Big Thunder Ski Jumping Center
Big Thunder Ski Jumping Centre | |
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Big Thunder | |
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Location | Northwestern Ontario Thunder Bay Canada |
Opened | 1963 |
Closed | 1996 |
Size | |
K–point | K-120 K-90 |
Hill record | Tommy Ingebrigtsen (137.0 m (449 ft)) Takanobu Okabe (108.0 m (354 ft)) |
Top events | |
World Championships | 1995 |
Big Thunder Ski Jumping Centre was a twin ski jumping hill located in Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It constitutes part of Big Thunder National Training Centre. The first hills were built by Knute and Thor Hansen and opened in 1963. They were originally known as Lille Norway Ski Area, then Mt. Norway Ski Area, and Sundance Northwest Resort before taking the current name. The large and normal hills were built in 1974 and the venue was taken over by the provincial government in 1985. The hills hosted 29 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup and 50 Canadian Ski Jumping Championships tournaments between 1975 and 1995, climaxing with the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995. Funding was then cut and the venue has since been closed and unmaintained.
History
The location was first identified by Knute Hansen, a ski jumper who felt that a location on
In 1990, the venue was awarded the hosting of the 1995 Nordic World Ski Championships. This required a major upgrade to the infrastructure, including
During the campaigning for the
Events
Big Thunder was a regular site for the FIS Nordic Ski Jumping World Cup, and arranged a world cup round, typically with two jumps, every season from 1980 through 1991. Nordic combined was, in addition to the World Championships, hosted twice, in 1989 and in 1994.[4][5] The last World Cup tournament was held in 1994 as a Pre-World Championship tournament.[1]
Contested between 9 and 19 March 1995, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships is the hallmark of the venue, and the only major world championship to be contested in
Results
The following is a list of all FIS Ski Jumping World Cup and FIS Nordic World Ski Championship tournaments held at Big Thunder, with the date, hill and top three finishing athletes or teams.
References
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- ^ a b Dunick, Leith (8 February 2010). "Big chance for Big Thunder". Thunder Bay News. Archived from the original on 17 February 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
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