Miro Oman
| Miro Oman | |
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| Full name | Miro Oman |
| Born | 11 January 1936 Tržič, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Died | 15 July 2012 (aged 76) |
| Personal best | 135 m (443 ft) Planica, 6 Mar 1969 |
| Updated on 30 Mar 2015. | |
Miro Oman (11 January 1936 – 15 July 2012) was a Yugoslavian ski jumper.
Career[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ "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.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "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.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "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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