Vilnius

Velnio kalnas

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ca. 60 m

Further jumps:	no
Plastic matting:	no
Year of construction:	1960's
Status:	project not realized
Ski club:	Žalgiris
Coordinates:	54.705936, 25.326834 ✔

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In 1951 an international ski jumping competition was held on the at that time 70 metres hill in Kirov, in which the Lithuanian national team had its debut outside of the homeland. Although the Lithuanian jumpers reached a distance of 59.5 metres twice (which was the Lithuanian record for the length of a jump at that time), most of the team, used to train on 15- and 20-metre-hills, felt apprehensive about longer flights.
After returning from this not-so-successful debut, a programme to develop ski jumping in Lithuania was set up later that year. Thanks to it, many new facilities were built, among others: Trakai, Telšiai, Nemenčinė or Utena. Also competitions on the largest facility in the country at that time, which was located in Ignalin, gained popularity. At that time, the ski jumping hill allowed jumps of about 35 metres and there were even plans to extend it to 50 metres, but it was realised that there was a need for something even larger if Lithuanian jumpers wanted to compete on international level.
At that time plans for the construction of a 60-meter- facility in Vilnius came up. The choice of the capital city as the location for the country's largest ski jumping hill was not accidental, because the city had a long skiing tradition and two other ski jumping facilities already existed there before. Among others A. Aškinis, who wrote for the newspaper "Sportas", and many Lithuanian jumpers, who realised the need for such a large hill in the country, were convinced for the construction. In the early 1960s, the works started: the landing hill was profiled, a long outrun was prepared, on which the athletes could calmly brake and a road leading up to the facility was built.
Unfortunately, most probably due to lack of sufficient financial means, the inrun tower was not built and the ski jump itself was never completed. Until today in this place in Sapieginė district there is a clearly visible profile of the landing hill where Lithuanian records for ski jumping distance were planned to be set up.

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