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Čerťák

Čerťák is a ski jumping stadium with two hills in Harrachov in the Czech Republic.

It was built in 1979 and both hill officially opened in 1980. The venue is most notable for being one of five ski flying hills in the world, though it also has three smaller hills close by. It is owned by the sports club TJ Jiskra Harrachov. Audience capacity is about 50,000. Despite being a flying hill, only two world records have ever set at Čerťák, both in the 1980s. It was also during this time, and into the early 1990s, that many horrific accidents occurred.

The hills

The hills are located on the north side of the mountain Čertova hora, not far from the border to Poland. The first hill in Harrachov was built in 1922, but at a different location in town. Later in the 1920s the first hill in Čerťák was built. It was eventually expanded and supplemented with more hills. The ski flying hill was built in 1979 and opened in March 1980.

The large hill in Harrachov was built at the same time as the ski flying hill, and renovated in 1992. This hill has a K-point of 125 m and a hill size of 142 m. The official record is 145.5 m, set by Janne Ahonen on 12 December 2004 during the 2004–05 World Cup season. The unofficial record is 151 m set by Martin Koch (Austria) on 17 December 2004 in a Continental Cup event.

The normal hill has K-point of 90 m, a hill size of 100 m and a hill record of 102.5 m. The two smaller hills have K-points of 70 m (hill record 77 m) and K-point 40 meters (hill record 43.5 m). The standard hill has plastic mats, allowing summer use.

The ski flying hill in Harrachov garnered an early reputation of being quite dangerous from which to jump. In its early years, jumpers achieved a significant height over the knoll, up to 12 m. The result of this height was that a gust of wind or error from the jumper could end catastrophically, and there were indeed many injuries from bad falls. During the World Championship in 1983, injuries were suffered by Steinar Bråten, Horst Bulau and Jens Weißflog. In 1985, Pavel Ploc suffered a violent crash. The venue was eventually closed by the FIS and rebuilt between 1989 and 1992, and has since kept the requirements from FIS. Accidents have still occurred, however: in 1992, Andreas Goldberger fell out of the air at the highest point of his jump and crashed very hard.

Events

Normal hill

Date Hillsize Competition Winner Second Third align=right|  
12 December 1997   K90 WC Japan Masahiko Harada Slovenia Primož Peterka
Germany Dieter Thoma

Large hill

Date Hillsize Competition Winner Second Third
10 January 1981   K120 WC Norway Roger Ruud Austria Armin Kogler Norway Per Bergerud
Austria Hubert Neuper
8 January 1983   K120 WC East Germany Holger Freitag Finland Markku Pusenius East Germany Klaus Ostwald
9 January 1983   K120 WC Czechoslovakia Pavel Ploc East Germany Klaus Ostwald Finland Markku Pusenius
14 January 1984   K120 WC Czechoslovakia Jiří Parma East Germany Jens Weißflog Czechoslovakia Pavel Ploc
11 January 1986   K120 WC Finland Matti Nykänen Austria Ernst Vettori Czechoslovakia Jiří Parma
10 January 1988   K120 WC cancelled
15 January 1989   K120 WC Sweden Jan Boklöv Finland Risto Laakonen Czechoslovakia Ladislav Dluhoš
12 January 1990   K120 WC West Germany Dieter Thoma Czechoslovakia Ladislav Dluhoš Czechoslovakia Jiří Parma
16 January 1993   K120 WC lack of snow
17 January 1993   K120 WC
14 December 1996   K120 WC Japan Kazuyoshi Funaki Slovenia Primož Peterka Japan Takanobu Okabe
15 December 1996   K120 WC Slovenia Primož Peterka Austria Andreas Goldberger Norway Kristian Brenden
19 December 1998   K120 WC Finland Janne Ahonen Germany Ronny Hornschuh Japan Kazuyoshi Funaki
20 December 1998   K120 WC Finland Janne Ahonen Japan Noriaki Kasai Austria Andreas Widhölzl
7 February 1999   K120 WC (rep FH) Finland Janne Ahonen Norway Lasse Ottesen Czech Republic Jakub Sucháček
11 December 2004   HS142 WC Poland Adam Małysz Finland Janne Ahonen Germany Georg Späth
12 December 2004   HS142 WC Finland Janne Ahonen Norway Roar Ljøkelsøy Czech Republic Jakub Janda
10 December 2005   HS142 WC Switzerland Andreas Küttel Germany Michael Uhrmann Finland Janne Ahonen
11 December 2005   HS142 WC Czech Republic Jakub Janda Finland Janne Ahonen Switzerland Andreas Küttel
9 December 2006   HS142 WC lack of snow
10 December 2006   HS142 WC
12 December 2009   HS142 WC
13 December 2009   HS142 WC
11 December 2010   HS142 WC strong wind; rescheduled to Engelberg
12 December 2010   HS142 WC strong wind; rescheduled to Zakopane
9 December 2011   HS142 WC Austria Gregor Schlierenzauer Japan Daiki Ito Norway Anders Bardal
10 December 2011   HS142 WC-T Norway Norway
Tom Hilde
Bjørn Einar Romøren
Vegard Sklett
Anders Bardal
Austria Austria
Thomas Morgenstern
David Zauner
Andreas Kofler
Gregor Schlierenzauer
Slovenia Slovenia
Jernej Damjan
Jure Šinkovec
Peter Prevc
Robert Kranjec
11 December 2011   HS142 WC Germany Richard Freitag Austria Thomas Morgenstern Germany Severin Freund

Flying hill

Date Hillsize Competition Winner Second Third
28-29 March 1980   K165 KOP Canada Steve Collins Austria Armin Kogler Norway Tom Levorstad
19-20 March 1983   K185 SFWC East Germany Klaus Ostwald Czechoslovakia Pavel Ploc Finland Matti Nykänen
23 February 1985   K185 WC Norway Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Miran Tepeš Czechoslovakia Jiří Parma
24 February 1985   K185 WC strong wind
18 March 1989   K185 WC Norway Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl United States Mike Holland Sweden Jan Boklöv
19 March 1989   K185 WC strong wind
21 March 1992   K185 SFWC(d1) / WC Japan Noriaki Kasai Austria Andreas Goldberger Italy Roberto Cecon
22 March 1992   K185 SFWC(d2) / WC stopped and cancelled; strong wind
World Championships Overall (21-22 March) Japan Noriaki Kasai Austria Andreas Goldberger Italy Roberto Cecon
9 March 1996   K185 WC Austria Andreas Goldberger Germany Christof Duffner Czech Republic Jaroslav Sakala
9 March 1996   K185 WC cancelled
6 February 1999   K185 WC next day on large hill
13 January 2001   K185 WC Poland Adam Małysz Germany Martin Schmitt Finland Risto Jussilainen
14 January 2001   K185 WC Poland Adam Małysz Finland Janne Ahonen Germany Martin Schmitt
10 March 2002   K185 SFWC Germany Sven Hannawald Germany Martin Schmitt Finland Matti Hautamäki
19 January 2008   HS205 WC strong wind
20 January 2008   HS205 WC Finland Janne Ahonen Norway Tom Hilde Norway Anders Jacobsen
(night) 8 January 2011   HS205 WC Austria Martin Koch Austria Thomas Morgenstern Poland Adam Małysz
9 January 2011   HS205 WC Austria Thomas Morgenstern Switzerland Simon Ammann Czech Republic Roman Koudelka
(night) 2 February 2013   HS205 WC first event next day
3 February 2013   HS205 WC Austria Gregor Schlierenzauer Slovenia Robert Kranjec Czech Republic Jan Matura
3 February 2013   HS205 WC Austria Gregor Schlierenzauer Czech Republic Jan Matura Slovenia Jurij Tepeš
(night) 15 March 2014   HS205 SFWC-I Germany Severin Freund Norway Anders Bardal Slovenia Peter Prevc
17 March 2014   HS205 SFWC-T strong wind

Hill record

Large hill

Date Length
5 January 1980   Czechoslovakia Ladislav Jirásko 59.0 m (194 ft)  
6 January 1980   Czechoslovakia František Novotný 75.0 m (246 ft)  
6 January 1980   Czechoslovakia Jaroslav Balcar 88.0 m (289 ft)  
6 January 1980   Czechoslovakia Ivo Peterka 91.0 m (299 ft)  
6 January 1980   Czechoslovakia Břetislav Počík 97.0 m (318 ft)  
6 January 1980   Czechoslovakia Ladislav Jirásko 101.0 m (331 ft)  
6 January 1980   Czechoslovakia Ivo Felix 103.0 m (338 ft)  
6 January 1980   Czechoslovakia Ivo Felix 109.0 m (358 ft)  
10 January 1981   Austria Armin Kogler 122.0 m (400 ft)  
6 February 1983   Czechoslovakia Pavel Ploc 122.0 m (400 ft)  
Date Length
13 January 1985   Czechoslovakia Pavel Ploc 123.0 m (404 ft)  
13 January 1996   Austria Andreas Goldberger 129.0 m (423 ft)  
14 January 1996   Czech Republic Jakub Sucháček 137.0 m (449 ft)  
14 January 1996   Japan Kazuyoshi Funaki 140.0 m (459 ft)  
14 January 1996   Japan Kazuyoshi Funaki 141.5 m (464 ft)  
10 December 2004   Austria Andreas Widhölzl 142.0 m (466 ft)  
11 December 2004   Poland Adam Małysz 143.0 m (469 ft)  
12 December 2004   Finland Janne Ahonen 145.5 m (477 ft)  
17 December 2004   Austria Martin Koch 151.0 m (495 ft)  

Flying hill

References

  1. ^ "Skisprungschanzen in Harrachov völlig marode | MDR.DE". www.mdr.de.