Planica 1936

Planica 1936 was a ski jumping event, considered as the birth of ski flying, held on 15 March 1936 in Planica, Drava Banovina, Yugoslavia. Total of 16,000 people gathered to watch the competition.

Planica 1936

Host city	Planica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Sport(s)	Ski jumping, ski flying
Events	International
Main venue	Bloudkova velikanka K106

Schedule

Date	Event	Rounds	Longest jump of the day	Visitors
13 March 1936	Training	—	weather conditions; high temperatures	—
14 March 1936	Official training	1	93 metres (305 ft) by Birger Ruud (fall) 75 metres (246 ft) by Albin Novšak	N/A
15 March 1936	International event	2	85 metres (279 ft) by Gregor Höll	16,000
	Afternoon record battle	2	101.5 metres (333 ft) by Josef Bradl (WR)

Competition

Training was scheduled, on 13 March, however warm weather with warm wind caused it to be cancelled. A few jumpers did few training jumps on a smaller hill in Rateče, but encountered problems with the wind.[1][2]

On 14 March, the only training was scheduled for the afternoon, after the weather finally cleared up. Birger Ruud made the longest jump at 93 metres.[3]

The novel discipline of ski flying is considered to have been started by Josef Bradl on 15 March. The trial round began at 10:30 AM and continued with two rounds of international competition. After that, the second round was a non-competitive event with a goal of setting new world records. In the last round of the day, Sepp Bradl became the first man in history to jump over one hundred metres while standing, landing at 101.5 metres.[4][5][nb 1]

Results

Official training

15:00 PM — 14 March 1936 — chronological order

Bib	Name	Country	Dist.
1	Albin Novšak	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	75 m
2	Franc Pribošek	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	65 m
3	Jean Lesseur	Switzerland	69 m
4	Olav Ulland	Norway	68 m
5	Josef Bradl	Austria	70 m
6	Fritz Kainersdorfer	Switzerland	60 m
7	Henry Ødegård	Norway	75 m
8	Birger Ruud	Norway	93 m
9	Rudolf Rieger	Austria	74 m

Trial round

10:30 AM — 15 March 1936 — Trial jump — chronological order

Bib	Name	Country	Dist.
1	Albin Novšak	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	72 m
2	Harald Reinl	Austria	67 m
3	Oldřich Buďárek	Czechoslovakia	73 m
4	Renné Léuba	Switzerland	55 m
5	Rudolf Vrána	Czechoslovakia	60 m
6	Franz Aschenwald	Austria	68.5 m
7	Jean Lesseur	Switzerland	61 m
8	Gregor Höll	Austria	71 m
9	Rudolf Rieger	Austria	58 m
10	Jaroslav Lukeš	Czechoslovakia	61 m
11	Josef Bradl	Austria	72 m
12	Gustl Maier	Austria	64 m

International competition

11:00 AM — 15 March 1936 — Two rounds — chronological order

Bib	Name	Country	Dist.
First round
1	Harald Reinl	Austria	67.5 m
2	Oldřich Buďárek	Czechoslovakia	78 m
3	Renné Léuba	Switzerland	58 m
4	Rudolf Vrána	Czechoslovakia	63 m
5	Franc Pribošek	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	63 m
6	Albin Novšak	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	69.5 m
7	Franz Aschenwald	Austria	70.5 m
8	Jean Lesseur	Switzerland	64 m
9	Gregor Höll	Austria	72 m
10	Rudolf Rieger	Austria	71 m
11	Jaroslav Lukeš	Czechoslovakia	63 m
12	Josef Bradl	Austria	77 m
13	Gustl Maier	Austria	61 m
Second round
14	Harald Reinl	Austria	84 m
15	Oldřich Buďárek	Czechoslovakia	86 m
16	Renné Léuba	Switzerland	65.5 m
17	Rudolf Vrána	Czechoslovakia	N/A
18	Franc Pribošek	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	63 m
19	Albin Novšak	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	77 m
20	Franz Aschenwald	Austria	77 m
21	Jean Lesseur	Switzerland	71 m
22	Gregor Höll	Austria	85 m
23	Rudolf Rieger	Austria	80 m
24	Jaroslav Lukeš	Czechoslovakia	63.5 m
25	Josef Bradl	Austria	78 m
26	Gustl Maier	Austria	65.5 m

Non-competition record hunting event

Josef Bradl became the first man in history perform a standing jump over 100 metres and won the competition.[6]

13:45 PM — 15 March 1936 — Two rounds — chronological order

Bib	Name	Country	Dist.
First round, 13:45 PM
1	Jean Lesseur	Switzerland	72 m
2	Renné Léuba	Switzerland	70 m
3	Josef Bradl	Austria	88 m
4	Oldřich Buďárek	Czechoslovakia	90 m
5	Gustl Maier	Austria	70 m
6	Franz Aschenwald	Austria	74 m
7	Rudolf Rieger	Austria	82 m
8	Harald Reinl	Austria	87 m
9	Franc Pribošek	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	71 m
10	Albin Novšak	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	80 m
Second round, 14:10 PM
11	Jean Lesseur	Switzerland	77 m
12	Renné Léuba	Switzerland	72 m
13	Josef Bradl	Austria	101.5 m
14	Oldřich Buďárek	Czechoslovakia	95 m
15	Franz Aschenwald	Austria	96 m
16	Rudolf Rieger	Austria	88 m
17	Harald Reinl	Austria	98 m
18	Franc Pribošek	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	77 m
19	Albin Novšak	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	89.5 m

  World record and first recorded standing jump over 100 m
  Fall or touch

Official results

International competition

Rank	Name	Points
1	Josef Bradl	213.6
2	Gregor Höll	208.6
3	Rudolf Rieger	203.1
4	Harald Reinl	198.5
5	Franz Aschenwald	195.9
6	Jean Lesseur	188.9
7	Albin Novšak	188.8
8	Rudolf Vrána	179.2
9	Gustl Maier	178.2
10	Jaroslav Lukeš	175.7
11	Franc Pribošek	174.9
12	Oldřich Buďárek	151.5
13	Renné Léuba	0.0

Also applied this year

But non of them haven't jumped at all these days:

• Norway — Sigmund Ruud, Gunnar. K. Hagen, Björn Karlson, Kaarby (four chosen boycott)
• Austria — Walter Delle Karth Sr., Walter Weissenbacher, Erwin Ludescher
• Switzerland — Marcel Raymond, Walter Kuster

Ski flying world record

Date	Name	Country	Metres	Feet
15 March 1936	Josef Bradl	Austria	101.5	333

Boycott by Norway

Four competitors from Norway who were chosen to compete boycotted the event. They objected because the hill was bigger than allowed at the time. They demanded a hill rearrangement to the K80 standard. When negotiation with the organizers failed, they left the event the middle of the trial round and under the leadership of Sigmund Ruud.

Footnotes

1. Bradl's world record distance was published only as 101 meters, as the scoreboard allowed only three numbers to be shown. Slovene daily news Jutro published the figure and international news media cited it. The figure to full precision was 101.5 metres.

References

1. "Pred veliko prireditvijo v Planici, p.7" (in Slovenian). Slovenski narod. 14 March 1936.
2. "Pravilnik tekmovanja za kraljev pokal v Planici, p.2" (in Slovenian). Jutro. 13 March 1936.
3. "Sport: Tretji planiški praznik, p.11" (in Slovenian). Jutro. 15 March 1936.
4. "Planica -- 101 m!, p.1,2" (in Slovenian). Jutro (Monday edition). 16 March 1936.
5. "Smuške tekme na Planici brez Norvežanov, p.1" (in Slovenian). Ponedeljski Slovenec. 16 March 1936.
6. "Josef Bradl -- 101.5 metres -- Planica -- 15th March 1936". YouTube. 15 March 1936.