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.

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/A15 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.

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.

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.

Results

Official training 15:00 PM — 14 March 1936 — chronological order Bib Name Country Dist.1 Albin Novšak 75 m2 Franc Pribošek 65 m3 Jean Lesseur 69 m4 Olav Ulland 68 m5 Josef Bradl 70 m6 Fritz Kainersdorfer 60 m7 Henry Ødegård 75 m8 Birger Ruud 93 m9 Rudolf Rieger 74 m

Trial round 10:30 AM — 15 March 1936 — Trial jump — chronological order Bib Name Country Dist.1 Albin Novšak 72 m2 Harald Reinl 67 m3 Oldřich Buďárek 73 m4 Renné Léuba 5 Rudolf Vrána 60 m6 Franz Aschenwald 68.5 m7 Jean Lesseur 61 m8 Gregor Höll 71 m9 Rudolf Rieger 58 m10 Jaroslav Lukeš 61 m11 Josef Bradl 72 m12 Gustl Maier 64 m

International competition 11:00 AM — 15 March 1936 — Two rounds — chronological order Bib Name Country Dist.First round1 Harald Reinl 67.5 m2 Oldřich Buďárek 78 m3 Renné Léuba 58 m 4 Rudolf Vrána 63 m5 Franc Pribošek 63 m6 Albin Novšak 69.5 m7 Franz Aschenwald 70.5 m8 Jean Lesseur 64 m9 Gregor Höll 72 m10 Rudolf Rieger 71 m11 Jaroslav Lukeš 63 m12 Josef Bradl 77 m13 Gustl Maier 61 mSecond round14 Harald Reinl 84 m15 Oldřich Buďárek 86 m16 Renné Léuba 65.5 m 17 Rudolf Vrána N/A18 Franc Pribošek 63 m19 Albin Novšak 77 m20 Franz Aschenwald 77 m21 Jean Lesseur 71 m22 Gregor Höll 85 m23 Rudolf Rieger 80 m24 Jaroslav Lukeš 63.5 m25 Josef Bradl 78 m26 Gustl Maier 65.5 m

Non-competition record hunting event

13:45 PM — 15 March 1936 — Two rounds — chronological order Bib Name Country Dist.First round, 13:45 PM1 Jean Lesseur 72 m2 Renné Léuba 70 m 3 Josef Bradl 88 m4 Oldřich Buďárek 90 m5 Gustl Maier 70 m6 Franz Aschenwald 74 m7 Rudolf Rieger 82 m8 Harald Reinl 87 m9 Franc Pribošek 71 m10 Albin Novšak 80 mSecond round, 14:10 PM11 Jean Lesseur 77 m12 Renné Léuba 72 m 13 Josef Bradl 101.5 m14 Oldřich Buďárek 95 m15 Franz Aschenwald 96 m16 Rudolf Rieger 88 m17 Harald Reinl 98 m18 Franc Pribošek 77 m19 Albin Novšak 89.5 m World record and first recorded standing jump over 100 m Fall or touch

Official results

International competition Rank Name Points1 Josef Bradl 213.6 2 Gregor Höll 208.63 Rudolf Rieger 203.14 Harald Reinl 198.5 5 Franz Aschenwald 195.96 Jean Lesseur 188.97 Albin Novšak 188.88 Rudolf Vrána 179.29 Gustl Maier 178.210 Jaroslav Lukeš 175.7 11 Franc Pribošek 174.912 Oldřich Buďárek 151.513 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 101.5333

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.

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