Olympic hill (St. Moritz)

Olympic hill
Olympic hill St. Moritz
Location
city	St. Moritz
country	Switzerland
society	SC Alpina St. Moritz
Shut down	2006
Hill record	105.5 m Thomas Thurnbichler (2004)
Data Landing Hillsize HS 100 Construction point 95 m

Coordinates: 46 ° 28 ′ 27 "  N , 9 ° 49 ′ 31"  E ; CH1903:  783 270  /  149770

The Olympic hill was a traditional ski jumping hill in the famous Swiss ski resort of St. Moritz above Lej Marsch .

history

In 1905 the so-called Julierschanze was built in St. Moritz. This was used until the middle of the last century, but has now fallen into disrepair.

In 1926/27, in preparation for the 1928 Olympic Games, the Olympic hill was built elsewhere for 257,000 francs. The hill initially had a construction point of 66 meters. The official inauguration took place on January 20, 1927. The audience capacity at the time of the Winter Games was 8,000. Like four years earlier in Chamonix , gold and silver went to Norway ( Alf Andersen won ahead of Sigmund Ruud ). Rudolf Burkert won the first winter sports medal for Czechoslovakia in third place .

In 1948 the Olympic Games competitions were held on the hill for the second time . The hill still had the profile from 1928, but the judges' tower was relocated and for the first time - on the opposite side - a press stand was built. With Petter Hugsted , a Norwegian won the ski jumping competition at the Olympic Winter Games in the fifth edition. Second place was old master Birger Ruud , who had won gold in Lake Placid in 1932 and in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 , ahead of Thorleif Schjelderup , so that after 1924 and 1932 all three medals went to Norway for the third time. From 1950, the Olympic hill was part of an international national jumping event, the so-called SSV Springer Week or Swiss Four Hills Tournament , with competitions in Arosa , St. Moritz, Unterwasser and Le Locle .

In the following years the ski jump was expanded and expanded several times. Due to the relative snow reliability due to the altitude of over 1800 meters, the ski jump was used by many national teams for snow training. From the beginning of the ski jumping world cup until 1992, world cup competitions were held on the Olympic hill . When the Junior World Championships for Nordic skiers were held in St. Moritz in 1998, the special jumpers and combined athletes took place on the Olympic hill. The Christmas jumping competition on December 26th, which was part of the Continental Cup in recent years and which took place annually until 2005 , also had a long tradition . In 2006 the normal hill was closed, but the junior hills are still used.

In the summer of 2013 it became known that the ski jumping facility would be rebuilt by autumn 2015 and that one would then like to apply to host World Cup competitions. However, the condition is that in a referendum on November 24, 2013, the majority of St. Moritz votes for the new building. In the referendum, 55% of the people of St. Moritz voted in favor of the new building.

Due to massive cost overruns, the construction of the new ski jumping hill was stopped in summer 2015. It is expected that in June 2016 the St. Moritz electorate will be able to decide on a supplementary credit of 8.39 million francs. Thus, the hill would cost around 20 million francs. The additional loan was clearly rejected in a local referendum on September 25, 2016 with 278 to 1093 votes, which means that there will be no reconstruction in the foreseeable future.

International competitions

All jumping competitions organized by the FIS are named.

date	category	Jump	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
February 11, 1928	Olympia	K90	Alf Andersen	Sigmund Ruud	Rudolf Burkert
February 7, 1948	Olympia	K90	Peter Hugsted	Birger Ruud	Thorleif Schjelderup
February 27, 1980	World cup	K90	Roger Ruud	Johan Sætre	Robert Mösching
January 21, 1981	World cup	K90	Hubert Neuper	Roger Ruud	Armin Kogler
January 27, 1982	World cup	K90	Armin Kogler	Josef Samek	Hansjörg Sumi
January 26, 1983	World cup	K90	Horst Bulau	Per Bergerud	Pentti Kokkonen
February 13, 1985	World cup	K90	Ernst Vettori	Matti Nykänen	Jens Weißflog
February 19, 1986	World cup	K90	Rolf Åge Berg	Andreas fields	Miran Tepeš
January 20, 1988	World cup	K90	Matti Nykänen	Erik Johnsen	Remo Lederer
February 7, 1990	World cup	K90	František Jež	Heinz Kuttin	Ernst Vettori
17th January 1992	World cup	K90	Andreas fields	Werner Rathmayr	Martin Höllwarth
January 21, 1998	Junior World Championship	K95	Wolfgang Loitzl	Kazuhiro Nakamura	Matti Hautamäki
January 22, 1998	Junior World Championship	K95	Germany Frank Löffler Georg Späth Stefan Pieper Michael Wagner	Japan Homare Kishimoto Keita Umezaki Kazuki Nishishita Kazuhiro Nakamura	Finland Pekka Salminen Hannu Alakunnas Jani Mylläri Matti Hautamäki
December 26, 1998	Continental Cup	K95	Sylvain Freiholz	Marius Småriset	Marco Steinauer
December 26, 1999	Continental Cup	K95	called off
December 26, 2000	Continental Cup	K95	Peter Žonta	Christoph Grillhösl	Manuel Fettner
December 26, 2001	Continental Cup	K95	Teppei Takano	Hiroki Yamada	Blaž Vrhovnik
December 26, 2002	Continental Cup	K95	Bastian Kaltenböck	Stefan Thurnbichler	Stefan Kaiser
December 14, 2003	FIS races	K95	Nicolas Fettner	Simon Ammann	Manuel Fettner
December 26, 2003	Continental Cup	K95	Christian Nagiller	Jernej Damjan	Balthasar Schneider
March 19, 2004	FIS races	K95	Monika Pogladič	Ulrike Graessler	Maja Vtič
March 20, 2004	FIS races	K95	Mark Krauspenhaar	Thomas Thurnbichler	Christoph Lenz
March 20, 2004	FIS races	K95	Monika Pogladič	Maja Vtič	Ulrike Graessler
March 21, 2004	FIS races	K95	Thomas Thurnbichler	Jurij Tepeš	Mark Krauspenhaar
December 26, 2004	Continental Cup	HS100	Dmitri Vasiliev	Emmanuel Chedal	Kamil Stoch
November 26, 2005	FIS Cup	HS100	Rafał Śliż	Kenshirō Itō	Tomasz Pochwała
November 27, 2005	FIS Cup	HS100	Rafał Śliż	Kenshirō Itō	Wojciech Skupień
December 26, 2005	Continental Cup	HS100	Borek Sedlák	Masahiko Harada	Rok Urbanc

Jump

World Cup competitions were held on the Olympic hill until 1992. The last international event was a Continental Cup competition on December 26, 2005, which the Czech Borek Sedlák won.

Young talent competitions such as the FIS Cup regularly stopped here, and in 1998 the Junior World Championship took place in St. Moritz. Wolfgang Loitzl from Austria became Junior World Champion. Germany won the team competition.

Technical specifications

Olympic hill
Take-off table
Inclination of the take-off table (α)	11.0 °
Landing
Hillsize	100 m
Construction point	95 m
K-point inclination angle (β)	36.4 °

Hill record

• 105.5 m - Thomas Thurnbichler , March 21, 2004 

More jumps

• Falcunschanze (K61)
• Speretschanze (K38)
• Children's hill (K15)

None of the jumps are covered with plastic matting.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SC Alpina - History 1903 - 1927 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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. 
2. ↑ New ski jumping hills planned for St. Moritz skispringen.com, published on July 5, 2013.
3. ↑ Citizens vote for the new ski jump in St. Moritz skisprungschanzen.com, published on November 24, 2013.
4. ↑ New Olympic hill in St. Moritz: The chances are dwindling in NZZ from July 28, 2015
5. ↑ Schanze costs almost CHF 20 million in the Engadiner Post from December 2, 2015
6. ↑ It's over for the St. Moritz Olympic Hill! in Southeastern Switzerland on September 26, 2016
7. ↑ Results St. Moritz. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 6, 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.    
8. ↑ Official results list of the FIS - COC December 26, 2005 (PDF; 46 kB)
9. ^ Official result list of the FIS - JWC 1998 - single NH
10. ^ Official result list of the FIS - JWC 1998 - Team NH
11. ↑ Olympiaschanze at www.skisprungschanzen-archiv.de

Web links

• Olympiaschanze (St. Moritz) on Skisprungschanzen.com