Geithus

Gustad

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Gustadbakken:

K-Point:	60 m
Hill record:	71.5 m (Erling Kroken , 1951)

Further jumps:	K15
Plastic matting:	no
Year of construction:	1902
Conversions:	ca. 1935
Operating until:	1964
Status:	destroyed
Ski club:	Modum SK, Geithus IL
Coordinates:	59.910072, 9.960726 ✔

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History:

At Geithus near Modum – only few kilometres away of today’s ski flying hill at Vikersund – there was the biggest ski jumping hill of Norway at the beginning of the 20th century. Nils Gjestvang jumped there a world record of 41.0 m in 1902 and ten years later Gunar Andersen set up a new world record of 47 meters on Gustadbakken again. Between these two records, there were quite a few jumps, which could have been new World Records if the jumpers did not crash. In 1915, the Norwegian Championships, the Hovedlandsrennet, was hosted there.
Gustadbakken was enlarged into a 60-meter hill in 1930's and thus the hill record could be increased up to 71.5 meters in 1951.
The last competition on the ski jumping hill in Geithus was organized in 1964.

1951:	71.5 m	Erling Kroken
1947:	70.5 m	Thorleif Schjelderup
1940:	62.0 m	Helge Hjørnevik
1936:	60.5 m	Nils Bottegård
1935:	54.5 m	Willy Pedersen
1931:	52.5 m	Hans Arnold Beck
1928:	52.0 m	Gunnar Andersen
1928:	51.5 m	Aage Pettersen
1926:	50.5 m	Hjalmar Braathen
1924:	50.0 m	Henry Moen
1914-02-01:	52.0 m	Josef Henriksen
1914:	48.5 m	Josef Henriksen
1912-02-18:	50.0 m	Oscar Gundersen
1912-02-18:	47.0 m	Gunnar Andersen	WR
1911-02-05:	47.0 m	Haakon Hansen
1910-02-06:	45.5 m	Gunnar Sundet
1910:	44.0 m	Sigurd Hansen
1908-02-02:	47.0 m	A. Blomqvist
1907-02-10:	41.0 m	Gunnar Johansen	WR
1902-03-09:	41.0 m	Nils Gjestvang	WR

1902-03-09:	38.0 m	Nils Gjestvang	WR
1902-02-11:	36.0 m	Hans Hovde
1902-02-11:	35.5 m	Sigurd Brunæs	WR

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