Paul Ausserleitner (3 February 1925 – 9 January 1952) was an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n ski jumper. He died in an accident in

Bischofshofen Bischofshofen () is a town in the district of St. Johann im Pongau in the Austrian federal state of Salzburg. It is an important traffic junction located both on the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway line and at the Tauern Autobahn, a major highway route cr ...

ski jumping 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 ...

hill while on a training jump in 1952. To honour his memory, the hill was renamed after the accident to ''

Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze ("Paul Ausserleitner Hill") was opened in 1947 as "Hochkönigsschanze", and re-built in 2004, and is a ski jumping venue in Bischofshofen, Austria. It is one of the more important venues in the FIS Ski jumping World ...

''. Ausserleitner holds the hill record in the K-50 hill in Gaisberg,

Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label= Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...

with 55 metres (achieved in 1949). The Gaisberg hill was later destroyed.

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1925 births 1952 deaths Austrian male ski jumpers People from St. Johann im Pongau District Skiing deaths Sport deaths in Austria Sportspeople from Salzburg (state) 20th-century Austrian people {{Austria-skijumping-bio-stub