The Gorney Gigant in Almaty ( Kazakhstan ) consist of several ski jumps . The facility includes two smaller hills of categories K 20, K 40 , a middle hill of category K 60, a normal hill of category K 95 and a large hill of category K 125. All five hills are covered with plastic mattings. The jumping facility is currently the only usable facility in Kazakhstan.
Even before today's ski jumping facility was built, Almaty was the center of Kazakh ski jumping. The existing K 70 plastic covered hill was mainly used for national competitions and was demolished in the course of the new construction. There were also junior hills of categories K15, K30 and K45. In autumn 2007 the construction of the two plastic covered hills, categories K 95 and K 125, began. In addition, a jumping stadium for 20,000 seats and a lift were built . The two new ski jumps were completed in September 2010. They opened with two Continental Cup competitions , each of which was won by Pole Kamil Stoch . Half a year later, the ski jumping competitions of the Winter Asian Games 2011 took place there, for which the facility was built. On August 30, the first competition of the Summer Grand Prix 2011 took place, which was won by the Slovenian ski jumper Jurij Tepeš . After that the old junior hills were torn down and in 2013 they were replaced by three new junior hills (K20, K40 and K60). In February 2017, the ski jumping competitions of the Winter Universiade 2017 took place on the normal hill .
Development of the hill record
The first hill record on the large hill was set by the Japanese Kazuya Yoshioka on January 31, 2011 as part of the 2011 Asian Winter Games when he jumped 130.5 meters in the second round. The current hill record is held by the Austrian combined skier Mario Seidl , who jumped 142 meters at the Nordic Combined World Cup on February 9, 2013 . The summer record is held by the Pole Kamil Stoch , who on September 24, 2010 stood a 140.5 meter set during training for the Continental Cup jumping . In detail, the hill record on the large hill developed as follows:
On the normal hill, the record for jumping on snow is held jointly by the Russian Yegor Ussachev and Kazakhs Sergei Tkachenko , who each jumped 105 meters in January and February 2017. The summer record is held by the Japanese Sara Takanashi , who jumped 107 meters in the Grand Prix jumping on September 23, 2012.
International competitions
All jumping competitions organized by the FIS are named.
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