Letalnica bratov Gorišek

Letalnica bratov Gorišek
Constructor(s)	Janez Gorišek (planning) Vlado Gorišek (realization)
Location	Planica, Slovenia
Operator	ZŠRS Planica
Opened	6 March 1969 (test) March 21, 1969 (1969-03-21) (official)
Renovated	1979, 1985, 1994, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2013–15
Size
K–point	200 metres (660 ft)
Hill size	225 metres (738 ft)
Longest jump (unofficial / fall)	252 metres (827 ft)* Tilen Bartol (16 March 2016)
Hill record	251.5 metres (825 ft) Kamil Stoch (25 March 2017)
Top events
Ski Flying World Championships	1972, 1979, 1985, 1994, 2004, 2010, 2020

Letalnica bratov Gorišek (Template:Lang-en) is a ski flying hill and the biggest of eight hills located at the Planica Nordic Centre in Planica, Slovenia. It was built in 1969 and is named after the original constructors and brothers Vlado (also known as Lado) and Janez Gorišek. With a total of 28 world records set it is the world leading ski jump hill in this statistic. The world's steepest zip-line with average incline of 38.33% (20.9°) and maximum incline of 58.7% (30.5°) incline opened at the hill on 19 September 2015.

Yugoslavian ski jumper Miro Oman made the premiere test jump of 135 metres (443 ft) on 6 March 1969. The first ever FIS Ski Flying World Championships were organized on this hill in 1972. After Matti Nykänen set a world record jump of 191 metres (627 ft) at the SFWC 1985, a new rule was instituted by the FIS that no points for jumps over this distance would be awarded in order to prevent world record hunting. On 17 March 1994 Andreas Goldberger touched the snow with his hand at 202 metres (663 ft) for the first ever albeit disqualified over two hundred metre jump. Just a few minutes later Toni Nieminen landed on his feet at 203 metres (666 ft) and officially became the first man in history to jump over two hundred metres. In addition, the first ever jumps over 160 m, 170 m, 180 m, 190 m, 200 m, 210 m, 220 m and 230 m were recorded at the hill. The hill will host the FIS Ski Flying World Championships in 2020.

The hill is also known for annually hosting Red Bull 400 world series event, the stepeest 400 metres uphill run in the world, with over 1000 competitors from around the globe.

History

1967–1968: Construction

Vlado Gorišek and Oman
(1st and 3rd from left)

Janez Gorišek

Vlado Gorišek

Velikanka bratov Gorišek (original name) was planned, constructed and developed by Slovenian constructors, engineers and brothers Vlado and Janez Gorišek. At the time leading engineer of Planica was a Bloudek's succeedor Stano Pelan, who proposed to enlarge Bloudkova velikanka but at the end they rather decided for totally new hill on another location.

At that time Janez Gorišek was working as an engineer in Libya where he actually draw a plan and profile for new hill called Velikanka bratov Gorišek. Construction started in summer of 1967 and was mainly completed in late 1968. During the construction Janez was still working in Africa and that's why his older brother Vlado Gorišek (more known as "Lado") was fully in charge of the construction site. Brothers communicated on the phone but they mostly exchanged long letters. Original calculation point was at K153, steepest landing zone part at 42°, inrun was 145 meters long and height difference between take-off table and bottom of the hill was 127 meters.

1969: Opening

In February 1969 they built a complete new judge tower at 100 meters mark, which was 12 meters high and 8 meters wide. On 6 March 1969 hill was first time tested and Miro Oman from Yugoslavia was honored to be the first man to jump on the hill. He jumped 135 meters from the second gate and set the first hill record.

Hill was officially opened and took three days competition from 21–23 March 1969 called KOP Ski Flying Week or Planica Ski Flying Week. There were 60 jumpers from 15 countries. Three days of competition with three jumps each day: 1 best jump from Friday competition and two best jumps from each Saturday and Sunday counted for final result.

Jiří Raška was the winner where a total of 90,000 people has gathered in the three days of competition. World record was improved five times and finally stopped at 165 meters set by Manfred Wolf from East Germany.

Andreas Goldberger (202 m touch) in 1994 as first man in history jumped over 200 m

Landing zone from 2005

Old inrun from 2005

New inrun from 2015

takeoff table from 2015

Old inrun from 2005

Huge crowd from 2015

View of the ski jumping centre from Mt. Ciprnik (July 2016)

1972: First ski flying world championships

First ever FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1972 was organized in Planica. Swiss ski jumper Walter Steiner became the first ski flying world champion. Calculation point was changed to K165.

1974: Three egrets logo

Egret as the symbol of ski flying and official logo of Planica was designed by Bine Rogelj and Angelo Oman in 1974 to honour the 40th anniversary of international ski jumping in this famous valley. Slovene ski jumper and painter Bine Rogelj at first had a plan to engrave "image of an Egret flying" on a tombstone of another famous Slovene ski jumper Janez Polda. Slovene architects Angelo Oman and Rogelj together made a final decision of a new logo with three egrets flying in swarming formation.

KOP Ski Flying Week or. Planica Ski Flying Week 1974 event was organized for the second time with calculation point at K165. The winner was Swiss ski jumper Walter Steiner who jumped 169 m (544 ft) and tied the world record from Oberstdorf set in a previous year by East German ski jumper Heinz Wossipiwo. Walter Steiner jumped even 177 m (581 ft) but he touched the ground with his hands.

1977: Last ski flying week

KOP Ski Flying Week or. Planica Ski Flying Week 1977 was organized for the third and the last time in Planica with calculation point at K165. Reinhold Bachler win the event with new hill record of 172 m (564 ft) and set the new hill.

Yugoslavian/Slovenian ski jumper Bogdan Norčič became first man in history to overjump 180 metres mark but unfortunately record didn't count. As a test jumper he touched the ground with his hands at 181 m (594 ft).

1979: Second world championships

The FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1979 was organized in Planica for the second time and for the fifth time in total with new calculation point at K185. Hill Austrian ski jumper Armin Kogler became the world champion. East German ski jumper Klaus Ostwald tied the world record at 176 m (577 ft).

1984: 50th anniversary renovation

In the honor of Planica's 50th anniversary organizing committee decided to modernize the hill. First big renovation works were done in summer and fall of 1984. Soldiers from Yugoslavian army, volunteers and different working organizations helped at the conbstruction site under command of Gorišek brothers. 1500 m cubic meters of material was dug out and filled it into the landing zone. They also dug out 300 cubic meters of material from inrun. Old wooden inrun tower was replaced with steel and take-off table was pushed back for 5 metres.

1985: Nykänen's 191 m and new rule

Planica for the third time hosted FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1985. On the official training three new world records were set. First Mike Holland with 186 m and soon after Matti Nykänen with 187 m and 191 m. This last Nykänen's world record scared and confused FIS so much that in the next season new unreasonable rule in ski flying was introduced. It meant that points for jumps longer than 191 meters won't be calculated in the final score and this way stop world record race. On the first day of competition there was a record attendance of about 80-100 thousand people. Ski flying world champion became Matti Nykänen.

1987: First World Cup and last parallel record

For the first time two World Cup ski flying individual events were organized on this hill in 1987. Polish ski jumper Piotr Fijas set the last parallel style world record on the first day of competition when he jumped 194 m (636 ft). But this world record was recognized seven years later at FIS congress in Rio de Janeiro when they cancelled this controversial 191 meters rule.

Next event on this hill were two World Cup ski flying individual events in 1991. German ski jumper André Kiesewetter touched the ground at the world record distance 196 m (643 ft). This is the longest ever parallel style jump although it's invalid.

1994: First over 200 metres ever

Competition counted both as FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1994 and for the World Cup points at the same time. At the first round of the free training on 17 March 1994 Austrian ski jumper Andreas Goldberger touched the snow with his hand at 202 m and made first ever over two hundred meters jump, but it was invalid. Just a few minutes later Finnish ski jumper Toni Nieminen landed on his feet at 203 m and officially became the first man in history who jumped over two hundred meters. The last world record of this year was set on the next day in qualifying round when Norwegian ski jumper Espen Bredesen landed at 209 m (686 ft).

Two days competition rules at that time counted separately each day with two rounds for World Cup points and total result of both days with four rounds as ski flying world championships title. However, first day of competition was cancelled because of the strong wind. Second day of competition with now total of two rounds counted as Ski Flying World Championships and World Cup event. Czech ski jumper Jaroslav Sakala (189 m, 185 m) became world champion. Norgegian ski jumper Espen Bredesen (178 m, 182 m) was second and Italian ski jumper Roberto Cecon (160 m, 199 m). at press conference right after the medal ceremony Espen Bredesen gave his silver medal in the spirit of fairplay to Roberto Cecon and took his bronze medal instead. Although official results didn't change, he thought it was the right thing to do, because of that crazy rule, they counted Cecon's points only up to 191 meters although he jumped 199 meters in the last round.

This was the last ski flying competition under those rules. Just two months later it was cancelled at FIS congress in Rio de Janeiro in 1994.

1997: Peterka frenzy, German fairplay

Two World Cup individual events were organized for season finale in 1997. Everyone in Slovenia expected from very young and unexperienced Slovenian ski jumper Primož Peterka, who was at the time extremely popular in his homeland, he will become a first Slovenian with World Cup overall title. TV ratings in Slovenia that weekend were and still are record high and everyone was watching. A record 130,000 people in total has gathered in those three days of competition.

Primož Peterka fall at qualifying round and injured himself but didn't have his own physiotherapist. That's why his coach kindly asked German physiotherapist from his main rival Dieter Thoma to help Peterka by this injury. In the spirit of fairplay he helped him and he could normally compete for overall title in the next two days. In the first day of competition world record was two times improved (210m, 212 m) in the trial round. Peterka was fourth in the first event and became the overall winner in front of 70,000 frenzy people and Thoma's hopes ended. German ski jumper Dieter Thoma fell at world record distance of 213 m (698 ft). When Peterka lifted overall globe, huge crowd of fanatic people jumped over the fences and ran under the medal ceremony stage.

1999: Two world records

Three World Cup individual events were organized for season final in 1999. In the first day of competition German ski jumper Martin Schmitt fell at world record distance of 219 m (719 ft) but very soon in the next round, he stood on the feet and set the new world record at 214.5 m (704 ft). On the next day Norwegian ski jumper Tommy Ingebrigtsen improved world record at 219.5 m (720 ft).

2000: First ever ski flying team event

For the first time in history ski flying team was organized for season final in 2000. Two world records were set by Austrian ski jumpers Thomas Hörl with 224.5 m and Andreas Goldberger with 225 m. Germany became the first ever team ski flying winner.

2003: Hautamäki dominated

Two World Cup individual and one team events were organized for season final in 2003. Polish ski jumper Adam Małysz at first equaled Andreas Goldberger's world record at 225 m (738 ft). Then Finnish ski jumper Matti Hautamäki set series of three world records (227.5 m, 228.5m and 231 m) who won all three, including team, events. Finnish ski jumper Veli-Matti Lindström fell at world record distance of 232.5 m (763 ft).

2004: Hill was renamed

In honour of FIS Ski Flying World Championships in 2004 hill was modified and renamed and not to be confused with the legendary Bloudkova velikanka, a large hill just a few meters away. The literal translation of Velikanka (gigantic, extra large hill), meanwhile literal translation of the flying hill. For the first time in history of FIS Ski Flying World Championships team event was organized.

2005: Outstanding final round

Two World Cup individual events were organized for season final in 2005. It all started on 17 March 2005 on training when Austrian ski jumper Andreas Widhölzl fell at world record distance of 234.5 m (769 ft).

Last day of the season was just fantastic with four official and one invalid world records and unbelievable final round. It started in trial round when Norwegian ski jumpers Tommy Ingebrigtsen euqaled world record at 231 m (731 ft) and soon after him Bjørn Einar Romøren set new world record at 234.5 m (769 ft). It continued in the final round where we have seen series of jumps over 220 and 230 meters. In the final round Finnish ski jumper Matti Hautamäki for the fourth time in his career improved the world record at 235.5 m (773 ft) but that didn't last long. Just three minutes later Bjørn Einar Romøren again set the world record 239 m (784 ft) which lasted for six years. As the last jumper on the top Finnish ski jumper Janne Ahonen had a hard crash on his back at world record distance of 240 m (787 ft). Years later Ahonen released his autobiography where he confessed that he was drunk during this record jump with fall.

2010: Ammann dominated

Planica got new chairlift, judge tower renovated, landing zone widened, profile adjusted and take-off angle lowered to keep jumpers closer to the ground. All this was needed to fulfill international FIS standards and to keep the competition.

For the record sixth time Planica hosted FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2010. In two day four series event, Swiss ski jumper Simon Ammann became individual ski flying world champion. In two series Austria became team event world champion. Fifty-five thousand people has gathered on the second day of individual competition and eighty-two thousand people in whole week.

2015: Complete renovation

The hill was completely renovated and opened after one-year break. A new profile was drawn by Janez Gorišek with the help of his son Sebastjan Gorišek who is a constructor too. The hill's new calculation point is at K200, hill size at HS 225 and with new height difference at 135 meters. Inrun tower and take-off table are made of concrete. Take-off table is now 5 meter higher than before and pushed back for 12 meters compared to the old one.

Two World Cup individual and one team events were organized for the season final in 2015. Slovenian team won both individual and team events. Prevc set new hill record at 248.5 metres.

2016: Kasai 500th, Prevc, records

Because of Peter Prevc's successful season and huge interest, tickets were immediately sold out. As always, TV signal was produced by RTV Slovenia with 19 cameras for international broadcasting and additional four cameras for Slovenian TV viewers only.

On 16 March 2016 twenty-seven fore ski jumpers from three countries tested the hill in two series. The same as the previous year, Rožle Žagar was honoured with the opening jump. Later, Tilen Bartol fell at 252 metres (827 ft). On 17 March 2016 Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai celebrated his 500th individual World Cup start in Planica. Prevc won two individual events and broke world cup records for most points overall, most individual wins and most podiums in one season. Robert Kranjec was winner of another individual event. Norway won the team event.

A total of 111,000 people (2,500 / 20,500 / 22,500 / 32,500 / 33,000) has gathered at hill test and four days of competitions at the season final in Planica, including the Slovenian president Borut Pahor.

Events

Date	Hillsize	Competition	Winner	Second	Third
21–23 March 1969	K153	KOP	Jiří Raška	Bjørn Wirkola	Manfred Wolf
26 March 1972	K165	SFWC	Walter Steiner	Heinz Wosipiwo	Jiří Raška
15–17 March 1974	K165	KOP	Walter Steiner	Esko Rautionaho	Dag Fossum
18–20 March 1977	K165	KOP	Reinhold Bachler	Thomas Meisinger	Ladislav Jirásko
17–18 March 1979	K185	SFWC	Armin Kogler	Axel Zitzmann	Piotr Fijas
16–17 March 1985	K185	SFWC	Matti Nykänen	Jens Weißflog	Pavel Ploc
14 March 1987	K185	WC	Andreas Felder	Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl	Thomas Klauser
15 March 1987	K185	WC	Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl	Matjaž Zupan	Piotr Fijas
23 March 1991	K185	WC	Staffan Tällberg	Stephan Zünd	André Kiesewetter
24 March 1991	K185	WC	Ralph Gebstedt	Stefan Horngacher	Dieter Thoma
19 March 1994	K185	SFWC (d1) / WC	first day of World Championships / World Cup event canceled due to strong wind
20 March 1994	K185	SFWC (d2) / WC	Jaroslav Sakala	Espen Bredesen	Roberto Cecon
13th SFWC final standings (19-20 March)			Jaroslav Sakala	Espen Bredesen	Roberto Cecon
22 March 1997	K185	WC	Takanobu Okabe	Kazuyoshi Funaki	Jani Soininen
23 March 1997	K185	WC	Akira Higashi	Primož Peterka	Lasse Ottesen
19 March 1999	K185	WC	Martin Schmitt	Kazuyoshi Funaki	Christof Duffner
20 March 1999	K185	WC	Hideharu Miyahira	Martin Schmitt	Noriaki Kasai
21 March 1999	K185	WC	Noriaki Kasai	Hideharu Miyahira	Martin Schmitt
18 March 2000	K185	WC-T first ever ski flying team event	Germany Sven Hannawald Hansjörg Jäkle Martin Schmitt Michael Uhrmann	Finland Ville Kantee Risto Jussilainen Jani Soininen Janne Ahonen	Japan Takanobu Okabe Kazuyoshi Funaki Hideharu Miyahira Noriaki Kasai
19 March 2000	K185	WC	Sven Hannawald	Janne Ahonen	Andreas Goldberger
17 March 2001	K185	WC-T	Finland Jussi Hautamäki Risto Jussilainen Tami Kiuru Veli-Matti Lindström	Austria Wolfgang Loitzl Andreas Goldberger Martin Koch Stefan Horngacher	Japan Hideharu Miyahira Kazuya Yoshioka Masahiko Harada Noriaki Kasai
18 March 2001	K185	WC	Martin Schmitt	Risto Jussilainen	Tommy Ingebrigtsen
23 March 2002	K185	WC-T	Finland Matti Hautamäki Veli-Matti Lindström Risto Jussilainen Janne Ahonen	Germany Christof Duffner Martin Schmitt Michael Uhrmann Sven Hannawald	Austria Martin Koch Andreas Widhölzl Andreas Goldberger Wolfgang Loitzl
24 March 2002	K185	WC	individual event canceled; weather conditions
21 March 2003	K185	WC-T	Finland Veli-Matti Lindström Janne Ahonen Tami Kiuru Matti Hautamäki	Norway Henning Stensrud Bjørn Einar Romøren Roar Ljøkelsøy Tommy Ingebrigtsen	Austria Thomas Morgenstern Stefan Thurnbichler Florian Liegl Andreas Widhölzl
22 March 2003	K185	WC	Matti Hautamäki	Adam Małysz	Martin Höllwarth
23 March 2003	K185	WC	Matti Hautamäki	Sven Hannawald	Hideharu Miyahira
20–21 February 2004	K185	SFWC-I	Roar Ljøkelsøy	Janne Ahonen	Tami Kiuru
22 February 2004	K185	SFWC-T	Norway	Finland	Austria
19 March 2005	HS215	WC	Matti Hautamäki	Andreas Widhölzl	Bjørn Einar Romøren
20 March 2005	HS215	WC	Bjørn Einar Romøren	Roar Ljøkelsøy	Andreas Widhölzl
18 March 2006	HS215	WC	Bjørn Einar Romøren	Roar Ljøkelsøy	Martin Koch
19 March 2006	HS215	WC	Janne Happonen	Martin Koch	Robert Kranjec
23 March 2007	HS215	WC	Adam Małysz	Simon Ammann	Jernej Damjan
24 March 2007	HS215	WC	Adam Małysz	Anders Jacobsen	Martin Koch
25 March 2007	HS215	WC	Adam Małysz	Simon Ammann	Martin Koch
14 March 2008	HS215	WC	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Janne Ahonen	Bjørn Einar Romøren
15 March 2008	HS215	WC-T	Norway Tom Hilde Johan Remen Evensen Anders Jacobsen Anders Bardal	Finland Janne Happonen Matti Hautamäki Jussi Hautamäki Janne Ahonen	Austria Martin Koch Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Kofler Gregor Schlierenzauer
16 March 2008	HS215	WC	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Martin Koch	Janne Happonen
20 March 2009	HS215	WC	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Adam Małysz	Dimitry Vassiliev
21 March 2009	HS215	WC-T	Norway Tom Hilde Johan Remen Evensen Anders Jacobsen Anders Bardal	Poland Kamil Stoch Łukasz Rutkowski Stefan Hula Adam Małysz	Russia Denis Kornilov Pavel Karelin Ilya Rosliakov Dimitry Vassiliev
22 March 2009	HS215	WC	Harri Olli	Adam Małysz	Simon Ammann Robert Kranjec
19–20 March 2010	HS215	SFWC-I	Simon Ammann	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Anders Jacobsen
21 March 2010	HS215	SFWC-T	Austria Wolfgang Loitzl Thomas Morgenstern Martin Koch Gregor Schlierenzauer	Norway Anders Jacobsen Anders Bardal Johan Remen Evensen Bjørn Einar Romøren	Finland Janne Happonen Olli Muotka Matti Hautamäki Harri Olli
18 March 2011	HS215	WC	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Thomas Morgenstern	Martin Koch
19 March 2011	HS215	WC-T	Austria Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Kofler Martin Koch Gregor Schlierenzauer	Norway Anders Bardal Johan Remen Evensen Bjørn Einar Romøren Tom Hilde	Slovenia Peter Prevc Jernej Damjan Jurij Tepeš Robert Kranjec
20 March 2011	HS215	WC	Kamil Stoch	Robert Kranjec	Adam Małysz
16 March 2012	HS215	WC	Robert Kranjec	Simon Ammann	Martin Koch
17 March 2012	HS215	WC-T	Austria Thomas Morgenstern Andreas Kofler Gregor Schlierenzauer Martin Koch	Norway Rune Velta Anders Fannemel Bjørn Einar Romøren Anders Bardal	Germany Maximilian Mechler Severin Freund Andreas Wank Richard Freitag
18 March 2012	HS215	WC	Martin Koch	Simon Ammann	Robert Kranjec
22 March 2013	HS215	WC	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Peter Prevc	Piotr Żyła
23 March 2013	HS215	WC-T	Slovenia Jurij Tepeš Peter Prevc Andraž Pograjc Robert Kranjec	Norway Rune Velta Kim René Elverum Sorsell Anders Bardal Andreas Stjernen	Austria Wolfgang Loitzl Stefan Kraft Martin Koch Gregor Schlierenzauer
24 March 2013	HS215	WC	Jurij Tepeš	Rune Velta	Peter Prevc
20 March 2015	HS225	WC	Peter Prevc	Jurij Tepeš	Stefan Kraft
21 March 2015	HS225	WC-T	Slovenia Jurij Tepeš Anže Semenič Robert Kranjec Peter Prevc	Austria Stefan Kraft Michael Hayböck Manuel Poppinger Gregor Schlierenzauer	Norway Johann André Forfang Kenneth Gangnes Anders Fannemel Rune Velta
22 March 2015	HS225	WC	Jurij Tepeš	Peter Prevc	Rune Velta
17 March 2016	HS225	WC	Peter Prevc	Johann André Forfang	Robert Kranjec
18 March 2016	HS225	WC	Robert Kranjec	Peter Prevc	Johann André Forfang
19 March 2016	HS225	WC-T	Norway Daniel-André Tande Anders Fannemel Kenneth Gangnes Johann André Forfang	Slovenia Jurij Tepeš Anže Semenič Robert Kranjec Peter Prevc	Austria Stefan Kraft Manuel Poppinger Manuel Fettner Michael Hayböck
20 March 2016	HS225	WC	Peter Prevc	Robert Kranjec	Johann André Forfang
24 March 2017	HS225	WC	Stefan Kraft	Andreas Wellinger	Markus Eisenbichler
25 March 2017	HS225	WC-T	Norway Robert Johansson Johann André Forfang Anders Fannemel Andreas Stjernen	Germany Markus Eisenbichler Richard Freitag Karl Geiger Andreas Wellinger	Poland Piotr Żyła Dawid Kubacki Maciej Kot Kamil Stoch
26 March 2017	HS225	WC	Stefan Kraft	Andreas Wellinger	Noriaki Kasai

Hill record

  claimed world records by rare sources; still not clear if those two world records actually happened.

Official

Date Length 6 March 1969 Miro Oman 135.0 m (443 ft) - test 21 March 1969 Jürgen Dommerich 137.0 m (449 ft) 21 March 1969 Lars Grini 146.0 m (479 ft) 21 March 1969 Jiří Raška 148.0 m (485 ft) 21 March 1969 Horst Queck 149.0 m (489 ft) 21 March 1969 Bjørn Wirkola 156.0 m (512 ft) - 21 March 1969 Jiří Raška 156.0 m (512 ft) - 22 March 1969 Bjørn Wirkola 160.0 m (525 ft) - 22 March 1969 Jiří Raška 164.0 m (538 ft) - 23 March 1969 Manfred Wolf 165.0 m (541 ft) - 15 March 1974 Walter Steiner 169.0 m (554 ft) - 20 March 1977 Reinhold Bachler 172.0 m (564 ft) 16 March 1979 Klaus Ostwald 176.0 m (577 ft) - 15 March 1985 Mike Holland 186.0 m (610 ft) - 15 March 1985 Matti Nykänen 187.0 m (614 ft) - 15 March 1985 Matti Nykänen 191.0 m (627 ft) - 14 March 1987 Andreas Felder 191.0 m (627 ft) - ? 14 March 1987 Piotr Fijas 194.0 m (636 ft) - 24 March 1991 Ralph Gebstedt 194.0 m (636 ft) - ? 17 March 1994 Martin Höllwarth 196.0 m (643 ft) - 17 March 1994 Toni Nieminen 203.0 m (666 ft) -

Date Length 18 March 1994 Espen Bredesen 209.0 m (686 ft) - 22 March 1997 Espen Bredesen 210.0 m (689 ft) - 22 March 1997 Lasse Ottesen 212.0 m (696 ft) - 19 March 1999 Martin Schmitt 214.5 m (704 ft) - 20 March 1999 Tommy Ingebrigtsen 219.5 m (720 ft) - 16 March 2000 Thomas Hörl 224.5 m (737 ft) - 18 March 2000 Andreas Goldberger 225.0 m (738 ft) - 20 March 2003 Adam Małysz 225.0 m (738 ft) - 20 March 2003 Matti Hautamäki 227.5 m (746 ft) - 22 March 2003 Matti Hautamäki 228.5 m (750 ft) - 23 March 2003 Matti Hautamäki 231.0 m (758 ft) - 20 March 2005 Tommy Ingebrigtsen 231.0 m (758 ft) - 20 March 2005 Bjørn Einar Romøren 234.5 m (769 ft) - 20 March 2005 Matti Hautamäki 235.5 m (773 ft) - 20 March 2005 Bjørn Einar Romøren 239.0 m (784 ft) - 20 March 2015 Michael Hayböck 241.5 m (792 ft) 20 March 2015 Peter Prevc 248.5 m (815 ft) 25 March 2017 Robert Johansson 250.0 m (820 ft) 25 March 2017 Stefan Kraft 251.0 m (823 ft) 25 March 2017 Kamil Stoch 251.5 m (825 ft)

Invalid

Date Length 15 March 1974 Walter Steiner 177.0 m (581 ft) - WR 20 March 1977 Bogdan Norčič 181.0 m (594 ft) - WR 15–18 March 1979 Axel Zitzmann 179.0 m (587 ft) - WR 23 March 1991 André Kiesewetter 196.0 m (643 ft) - WR 17 March 1994 Andreas Goldberger 202.0 m (663 ft) - WR 18 March 1994 Christof Duffner 207.0 m (679 ft) - WR 22 March 1997 Dieter Thoma 213.0 m (698 ft) - WR 19 March 1999 Martin Schmitt 219.0 m (718 ft) - WR 21 March 2003 Veli-Matti Lindström 232.5 m (763 ft) - WR 17 March 2005 Andreas Widhölzl 234.5 m (769 ft) - WR 20 March 2005 Janne Ahonen 240.0 m (787 ft) - WR 20 March 2015 Michael Hayböck 242.0 m (794 ft) 16 March 2016 Tilen Bartol 252.0 m (827 ft) - WR

*hill/world records with fall, touch or glide.

Other records

• On 17 March 1994 Austrian ski jumper Andreas Goldberger touched the ground at 202 m and became the first man ever in history who jumped over two hundred, but jump was invalid because he touched the ground with his hands.
• On 17 March 1994 Finnish ski jumper Toni Nieminen landed on his feet at 203 m and officially became the first man in history who jumped over two hundred.
• First ever jump over 160 m, 170 m, 180 m, 190 m, 200 m, 210 m, 220 m and 230 m was set on this hill but didn't always necessary standing on the feet.
• between 80,000-100,000 people gathered on first day of SFWC 1985 competition, biggest ever crowd in this competition and Planica.
• On 22 March 1997 has gathered 70,000 people which is the biggest FIS Ski Jumping World Cup single event crowd ever.
• The first ever FIS Ski Flying World Championships was organized on this hill in 1972.
• On 18 March 2000 first ever FIS Ski Flying World Cup Team event was organized.
• 33 individual FIS Ski Flying World Cup events were organized.
• 10 team FIS Ski Flying World Cup events were organized.
• 6 FIS Ski Flying World Championships were organized.
• 12 invalid world records (fall, touch or. glide) were set.
• 28 official world records were set on this hill.

Technical data

Specifications:

• K-point – 200 m
• hillsize – 225 m
• inrun angle – 35.1°
• inrun length – 133.8 m
• takeoff table height – 2.93 m
• landing zone angle – 30.6° to 35.6°
• takeoff table to bottom height – 135 m

In popular culture

In 1974, the Letalnica bratov Gorišek appeared as the main location in The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, a German film directed by Werner Herzog which portrayed Swiss ski jumper Walter Steiner who works as a carpenter for his full-time occupation.

In 1997, the landscape painting of the flying hill, drawn by Vinko Bogataj, appeared at the end of the footage on the American ABC's Wide World of Sports show presented by Brent Musburger. Clip shows an interview with Vinko Bogataj about his agony of defeat.

In 2014, an image of the flying hill was portrayed at the American The Queen Latifah Show hosted by Queen Latifah. Image was used in the background at the parody sketch "Norwegian Sven Nordquist, the oldest ski jumper in Sochi".

See also

• Srednja Bloudkova
• Bloudkova velikanka
• Planica Nordic Centre

External links

• Official website planica.info
• Planica Nordic Centre nc-planica.si