Peter van Hal

Peter van Hal
nation	Netherlands
birthday	20th century
Career
National squad	since 1992
status	resigned
End of career	1995
Medal table
National medals 3 × 1 × 0 ×
Dutch championships silver 1992 St. Moritz singles gold 1993 singles gold 1994 Oberwiesenthal singles gold 1995 singles

Peter van Hal is a former Dutch ski jumper and now a sports commentator for Eurosport .

Career

At the first Dutch championships in 1992, which were held in St. Moritz , Switzerland , he won the silver medal behind Maarten Homan . As a result, van Hal began jumping in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup . However, he did not score any points until the end of his career. At the Dutch Championships in 1993 he won his first national title. In the same year he also won the flatland championships in Meinerzhagen . Also in 1993 he was the first Dutchman to jump from a flying hill.

In 1994 he won his second national title at the Dutch Championships in Oberwiesenthal . He repeated this success in 1995 for the third time in a row.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1995 in Thunder Bay , van Hal jumped from the large hill to 63.5 meters, making him 56th and last after the first round. He also retired from the normal hill with 55.5 meters after round one as 56th and could only beat the Bulgarian Georgi Scharkow . In the same year he also started at the Winter Universiade , but returned without success to Bad Mitterndorf , where he lived during his active career. A little later he resigned from active sport for lack of success.

In 1999 he took up a post as a sports commentator at Eurosport . In 2011 he was one of the jurors on the program "Vgende Hollanders" on SBS 6 .

literature

• Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 .

Web links

• Peter van Hal in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Peter van Hal on The-Sports.org
• History of Dutch ski jumping

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Competitions, Ski Jumping, Season 1995, National Championships ( English ) skisprungschanzen.com. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
2. ↑ ^{a b} geschiedenis in Nederland ( Dutch ) langlaufpagina.nl. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
3. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 189
4. ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 190
5. ↑ Peter van Hal ( Dutch ) eurosportlights.nl. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014. 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 2, 2014. 
6. ^ Over Vgende Hollanders ( Dutch ) sbs6.nl. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
7. ↑ Stel je vraag aan .. Peter van Hal (Eurosport) ( Dutch ) Fok.nl. 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2014.