Plastic covered jump

Plastic covered jump
Location
city	Gstaad
country	Switzerland
society	Gstaad ski club
Construction year	1916
Rebuilt	1932, 1959, 1966, 1972
Shut down	1992
Destroyed	2008
Hill record	92.0 m ( Ernst Vettori , February 21, 1986)
Data Landing Construction point 88 m
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Coordinates: 46 ° 27 '59 "  N , 7 ° 16' 42"  E ; CH1903:  587 677  /  146,139

The plastic covered hill in Gstaad , Switzerland, was a ski jump with a K point of 88 m.

history

Ski jumping events were held in and around Gstaad as early as 1910 . In 1916, the Gstaad Ski Club and the local tourist office - today “Gstaad Saanenland Tourism” - decided to build a new ski jump in the Matten am Eggli. The construction costs amounted to 46,250 Swiss francs , of which the municipality contributed around a quarter. In 1928 the “Great Ski Race in Switzerland” took place on the hill. In 1932 the ski jump was rebuilt for the first time. Between 1946 and 1966, the jumping hill for the Montgomery Cup took place every year, named after Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery , who liked to come to Saanenland on vacation .

In 1959 and 1966 the hill was rebuilt again. From 1967 Gstaad was part of the Swiss ski jumping tournament . The later K-point of 88 meters was only reached after a renovation in 1972. From 1980 to 1990 a total of six competitions in the Ski Jumping World Cup were held before the last major competition in 1992 ushered in the end of the hill. After the closure in 1992 because it no longer met the safety requirements of the International Ski Federation (FIS), plans were made in 2000 to build a new K20, K50 and K70 ski jump as a youth training center. However, these plans failed due to difficult topographical conditions.

In 2008 the remains of the old ski jump were torn down. Only part of the old take-off table can be seen today.

International competitions

All jumping competitions organized by the FIS are named.

date	category	Jump	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
February 29, 1980	World cup	K88	Hansjörg Sumi	Roger Ruud	Hubert Neuper
January 23, 1981	World cup	K88	Johan Sætre	Armin Kogler	Roger Ruud
January 28, 1983	World cup	K88	Horst Bulau	Roger Ruud	Ernst Vettori
February 15, 1985	World cup	K88	Event canceled
February 21, 1986	World cup	K88	Ernst Vettori	Rolf Åge Berg	Matti Nykänen
January 22, 1988	World cup	K88	Pavel Ploc	Miran Tepeš	Jens Weißflog
February 9, 1990	World cup	K88	František Jež	Miran Tepeš	Ari-Pekka Nikkola

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gstaad come up - slow down. Plastic ski jumping jump into Gstaad sports history - Gstaad Tourismus . Retrieved on February 15, 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.  
2. ^ FIS Results Gstaad. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; Retrieved February 15, 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.  

Web links

• Plastic covered hill on Skisprungschanzen.com