The return of Hinzterzarten, the "Great Classical" of the Summer Grand Prix

In the coming days in Hinterzarten, Germany, is disputer & agrave; the second stage of the Summer Grand Prix 2015 in ski jumping. The resort & agrave; German, returning after a year's absence, can & ograve; in all respects it is considered the "Classicissima" of the maximum circuit on plastic.

Thursday 6 August 2015 4 minutes reading time

In fact the history of GP starts right in the resort & agrave; Baden-WÃ¼; rttemberg. On 28 August 1994 he held the first race of Plastic summer version of the World Cup. For the record he imposed the Japanese Takanobu Okabe ahead of Frenchman Nicolas Dessum and German Jens Wei & szlig; log. Since then Hinterzarten & egrave; always been included in the calendar of the Grand Prix, except for 2014. No other system can & ograve; boast a militancy of 20 different seasons in the maximum summer circuit (Courchevel & egrave; to 19, including the current one). It garegger & agrave; the Rothaus-Schanze (K95 / HS108) pi & ugrave; great Four Hills that make up the 'Adler-Skistadion which includes also the' Energiedienst-Schanze (K15), the Sch & uuml; lerschanze (K30) and the 'Europa-Park-Schanze (K70). The program provides for the team event from 20:00 to Friday & Igrave; The seventh, qualifying at 18.30 on Saturday 8 followed, starting from 20.00, the individual competition. On the hillside site where the Rothaus-Schanze, the ski jump is practiced since 1924. The 'current structure & egrave; It was built between 1980 and 1982 and & egrave; It has been the object's Last renovation in 1999. Until today in Hinterzarten have played 22 individual events Summer Grand Prix, won, over the years, from fourteen different athletes. The record holders in terms of success are the Austrians Andreas widh & ouml; LZL and Thomas Morgenstern, impostisi 3 times. It goes to & ograve; remarked how the Carinthian is the 'only one who excelled in three summers (2003, 2007, 2011), while the Tyrolean benefited from two wins in twenty-four hours from the 2002 exercise, which was followed by that of 2000 . Among the jumpers activities & agrave; have claims on the Rothaus-Schanze only Simon Ammann (2009), Andreas Wank (2012) and Richard Freitag (2013). Are as many as 11 people who were up at least once on the podium (Janne Ahonen, Noriaki Kasai, Andreas Kofler, Gregor Schlierenzauer, Denis Kornilov, Kalle Keituri, Kamil Stoch, Reruhi Shimizu, Lukas Hlava, Andreas Wellinger, Matjaz Pungertar). Specifically & egrave; the curious case of the thirty-eight Finnish. Ahonen fact & egrave; arrived 4 times second (1998, 1999, 2002, 2005) without ever winning. The record summer coincides with the jump pi & ugrave; longest ever made on the Rothaus-Schanze, including winter, and dates back to August 6, 2000. On that day the 'ventotenne then Noriaki Kasai went up to 112.5 meters, more than four point Hs.

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