Mike Holland
Mike Holland 
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| Full name | Michael Harry Holland | ||||||||||||
| nation |
 United States
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| birthday | December 11, 1961 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth |
Norwich , United States
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| size | 180 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg | ||||||||||||
| Career | |||||||||||||
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| society | Ford Sayre | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
| End of career | 1991 | ||||||||||||
| Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping | |||||||||||||
| Debut in the World Cup | December 30, 1982 | ||||||||||||
| World Cup victories (individual) | 1 ( details ) | ||||||||||||
| Overall World Cup | 10. ( 1984/85 ) | ||||||||||||
| Four Hills Tournament | 8. ( 1988/89 ) | ||||||||||||
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Michael Harry "Mike" Holland (born December 11, 1961 in Norwich , Vermont ) is a former American ski jumper . Holland achieved several podium finishes in the ski jumping world cup, was five times US national champion and in 1985 was world record holder for 27 minutes of ski flying.
Career
Holland came from a winter sports family in Norwich , Vermont . His brothers, the ski jumper Jim Holland and the Nordic combined skier Joe Holland , also achieved successes at US championships. Mike Holland began his international career in the winter of 1982/83 in the ski jumping world cup . In the second competition of the Four Hills Tournament in 1982/83 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he won first World Cup points with 12th place. After two further 24th places in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen , he was 17th in the overall tour score. Holland also collected World Cup points in Harrachov and was sixth in the top ten for the first time. A few days later, in fourth in Lake Placid , he narrowly missed his first podium. In ski flying in Vikersund , he also achieved top 10 placements in all three competitions. In March he was in 15th place in the overall World Cup with 83 points.
In the following season 1983/84 Holland started again only for the Four Hills Tournament . However, he broke it off after three weak jumps and was only 92nd in the overall tour score. At the following Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984 , Holland jumped 41st on the normal hill and 37th on the large hill. At the end of the season, Holland found its way back to its old form and jumped to fourth place on the Holmenkollbakken in Oslo . In Planica he secured his first World Cup podium of his career with second place on the normal hill. He started the 1984/85 season in the jumping competitions in North America at the beginning of December. He collected World Cup points in all three competitions in Thunder Bay and Lake Placid. After good results, he finished the following Four Hills Tournament in 1984/85 in 29th place. At the following World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Holland was fifth.
At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1985 in Seefeld in Tyrol , he clearly missed a top place in the first competition as 24th on the K90 hill. At the following team competition on the large hill in Innsbruck he and his teammates finished fifth. In the singles on the Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze Holland finished eighth. On March 1, 1985, he celebrated another World Cup podium finish in Lahti in third place. At the following ski flying world championship in 1985 in Planica , Holland set a new ski flying world record with 186 meters in the first official training . However, this only lasted 27 minutes before the Finn Matti Nykänen surpassed him by one meter with a jump to 187 meters. A lap later, he even increased the world record to 191 meters.
At the 1987 World Championships in Oberstdorf , Holland jumped to rather disappointing places. He reached 47th place on the normal hill and 31st place on the large hill. At the Four Hills Tournament in 1987/88 , the American missed another top spot after finishing only 100th in the ranking in Bischofshofen. In the end he was 65th in the tour's overall ranking. At his second Olympic Winter Games in 1988 in Calgary , Holland finished 33th and 32nd. In the team competition, he was tenth of 11 teams together with Ted Langlois , Mark Konopacke and Dennis McGrane .
As part of the Four Hills Tournament in 1988/89 , Holland achieved his first and only World Cup victory on the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze in Bischofshofen. He finished the tour in eighth place. On the large hill at Harrachov he missed another podium in fourth. At his last Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1989 , he flew from 28th place on the large hill to 25th place on the normal hill. At the upcoming ski flying in Harrachov, he secured another podium in second place.
After the season he ended his active ski jumping career.
successes
World Cup victories in individual
| No. | date | place | Type |
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| 1. | January 6, 1989 |
 Bischofshofen
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Large hill |
statistics
World Cup placements
| season | space | Points |
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| 1982/83 | 15th | 83 |
| 1983/84 | 22nd | 41 |
| 1984/85 | 10. | 86 |
| 1985/86 | 29 | 23 |
| 1986/87 | 34. | 21st |
| 1987/88 | 29 | 29 |
| 1988/89 | 11. | 81 |
Four Hills Tournament placements
| season | space | Points |
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| 1982/83 | 17th | 887.5 |
| 1983/84 | 92. | 193.9 |
| 1984/85 | 29 | 618.6 |
| 1985/86 | 34. | 616.4 |
| 1986/87 | 82. | 264.4 |
| 1987/88 | 65. | 362.0 |
| 1988/89 | 8th. | 802.5 |
Hill records
| place | country | Expanse | set up on | Record up |
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| Planica |
 Slovenia
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186.0 m ( HS : 225 m) |
March 15, 1985 | March 15, 1985 |
Web links
- Mike Holland in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Mike Holland in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Mike Holland on The-Sports.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pictures and a chat with Mike Holland about his World Record Ski Jump . Ski Jump East. Archived from the original on June 27, 2015. 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 February 26, 2015.
- ↑ World Ski Championships 1985 - Men's K90 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on February 26, 2015
- ↑ World Ski Championships 1985 - Men's Team K120 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on February 26, 2015
- ↑ World Ski Championships 1985 - Men's K70 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on February 26, 2015
- ↑ World Record Ski Jump ( English ) skijumpeast.com. Archived from the original on June 27, 2015. 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 February 26, 2015.
- ↑ World Ski Championships 1987 - Men's K70 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on February 26, 2015
- ↑ World Ski Championships 1987 - Men's K90 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on February 26, 2015
- ↑ World Ski Championships 1989 - Men's K120 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on February 26, 2015
- ↑ World Ski Championships 1989 - Men's K90 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on February 26, 2015
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Holland, Mike |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holland, Michael Harry (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ski jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norwich , Vermont , United States |