Yugoslavian ski jumper (1936–2012)
Miro Oman Full name Miro Oman Born (1936-01-11 ) 11 January 1936Tržič , Kingdom of Yugoslavia Died 15 July 2012(2012-07-15) (aged 76) Personal best 135 m (443 ft)Planica , 6 Mar 1969 Updated on 30 Mar 2015.
Third from the left
Miro Oman (11 January 1936 – 15 July 2012) was a Yugoslavian ski jumper .
Career
Oman competed in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. He participated at the 1962 Ski Jumping World Championships and 1964 Winter Olympics , albeit without notable results at either event.[ 1] [ 2] Between 1959 and 1966 he also competed at the Four Hills Tournament , where his best result was fifteenth place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1963.
1969: Premiere jump in Planica
On 6 March 1969, he was given the honour of being the very first to jump from the new ski flying hill in Planica, Velikanka bratov Gorišek , setting a distance of 135 metres (443 ft).[ 3] [ 4]
References
^ "Nordic World Championships: Zakopane, POL, 1962/02/21, Special Jumping 60m Hill, Krokiew Schanze" . skijump-db.net [web.archive.org] . Archived from the original on May 10, 2003. Retrieved 2 February 2012 .
^ "Nordic World Championships: Zakopane, POL, 1962/02/25, Special Jumping 90m Hill, Krokiew Schanze" . skijump-db.net [web.archive.org] . Archived from the original on December 17, 2004. Retrieved 2 February 2012 .
^ "Preizkusni skok 135 metrov" . Delo (in Slovenian). 7 March 1969. p. 1. Retrieved 28 November 2020 .
^ "Planica je nared" . Delo (in Slovenian). 7 March 1969. p. 17. Retrieved 18 November 2020 .
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