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Miro Oman (11 January 1936 – 15 July 2012) was a
Miro Oman (11 January 1936 – 15 July 2012) was a Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...
n ski jumper
Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the fina ...
.
Career
Oman competed in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. He participated at the 1962 Ski Jumping World Championships and1964 Winter Olympics
The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr ...
, albeit without notable results at either event. Between 1959 and 1966 he also competed at the Four Hills Tournament
The Four Hills Tournament (german: link=no, Vierschanzentournee) or the German-Austrian Ski Jumping Week (german: link=no, Deutsch-Österreichische Skisprung-Woche) is a ski jumping event composed of four World Cup events and has taken place in ...
, where his best result was fifteenth place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the O ...
in 1963.
1969: Premiere jump in Planica
On 6 March 1969, he was given the honour of being the very first to jump from the newski flying
Ski flying is a winter sport discipline derived from ski jumping, in which much greater distances can be achieved. It is a form of competitive individual Nordic skiing where athletes descend at high speed along a specially designed takeoff ra ...
hill in Planica, Velikanka bratov Gorišek, setting a distance of .
References
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* 1936 births 2012 deaths People from Tržič Slovenian male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers of Yugoslavia Ski jumpers at the 1964 Winter Olympics {{Slovenia-skijumping-bio-stub