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Lillehammer
Balbergskaret
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Balbergbakken:
| K-Point: | 120 m |
  Hill record: |
130.5 m (Tom Levorstad , 1981-01-24, Norge) |
| Official hill record: |
125.0 m (Matti Nykänen  , 1984-03-09, WC) |
 Hill record: |
112.0 m (Merete Kristiansen , 1988-01-08) |
| Further jumps: | K40, K25, K15 |
| Plastic matting: | no |
| Year of construction: | 1972 |
| Conversions: | 1984 |
| Year of destruction: | 1990 |
| Status: | destroyed |
| Ski club: | Lillehammer Ski Club |
| Coordinates: | 61.15454, 10.4521 ✔ 
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History:
After the old ski jump at Lysgård had been closed down in 1964, Lillehammer was searching for a new location for a large hill for a few years. In 1969 the plans for the construction of a new ski jump at Balberg, direction of Fåberg, a few kilometers north of Lillehammer, were decided on. Finally in 1972 Balbergbakken was inaugurated, but the costs exploded from originally estimated 350,000 crownes onto more than 1m NOK. As a consequence the planned normal hill and floodlights could not be set up.
On the second-largest ski jumping facility of Norway just behind Vikersund Norwegian Championships were held in 1973 (Winner Nils-Per Skarseth), 1978 (Per Bergerud) and 1983 (Per Bergerud). On 1984-03-09 the only World Cup on Balbergbakkene was hosted, winner was Pavel Ploc attended by crowd of 5,000 spectators.
Originally it was intended to take Balbergbakken also as a site for Olympic Winter Games 1994, but due to high conversion costs Lysgårdsbakken with the Olympic stadium was constructed instead and the ski jumps at Balbergskaret were given up. Significantly the very last competition, the Junior NM in 1992, had to be cancelled due to a lack of snow.
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Date and women's hill record
Tom Levorstad did his 130.5 m jump on 24 January 1981 in a Norwegian Cup competition. Merete Kristiansen (Norway) jumped 112 m in training on 8 January 1988. If we count jumps not in competition as records for women in those early days, it was a new world record for women.
Ploc
it is Ploc not Ploč