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Ogden Dunes Ski Jump

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Ogden Dunes Ski Jump

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Ogden Dunes, IN

Website

www.odhistory.org/3701/4001.html

Created

2012-04-19

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At Ogden Dunes on Lake Michigan in 1927 the construction of a ski jumping hill on a sand dune had started. From 1928 to 1932 a large annual ski jumping competition was hosted, to which up to 20,000 spectators came. Already three years later the giant steel-made jump, of which the take-off length and height was adjustable, was dismantled after the trials for 1936 Winter Games and transported to Rockford. At these five ski jumping event many ski jumping heroes of this époque were taking part, just as for example Henry Hall, Sigmund and Birger Ruud, Reidar Andersen and Anders Haugen.