Bloudek's Normall Hill

Bloudek's Normall Hill

on right; replaced with HS 62, 80
Opened 27 March 1949
Renovated 1989
Closed 2007
Demolished 2012
Size
K-spot K-90
Hill size HS 100
Official hill record 110 m (361 ft)
Slovenia Bine Zupan
(13 Mar 2004)
Top events
World Cup 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994
Universiade 2007

Bloudek's Normall Hill (Slovene: Srednja Bloudkova skakalnica; alternative name: Stano Pelan Hill) was a ski jumping K-90 hill that existed from 1949-2012 located in Planica, Slovenia.

History

Hill was opened in 1949 and constructed by Slovenian engineer Stanko Bloudek. Hill has a perfect location and the first original in-run was made of thin steel stick construction. His main assistant at the construction of this hill was Stano Pelan, Slovenian pilot, constructor, bank officer, working supervisor, credited as Planica expert, FIS judge of ski jumping and technical judge delegate. This hill is also known under his name.

Winner of first international opening competition on this hill on March 27, 1949 was Janez Polda. Winner of the last international competition on March 28, 1971 was East German Hans-Georg Aschenbach.

Winner of the first World Cup competition on March 21, 1980 was Austrian Hans Millonig.

Constructors of present hill are brothers Vlado and Janez Gorišek. They reconstructed hill in 1989. In hill axis there is a wooden sculpture of a ski jumper.[1]

The last World Cup event was on December 11, 1994 with Austrian winner Andreas Goldberger. In total there was 11 individual World Cup competitions. Last official ski jumping event on this hill was held on 2007 FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships replacing Tarvisio, a venue dealing with a lack of snow. Those were also the last ski jumps ever at this hill.

As a part of Planica Nordic Center renovation is expected this hill was completely demolished in late 2012. A totally new 90-meter hill which will replace this one, is under construction and is expected to be completed and open in fall 2012. It stands just a few meters away from Stano Pelan Hill and right next to the Bloudkova velikanka. After they demolished Stano Pelan Hill, they built two completely new medium ski jumping hills at the same place and will be used for training. They are HS 66 and HS 80 size. Those two smaller hills are expect to be open in December 2013.

Events

Nordic combined

Date Competition Winner Second Third
15 Dec 1984 WC (K-92/15 km) Norway Geir Andersen West Germany Hubert Schwarz Norway Hallstein Bøgseth

Ski jumping

Date Competition Winner Second Third
27 Mar 1949 INT Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Janez Polda Finland Lasse Johanson Finland Rafael Viljamaa
11 Mar 1951 INT Austria Sepp Bradl Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Janez Polda Austria Albin Plank
23 Mar 1952 INT United States Keith Wegemann Austria Sepp Bradl Austria Alois Leodolter
8 Mar 1953 INT West Germany Herm Anwander Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Janez Polda Austria Sepp Schiffner
7 Mar 1965 1st JPM East Germany Dieter Mueller West Germany Helmut Wegscheider East Germany Dieter Bokeloh
26 Mar 1967 2nd JPM Austria Reinhold Bachler East Germany Horst Queck East Germany Peter Lesser
22 Mar 1970 4th JPM Soviet Union Vladimir Smirnov Soviet Union Aleksandr Ivannikov Austria Reinhold Bachler
28 Mar 1971 5th JPM East Germany Hans-Georg Aschenbach Switzerland Walter Steiner Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Peter Štefančič
21 Mar 1980 WC Austria Hans Millonig Austria Armin Kogler Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Primož Ulaga
21 Mar 1981 WC Finland Jari Puikkonen Canada Horst Bulau East Germany Axel Zitzmann
27 Mar 1982 WC Norway Ole Bremseth Norway Per Bergerud Italy Massimo Rigoni
26 Mar 1983 WC Finland Matti Nykänen Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Primož Ulaga Norway Olav Hansson
24 Mar 1984 WC East Germany Jens Weißflog United States Mike Holland Poland Janusz Malik
22 Mar 1986 WC Finland Matti Nykänen Austria Andreas Felder Austria Franz Neuländtner
27 Mar 1988 WC Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Primož Ulaga Czechoslovakia Pavel Ploc Austria Ernst Vettori
25 Mar 1989 WC East Germany Jens Weißflog Austria Andreas Felder Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola
11 Dec 1993 WC Norway Espen Bredesen Japan Takanobu Okabe Austria Andreas Goldberger
10 Dec 1994 WC Japan Kazuyoshi Funaki Austria Andreas Goldberger Finland Janne Ahonen
11 Dec 1994 WC Austria Andreas Goldberger Finland Mika Laitinen Norway Lasse Ottesen

*INT - International; JPM - Janez Polda Memorial; WC - World Cup

Record

Men

Date Length
27 Mar 1949 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Janez Polda 86.0 m (282 ft)
7 Mar 1965 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Marjan Pečar 87.0 m (285 ft)
26 Mar 1967 East Germany Horst Queck 91.0 m (299 ft)
28 Mar 1971 East Germany Hans-Georg Aschenbach 93.0 m (305 ft)
21 Mar 1980 Norway Tom Levorstad 94.0 m (308 ft)
27 Mar 1982 Norway Ole Bremseth 94.0 m (308 ft)
26 Mar 1983 Norway Olav Hansson 95.5 m (313 ft)
24 Mar 1984 East Germany Jens Weißflog 97.0 m (318 ft)
11 Mar 1993 Norway Espen Bredesen 101.0 m (331 ft)
11 Mar 1994 Austria Andreas Goldberger 102.5 m (336 ft)
13 Mar 2004 Slovenia Bine Zupan 110.0 m (361 ft)

Ladies

Date Length
2 Mar 2003 Norway Anette Sagen 105.5 m (346 ft)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Complete environment report for Planica Nordic Center (Slovene)" (PDF). 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2012-07-20.

External links

Coordinates: 46°28′40.05″N 13°43′19.52″E / 46.4777917°N 13.7220889°E / 46.4777917; 13.7220889

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