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Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze is a ski jumping hill in
Seefeld Seefeld may refer to: Places * Seefeld in Tirol, a tourist resort in Tyrol, Austria * Seefeld, Bavaria, a town in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany ** Seefeld Castle * Seefeld, Schleswig-Holstein, a municipality in Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Ho ...
outside of
Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...
, Austria. It is a part of the
Seefeld Nordic Competence Centre The Seefeld Nordic Competence Centre (In German: ''Nordisches Kompetenzzentrum'') is a multi-sport venue for nordic skiing located in Seefeld in Tirol, Austria. It consists of a cross-country skiing stadium, the Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanzes with t ...
consists of two hills, a normal hill with a
hill size The hill size (HS) is the most important measurement for the size of a ski jumping hill. It is defined as the distance between the takeoff table and the end of the landing area, which is called hill size point. It is not measured as a straight l ...
of HS109 (
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) and medium hill with at HS75 (K-68). Next to the jumps is a
cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...
stadium. It opened in 1931 as Jahnschanze, but was renamed in honor of
Anton Seelos Anton "Toni" Seelos (4 March 1911 – 1 June 2006) was an Austrian alpine skier and world champion. In the 1930s, Seelos invented the parallel turnNick Howe''The Blitz Form Kitz'' Skiing Heritage 1/1997 p.17. and became a world champion in the s ...
in 1948. The venue was used for the normal hill competitions during the
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and
1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a ...
, and for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in
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and
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. It is also regularly used for FIS Nordic Combined World Cup.


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Ski jumping venues in Austria Olympic Nordic combined venues Olympic ski jumping venues Olympic biathlon venues Venues of the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Sports venues in Tyrol (state) 1930 establishments in Austria Innsbruck-Land District Sports venues completed in 1930 Venues of the 1964 Winter Olympics Venues of the 1972 Winter Olympics {{Winter-Olympic-venue-stub