Even without "The 'old lady' Garmisch-Partenkirchen has not lost its charm [Presentation]

For over half a century, the second leg of Vierschanzentournee is staged in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. That role was not only held on the occasion of the first (1953), the fifth (1956-1957), the tenth (1961-1962) and dell''undicesima (1962-1963) edition. In the first case was the inaugural event, in the other three instead represented the third round. However, it remained fixed date. It always competes in the New Year's day.

Saturday 31 December 2016 11 minutes reading time

HISTORY The "Large Olympic" was built in 1921, but it took this name only in 1934, when it was finished restructuring which became necessary in view of the Winter Olympic Games 1936, whose bid was followed by a record audience of 130,000 people. After the war the facility was renewed several times (1950, 1978, 1996), however, always acting on the original structure, so much so that over the years the jump was nicknamed "Die alte Dame" or the '' Old lady ". However the advent of the twenty-first century and the modern needs of the ski jumping have demanded a complete reconstruction. The legendary "Large Olympic" was then shot down April 14, 2007. Twelve days later he began the construction of the futuristic system, which cost fifteen million euro, completed in record time of six months and officially opened on 21 December 2007. The new pad has kept the name of the previous year despite not yet hosted an Olympic event . IMPACT ON TOUR On 27 occasions (42.2%) who has imposed nell'Oberbayern was then awarded success in TournÃ¨e, while in 49 cases (76.6%) the final victory went to an athlete on the podium. On the contrary to what happens in Oberstdorf, the recent trend confirms the historical data for the victories, while lowering the percentage with respect to the podium. If we look at the last decade who has excelled in Garmisch-Partenkirchen he has also won the Tour four times (40%), while in 6 years out of 10 (60%) the winner was one of the athletes entered the top-three. Â WINNERS So far 51 different jumpers representing 11 different movements have obtained at least one success in this stage. The German Jens WeiÃŸflog is the absolute record holder with 4 claims (1984, 1985, 1990, 1991). They are arrived at an altitude of 3 Norwegian BjÃ¸rn Wirkola (1967, 1968, 1969) and the 'Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer (2008, 2010, 2012). Are 7 men managed to repeat a success. This is the Finnish Matti NykÃ¤nen and Janne Ahonen; dell''austriaco Andreas Felder; German Jochen Danneberg; Japanese Noriaki Kasai; Slovenian Primoz Peterka and the Norwegian Anders Jacobsen. Among the jumpers in business, are seven have already embellished with at least one win in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Four of them on the new Large Olympic, three instead of the old: 3 - SCHLIERENZAUER Gregor (AUT) [2008, 2010, 2012] 2 - KASAI Noriaki (JPN) [1993 Â°, 2001 Â°] 2 - Janne Ahonen (FIN) [1995 Â°, 2005 Â°] 1 - JANDA Jakub (CZE) [ Â° 2006] 1 - Simon Ammann (SUI) [2011] 1 - Diethart Thomas (AUT) [2014] 1 - PREVC Peter (SLO) [2016] Â° Victory obtained on the previous version of the trampoline. It should be pointed out that none has managed to excel both on old and on new structure. Â The 'Austria is the country with the most wins (14), hounded to 13 by the German movement as a whole. Following the list 14 - AUSTRIA 13 - GERMANY (DDR 7 + 3 + FRG GER) 12 - 09 NORWAY - FINLAND 04 - JAPAN 04 - CZECHOSLOVAKIA (3 + 1 CEC CZE) 03 - SWITZERLAND 03 - 02 SLOVENIA - SOVIET UNION * 01 - CANADA * It should be noted how the Soviet successes in this case can not be entirely assimilated to Russian ones. In fact in 1961 he prevailed Koba Zakadze, athlete through and through Georgian, independent nation today, but at that time part of the USSR. Although the races are 64, 65 are accredited successes. This is because the competition played on New Year's Day 1991 was won ex-aequo dall''austriaco Andreas Felder and German Jens WeiÃŸflog. Here, as in Oberstdorf, Poland has never won. The best result is a second place finish in 2003 by Adam Malysz. Â SERIES In 9 occasions the same nation has achieved two goals by placing two athletes in the top two. The last three years ago when the Austrians Thomas Morgenstern Thomas Diethart and closed first and second respectively. In 2 cases it has been monopolized the entire podium: Year 1955 by Finland. Aulis Kallakorpi preceded Eino Kirjonen and Hemmo Silvenoinen, second and third respectively. Year 1998 by the Japan Kazuyoshi Funaki and Masahiko Harada before Hiroya Saito. Norway, Finland and Austria hold, at an altitude of 3, the record for consecutive wins. Â PODI So far 118 different jumpers representing 15 different movements have risen at least once on the podium. The German Jens WeiÃŸflog dominates the individual ranking for podiums, having won as many as 10. Among active athletes, this is the total budget of the collected podiums at that Garmisch-Partenkirchen: 2-3-1 (6) Janne Ahonen (FIN) [1995 Â°, 1999 Â°, 2000 Â°, 2005 Â°, 2006 Â°, 2008] 1-2-2 (5) Simon Ammann (SUI) [2009, 2010, 2011 , 2014, 2015] 3-1-0 (4) SCHLIERENZAUER Gregor (AUT) [2008, 2010, 2012, 2013] 2-0-2 (4) KASAI Noriaki (JPN) [1993 Â°, 1999 Â°, 2001 Â°, 2007 Â°] 1-1-0 (2) PREVC Peter (SLO) [2016] 1-0-0 (1) JANDA Jakub (CZE) [2006 Â°] 1-0-0 (1) Diethart Thomas (AUT) [ 2014] 0-1-0 (1) VASSILIEV Dimity (RUS) [2001a] 0-1-0 (1) KOFLER Andreas (AUT) [2012] 0-1-0 (1) GANGNES Kenneth (NOR) [2016 ] 0-0-1 (1) ITO Daiki (JPN) [2012] 0-0-1 (1) FREUND Severin (GER) [2016] Â° Podium obtained on the old version of the trampoline. The movement that has raised more podiums is Germany (42), however, divided between East Germany, West Germany and unified Germany. Therefore, if we talk about nations, Finland is still the one with most placings in the top three, having won 38. Following the complete list: 43 - GERMANY (DDR 24 + 10 + 9 FRG GER) 38 - 35 FINLAND - AUSTRIA 22 - 12 NORWAY - JAPAN 09 - 08 SWITZERLAND - CZECH REP. CZECH (CEC 7 + 1 CZE) 07 - RUSSIA (5 + 2 URS RUS) 07 - SLOVENIA (3 + 4 YUG SLO) 05 - 02 POLAND - GEORGIA [Under Soviet flag] 02 - UKRAINE [Under Soviet flag] 01 - CANADA 01 - ITALY 01 - SWEDEN The Italian podium carries the signature Zandanel Nile, who died last year, ranked third in 1961 behind the Soviet Koba Zakadze and German Helmut Recknagel dell''Est. Although they have been obtained under the Soviet flag, the podium of Koba Zakadze (Georgian) and Anatoly Zeglanov (Ukrainian) can not be assimilated to the Russian movement. RECORD The official record of the pad is held by Swiss Simon Ammann, landed at 143.5 meters (half past three beyond the 'Hs) the' 1 January 2010. However we should not forget how in a training jump of 31 December 2014, the Norwegian Anders Jacobsen has been pushed up to 145 meters.

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