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Another year history.

We are writing in a few hours from the beginning of 2015 and it goes very fast.

For the first highlight from a sporting perspective traditionally provide the ski jumpers who enchanted the Gaudi mountain at the New Year’s event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen the Gudiberg.

At the start in Oberstdorf Stefan Kraft and Michael Hayboeck have provided a Austrians double victory, pawing the competition for Peter Prevc and Kamil Stoch already at the bit to fight back.

We the history have tried and begin the year ’15 with 15 facts about New Year’s.

*) The Bakken Gudiberg has been officially named “Olympic Hill”. This name comes from the 1936 Games, as Birger Ruud won on the K90 gold for Norway. Silver grabbed the Swede Sven Selånger, the podium was completed by RuudS compatriot Reidar Andersen. Key figures for investment in Garmisch-Partenkirchen: The tower height is 60.4 meters, the starting length 103.5 meters. The K point is 125 meters, the hill size at 143.5 meters.

*) Drunk ski jumping? Nowadays inconceivable in the 50s apparently not uncommon. Tour titleholder Hemmo Silvennoinen to have New Year’s Eve 1955 so drunk one over the thirst that threw him from his coach the team. It was only at the insistence of the teammates was the then 23-year-old, who died at the age of 70 in 2002, pardoned. So he could with a lot of residual alcohol in the blood participate in the competition. The best part of the story. Silvennoinen was so inspired by the New Year’s Eve noise that he actually won the New Year’s

*) The tour indeed exists only Since 1953, the New Year’s but there is already much longer. 1922 a competition was held for the first time on January 1, the victory went to Norwegian Jakob Vaage. Since then, was Garmisch-Partenkirchen each year – with the exception of the war years 1942-1945 -. The venue for the New Year jumping

*) A total of 18 times was the touring prelude winners decide the second competition for themselves. Should also be able Stefan Kraft, are his chances of overall victory statistically, at 66.6 percent, for twelve double winners also stood out on top.

*) A tragic turn took the career of Mika Laitinen in Garmisch. The Finn led the overall World Cup standings in the season 1995/96 superior and also triumphed in Oberstdorf, when fate struck hard and he came before the second tour-competition in training to fall. Seven ribs and collarbone was broken, Laitinen never found again back to its former strength

*) The Olympic ski jump in 2009 was awarded a special prize. – the IOC / IAKS Gold Award. This is the only internationally renowned architecture prize for proven in operation sports venues

*) It was only twice -. 2007 2011 – had the New Year’s due to adverse weather conditions in only one pass to be decided. At the premiere won Andreas Küttel, four years later, his Swiss compatriot Simon Ammann. The jumps after his fall in Oberstdorf known with the anger inside.