Bloudkova velikanka

Bloudkova velikanka (also: Rožman/Bloudkova velikanka, Old Bloudkova velikanka, Large Rožman/Bloudek Hill) is a large ski jumping hill in Planica, Slovenia, opened in 1934 by Joso Gorec's initiative.[1] The hill was originally constructed by Ivan Rožman who invented the so-called "snow cement".[2] The hill was originally named after Stanko Bloudek, but was renamed to Rožman/Bloudkova velikanka posthumously to honour Rožman. A year after opening, Bloudek became the main constructor, improving the hill until his death. In 1936, Sepp Bradl became the first man in history to jump over 100 metres (330 ft). Hill's axis and name are under national monument protection and cannot be changed. After almost a decade of inactivity, the hill was completely renovated and reopened in 2012. Right next to this one they built a brand new normal hill to replace the old demolished one.

Bloudkova velikanka
Bloudkova velikanka (on the right)
Constructor(s)Ivan Rožman (original)
Stanko Bloudek (developer)
Klemen Kobal (new hill)
LocationPlanica, Slovenia
OperatorZŠRS Planica
Opened4 February 1934 (old hill)
14 October 2012 (new hill)
Renovated1936, 1937, 1948,
1951–1954, 2011–2012
Closed1942–1946,
1951–1953,
2001–2011
Demolished2011 (old hill)
Size
K–point125 metres (410 ft)
Hill size138 metres (453 ft)
Longest jump
(unofficial / fall)		149 metres (489 ft)
Anže Lanišek
Hill record142 metres (466 ft)
Peter Prevc
Top events
World Cup1980–1984, 1986, 1988–1990, 1992–1993, 1995, 1998, 2014
Grand Prix2017
Normal Hill
Constructor(s)Klemen Kobal
Opened14 October 2012
Size
K–point95 m
Hill size102 m
Longest jump
(unofficial / fall)		106 m (466 ft)
Dejan Judež
Top events
World Cup2014

History

Old hill (1932–2011)
Stanko Bloudek
Old hill in 1963

In 1932, Joso Gorec, a key figure for the beginning of ski jumping in Planica, asked engineer Stanko Bloudek to construct a large hill. Bloudek drew plans for the K-80 hill, as the International Ski Federation did not allow any bigger hills at the time. Bloudek decided on the location and staked out the hill. However, at the same time, Ivan Rožman, a construction company owner and engineer drew plans for the K-90 hill. Gorec decided to build the bigger hill using Rožman's plans instead of Bloudek's plans, who was then left out.

Starting the construction brought up some problems, as the local population from Rateče opposed to building the venue and did not want to sell the land where the hill was supposed to be situated on. They were eventually convinced and the construction lasted from October to December 1933.

On 4 February 1934 the hill, named the "Bloudkova velikanka" (Slovenian: Velika Rožman/Bloudkova skakalnica), was opened with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia National Championships. The winner was Franc Palme; with 55 and 60 m (180 and 197 ft), he set the first two hill records and the national record at the same time. In March they organized the first international competition when Birger Ruud set the first world record in Planica with 92 metres (302 ft).[3] Later, his brother Sigmund Ruud touched the ground at 94 metres, a world record distance.

In 1935, Bloudek took control over the hill as a constructor. From here he was the main engineer for renovating and enlarging the hill until his death.

The same year Rožman stepped out as an engineer in Planica, starting the argument on who was the original constructor and why the hill was not named after him. Rožman blamed Joso Gorec, who turned to Bloudek's side and named the hill after him, although Bloudek did not draw the original plans. For years, there was a public misconception that Bloudek was the original hill constructor while the original constructor was Ivan Rožman.

On 15 March 1936, Sepp Bradl became the first man in history to have officially jumped over one hundred metres, landing at 101.5 metres (333 ft) which had to be displayed as 101 metres on the scoreboard due to lack of space. Two years later, Bradl again set a new world record with 107 m (351 ft).

In 1939, Bloudek constructed the first simple 300-metre-long funicular with two parallel routes on a scree in Planica. It was on a scree on a way from Planica to Tamar Valley. As a result, Sigmund Ruud gave the hill name "Mammoth Hill" in his book Skispuren kruezen die Welt which was published in 1939.

In 1954, the hill was renovated as they built a new judging and television tower and a new profile of the hill. The hill was reopened and back in use for the Planica's Ski Flying week in March 1954.

In 1980, Bloudkova velikanka hosted the first FIS Ski Jumping World Cup event. The hill became a standard and regular host of World Cup events, exchanging with the ski flying hill Letalnica bratov Gorišek and normal hill up to 1998 when it stopped for a longer period of time. After that all events were held at the ski flying hill.

Reconstructed hill in 2014

The hill was in use until 16 December 2001 when the upper part of concrete bows collapsed. In the same year, the last international competition on the old hill was held. For many years after the hill collapsed there were plans to renovate the hill. A decade later, in July 2011, they demolished inrun, judge tower and TV tower, but left "German tower" which is part of Slovenian culture heritage. The last construction point of the old hill was at K130 and the last hill size at HS 140.

Reconstruction and a new hill

As the Republic of Slovenia and the Planica Nordic Center signed a contract for complete renovation of the ski jumping hills, the renovation finally began. At the same location where the original large hill was standing, which is also part of Slovenian culture heritage, they rebuilt the hill at the hill size of 139 metres with the new profile, new inrun, and new judge and TV towers. Just next to the large hill they built a new normal hill with the hill size at 104 metres. Both hills were designed by the team of Slovenian architects Matej Blenkuš, Miloš Florijančič and Klemen Kobal. The hills were opened on 14 October 2012 with the national championships.

The first person who jumped on a new HS 139 hill was Slovenian V-jumper Aleš Hlebanja from Rateče. He got this honour because his grandmother was the first of many owners who sold private property around the hill to the Republic of Slovenia and activate other owners to do the same. Primož Peterka was honoured to jump as first on a new HS 104 hill.[4] In 2014, they organized the World Cup events for the first time since 1998.

Competitions

Men

«...Fourth on the start was Gering. He was flying and flying high
above the ground and landed in a perfect position. We all knew
something extraordinary happened. People responsible for
distance measuring didn't have numbers, they figured out little
later that he landed at 118 metres. When crowd enthusiasm
has finally calmed down after WR, Paul Schneidenbach was
next on turn landing at 101 metres, after him Hans Lahr landed
at 111 metres, then Paul Krauß at 112 metres and the last was
Franz Maier who crashed at 109 metres.»

—Jutro newspaper report about Rudi Gering WR at 118 metres.[5]

Year Date Hillsize Event Winner Second Third Visitors
19344 February  K90OP Franc Palme Bogo Šramel Gregor Klančnik2,500  
25 March  K90INT Birger Ruud Sigmund Ruud Gregor Höll4,000  
193517 March  K106INT Stanisław Marusarz Antonín Bartoň Marcel Reymond12,000  
193615 March  K106INT Josef Bradl Gregor Höll Rudolf Rieger16,000  
193816 March  K106SFS Josef Bradl Hans Wiedemann Walter Delle KarthN/A  
194010 March  K120SFS Gregor Höll Josef Bradl Gustl Berauer6,000  
19412 March  K120SFS Rudi Gering Paul Krauß Hans Lahr15,000  
194724 March  K120SFS Rudi Finžgar Charles Blum Fritz Tschannen25,000  
194817 March  K120ISFW Fritz Tschannen Hans Zurbriggen Charles Blum20,000  
195015–17 March  K120ISFS Janez Polda Rudi Finžgar Sverre Kronvold50,000  
19 March  K120EXH Rudi Finžgar Slattsveen Janez Polda
195413–14 March  K120ISFW Ossi Laaksonen Jack Alfredsen Hemmo Silvennoinen23,000  
19579–10 March  K120ISFW Helmut Recknagel Eino Kirjonen Pekka Tirkkonen30,000  
196025–27 March  K120ISFW Helmut Recknagel Arne Larsen Raimo Vitikainen60,000  
196322–24 March  K120KOP Dieter Bokeloh Dietmar Klemm Veit Kührt40,000  
196625–27 March  K120ISFW Jiří Raška Mihail Veretennikov Dieter Neuendorf50,000  
196824 March  K120JPM.3 Jiří Raška Josef Matouš Willi Schuster20,000  
197325 March  K120JPM.6 Walter Steiner Heinz Wosipiwo Josef Matouš20,000  
197512 April  K120KCUP Toni Innauer Rudi Wanner Janez Loštrek15,000  
13 April  K120JPM.7 Willi Pürstl Bogdan Norčič Rudi Wanner
197620 March  K120KCUP Hans Wallner Bogdan Norčič Peter Leitner25,000  
21 March  K120JPM.8interrupted; weather conditions
197819 March  K120JPM.9 Reinhold Bachler Bogdan Norčič Marko Mlakar8,000  
198022 March  K120WC Hubert Neuper Armin Kogler Hans Millonig10,000  
198122 March  K120WC Dag Holmen-Jensen Armin Kogler Alfred Groyer30,000  
198228 March  K120WC Ole Bremseth Hubert Neuper Massimo Rigoni25,000  
198327 March  K120WC Primož Ulaga Horst Bulau Richard Schallert10,000  
198425 March  K120WC Pavel Ploc Vegard Opaas Piotr Fijas25,000  
198623 March  K120WC Ernst Vettori Andreas Felder Matti Nykänen30,000  
198827 March  K120WC Primož Ulaga Rajko Lotrič Didier Mollard40,000  
198926 March  K120WC Jens Weißflog Kent Johanssen Andreas Felder20,000  
199024 March  K120WC Roberto Cecon Ari-Pekka Nikkola Jens Weißflog25,000  
25 March  K120WC Ari-Pekka Nikkola Dieter Thoma Primož Ulaga
199228 March  K120WC
Team event		  Austria  Germany  Finland 18,000  
29 March  K120WC Andreas Felder Heinz Kuttin Toni Nieminen
199327 March  K120WC
Team event		  Japan  Norway  Slovenia 25,000  
28 March  K120WC Espen Bredesen Andreas Felder Christof Duffner
12 December  K120WC Jens Weißflog Andreas Goldberger Espen BredesenN/A  
19959 December  K120WC
Team event		  Finland  Japan  Norway 7,000  
10 December  K120WC Mika Laitinen Roar Ljøkelsøy Janne Ahonen
199624 March  K120EXH Primož Peterka Andreas Goldberger Samo Gostiša15,000  
199821 March  K120WC Kazuyoshi Funaki Primož Peterka Hiroya Saito56,000  
22 March  K120WC Noriaki Kasai Hiroya Saito Martin Höllwarth
201421 March  HS139WC Severin Freund Anders Bardal Peter Prevc30,000  
22 March  HS139WC
Team event		  Austria  Poland  Norway
23 March  HS139WC Peter Prevc Severin Freund Anders Bardal

Ladies
Date Hillsize Competition Winner Second Third
22 March 2014  HS139WC Sara Takanashi Yuki Ito Julia Clair

Normal hill events

Ladies
Date Hillsize Competition Winner Second Third
25 January 2014  HS104WC Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Sara Takanashi Carina Vogt
26 January 2014  HS104WC Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Sara Takanashi Carina Vogt

Nordic combined

Men
Date Competition Winner Second Third
30 September 2017   SGP (HS139/10 km) Magnus Hovdal Moan Espen Andersen Jan Schmid
1 October 2017   SGP (HS139/10 km) Magnus Hovdal Moan Jarl Magnus Riiber Martin Fritz
22 September 2018   SGP (HS138/10 km) Mario Seidl Martin Fritz Maxime Laheurte
23 September 2018   SGP (HS138/10 km) Mario Seidl Espen Bjørnstad Aguri Shimizu
7 September 2019   SGP (HS138/10 km) Jarl Magnus Riiber Franz-Josef Rehrl Bernhard Gruber
8 September 2019   SGP (HS138/10 km) Jarl Magnus Riiber Antoine Gérard Jens Lurås Oftebro

World records

10 official world records were set: Lahr (111 m), Krauß (112 m) and Mair (109 m touch) were set after Gering's 118 metres WR.[5][6]

Date Athlete Length
25 March 1934 Birger Ruud92 metres (302 ft)
14 March 1935 Reidar Andersen93 metres (305 ft)
15 March 1935 Stanisław Marusarz95 metres (312 ft)
15 March 1935 Reidar Andersen98 metres (322 ft)
15 March 1935 Reidar Andersen99 metres (325 ft)
Date Length
15 March 1936 Josef Bradl101.5 metres (333 ft)
15 March 1938 Josef Bradl107 metres (351 ft)
2 March 1941 Rudi Gering108 metres (354 ft)
2 March 1941 Rudi Gering118 metres (387 ft)
15 March 1948 Fritz Tschannen120 metres (390 ft)
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See also

References
  1. "Bloudkova velikanka" (in Slovenian). travel-slovenia.si. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  2. Enciklopedija Slovenije, 10. knjiga. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga. 1996.
  3. "Birger Ruud: A family of ski jumpers". sports.jrank.org. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  4. Š. Ro, Ni. Č. (14 October 2012). "Nova Bloudkova velikanka: Peterka skočil 112 metrov" [New Bloudkova Velikanka: Peterka opened the hill and jumped 112 meters] (in Slovenian). Delo. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  5. "Novi svetovni rekordi v Planici, p.1" (in Slovenian). Jutro. 3 March 1941.
  6. Da. B. (15 March 2016). "Kdo in kdaj je pod Poncami podrl rekord?" (in Slovenian). Zurnal24. Retrieved 24 January 2018.

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