Planica Nordic Center

Planica Nordic Center Nordijski center Planica
Location(s)	Planica, Slovenia
Inaugurated	4 Feb 1934 (opened) 21 Mar 1969 (flying hill) 11 Dec 2015 (reconstruction)
Founder	Joso Gorec
Area	Upper Carniola
Activity	ski jumping ski flying cross-country skiing nordic combined zip-line roller skating ski tunnel wind tunnel museum
Organised by	ZŠRS Planica
People	Jelko Gros (CEO) Jure Žerjav (center secretary) Ivan Rožman (constructor) Stanko Bloudek (constructor) Vlado Gorišek (constructor) Janez Gorišek (constructor)
Member	K.O.P.
Website
zsrs-planica.si / nc-planica.si

Planica Nordic Center (slovene: Nordijski center Planica) is a nordic skiing complex with one ski flying hill, seven ski jumping hills and cross-country skiing track in Planica, Slovenia. This is the only nordic center in the world with record eight hills that are all in one place and the only one of this kind with hills of all sizes at one place: small, medium, normal, large and flying hills.

The origins of ski flying started in 1936 in Planica, when 18-year-old Austrian Josef "Sepp" Bradl became the first man in history to land a ski jump of over 100 metres (330 ft). It is a place where the most of the ski jumping world records were set on two different hills, and also the historic first jumps over 100 meters by Sepp Bradl on Bloudkova velikanka and over 200 meters by Toni Nieminen on Letalnica bratov Gorišek. Complex consists of eight hills in function and three abandoned hills. Sigmund Ruud gave Bloudkova velikanka name "Mammoth Hill". In 2015, the complete reconstruction was finished with total new cross-country skiing track derived through the valley of Planica.

Fascilities

Flying hill

Letalnica bratov Gorišek
Size
K-spot	200 m
Hill size	225 m
Official hill record	248.5 m (815 ft) Peter Prevc

Bloudkova velikanka
Size
K-spot	125 m
Hill size	139 m
Longest jump (unofficial / fall)	149 m (489 ft) Anže Lanišek
Official hill record	142 m (466 ft) Peter Prevc

Normal Hill
Size
K-spot	95 m
Hill size	104 m
Longest jump (unofficial / fall)	106 m (466 ft) Dejan Judež

Other five hills
Size
K-spot	13, 28, 41, 56, 72 m
Hill size	15, 30, 45, 62, 80 m

Letalnica bratov Gorišek (English: Flying hill by brothers Gorišek) is a 1969 ski flying hill located in Planica, Slovenia. Hill is named after the original constructors and brothers Vlado (alias "Lado") and Janez Gorišek. With total of 28 world records set it is the world leading ski jump hill in this statistics. They installed the world's steepest zip-line with average incline at 38.33% (20.9°) and maximum incline at 58.7% (30.5°) incline which is opened since 19 September 2015.

It's the biggest of totally eight hills at Planica Nordic Center. Yugoslavian ski jumper Miro Oman was honoured to made a premiere 135 m (443 ft) long jump on 6 March 1969 at hill test. The first ever FIS Ski Flying World Championships was organized on this hill in 1972. After Matti Nykänen set world record 191 meters at SFWC 1985, new rule by FIS was accepted where no points for jumps over this distance was awarded in order to prevent world record hunting. On 17 March 1994 Andreas Goldberger touched the snow with his hand at 202 m and made first ever over two hundred meters jump, but it was invalid. Just a few minutes later Toni Nieminen landed on his feet at 203 m and officially became the first man in history who jumped over two hundred meters. This hill is a historic place where man for the first time jumped over 160 m, 170 m, 180 m, 190 m, 200 m, 210 m, 220 m and 230 m but didn't always necessary standing on the feet. Planica is the only candidate for FIS Ski Flying World Championships in 2020 and is currently just waiting for the official confirmation of International Ski Federation.

Large hill

Bloudkova velikanka (also: Rožman/Bloudkova velikanka, Old Bloudkova velikanka, Large Rožman/Bloudek Hill, Mammoth Hill) is a large ski jump hill in Planica, Slovenia opened in 1934 by Joso Gorec's initiative. Hill was originally constructed by Ivan Rožman, that's why he resent that hill was first named after Stanko Bloudek and not him and backed up. Posthumous and many years later they credited and honoured him to rename hill as Rožman/Bloudkova velikanka. A year after opening Stanko Bloudek became in charge as main constructor improving this hill 'till his death and with his vision and skills made Planica world famous and brought ski jumping/ski flying to a whole new dimension. As a constructor he is credited with thirteen world records and first jump in history over 100 metres in 1936 and that's how new discipline was born right on this hill. Hill's axis and name are under national monument protection and can not be changed. After almost a decade of hibernation hill was completely renovated with same characteristics as old one and opened in 2012. Right next to this one the built a brand new normal hill which replaced the old demolished one about 100 metres south. They chose this location mostly because they candidate for Nordic World Ski Championships.

Zip-line

This is the steepest zip-line in the world with 40 seconds of adrenalin fall. It was installed Slovenian ski manufacturer Elan in August 2015 zip line was from top to the bottom of the ski flying hill. It's the first ever zip line installed on any of ski flying hills around the world. Ex Slovenian alpine skier Jure Košir was honoured to be the first person who tested and descended down on 1 September 2015. For daily visitors and tourists was opened on 19 September 2015. One ride cost €25 and two rides €40.

• vertical drop - 202 m (663 ft)
• start - 1151.6 m (3,776 ft)
• finish - 949 m (3,114 ft)
• length - 566 m (1,857 ft)
• duration - 40 seconds
• min above ground - 3 m (10 ft)
• max above ground - 53 m (174 ft)
• user min height - 140 cm (4 ft 7 in)
• user max height - 200 cm (6 ft 7 in)
• user min weight - 40 kg (88 lb)
• user max weight - 120 kg (265 lb)
• speed - 40 km/h (25 mph) to 90 km/h (50 mph)
• max capacity - 50 rides/h (20 rides/h in actual)
• average incline - 38.33% or 20.9° (world's steepest)
• maximum incline - 58.6% or 30.5° (world's steepest)
• temperature - operates from -10 °C (14 °F) to +40 °C (104 °F)

Abandoned hills

• In 1930 first K-20 hill was built in the middle of way next to the road between Bloudkova velikanka and Rateče hills. Abandoned but profile still seen today.
• In 1935 first K-60 hill was built in Rateče at entrance crossroad to Planica valley, later another hill added. Last time in function as K50 and 70 m in 1996. Abandoned but profile still well preserved today.
• In 1949 Bloudek's Normal Hill K-90 hill constructed by Stanko Bloudek was opened, in use until 2007 and completely demolished in 2012. Now replaced with complete new HS 62 and 80 m hills.
• In 1952 Bloudek constructed three small K8, 30 and 40 m hills for kids to practice called »Planica school hills«, later covered with plastic and demolished in 2012. Replaced with new HS15, 30 and 45 m hills in 2014.

All objects

• Cross-country skiing track – above and underground track
• Dom Planica – The oldest object in Planica. Beds, hyperbaric chamber, current museum, garages, indoor/outside courts, restaurant
• Circle tower – media center, wind tunnel, ski jump simulator, new museum, restaurant
• RTV dom – house of Radio-Television Slovenia
• Equipment storage and technical support objects (Kavka and Čaplja)
• Underground tunnel is connecting circle tower and Letalnica without crossing the road
• Three ski lifts – chairlift, funicular and cable railway (Hugo)
• Football pitch

Key people

Stanko Bloudek

Vlado Gorišek

Janez Gorišek

Joso Gorec

He is known as the "creator" of Planica, key figure and the most significant person in the whole story. All credits go to him, without him there will be nothing. He was a Slovene sport worker, sport enthusiast and member of Ilirija Sport Club. His intention was to build the biggest hill in the world and to make relatively unknown Slovenia famous. He is the initiator and responsible that Ilirija House, now called Planica House, was built in 1931. A year later Gorec asked his club co-worker, engineer Stanko Bloudek, to draw plans for large hill. Bloudek draw plans for K-80 hill, as much as International Ski Federation rules allowed at that time and found the fantastic location for it. But in 1933, suddenly out of nowhere Ivan Rožman, a construction company's owner working at time in Planica, draw plans for new, bigger K-90 hill, now known as Bloudkova velikanka. Joso Gorec decided to rather build the hill by his plans. Another big achievement if Gorec was his fight for recognition of Planica and ski-flying as new discipline in annual FIS congress held in 1938 in Helsinki. He was defending plans of Stanko Bloudek, who didn't want to go there. Gorec fantastically presented Planica and ski-flying in front of FIS. But he was lucky to get a full support from Arnold Lunn, who had the same problems with FIS years ago at recognition of slalom. Lunn told FIS that they or anyone else couldn't stop ski-flying in Planica. After the end of presentation, Gorec said that FIS adopted rules only for K-80 and not yet have any rules for a new discipline called ski-flying. He invited FIS to accept new rules for ski-flying as soon as possible. After this meeting FIS allowed ski-flying but only in study purposes.

Stanko Bloudek

Constructor, a "father" of ski-flying. In 1932 he was hired by Joso Gorec to draw plans for hill with size K-80. He drew plans and found an excellent location in Planica, but didn't make to realize his plans at first. Ivan Rožman who draw plans for K-90 built the original Bloudkova velikanka on location found by Bloudek. He took the one-year-old hill over in 1935, then upgraded it, enlarged it and improved it several times until his death in 1959. He is responsible for eleven world records on Bloudkova velikanka and for the first jump over 100 meters in 1936. Bloudkova velikanka was unfairly named after him, although original plan wasn't his, but he was closer to Gorec who decided about everything.

Ivan Rožman

Original constructor of K-90 Bloudkova velikanka hill, which was built in two months, from October to December 1933 hill was completed. Opening competition was National Championships in February 1934, where Rožman as a first person in history used snow cement. Gorec gave him and his company permission to build the hill. He contributed all the money for the construction, together with two other business partners: manufacturer Rado Hribar from Ljubljana and with father of Slovene actor Demeter Bitenc who was renting "Bitenc Hotels". At first locals didn't want to sell the land needed for construction and the local priest Lavtižar preached to locals at liturgy and convinced them to sell the land. Soon after hill was opened Rožman and Bloudek got into conflict about original authorship and name of Bloudkova velikanka. While Joso Gorec took side with his friend Bloudek, he step out as constructor. Soon a year later Bloudek continued his work on Bloudkova velikanka. Rožman died in 1937 and conflict about authorship was forgotten for many years. Many years later they recognized him as original constructor. The full official name of the hill is now "Rožman/Bloudkova velikanka".

Vlado Gorišek

Vlado Gorišek (1925-1997), born in Ljubljana, more known as Lado, was the older brother of Janez Gorišek. He is known as co-constructor of Letalnica bratov Gorišek, a flying hill from 1969, although he didn't actually draw the plans. But his younger brother Janez did while he was in the 1960s working in Libya. That's why Vlado who was also an engineer who was put in charge as a lead constructor at the construction site. And he did his job by himself very successfully. That's why he is credited as co-constructor. They communicated over the phone but mainly through the mail.

Janez Gorišek

Brothers from Ljubljana who constructed flying hill in 1969. They are responsible for a hill with the most world records, twenty-eight and for the first jump over 200 meters in 1994.

Ski jumping events

Letalnica bratov Gorišek Date Competition Winner Second Third 21-23 Mar 1969 KOP Jiří Raška Bjørn Wirkola Manfred Wolf 26 Mar 1972 SFWC Walter Steiner Heinz Wosipiwo Jiří Raška 15-17 Mar 1974 KOP Walter Steiner Esko Rautionaho Dag Fossum 18-20 Mar 1977 KOP Reinhold Bachler Thomas Meisinger Ladislav Jirásko 17-18 Mar 1979 SFWC Armin Kogler Axel Zitzmann Piotr Fijas 16-17 Mar 1985 SFWC Matti Nykänen Jens Weißflog Pavel Ploc 14 Mar 1987 WC Andreas Felder Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl Thomas Klauser 15 Mar 1987 WC Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl Matjaž Zupan Piotr Fijas 23 Mar 1991 WC Staffan Tällberg Stephan Zünd André Kiesewetter 24 Mar 1991 WC Ralph Gebstedt Stefan Horngacher Dieter Thoma 19 Mar 1994 SFWC(d1) / WC day one; strong wind 20 Mar 1994 SFWC(d2) / WC Jaroslav Sakala Espen Bredesen Roberto Cecon World Champions Overall (19-20 Mar) Jaroslav Sakala Espen Bredesen Roberto Cecon 22 Mar 1997 WC Takanobu Okabe Kazuyoshi Funaki Jani Soininen 23 Mar 1997 WC Akira Higashi Primož Peterka Lasse Ottesen 19 Mar 1999 WC Martin Schmitt Kazuyoshi Funaki Christof Duffner 20 Mar 1999 WC Hideharu Miyahira Martin Schmitt Noriaki Kasai 21 Mar 1999 WC Noriaki Kasai Hideharu Miyahira Martin Schmitt 18 Mar 2000 WC-T first ever ski flying team event  Germany Sven Hannawald Hansjörg Jäkle Martin Schmitt Michael Uhrmann  Finland Ville Kantee Risto Jussilainen Jani Soininen Janne Ahonen  Japan Takanobu Okabe Kazuyoshi Funaki Hideharu Miyahira Noriaki Kasai 19 Mar 2000 WC Sven Hannawald Janne Ahonen Andreas Goldberger 17 Mar 2001 WC-T  Finland Jussi Hautamäki Risto Jussilainen Tami Kiuru Veli-Matti Lindström  Austria Wolfgang Loitzl Andreas Goldberger Martin Koch Stefan Horngacher  Japan Hideharu Miyahira Kazuya Yoshioka Masahiko Harada Noriaki Kasai 18 Mar 2001 WC Martin Schmitt Risto Jussilainen Tommy Ingebrigtsen 23 Mar 2002 WC-T  Finland Matti Hautamäki Veli-Matti Lindström Risto Jussilainen Janne Ahonen  Germany Christof Duffner Martin Schmitt Michael Uhrmann Sven Hannawald  Austria Martin Koch Andreas Widhölzl Andreas Goldberger Wolfgang Loitzl 24 Mar 2002 WC weather conditions 21 Mar 2003 WC-T  Finland Veli-Matti Lindström Janne Ahonen Tami Kiuru Matti Hautamäki  Norway Henning Stensrud Bjørn Einar Romøren Roar Ljøkelsøy Tommy Ingebrigtsen  Austria Thomas Morgenstern Stefan Thurnbichler Florian Liegl Andreas Widhölzl 22 Mar 2003 WC Matti Hautamäki Adam Małysz Martin Höllwarth 23 Mar 2003 WC Matti Hautamäki Sven Hannawald Hideharu Miyahira 20-21 Feb 2004 SFWC-I Roar Ljøkelsøy Janne Ahonen Tami Kiuru 22 Feb 2004 SFWC-T Norway Finland Austria 19 Mar 2005 WC Matti Hautamäki Andreas Widhölzl Bjørn Einar Romøren 20 Mar 2005 WC Bjørn Einar Romøren Roar Ljøkelsøy Andreas Widhölzl 18 Mar 2006 WC Bjørn Einar Romøren Roar Ljøkelsøy Martin Koch 19 Mar 2006 WC Janne Happonen Martin Koch Robert Kranjec 23 Mar 2007 WC Adam Małysz Simon Ammann Jernej Damjan 24 Mar 2007 WC Adam Małysz Anders Jacobsen Martin Koch 25 Mar 2007 WC Adam Małysz Simon Ammann Martin Koch 14 Mar 2008 WC Gregor Schlierenzauer Janne Ahonen Bjørn Einar Romøren 15 Mar 2008 WC-T  Norway Tom Hilde Johan Remen Evensen Anders Jacobsen Anders Bardal  Finland Janne Happonen Matti Hautamäki Jussi Hautamäki Janne Ahonen  Austria Martin Koch Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Kofler Gregor Schlierenzauer 16 Mar 2008 WC Gregor Schlierenzauer Martin Koch Janne Happonen 20 Mar 2009 WC Gregor Schlierenzauer Adam Małysz Dimitry Vassiliev 21 Mar 2009 WC-T  Norway Tom Hilde Johan Remen Evensen Anders Jacobsen Anders Bardal  Poland Kamil Stoch Łukasz Rutkowski Stefan Hula Adam Małysz  Russia Denis Kornilov Pavel Karelin Ilya Rosliakov Dimitry Vassiliev 22 Mar 2009 WC Harri Olli Adam Małysz Simon Ammann Robert Kranjec 19-20 Mar 2010 SFWC-I Simon Ammann Gregor Schlierenzauer Anders Jacobsen 21 Mar 2010 SFWC-T  Austria Wolfgang Loitzl Thomas Morgenstern Martin Koch Gregor Schlierenzauer  Norway Anders Jacobsen Anders Bardal Johan Remen Evensen Bjørn Einar Romøren  Finland Janne Happonen Olli Muotka Matti Hautamäki Harri Olli 18 Mar 2011 WC Gregor Schlierenzauer Thomas Morgenstern Martin Koch 19 Mar 2011 WC-T  Austria Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Kofler Martin Koch Gregor Schlierenzauer  Norway Anders Bardal Johan Remen Evensen Bjørn Einar Romøren Tom Hilde  Slovenia Peter Prevc Jernej Damjan Jurij Tepeš Robert Kranjec 20 Mar 2011 WC Kamil Stoch Robert Kranjec Adam Małysz 16 Mar 2012 WC Robert Kranjec Simon Ammann Martin Koch 17 Mar 2012 WC-T  Austria Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Kofler Gregor Schlierenzauer Martin Koch  Norway Rune Velta Anders Fannemel Bjørn Einar Romøren Anders Bardal  Germany Maximilian Mechler Severin Freund Andreas Wank Richard Freitag 18 Mar 2012 WC Martin Koch Simon Ammann Robert Kranjec 22 Mar 2013 WC Gregor Schlierenzauer Peter Prevc Piotr Żyła 23 Mar 2013 WC-T  Slovenia Jurij Tepeš Peter Prevc Andraž Pograjc Robert Kranjec  Norway Rune Velta Kim René Elverum Sorsell Anders Bardal Andreas Stjernen  Austria Wolfgang Loitzl Stefan Kraft Martin Koch Gregor Schlierenzauer 24 Mar 2013 WC Jurij Tepeš Rune Velta Peter Prevc 20 Mar 2015 WC Peter Prevc Jurij Tepeš Stefan Kraft 21 Mar 2015 WC-T  Slovenia Jurij Tepeš Anže Semenič Robert Kranjec Peter Prevc  Austria Stefan Kraft Michael Hayböck Manuel Poppinger Gregor Schlierenzauer  Norway Johann André Forfang Kenneth Gangnes Anders Fannemel Rune Velta 22 Mar 2015 WC Jurij Tepeš Peter Prevc Rune Velta 18 Mar 2016 WC 19 Mar 2016 WC-T 20 Mar 2016 WC

Bloudkova velikanka Date Competition Winner Second Third 4 Feb 1934 OP Franc Palme Bogo Šramel Gregor Klančnik 23-26 Mar 1934 INT Birger Ruud Sigmund Ruud Gregor Höll 14-17 Mar 1935 INT Stanisław Marusarz Antonín Bartoň Marcel Reymond 10-15 Mar 1936 INT Sepp Bradl Gregor Höll Rudolf Rieger 14-15 Mar 1938 SFS Sepp Bradl Hans Wiedemann Walter Delle Karth 16-17 Mar 1940 SFS Sepp Bradl Gustl Berauer Paul Häckel 26 Feb - 2 Mar 1941 SFS Rudi Gering Paul Krauß Hans Lahr 17-24 Mar 1947 SFS Rudi Finžgar Charles Blum Fritz Tschannen 13-17 Mar 1948 SFS Fritz Tschannen Jean Zurbriggen Charles Blum 14-17 Mar 1950 SFS Janez Polda Rudi Finžgar Sverre Stenersen 13-14 Mar 1954 ISFW Ossi Laaksonen Jack Alfredsen Hemmo Silvennoinen 8-10 Mar 1957 ISFW Helmut Recknagel Eino Kirjonen Pekka Tirkkonen 25-27 Mar 1960 ISFW Helmut Recknagel Arne Larsen Raimo Vitikainen 22-24 Mar 1963 KOP Dieter Bokeloh Dietmar Klemm Veit Kührt 25-27 Mar 1966 KOP Jiří Raška Mihail Veretennikov Dieter Neuendorf 24 Mar 1968 3rd JPM Jiří Raška Josef Matouš Willi Schuster 23-24 Mar 1973 6th JPM Walter Steiner Heinz Wosipiwo Josef Matouš 12 Apr 1975 KC Toni Innauer Rudi Wanner Janez Loštrek 13 Apr 1975 7th JPM Willi Pürstl Bogdan Norčič Rudi Wanner 20 Mar 1976 KC Hans Wallner Bogdan Norčič Peter Leitner 21 Mar 1976 8th JPM weather conditions 19 Mar 1978 9th JPM Reinhold Bachler Bogdan Norčič Marko Mlakar 22 Mar 1980 WC Hubert Neuper Armin Kogler Hans Millonig 22 Mar 1981 WC Dag Holmen-Jensen Armin Kogler Alfred Groyer 28 Mar 1982 WC Ole Bremseth Hubert Neuper Massimo Rigoni 27 Mar 1983 WC Primož Ulaga Horst Bulau Richard Schallert 25 Mar 1984 WC Pavel Ploc Vegard Opaas Piotr Fijas 23 Mar 1986 WC Ernst Vettori Andreas Felder Matti Nykänen 27 Mar 1988 WC Primož Ulaga Rajko Lotrič Didier Mollard 26 Mar 1989 WC Jens Weißflog Kent Johanssen Andreas Felder 24 Mar 1990 WC Roberto Cecon Ari-Pekka Nikkola Jens Weißflog 25 Mar 1990 WC Ari-Pekka Nikkola Dieter Thoma Primož Ulaga 28 Mar 1992 WC-T  Austria Andreas Felder Martin Höllwarth Werner Rathmayr Heinz Kuttin  Germany Christof Duffner Andreas Scherer Ralph Gebstedt Jens Weißflog  Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola Toni Nieminen Raimo Ylipulli Risto Laakonen 29 Mar 1992 WC Andreas Felder Heinz Kuttin Toni Nieminen 27 Mar 1993 WC-T  Japan Masahiko Harada Noriaki Kasai Takanobu Okabe Naoki Yasuzaki  Norway Roar Ljøkelsøy Bjørn Myrbakken Helge Brendryen Espen Bredesen  Slovenia Robert Meglič Matjaž Zupan Urban Franc Samo Gostiša 28 Mar 1993 WC Espen Bredesen Andreas Felder Christof Duffner 12 Dec 1993 WC Jens Weißflog Andreas Goldberger Espen Bredesen 9 Dec 1995 WC-T  Finland Jani Soininen Mika Laitinen Ari-Pekka Nikkola Janne Ahonen  Japan Jinya Nishikata Kenji Suda Hiroya Saito Masahiko Harada  Norway Espen Bredesen Eirik Halvorsen Roar Ljøkelsøy Lasse Ottesen 10 Dec 1995 WC Mika Laitinen Roar Ljøkelsøy Janne Ahonen 24 Mar 1996 IEX Primož Peterka Andreas Goldberger Samo Gostiša 21 Mar 1998 WC Kazuyoshi Funaki Primož Peterka Hiroya Saito 22 Mar 1998 WC Noriaki Kasai Hiroya Saito Martin Höllwarth 21 Mar 2014 WC Severin Freund Anders Bardal Peter Prevc 22 Mar 2014 WC-T  Austria Stefan Kraft Andreas Kofler Thomas Diethart Gregor Schlierenzauer  Poland Maciej Kot Piotr Żyła Klemens Muranka Kamil Stoch  Norway Andreas Stjernen Tom Hilde Anders Fannemel Anders Bardal 23 Mar 2014 WC Peter Prevc Severin Freund Anders Bardal Bloudkova velikanka (ladies) Date Competition Winner Second Third 22 Mar 2014 WC Sara Takanashi Yuki Ito Julia Clair Bloudek's normal hill (men) Date Competition Winner Second Third 27 Mar 1949 INT Janez Polda Lasse Johanson Rafael Viljamaa 11 Mar 1951 INT Sepp Bradl Janez Polda Albin Plank 23 Mar 1952 INT Keith Wegemann Sepp Bradl Alois Leodolter 8 Mar 1953 INT Herm Anwander Janez Polda Sepp Schiffner 7 Mar 1965 1st JPM Dieter Mueller Helmut Wegscheider Dieter Bokeloh 26 Mar 1967 2nd JPM Reinhold Bachler Horst Queck Peter Lesser 22 Mar 1970 4th JPM Vladimir Smirnov Aleksandr Ivannikov Reinhold Bachler 28 Mar 1971 5th JPM Hans-Georg Aschenbach Walter Steiner Peter Štefančič 21 Mar 1980 WC Hans Millonig Armin Kogler Primož Ulaga 21 Mar 1981 WC Jari Puikonen Horst Bulau Axel Zitzmann 27 Mar 1982 WC Ole Bremseth Per Bergerud Massimo Rigoni 26 Mar 1983 WC Matti Nykänen Primož Ulaga Olav Hansson 24 Mar 1984 WC Jens Weißflog Mike Holland Janusz Malik 22 Mar 1986 WC Matti Nykänen Andreas Felder Franz Neuländtner 27 Mar 1988 WC Primož Ulaga Pavel Ploc Ernst Vettori 25 Mar 1989 WC Jens Weißflog Andreas Felder Ari-Pekka Nikkola 11 Dec 1993 WC Espen Bredesen Takanobu Okabe Andreas Goldberger 10 Dec 1994 WC Kazuyoshi Funaki Andreas Goldberger Janne Ahonen 11 Dec 1994 WC Andreas Goldberger Mika Laitinen Lasse Ottesen New normal hill (ladies) Date Competition Winner Second Third 25 Jan 2014 WC Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Sara Takanashi Carina Vogt 26 Jan 2014 WC Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Sara Takanashi Carina Vogt

Cross-country skiing events

Men Date Competition Winner Second Third 16 Jan 2016 WC (sprint F) Federico Pellegrino Baptiste Gros Richard Jouve 17 Jan 2016 WC-T (sprint F)  Italy I Dietmar Nöckler Federico Pellegrino  France I Renaud Jay Baptiste Gros  France II Valentin Chauvin Richard Jouve

Ladies Date Competition Winner Second Third 16 Jan 2016 WC (sprint F) Stina Nilsson Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Heidi Weng 17 Jan 2016 WC-T (sprint F)  Sweden I Ida Ingemarsdotter Stina Nilsson  Norway I Heidi Weng Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen  Germany I Sandra Ringwald Hanna Kolb

Nordic combined events

Ex normal hill

Date	Competition	Winner	Second	Third
15 Dec 1984	WC (K-90 / 15 km)	Geir Andersen	Hubert Schwarz	Hallstein Bøgseth

World snow day

First three editions were held at the bottom of Letalnica bratov Gorišek and fourth one under the small hills 2015 while construction works were done under the flying hill at that time. Although the 4th edition was globally held on 18 January 2015, because of the bad weather event in Planica was rescheduled for one week on 25 January 2015.

Red Bull 400

It is an extreme running-up-the-hill sport event sponsored by Red Bull. It is the steepest uphill race that takes place in Europe. It is a tough 400-meter vertical sprint up the face of a ski-jump slope in Planica, Slovenia. Runners have to beat 400 meters distance from bottom to the top of the inrun of the flying hill. Runners coming from all over Europe had to beat steepest part 38° angle on the older hill and at 36° on modernized hill. First two editions on the Letalnica bratov Gorišek were held in 2012 and 2013 and cancelled in 2014 because the hill was under renovation. Competition will be back again in 2015 on a modernized and even bigger hill than before with totally new concrete inrun.

Men Edition Date Time 1 22 Sep 2012 Arslan Ahmet 5min 02s 2 12 May 2013 Simon Alič 5min 11s 3 19 Sep 2015 Arslan Ahmet 5min 08s

Ladies Edition Date Time 1 22 Sep 2012 Teresa Stadlobler 6min 46s 2 12 May 2013 Teresa Stadlobler 6min 37s 3 19 Sep 2015 Confortolla Antonela 6min 25s

World records

List of all world records from both large and flying hill. Some sources claim that three world records set on 2 March 1941 by Franz Mair (109 m), Hans Lahr (111 m) and Paul Krauß (112 m) on large hill were actually not world records. They claim those jumps were actually set after Rudi Gering's 118 m world record.

Letalnica bratov Gorišek No. Date Meters Feet 1 21 Mar 1969 Bjørn Wirkola 156.0 512 2 21 Mar 1969 Jiří Raška 156.0 512 3 22 Mar 1969 Bjørn Wirkola 160.0 525 4 22 Mar 1969 Jiří Raška 164.0 538 5 23 Mar 1969 Manfred Wolf 165.0 541 6 15 Mar 1974 Walter Steiner 169.0 554 7 16 Mar 1979 Klaus Ostwald 176.0 577 8 15 Mar 1985 Mike Holland 186.0 610 9 15 Mar 1985 Matti Nykänen 187.0 614 10 15 Mar 1985 Matti Nykänen 191.0 627 11 14 Mar 1987 Piotr Fijas 194.0 636 12 17 Mar 1994 Martin Höllwarth 196.0 643 13 17 Mar 1994 Toni Nieminen 203.0 666 14 18 Mar 1994 Espen Bredesen 209.0 686 15 22 Mar 1997 Espen Bredesen 210.0 689 16 22 Mar 1997 Lasse Ottesen 212.0 696 17 19 Mar 1999 Martin Schmitt 214.5 704 18 20 mar 1999 Tommy Ingebrigtsen 219.5 720 19 16 Mar 2000 Thomas Hörl 224.5 737 20 18 mar 2000 Andreas Goldberger 225.0 738 21 20 Mar 2003 Adam Małysz 225.0 738 22 20 Mar 2003 Matti Hautamäki 227.5 746 23 22 Mar 2003 Matti Hautamäki 228.5 750 24 23 Mar 2003 Matti Hautamäki 231.0 758 25 20 Mar 2005 Tommy Ingebrigtsen 231.0 758 26 20 Mar 2005 Bjørn Einar Romøren 234.5 769 27 20 Mar 2005 Matti Hautamäki 235.5 773 28 20 Mar 2005 Bjørn Einar Romøren 239.0 784

Bloudkova velikanka No. Date Meters Feet 1 25 Mar 1934 Birger Ruud 92.0 302 2 14 Mar 1935 Reidar Andersen 93.0 305 3 15 Mar 1935 Stanisław Marusarz 95.0 312 4 15 Mar 1935 Reidar Andersen 98.0 322 5 15 Mar 1935 Reidar Andersen 99.0 325 6 15 Mar 1936 Sepp Bradl 101.5 333 7 15 Mar 1938 Sepp Bradl 107.0 351 8 2 Mar 1941 Rudi Gering 108.0 354 9 2 Mar 1941 Franz Mair 109.0 358 10 2 Mar 1941 Hans Lahr 111.0 364 11 2 Mar 1941 Paul Krauß 112.0 367 12 2 mar 1941 Rudi Gering 118.0 387 13 15 Mar 1948 Fritz Tschannen 120.0 394

External links

• Planica.info (Slovene) (English)
• Planica Nordic Center (Slovene)
• Planica at Sport Institute of Republic of Slovenia (Slovene)

FIS Ski Jumping World Cup seasons Seasons 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 See also FIS FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

FIS Cross-Country World Cup seasons Unofficial 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 Official 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 Related topic Champions Tour de Ski See also FIS FIS Nordic World Ski Championships Cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics (medalists)

FIS Nordic Combined World Cup seasons Seasons 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 See also FIS FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

Coordinates: 46°28′35″N 13°43′16″E / 46.47639°N 13.72111°E / 46.47639; 13.72111