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Klemens Murańka
Klemens Murańka (born 31 August 1994) is a retired Polish ski jumper, a member of the national team, a 2014 Junior World Champion in team, a bronze medalist of 2015 World Championship in team. Personal life On 28 August 2014 his fiancée gave birth to their son named Klemens Jr. On 25 April 2015 he married Agnieszka Rzadkosz. On 4 January 2021 their second son was born. Career On 31 August 2004, his 10th birthday, he jumped 135.5 m at Wielka Krokiew in Zakopane (only 4.5 m shorter than the then-official record). On 14 October 2007 he took third place in Summer Polish Championship. In December 2006, 2007 he achieved bronze in Winter Polish Championship. Murańka debuted in World Cup during qualification to competition in Zakopane in season 2007/08 at age 13. He is the youngest competitor in history who was allowed to take part in World Cup. He took 65th place in qualification. On 1 February 2014 he won a gold medal with Polish team in squad Jakub Wolny, Krzysztof Biegun and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the List of European countries by area, fifth largest EU country by area, covering . The capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Prehistory and protohistory of Poland, Prehistoric human activity on Polish soil dates to the Lower Paleolithic, with continuous settlement since the end of the Last Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krzysztof Biegun
Krzysztof Biegun (born 21 May 1994) is a Polish ski jumper. Career Biegun's debut in FIS Ski Jumping World Cup took place in February 2013 in Oberstdorf. On 24 November 2013, he won the event in Klingenthal at large hill. At the 2013 Winter Universiade The 2013 Winter Universiade, the XXVI Winter Universiade, was a winter multi-sport event which took place in Trentino, Italy between 11 and 21 December 2013. This was the first time that a Winter Universiade happened after the Summer Universiade ... he took the silver medal in the normal hill event and gold medals in both the large hill and large hill team events. World Cup Season standings Individual victories Individual starts References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Biegun, Krzysztof 1994 births Living people Polish male ski jumpers People from Żywiec County Skiers from Silesian Voivodeship Winter World University Games medalists in ski jumping FISU World University Games gold medalists for Poland FISU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Construction Point
The construction point (), also known as the K-point or K-spot and formerly critical point, is a line across a ski jumping hill. It is used to calculate the number of points granted for a given jump. It is also called calculation point or calculation line. Classification The distance between the construction point and the take-off table, measured in meters, was formerly used to classify the size of a ski jumping hill. Since mid-2004, the hills have been categorized by the hill size. Nearly all competitions in the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup use large hills with a construction point between 120 and 130. The largest is Mühlenkopfschanze in Germany. In addition, there is a bi-annual FIS Ski-Flying World Championship, which is held in one of the world's five ski flying hills: Vikersundbakken in Norway, Letalnica Bratov Gorišek in Slovenia, Čerťák in the Czech Republic, Heini Klopfer Ski Jump in Germany and Kulm in Austria. In the FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, and FIS W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurij Tepes
Jurij is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Jurij Alschitz (born 1947), theatre director, theatre and acting theorist who has lived in Berlin since 1992 *Jurij Brězan (1916–2006), Sorbian writer * Jurij Cherednikov (born 1964), Ukrainian-American author and software engineer *Jurij Dalmatin (1547–1589), Slovene Lutheran minister, writer and translator * Jurij Fedynskyj (born 1975), Ukrainian-American folk singer, kobzar and bandurist * Jurij Gering, politician in Slovenia during the first half of the 16th century when it was under the Holy Roman Empire *Jurij Japelj, also known in German as Georg Japel (1744–1807), Slovene Jesuit priest, translator and philologist * Jurij Ambrož Kappus, politician of the 18th century in Slovenia, when the country was under the Holy Roman Empire *Jurij Koch (born 1936), Sorbian writer * Jurij Korenjak, Slovenian slalom canoeist who competed in the early 2000s * Jurij Lopatynsky (1906–1982), Ukrainian activist, soldier, colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janne Ahonen
Janne Petteri Ahonen (; born 11 May 1977) is a Finnish former ski jumper and drag racer. He competed in ski jumping between 1992 and 2018, and is one of the sport's most successful athletes of all time, as well as one of the most successful from Finland. Ahonen won two consecutive World Cup overall titles (the most recent ski jumper to do so, as of 2023), the Four Hills Tournament a record five times, two individual gold medals at the World Championships, and the Nordic Tournament once. Nicknamed ''Kuningaskotka'' ("King Eagle"), he has been described as the greatest ski jumper to have never won an individual medal at the Winter Olympics. Career Ahonen's most notable achievements include five World Championships (normal hill in 1997; large hill in 2005; team large hill in 1995, 1997 and 2003), two World Cup overall titles ( 2003/04 and 2004/05) and a record-breaking five victories in the Four Hills Tournament ( 1998/99, 2002/03, 2004/05, 2005/06 and 2007/08). He is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willingen
Willingen (official name: ''Willingen (Upland)'') is a municipality in Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany, some 80 km west of Kassel. Geography Location Willingen is found in Waldeck-Frankenberg district in the Upland. Its main town stretches between two river valleys, the Hoppecke in the west and the Itter in the east. The ski resort Skigebiet Willingen is near. It is located 60 km west of Kassel. Mühlenkopfschanze ski jump is also located here. Neighbouring communities Willingen borders in the north on the community of Diemelsee (municipality), Diemelsee, in the east on the town of Korbach, in the south on the community of Medebach, and in the west on the towns of Winterberg, Olsberg, Germany, Olsberg and Brilon (all three in the Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia). Constituent communities Willingen consists of the following centres: * Bömighausen, 300 inhabitants (as of 1 September 2003) * Eimelrod, 582 inhabitants (as of 31. December 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mühlenkopfschanze
Mühlenkopfschanze is the largest ski jumping hill in the world located in Willingen ( Hessen), Germany with a K-point of and Hill size of . The hill is located on the north-eastern, forested slope of the Mühlenkopf peak (815 m above sea level) in the Rothaar Mountains, from which the facility takes its name and is a regular venue in the FIS Ski jumping World Cup The FIS Ski Jumping World Cup is the world's highest level of ski jumping and the FIS Ski Flying World Cup as the subdivisional part of the competition. It was founded by Torbjørn Yggeseth for the 1979/80 season and organized by the Internati .... Hill parameters * Construction point: 130 m * Hill size (HS): 147 m * Official hill record: – Johann André Forfang ( 3 February 2024) * Hill record: – Timi Zajc ( 3 February 2023) – fall * Inrun length: 100.0 m * Inrun angle: 35° * Take-off length: 6.7 m * Take-off angle: 11° * Take-off height: 3.25 m * Landing angle: 35° * Average speed: 93. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Ziobro
Jan Ziobro (Polish pronunciation: , born 24 June 1991) is a Polish Ski jumping, ski jumper, a member of the national team, a participant of the 2014 Winter Olympics, 2014 Winter Olympic Games, a bronze medalist at FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015, 2015 World Championship in team . Personal life Jan Ziobro was born in Rabka Zdrój, Poland and raised in Spytkowice. He has a sister and four brothers. His brother-in-law is former ski jumper Krystian Długopolski. Ziobro works as a painter for his family's furniture company, ''Meble Ziobro'', which sponsors him and Czech Jakub Janda. In August 2013, he proposed to his girlfriend Angelika. Their daughter, Wiwiana, was born on January 16, 2014. On September 20, 2014, he married Angelika Kowalczyk in private ceremony in Spytkowice. In October 2016 his wife gave birth to their second daughter named Sonia. Career Ziobro made his first appearance in the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup on November 27, 2011, in Kuusamo. 2013/2014 He won hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamil Stoch
Kamil Wiktor Stoch (; born 25 May 1987) is a Polish Ski jumping, ski jumper. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers in the history of the sport, having won two FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, World Cup titles, three Four Hills Tournaments (two of them consecutive), three individual gold medals at the Winter Olympics, individual and team gold at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, Ski Jumping World Championships, and individual silver at the FIS Ski Flying World Championships, Ski Flying World Championships. His other tournament wins include Raw Air (twice), the Mühlenkopfschanze, Willingen Five, and Planica7. Stoch is among only three ski jumpers in history, alongside Sven Hannawald and Ryoyu Kobayashi, to win the "grand slam" of all four competitions in a single Four Hills Tournament. In 2018, at age 30, Stoch became the oldest individual Olympic gold medallist and World Cup titlist in the history of ski jumping. He was voted Polish Sports Personality of the Year in 2014 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piotr Żyła
Piotr Paweł Żyła (Polish pronunciation: ; born 16 January 1987) is a Polish Ski jumping, ski jumper. He is a member of the national team and competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He is the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021, 2021 and FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2023, 2023 World Champion on the normal hill, a bronze medalist of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017, 2017 World Championships in individual large hill event, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017, 2017 World Champion and a two-time FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, World Championship bronze medalist (FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013, 2013, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015, 2015) and in the team large hill event, also the two time FIS Ski Flying World Championships, Ski Flying World Championships bronze medalist in team (FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2018, 2018, FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2020, 2020). Żyła held the Polish record (together with Kamil Stoch) for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lugnet Hills
Lugnet HS134 is a large ski jumping hill located in Falun, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count .... It has a hill size of HS134, a construction point of K-120. The hill has artificial lighting and bleachers for 15,000 viewers. Hill size has been increased from K-115, HS124 to K-120, HS134. The hill was built specifically for the World Cup Ski Championships in 1974. Last modernization took place from August 2012 to end of 2013 because of the preparations for the 2015 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Hill record Before the recent modernization, the hill record belonged to Matti Hautamäki, who jumped 130.5 metres. On 26 February 2015, Severin Freund set the current hill record of 135.5 metres. Sports venues completed in 1974 Ski jumping venues in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country by both area and population, and is the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. Its capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.6 million, and a low population density of ; 88% of Swedes reside in urban areas. They are mostly in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden's urban areas together cover 1.5% of its land area. Sweden has a diverse Climate of Sweden, climate owing to the length of the country, which ranges from 55th parallel north, 55°N to 69th parallel north, 69°N. Sweden has been inhabited since Prehistoric Sweden, prehistoric times around 12,000 BC. The inhabitants emerged as the Geats () and Swedes (tribe), Swedes (), who formed part of the sea-faring peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
