Bloudkova velikanka
| Bloudkova velikanka (2012) | |
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| Location |
Planica Slovenia |
| Opened |
14 October 2012 Slovene National Championships |
| Renovated | july 2011-october 2012 |
| Size | |
| K-spot | K-95, K-125 |
| Hill size | HS 104, HS 139 |
| Hill record |
142 m (466 ft) Peter Prevc(23 Mar 2014) |
| Bloudkova velikanka (original) | |
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Velika Rožman/Bloudkova skakalnica Old Bloudkova velikanka, Mammoth Hill | |
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| Location |
Planica Slovenia |
| Opened |
4 February 1934 Yugoslavian National Championships |
| Renovated | 1936, 1937, 1948, 1954 |
| Closed | 1942-46, 1951-53, 2001-12 |
| Demolished | july 2011 |
| Size | |
| K-spot | K-130 |
| Hill size | HS 140 |
| Hill record |
147.5 m (484 ft) Noriaki Kasai(22 Mar 1998) |
Bloudkova velikanka is a two ski jump hill, large and normal in Planica, Slovenia.
Both jumps were designed by the team of Slovenian architects Matej Blenkuš, Miloš Florijančič (Abiro) and Klemen Kobal and are part of Planica Nordic Center. Blenkuš and Florijančič articulated the architecture of the ski jump while Kobal took care for the profile and they kept the typical Stanko Bloudek arch. in the upper part of the hill. Large hill stands on exact same location as the old one, normal hill is on a new location right next to large hill. Bloudkova velikanka is a part of Slovenian cultural heritage and its location is protected and can't be moved or turned in the other direction.
On 14 October 2012 hill(s) were after long years re-opened with Slovenian National Championships on plastic. First person who jumped on new HS139 hill was Slovene V-jumper Aleš Hlebanja from Rateče. He got this honour to be the first because his grandmother was first of many owners who sold private property around the hill to the Republic of Slovenia and activate other owners to do the same. This made possible to finally start building Nordic Center in Planica. Primož Peterka was honoured to jump as first on new HS104 hill. Later, Primož Peterka and Aleš Hlebanja made simultaneous jumps on the normal and large hill respectively as an official opening of both.
History
1930s
It all began with Joso Gorec from Ljubljana, a key figure and the most important person for the beginning of ski jumping in Planica and the hill's reputation all over the world. At time he was a general secretary of Yugoslavian Winter Ski Association and member of Ilirija Sport Club from Ljubljana. He was also the first person looking for consensus at FIS to recognize Ski Flying as a new discipline. He tried to make Slovenia important with building the largest ski jumping hill in the world.
In 1932 Gorec asked engineer Stanko Bloudek, his friend from Ilirija Sport Club, to construct a large hill. Bloudek draw plans for K-80 hill, as FIS didn't allow any bigger hills at that time. Bloudek decided on the location and staked out the hill. However, at the same time Ivan Rožman from Ljubljana, a construction company owner and engineer drew plans for K-90 hill. Gorec decided to build this bigger hill using Rožman's plan instead of Bloudek's plan, who was then left out.
(hill named after him)
Starting the construction brought up some problems, as the local population from Rateče was opposed to building the venue and didn't want to sell the land the hill was supposed to be situated on. They were eventually convinced and the construction begun in October 1993. The hill was finished in December the same year.
On February 4, 1934 the hill, unfairly named Bloudkova velikanka (Velika Rožman/Bloudkova skakalnica), was opened with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia National championships. The winner was Franc Palme from Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Slovenia). With 55 and 60 meters he set the first two hill records and the national record at the same time. In March they organized the first international competition when Birger Ruud set the first world record in Planica with 92 meters. Later his brother Sigmund Ruud touched the snow at 94 meters, a world record distance.
In 1935 Stanko Bloudek as a constructor took control over the hill. From here he was the main engineer for renovating and enlarging the hill until his death. Under his renovations 11 world records were set.
The same year Ivan Rožman stepped out as an engineer in Planica, starting the argument on who was the original constructor and why the hill isn't named after him. Rožman blamed Joso Gorec, who turned to Bloudek's side and named hill after him, although Bloudek didn't draw the original plans. For years, there was a public misconception that Bloudek was the original hill constructor while the original constructor was Ivan Rožman. At that time Stanko Bloudek was member of Ilirija Sport Club and because of that Joso Gorec was supposedly quiet and gave him connivance. Stanko Bloudek also never spoke about this in public.
On March 15, 1936 Austrian Sepp Bradl was the first man in history to have officially jumped over one hundred meters. He jumped 101.5 meters, which had to be displayed as 101 on the scoreboard due to not enough space.
In 1938 Sepp Bradl again set a new world record with 107 meters. This year Joso Gorec went to the regular FIS congress in Helsinki where he was defending bold plans of Stanko Bloudek and fighting for recognition of the Ski-Flying discipline, which FIS was against. He was supported by Sir Arnold Lunn, who said FIS simply couldn't prevent sky flying competitions. Lunn also had big problems with FIS not recognizing slalom and downhill disciplines. Reinhard Straumann also joined Joso Gorec and support him in this initiative. FIS finally allowed ski flying competitions but only for study purposes.
In 1938 or 1939 Stanko Bloudek constructed a first simple 300 meters long funicular with two parallel routes on a scree in Planica. It was on a scree on a way from Planica to Tamar. Sigmund Ruud gave the hill name "Mammoth Hill" in his book "Skispuren kruezen die Welt" (Ski tracks cross the world) which was published in 1939.
1940s
In 1941, Germans built a new judge tower called Nemški stolp (German tower) which still stands today as a cultural heritage and can't be demolished. The tower, however, was useless even back then because it was under the hill level, so you could not see what was happening on it. There was also a competition that year with a couple new world records, longest 118 meters by Rudi Gering. No competitions took place in Planica for the next six years.
In 1947 competition returned with Yugoslavian winner Rudi Finžgar, more known as co-founder of Elan, a Slovenian ski manufacture company.
In 1948 the last world record was set on this hill when Fritz Tschannen from Switzerland jumped 120 meters. Yugoslavian Janez Polda with 120 meters and Swiss Charles Blum with 121 meters, both fell at world record distance.
1950s
In 1950 Planica after fourteen years first time lost the world record. It was also the last competition before Bloudkova velikanka pulled itself down and before first major renovation. In 1952 Stanko Bloudek constructed three small hills called "Planica School Hills" covered with plastic. Under renovation the built a new judge and television tower and new profile of the hill. Hill was reopened and back in use for the Planica's Ski Flying week in March 1954. Hill was still under leadership and construction of Stanko Bloudek all to 1959 when he died.
1980s
First World Cup competition was in 1980 and the winner was Austrian jumper Hubert Neuper. Bloudkova velikanka became a standard and regular host of World Cup Ski Jumping events exchanging with flying hill Letalnica bratov Gorišek and normal hill up to 1998 when in stoped for a longer period of time. After that all events were held at flying hill.
1990s
Record holder of original Bloudek's hill, not standing anymore, was Noriaki Kasai who jumped 147.5 meters[1] in the World Cup event in 1998, which was also the unofficial world record for large hills at that time. This was the last World Cup competition that was held on this old hill.
2000s
Bloudkova velikanka was in use until December 16, 2001 when concrete bow, the upper part of the hill which stood in the air, was demolished by itself. The last international competition and last jump on old hill was held this year. For many years after the hill demolished itself there were plans and promises to renovate the hill but nothing happened for ten years. At that period of time Slovenia had no large hill to train at and that was seen on bad results of Slovene ski jumpers at who had to drive and pay for trainings outside of the country. In 2009 they had to build a new chairlift and to replace old popularly called Hugo old cable railway, which was no longer under International Ski Federation standards in order to keep the world cup events.
2010s
As Republic of Slovenia and Planica (Nordic Center) signed the contract for complete renovation of ski jumping hills in Ponca valley was signed renovation finally began. President of Planica Nordic Center is Jelko Gros, a former coach of Primož Peterka. In July 2011 they started to demolishing inrun, judge tower and TV tower of Bloudkova velikanka, but left German tower who is part of Slovene culture heritage. At the same location as original large hill was standing, which is also part of Slovene culture heritage, they built a new totally renovated HS139 hill with new profile, new inrun, new judge and TV tower. Just next to the large hill they built a new normal hill with size HS104 which replaced the old K-90 hill which us to stand just 100 meters away. Both hill were opened at 14 October 2012 with national championships. They demolished and replaced old service object "Čaplja" (Heron) with new object which is standing on the same location as the old one. An old cable railway constructed by Stanko Bloudek is also part of Slovene culture heritage and will be completelly restored in 2014.
After long 16 years they organized six Ski Jumping World Cup events on Bloudkova velikanka in 2014, three for ladies and three for men. In January there were two ladies events on HS104 hill, both won by Daniela Iraschko-Stolz. In March they organized four Final World Cup events on HS139 hill. Winner of ladies individual event was Sara Takanashi, Team event winner was Austria, Severin Freund won first individual event and Peter Prevc the last event of the season with the new hill record of 142 meters. Just a couple of days later Anže Lanišek jumped 149 meters at Slovenian Nordic National Championships and set absolute, yet unofficial record of the hill.
Events
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*OP - Opened; INT - International; SFS - Ski Flying Study; ISFW - International Ski Flying Week; JPM - Janez Polda Memorial; KC - Kongsberg Cup;
IEX - International Exhibition; WC - World Cup; T - Team; I - Individual
Ladies
| Date | Hillsize | Competition | Winner | Second | Third |
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| 25 Jan 2014 | HS 104 | WC |  Daniela Iraschko-Stolz | Sara Takanashi |  Carina Vogt |
| 26 Jan 2014 | HS 104 | WC | Daniela Iraschko-Stolz | Sara Takanashi | Carina Vogt |
| 22 Mar 2014 | HS 139 | WC | Sara Takanashi | Yuki Ito |  Julia Clair |
Old record
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- 13-17 Mar 1948 falls at world record: Janez Polda (SLO) at 120 meters and Charles Blum 121 meters.
New record
Men: Large hill
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Men: Normal hill
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Ladies: Large hill
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Ladies: Normal hill
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Bidings
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2017Voted the FIS Congress in South Korea on 31 May 2012.[6]
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FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019Voted at the FIS Congress in Barcelona on 5 June 2014.
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Track listing
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | |||||||
| 1. | " | Jakob Aljaž (1896); arranged by Bojan Adamič (1960) | 0:30 | |||||||
| 2. | "Planiške fanfare II (Oj, Triglav, moj dom)" | Jakob Aljaž (1896); arranged by Vilko Ovsenik (1978) | 0:30 | |||||||
| 3. | "Planica, Planica" | Slavko Avsenik, Vilko Ovsenik / Marjan Stare (1979) | 2:48 | |||||||
| 4. | " | Miha Kralj (1980) | 7:22 | |||||||
| 5. | "Planica Slow Motion Theme (unofficial)" | Jani Golob (1997) | 1:54 | |||||||
See also
- Letalnica bratov Gorišek (HS 225)
- Stano Pelan Hill (K-90)
References
- ↑ Noriaki Kasai - 147.5 meters - Planica 1998 (old hill record) youtube.com, 22 March 1998.
- ↑ Birger Ruud - A Family Of Ski Jumpers sports.jrank.org
- ↑ Sepp Bradl (101.5 m) - First star of ski jumping - „Die gigantische Luftreise“ (german language) sport.orf.at
- ↑ Sepp Bradl (107 m) - First star of ski jumping - Broke world record for the 2nd time (german language) sport.orf.at
- ↑ R. Gering from Gehlberg: Became known as world record holder in Planica 1941 thueringer-allgemeine.de - 7 Mar 2011
- ↑ Lahti wins Nordic World Ski Championships 2017, Kulm won Ski Flying World Championships 2016 (german language) skijumping.de, 31 May 2012.
External links
- Official page planica.si
- Planica Nordic Center nc-planica.si
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Coordinates: 46°28′38.58″N 13°43′14.68″E / 46.4773833°N 13.7207444°E