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History
As is the
case with other Nordic sports, ski jumping was introduced to the United States
by Scandinavian immigrants.
Eight years after Norwegian immigrants built a ski jump in 1882 in Berlin,
N.H., the Nansen Ski Club was formed in
honor of explorer Fridtjof Nansen of Norway. The club hosted jumping meets
into the 1970s and remains the nation's
oldest continuously operating club. Jumping distances grew dramatically between
the first major jumping event in
Oslo in 1879, during which the winner made a 66-foot jump, and 20 years later,
when that distance almost doubled to
117 feet. Henry Hall, a Norwegian immigrant, shattered that record in 1917,
by jumping 203 feet at Steamboat Springs,
Colorado. USA
Ski jumping
has been included in the Winter Olympic Games since they began in 1924 in
Chamonix, France, but it
was not until 1964 that the large hill competition was introduced to accompany
the normal hill event.
World championships for ski jumping began in 1925, and a World Cup tour was
established in 1980.
There never have been any ski jumping events for women in the Winter Olympics.
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