Jay Martin

Jay Martin
Full name	Jay Warren Martin
nation	United States
birthday	September 8, 1944
place of birth	Minneapolis ,  USA
size	180 cm
Weight	83 kg
Career
society	Minneapolis Ski Club
status	resigned
End of career	1968
Medal table
National medals 1 × ? × ? ×
US championships gold 1968 Westby singles

Jay Warren Martin (born September 8, 1944 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is a retired American ski jumper .

Career

Martin, whose younger brother Jerry was also a ski jumper, began like him at the age of five under the guidance of his father Ken with skiing in the Jimmy Johnson ski program in Theodore Wirth Park. Shortly afterwards, he started ski jumping , trained by his father.

From 1960 to 1962 he was a member of the junior national team. In 1962 he won the Central Division Junior Championships . Shortly afterwards he won the US Junior Championships in Steamboat Springs and received the trophy of the Sons of Norway . After this victory, he got a scholarship to the University of Wyoming . In 1963 he won the junior class at the US Championships in Steamboat Springs. A ski club was later founded at the university, of which Martin became the first chairman.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 he was part of the squad for the first time, but did not start in the end. In December he made his international debut at the Four Hills Tournament 1964/65 . However, he only contested the jumping in Oberstdorf and reached 22nd place there. At the end of the tour, despite this only one result, he finished 24th overall.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1966 , Martin jumped to 58th place on the normal hill and 29th place on the large hill. In the Four Hills Tournament 1966/67 he achieved his best individual tour result with eighth place in Innsbruck . At the end of the tour, Martin was 34th overall.

At his last Four Hills Tournament in 1967/68 he could not improve on the previous year and was 54th overall. In Westby he won his first US championship title in 1968, before he started the individual on the large hill in the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble and reached rank 43.

A short time after the games, he ended his active ski jumping career. In 1973 he was elected chairman of the Minneapolis Ski Club . He had been a member of the board for some time, including as treasurer. At the same time he worked as a coach at the club. From 1974 to 2005 he was program director for the jumping in Theodore Wirth Park and Bush Lake. Every year he was responsible for eight competitions per hill and organized the entire event. After he also headed the regional junior division and was one of the first to set up an equipment rental company in his club to promote youth, he bought a ski equipment company. He named the company Martin's Ski Cellar and ran it from his home. He later outfitted juniors across the United States .

At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid and at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City , Martin was a member of the hill team and was responsible for preparing the hills for the competitions.

Martin raised a total of 500,000 US dollars for the new 70-meter hill at Bush Lake, which enabled the construction of the first hill in the United States that met the requirements of the FIS for V-style competitions .

Today Martin is a member of the jury for national competitions and a technical delegate. Among other things, he led the jumping in the US Cup 2013 and was the second technical delegate at the 126th annual ski jumping in Ishpeming . In February 2012 he was a member of the jury at the Westby Snowflake Ski Tournament on the Snowflake ski jump.

successes

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
1964/65	24.	744.9
1966/67	34.	716.4
1967/68	54.	666.3

Awards

In 2008 he was inducted into the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame with his brother . He was honored by the State of Minnesota with an entry on the Olympic Wall at the Minnesota National Sports Stadium in Blaine .

literature

• Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 .
• Joel A. Rippel: Minnesota Sports Almanac: 125 Glorious Years . Minnesota Historical Society, 2006, ISBN 978-0-87351-558-0 .

Web links

• Jay Martin in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Jay Martin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jay Martin on The-Sports.org
• Jay Martin biography on intergarten.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jerry Martin in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
2. ↑ Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Enzyklopädie des Skispringens , 2004, p. 268
3. ↑ Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Enzyklopädie des Skispringens , 2004, pp. 161–162
4. ↑ Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Enzyklopädie des Skispringens , 2004, p. 269
5. ↑ Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Enzyklopädie des Skispringens , 2004, p. 270
6. ↑ US Cup 2013 - Minnesota ( English , PDF) Ski jumping USA. Retrieved on December 13, 2013.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Ishpeming Ski Club - 126th Annual Tournament ( English , PDF) Ishpeming Ski Club. Archived from the original on September 10, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 13, 2013. 
8. ↑ Westby Snowflake Ski Tournament ( English , PDF) Westby Snowflake Ski Club. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
9. ↑ American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.