill that day, all by Norwegian ski jumpers. First Sverre Kolterud fell at world record distance at , Hans Beck at ; and Birger Ruud as last one with fall at record , then with only official WR at . Johanne Kolstad also set the official world record for ladies at . Ski jumping world records Men Not recognized! Fall at world record distance. Ladies Competitions Flubergrennet 1976 race was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odnes
Odnes is a village in Søndre Land Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located on the north side of the Randsfjorden along County Road 33 and it is named after the nearby Odnes farm. The village lies about to the southeast of the village of Dokka and about to the northwest of the village of Fluberg. Skiing Odnes is known for the large Odnes ski jump ( no, Odnesbakken or ''Flubergbakken''), which was dismantled in 2008 after much discussion. Birger Ruud Birger Ruud (23 August 1911 – 13 June 1998) was a Norwegian ski jumper and alpine skier. Career Born in Kongsberg, Birger Ruud, with his brothers Sigmund and Asbjørn, dominated international jumping in the 1930s, winning three world champi ... set the world record in ski jumping here in 1931, jumping , and Johanna Kolstad set the women's world record at the same year. Merete Kristiansen set the world record at in 1989. References Søndre Land Villages in Innlandet {{Innlandet-geo-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Longest Ski Jumps
Ski jumping is a winter sport in which athletes compete on distance and style in a jump from a ski jumping hill. The sport has traditionally focused on a combination of style and distance, and it was therefore early seen as unimportant in many milieus to have the longest jump. The International Ski Federation (Fédération Internationale de Ski; FIS) has largely been opposed to the inflation in hill sizes and setting of distance records, and no world records have been set at ski jumping at the Winter Olympics, Olympic, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, World Championship, Holmenkollen Ski Festival or Four Hills Tournament events, as these have never been among the largest hills in the world. Since 1936, when the first jump beyond was made, all world records in the sport have been made in the discipline of ski flying, an offshoot of ski jumping using larger hills where distance is explicitly emphasised. As of March 2017, the official world record for the longest ski jump is , se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birger Ruud
Birger Ruud (23 August 1911 – 13 June 1998) was a Norwegian ski jumper and alpine skier. Career Born in Kongsberg, Birger Ruud, with his brothers Sigmund and Asbjørn, dominated international jumping in the 1930s, winning three world championships in 1931, 1935 and 1937. Ruud also won the Olympic gold medal in 1932 and 1936, the first repeat winner of ski jumping gold. He also was an accomplished alpine skier, winning a bronze medal in the combined at the 1935 world championships. Ruud won the Holmenkollen ski jumping competition in 1934 and shared the Holmenkollen medal in 1937 with Olaf Hoffsbakken and Martin P. Vangsli. In 1943, during the German occupation of Norway, Ruud was incarcerated at Grini concentration camp for expressing his anti-Nazi sentiments. After his release in 1944, he joined the Norwegian resistance movement. He also competed in the 1948 Olympics, winning the ski jumping silver medal at age 36, though he was initially only at the Games as assistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Pürstl
Willi Pürstl (born 10 January 1955) is an Austrian former ski jumping, ski jumper who competed from 1973 to 1981. He won the overall Four Hills Tournament in 1974–75. In 1988 Pürstl immigrated to Canada, where he had a long career as a ski jumping coach, journalist, TV presenter, producer, editor and cameraman. bignorthmedia.com References 1955 births Austrian male ski jumpers Living people People from Murau District Sportspeople from Styria 20th-century Austrian people {{Austria-skijumping-bio-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
