Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex

The Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex, also known as the MacKenzie Intervale Ski Jumping Complex, consists of HS100- and HS128-meter ski jump towers built for the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Modernized and lengthened in 2021, they are the only jumps in North America homologated for winter and summer jumping competitions.^[1] The complex is operated by the Olympic Regional Development Authority.^[2]

Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex
MacKenzie Intervale
Location	Lake Placid, New York,  United States
Operator	Olympic Regional Development Authority
Opened	21 February 1921 (Large) December 1978 (Normal)
Renovated	2021
Expanded	1923, 1932, 1950, 1965, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1994, 2011, 2021
Size
K–point	90 metres (300 ft) 115 metres (377 ft)
Hill size	100 metres (330 ft) 128 metres (420 ft)
Hill record	136 metres (446 ft) Ryōyū Kobayashi (11 February 2023)
Top events
Olympics	1932, 1980
World Championships	1950

The 128-meter jump features an Observation deck which offers views of nearby John Brown's Farm and the surrounding High Peaks of the Adirondacks.^[3] Training and competition for Nordic ski jumping takes place year round thanks to a plastic mat out-run on the 90m jump. The Freestyle Aerial Training Center is located to the right of the base of the jump towers. Aerialists can train in the summer months by jumping into a 750,000 gallon pool.^[4]

In 2018, funding was approved to upgrade the tracks with cooling to ensure winter operation. Also, the smaller hills will be upgraded to current FIS standards with a safer spread of heights for jumpers to progress. This is in tandem with a number of major games being hosted by Lake Placid over the next few years.

On 11 February 2023, the complex hosted the first World Cup Men's super team (pairs) event in history.

Hill parameters

• Construction point: 115 m
• Hill size (HS): 128 m
• Official hill record: 136.0 metres (446.2 ft) – Ryōyū Kobayashi (11 February 2023)
• Inrun length: 98.07 m
• Inrun angle: 35.1°
• Take-off length: 6.89 m
• Take-off angle: 11°
• Take-off height: 3.08 m
• Landing angle: 34.1°
• Average speed: 93.1 km/h
• Homologation source: ^[5]

History

The Lake Placid Club built the first ski jump on this site in 1920, using the hillside itself as the jump surface. The jump was referred to as the Intervales 35-meter jump. On 21 February 1921, the first competition was held at this site, drawing 3,000 spectators. The record jump for the day was 124 feet, set by Antony Maurer. In 1923, the jump was enlarged to fifty meters, and in 1927, a new steel tower was built, raising the jump to 60 meters. In 1928, the tower was raised to 75 meters; this was the tower used for the 1932 Winter Olympic Games. In 1977, the old tower was demolished to make way for new 70 and 90-meter jumps, used for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games. In 1994, the landing hills were re-graded to bring the jumps into compliance with current rules, and increasing their height to 90 and 120 meters.^[6] In 2019, a pulse gondola was installed to replace an aging double chair which served the ski jumps.^[7] In 2021, both jumps received upgrades that enabled year-round training and increased reliability, in addition to a new base lodge.^[8][9]

The towers were built using a jacking system that lifted and poured concrete into the forms continuously, night and day, for 15 days for the larger jump, and 9 days for the smaller one.^{[citation needed]}

The present record jumps stand at 105 meters for the 90-meter jump, set by Henry Loher, of Lake Placid, and 136.0 meters for the 120-meter jump, set by Ryōyū Kobayashi of Japan.

Ski jumping events

Winter Olympic Games

The complex was a venue in the 1932 Winter Olympics and 1980 Winter Olympics.^[10][11]

Olympic podiums

Year	Date	Hill	Winner	Second place	Third place	Ref
↓ Men's Individual ↓
1932	12 February	K60	Birger Ruud	Hans Beck	Kåre Walberg	[12]
1980	17 February	K86	Toni Innauer	Hirokazu Yagi Manfred Deckert		[13]
	23 February	K114	Jouko Törmänen	Hubert Neuper	Jari Puikkonen

FIS Nordic World Championships

Year	Date	Hill	Winner	Second place	Third place	Ref
↓ Men's Individual ↓
1950	5 February	K61	Hans Bjørnstad	Thure Lindgren	Arnfinn Bergmann	[14]

FIS World Cup

Season	Date	Hill	Winner	Second place	Third place	Ref
↓ Men's Individual ↓
1982/83	15 January	K114	Matti Nykänen	Armin Kogler	Jeff Hastings	[15]
	16 January	K114	Matti Nykänen	Armin Kogler	Steinar Bråten	[16]
1983/84	17 December	K86	Primož Ulaga	Matti Nykänen	Horst Bulau Jeff Hastings	[17]
	18 December	K114	Jeff Hastings	Primož Ulaga	Jiří Parma	[18]
1984/85	15 December	K114	Andreas Felder	Jiří Parma	Ernst Vettori	[19]
	16 December	K86	Andreas Felder	Jari Puikkonen	Per Bergerud	[20]
1985/86	14 December	K114	Vegard Opaas	Primož Ulaga	Pavel Ploc	[21]
	15 December	K86	Franz Neuländtner	Ernst Vettori	Steve Collins	[22]
1986/87	13 December	K114	Vegard Opaas	Ernst Vettori	Primož Ulaga	[23]
	14 December	K86	Ernst Vettori	Primož Ulaga	Vegard Opaas	[24]
1987/88	12 December	K114	Pavel Ploc	Dieter Thoma	Andreas Bauer	[25]
	13 December	K86	Pavel Ploc	Jiří Parma	Vegard Opaas	[26]
1988/89	10 December	K114	Jan Boklöv	Ernst Vettori	Pekka Suorsa	[27]
	11 December	K86	Vegard Opaas	Ernst Vettori	Thomas Klauser	[28]
1989/90	9 December	K114	Ernst Vettori	Matti Nykänen	Jan Boklöv	[29]
	10 December	K86	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Ernst Vettori	Andreas Felder
1990/91	1 December	K86	Andreas Felder	Ari-Pekka Nikkola	Anssi Nieminen	[30]
	2 December	K114	André Kiesewetter	Stephan Zünd	Ernst Vettori
2022/23	11 February	HS128	Andreas Wellinger	Ryōyū Kobayashi	Daniel Tschofenig	[31]
	12 February	HS128	Halvor Egner Granerud	Andreas Wellinger	Stefan Kraft	[32]
2023/24	10 February	HS128	Lovro Kos	Ryōyū Kobayashi	Marius Lindvik	[33]
	11 February	HS128	Stefan Kraft	Lovro Kos Philipp Raimund	–	[34]
2024/25	8 February	HS128	Johann André Forfang	Jan Hörl	Daniel Tschofenig	[35]
	9 February	HS128	Daniel Tschofenig	Jan Hörl	Anže Lanišek	[36]
↓ Women's Individual ↓
2024/25	7 February	HS128	Nika Prevc	Eirin Maria Kvandal	Alexandria Loutitt	[37]
	8 February	HS128	Nika Prevc	Agnes Reisch	Selina Freitag	[38]
↓ Men's Super team ↓
2022/23	11 February	HS128	Poland Dawid Kubacki Piotr Żyła	Austria Daniel Tschofenig Stefan Kraft	Japan Ryoyu Kobayashi Naoki Nakamura	[39]
2023/24	10 February	HS128	Austria Michael Hayböck Stefan Kraft	Germany Philipp Raimund Andreas Wellinger	Norway Johann André Forfang Marius Lindvik	[40]
↓ Mixed team ↓
2024/25	8 February	HS128	Germany 1. Agnes Reisch 2. Philipp Raimund 3. Selina Freitag 4. Andreas Wellinger	Norway 1. Thea Minyan Bjørseth 2. Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal 3. Eirin Maria Kvandal 4. Johann André Forfang	Austria 1. Lisa Eder 2. Jan Hörl 3. J. Seifriedsberger 4. Daniel Tschofenig	[41]

FIS Junior Nordic World Championships

Season	Date	Hill	Winner	Second place	Third place	Ref
↓ Men's Individual ↓
1986	16 February	K114	Virginio Lunardi	Christian Rimmel	Clas Brede Bråthen	[42]
↓ Men's team ↓
1986	13 February	HS128	West Germany Dieter Thoma Christian Rimmel Robert Leonhardt Friedrich Braun	Italy Virginio Lunardi Carlo Pinzani Paolo Rigoni	Soviet Union Juri Durinov Michail Esin Sergej Badenko Evgeny Vashurin	[43]

FISU Winter World University Games

Year	Date	Hill	Winner	Second place	Third place	Ref
↓ Men's Individual ↓
1972	5 March	K70	Hideki Nakano	Gariy Napalkov	Yuriy Kalinin	[44][45]
2023	16 January	HS100	Danil Vassilyev	Maximilian Lienher	Timon-Pascal Kahofer	[46]
↓ Women's Individual ↓
2023	16 January	HS100	Nicole Konderla	Machiko Kubota	Kinga Rajda	[47]
↓ Mixed team ↓
2023	18 January	HS100	Poland I Nicole Konderla Adam Niżnik	Japan Machiko Kubota Ryusei Ikeda	Poland II Kinga Rajda Szymon Jojko	[48]
↓ Men's team ↓
2023	20 January	HS100	Austria Timon-Pascal Kahofer Maximilian Lienher	Kazakhstan Sergey Tkachenko Danil Vassilyev	Japan Sakutaro Kobayashi Ryusei Ikeda	[49]
↓ Women's team ↓
2023	20 January	HS100	Poland I Kinga Rajda Nicole Konderla	Poland II Paulina Cieślar Anna Twardosz	Japan Miki Ikeda Machiko Kubota	[50]

Other

• Winter Goodwill Games: 2000