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Howelsen Hill:
Hill Size: HS
127
K-Point: 114
m
Hill record: 127,0 m (Satoshi Mori JPN & Todd Lodwick
1999-12-19, NC & Clint Jones USA, 2002-02-28)
Angle of takeoff: 11,5°
Landing angle: 35,0°
Hill Size: HS
100
K-Point: 90
m
Hill record: 101,5 m (Clint Jones USA, 2006-01-22, USM)
Angle of takeoff: 10,5°
Landing angle: 34,5°
Hill Size: HS
75
K-Point: 68
m
Hill record: 75,5 m (Cliff Field, 2008-03-08)
Year of construction: 1915,
Numerous conversions
Further jumps: K38,
K25, K18
Plastic matting: only
K60 (since 2005)
Ski club: Steamboat
Springs WSC
History:
In 1905 an artist performed at the U.S. American
circus Bailey whose performance was to act like a ski jumper in the arena. At
that time this extraordinary sport was called “ski sailing”. The guy who did
that was no one else than the man who won the ski jumping competition at
Holmenkollen two years before, named Karl Howelsen, being a Norwegian immigrant
and settling at Steamboat Springs some years later.
There he also built the first ski jumping hill and as
a consequence in 1915 the Steamboat Winter Sports Club was founded. With 58,5 m
Ragnar Omtvedt set up world record at Howelsen Hill in 1916, one year later
Henry Hall improved the distance on even 62,2 m. In 1931 the ski jump was
enlarged. In 1937 the first ski lift at the same hill was opened and one year
later the first night jumping event under floodlight took place. With the
development of the way of jumping and the distances the ski jump was changed
and enlarged over the years. As in 1948 and 1959, when also the smaller hills
were built.
In 1972 the inrun tower of the large hill was burned
in a fire and it took 5 years to reconstruct and modernize the whole facility
in 1977.
Being situated in the central Rocky Mountains,
Steamboat Springs with its ski jumps, alpine downhill courses and cross-country
trails is one of the leading winter sports centres of
Contact:
Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club
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Phone: +1 (970) 879 06 95
Fax: +1 (970) 879 79 93
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Henry Hall after his world record
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