Miro Oman

Miro Oman (11 January 1936 – 15 July 2012) was a Yugoslavian ski jumper.

Miro Oman
Full nameMiro Oman
Born(1936-01-11)11 January 1936
Tržič, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died15 July 2012(2012-07-15) (aged 76)
Personal best135 m (443 ft)
Planica, 6 Mar 1969
Updated on 30 Mar 2015.
Third from the left

Career

Oman competed in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. He participated at the 1962 Ski Jumping World Championships and 1964 Winter Olympics, albeit without notable results at either event.[1][2] Between 1959 and 1966 he also competed at the Four Hills Tournament, where his best result was fifteenth place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1963. On 6 March 1969 he given the honour of being the very first to jump from the new ski flying hill in Planica, Velikanka bratov Gorišek, setting a distance of 135 metres (443 ft).

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References

  1. "Nordic World Championships: Zakopane, POL, 1962/02/21, Special Jumping 60m Hill, Krokiew Schanze". skijump-db.net [web.archive.org]. Archived from the original on May 10, 2003. Retrieved 2 February 2012.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
  2. "Nordic World Championships: Zakopane, POL, 1962/02/25, Special Jumping 90m Hill, Krokiew Schanze". skijump-db.net [web.archive.org]. Archived from the original on December 17, 2004. Retrieved 2 February 2012.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
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