Big Thunder

Big Thunder
Location
city	Thunder Bay
country	Canada
society	Big Thunder Nordic Ski Club
Construction year	1974
Rebuilt	1992
Shut down	1996
Hill record	137.0 m ( Tommy Ingebrigtsen , March 18, 1995)
Data Landing Construction point 120 m
More jumps
K 90 Year of construction: 1974 Record: 108.0 m Record holder: Takanobu Okabe Record date: March 11, 1995 K 64 Year of construction: 1986 K 37 Year of construction: 1986 K 20 Year of construction: 1986

Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '10 "  N , 89 ° 23' 5"  W.

The Big Thunder was a ski jumping hill complex in Thunder Bay , Canada , located on Lake Superior , on which annual World Cup events took place, especially in the 1980s.

history

The large and normal hills were built in 1974 and were an annual World Cup station from the 1979/1980 season to the 1991/1992 season , and the season opener sometimes also took place there. In the 1980s the hills were declared a national training center and in 1985 the construction of four junior hills (K 64, K 37, K 20 and K 10) began, of which the two largest were even covered with plastic mattings. They were completed in 1986 and are called Little Thunder. Shortly afterwards, cross-country ski trails were built and applications for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1995 were made . In 1992 the two large ski jumps got a new lift and were equipped with floodlights. After the successful World Cup, funding for the winter sports area was canceled and it had to close on June 30, 1996. After reactivation plans failed in 2002 and 2008, the Friends of Big Thunder are planning a new attempt to reactivate. They are trying to get 25 million euros in order to at least reopen the cross-country trails and the junior hills, if possible also the large and normal hills.

International competitions

All jumping competitions organized by the FIS are named

date	sport	category	Jump	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
January 19, 1980	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K89	Armin Kogler	Bernard Moullier	Alfred Groyer
20th January 1980	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	Armin Kogler	Hubert Neuper	Anton Innauer
February 21, 1981	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K89	Primož Ulaga	Johan Sætre	Steve Collins
February 22, 1981	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	John Broman	Ivar Mobekk	Andreas fields
January 23, 1982	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K89	Horst Bulau	Massimo Rigoni	Ernst Vettori
January 24, 1982	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	Horst Bulau	Massimo Rigoni	Hubert Neuper
January 22, 1983	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K89	Horst Bulau	Olav Hansson	Pentti Kokkonen
January 23, 1983	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	Matti Nykänen	Horst Bulau	Olav Hansson
December 10, 1983	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K89	Horst Bulau	Matti Nykänen	Vegard grandpas
December 11, 1983	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	Vegard grandpas	Matti Nykänen	Horst Bulau
December 8, 1984	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K89	Andreas fields	Pentti Kokkonen	Ernst Vettori
December 9, 1984	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	Andreas fields	Jari Puikkonen	Ernst Vettori
7th December 1985	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K89	Primož Ulaga	Vegard grandpas	Matti Nykänen
December 8, 1985	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	Primož Ulaga	Franz Neuländtner	Ernst Vettori
December 6, 1986	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K89	Jens Weißflog	Matti Nykänen	Jukka Kalso
7th December 1986	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	Matti Nykänen	Thomas Klauser	Vegard grandpas
5th December 1987	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K89	Matti Nykänen	Pavel Ploc	Ernst Vettori
December 6, 1987	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	Matti Nykänen	Jens Weißflog	Vegard grandpas
3rd December 1988	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K89	Dieter Thoma	Risto Laakkonen	Matti Nykänen
4th December 1988	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	Risto Laakkonen	Erik Johnsen	Dieter Thoma
March 25, 1989	Nordic combination	World cup	K89	Hippolyt Kempf	Xavier Girard	Trond-Arne Bredesen
3rd December 1989	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K89	Dieter Thoma	Heinz Kuttin	Ari-Pekka Nikkola
4th December 1989	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	Risto Laakkonen	Andreas fields	Heinz Kuttin
December 8, 1990	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K89	Andreas fields	Dieter Thoma	Franci Petek
December 9, 1990	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	Andreas fields	Franci Petek	Ari-Pekka Nikkola
1st December 1991	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K89	Toni Nieminen	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Stefan Horngacher
2nd December 1991	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	Ernst Vettori	Jim Holland	Stephan Zünd
March 19, 1994	Nordic combination	World cup	K90	Hippolyt Kempf	Kenji Ogiwara	Trond Einar Elden
March 25, 1994	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K120	Germany Gerd Siegmund Christof Duffner Hansjörg Jäkle Jens Weißflog	Norway Lasse Ottesen Øyvind Berg Stein Henrik Tuff Espen Bredesen	Japan Kenji Suda Hiroya Saitō Takanobu Okabe Noriaki Kasai
March 26, 1994	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K90	Gerd Siegmund	Andreas Goldberger	Roberto Cecon
March 27, 1994	Ski jumping, men	World cup	K90	Jens Weißflog	Takanobu Okabe	Espen Bredesen
March 9, 1995	Nordic combination	World Championship	K90	Fred Børre Lundberg	Jari Mantila	Sylvain Guillaume
March 12, 1995	Ski jumping, men	World Championship	K90	Takanobu Okabe	Hiroya Saitō	Mika Laitinen
March 15, 1995	Nordic combination	World Championship	K90	Japan Masashi Abe Tsugiharu Ogiwara Kenji Ogiwara Takanori Kōno	Norway Halldor Skard Bjarte Engen Vik Knut Tore Apeland Fred Børre Lundberg	Switzerland Markus Wüst Armin Krugel Stefan Wittwer Jean-Yves Cuendet
March 16, 1995	Ski jumping, men	World Championship	K120	Finland Ari-Pekka Nikkola Jani Soininen Janne Ahonen Mika Laitinen	Germany Hansjörg Jäkle Dieter Thoma Gerd Siegmund Jens Weißflog	Japan Naoki Yasuzaki Hiroya Saitō Jin'ya Nishikata Takanobu Okabe
March 18, 1995	Ski jumping, men	World Championship	K120	Tommy Ingebrigtsen	Andreas Goldberger	Jens Weißflog

See also

• List of large hills

Web links

• Big Thunder on Skisprungschanzen.com
• official page

Individual evidence

1. ^ FIS Results Thunder Bay. Retrieved December 31, 2012 .