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4000th facility has been added to the Ski Jumping Hill Archive
7000th ski jumping hill added to the Archive!
New Granåsen ski jump in Trondheim inaugurated
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K-Point: | 10 m |
Hill record: | 15.0 m (George Hulme , 1935) |
Further jumps: | no |
Plastic matting: | no |
Year of construction: | 1934 |
Conversions: | 1951 |
Status: | destroyed |
Ski club: | Ski Club of Victoria |
Coordinates: | -37.708663, 145.681259 |
The first competition on an improvised ski jumping hill on Mount Donna Buang near Warburton was arranged in 1933. Then one of ski jumpers from Norway jumped there about 18.3 m (60 ft) in front of an audience of 4,000 people!
In the next year a permanent ski jump was built thanks to a donation from Mr. T. Mitchell. It was mainly used by the Ski Club of Victoria. In 1939 there was a fire on Mount Donna Buang, but fortunately the ski jump was still intact.
In 1951 this ski jump was completelly rebuilt. In this year there was held a competition in which competed former ski jumping champions from Czechoslovakia. The ski jump was destroyed in 1950's due to "bureaucratic vandalism", as Niall Brennan said, who fought against the destruction.
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