The Bergisel Ski Jump (german: Bergiselschanze), whose stadium has a capacity of 26,000, is a

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located in

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. It is one of the more important venues in the

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, annually hosting the third competition of the prestigious

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. Its first competitions were held in the 1920s using simple wood

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s. The larger hill was first built in 1930 and was rebuilt before the

1964 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 ...

for the individual large hill event. Twelve years later, the venue hosted the same event. The hill in its current form was finished in 2003 and was designed by the

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References

1964 Winter Olympics official report.
p. 112.
1976 Winter Olympics official report.
pp. 201–2.

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