Paolo Kind was an early

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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 ...

and sports official. Paolo Kind was a son of

Adolfo Kind Adolf respectively Adolfo Kind (1848 in Chur – August 1907) was a Swiss chemical engineer and one of the fathers of Italian skiing. Life Kind was born in 1848 to a German-speaking Walser family, which had been living in Chur for more than f ...

. He started skiing in the 1890s. When his father died in an mountaineering accident in 1907, he followed him as the second president of the Ski Club Torino. On November 7, 1908, Kind founded the Unione Ski Club Italiani (USCI), of which he was the first president, and which later passed into the

FISI The Italian Winter Sports Federation ( it, Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali; FISI), is the winter sports federation for Italy. Part of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), it deals with all federations conducting sports for the Win ...

. Together with the Norwegian ski jumper Harald Smith, he designed the first ski jumping hill of Italy in

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in 1908, which was finished in 1909, the year when Kind won the first Italian championship of ski jumping on this hill.Bardonecchia
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19th-century births 20th-century deaths Italian male cross-country skiers Italian male Nordic combined skiers Italian male ski jumpers Italian male ski mountaineers Italian referees and umpires Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Turin {{Italy-skijumping-bio-stub