# Čerťák

Čerťák is a ski jumping stadium with two hills in Harrachov in the Czech Republic.
It was built in 1979 and both hill officially opened in 1980. The venue is most notable for being one of five ski flying hills in the world, though it also has three smaller hills close by. It is owned by the sports club TJ Jiskra Harrachov. Audience capacity is about 50,000. Despite being a flying hill, only two world records have ever set at Čerťák, both in the 1980s. It was also during this time, and into the early 1990s, that many horrific accidents occurred.

## The hills

The hills are located on the north side of the mountain Čertova hora, not far from the border to Poland. The first hill in Harrachov was built in 1922, but at a different location in town. Later in the 1920s the first hill in Čerťák was built. It was eventually expanded and supplemented with more hills. The ski flying hill was built in 1979 and opened in March 1980.
The large hill in Harrachov was built at the same time as the ski flying hill, and renovated in 1992. This hill has a K-point of 125 m and a hill size of 142 m. The official record is 145.5 m, set by Janne Ahonen on 12 December 2004 during the 2004–05 World Cup season. The unofficial record is 151 m set by Martin Koch (Austria) on 17 December 2004 in a Continental Cup event.
The normal hill has K-point of 90 m, a hill size of 100 m and a hill record of 102.5 m. The two smaller hills have K-points of 70 m (hill record 77 m) and K-point 40 meters (hill record 43.5 m). The standard hill has plastic mats, allowing summer use.
The ski flying hill in Harrachov garnered an early reputation of being quite dangerous from which to jump. In its early years, jumpers achieved a significant height over the knoll, up to 12 m. The result of this height was that a gust of wind or error from the jumper could end catastrophically, and there were indeed many injuries from bad falls. During the World Championship in 1983, injuries were suffered by Steinar Bråten, Horst Bulau and Jens Weißflog. In 1985, Pavel Ploc suffered a violent crash. The venue was eventually closed by the FIS and rebuilt between 1989 and 1992, and has since kept the requirements from FIS. Accidents have still occurred, however: in 1992, Andreas Goldberger fell out of the air at the highest point of his jump and crashed very hard.

## Events
### Normal hill

| Date | Hillsize | Competition | Winner | Second | Third align=right| |
| 12 December 1997 | K90 | WC | Masahiko Harada | Primož Peterka Dieter Thoma | |

### Large hill

| Date | Hillsize | Competition | Winner | Second | Third |
| 10 January 1981 | K120 | WC | Roger Ruud | Armin Kogler | Per Bergerud Hubert Neuper |
| 8 January 1983 | K120 | WC | Holger Freitag | Markku Pusenius | Klaus Ostwald |
| 9 January 1983 | K120 | WC | Pavel Ploc | Klaus Ostwald | Markku Pusenius |
| 14 January 1984 | K120 | WC | Jiří Parma | Jens Weißflog | Pavel Ploc |
| 11 January 1986 | K120 | WC | Matti Nykänen | Ernst Vettori | Jiří Parma |
| 10 January 1988 | K120 | WC | cancelled | cancelled | cancelled |
| 15 January 1989 | K120 | WC | Jan Boklöv | Risto Laakonen | Ladislav Dluhoš |
| 12 January 1990 | K120 | WC | Dieter Thoma | Ladislav Dluhoš | Jiří Parma |
| 16 January 1993 | K120 | WC | lack of snow | lack of snow | lack of snow |
| 17 January 1993 | K120 | WC | lack of snow | lack of snow | lack of snow |
| 14 December 1996 | K120 | WC | Kazuyoshi Funaki | Primož Peterka | Takanobu Okabe |
| 15 December 1996 | K120 | WC | Primož Peterka | Andreas Goldberger | Kristian Brenden |
| 19 December 1998 | K120 | WC | Janne Ahonen | Ronny Hornschuh | Kazuyoshi Funaki |
| 20 December 1998 | K120 | WC | Janne Ahonen | Noriaki Kasai | Andreas Widhölzl |
| 7 February 1999 | K120 | WC (rep FH) | Janne Ahonen | Lasse Ottesen | Jakub Sucháček |
| 11 December 2004 | HS142 | WC | Adam Małysz | Janne Ahonen | Georg Späth |
| 12 December 2004 | HS142 | WC | Janne Ahonen | Roar Ljøkelsøy | Jakub Janda |
| 10 December 2005 | HS142 | WC | Andreas Küttel | Michael Uhrmann | Janne Ahonen |
| 11 December 2005 | HS142 | WC | Jakub Janda | Janne Ahonen | Andreas Küttel |
| 9 December 2006 | HS142 | WC | lack of snow | lack of snow | lack of snow |
| 10 December 2006 | HS142 | WC | lack of snow | lack of snow | lack of snow |
| 12 December 2009 | HS142 | WC | lack of snow | lack of snow | lack of snow |
| 13 December 2009 | HS142 | WC | lack of snow | lack of snow | lack of snow |
| 11 December 2010 | HS142 | WC | strong wind; rescheduled to Engelberg | strong wind; rescheduled to Engelberg | strong wind; rescheduled to Engelberg |
| 12 December 2010 | HS142 | WC | strong wind; rescheduled to Zakopane | strong wind; rescheduled to Zakopane | strong wind; rescheduled to Zakopane |
| 9 December 2011 | HS142 | WC | Gregor Schlierenzauer | Daiki Ito | Anders Bardal |
| 10 December 2011 | HS142 | WC-T | Norway Tom Hilde Bjørn Einar Romøren Vegard Sklett Anders Bardal | Austria Thomas Morgenstern David Zauner Andreas Kofler Gregor Schlierenzauer | Slovenia Jernej Damjan Jure Šinkovec Peter Prevc Robert Kranjec |
| 11 December 2011 | HS142 | WC | Richard Freitag | Thomas Morgenstern | Severin Freund |

### Flying hill

| Date | Hillsize | Competition | Winner | Second | Third |
| 28-29 March 1980 | K165 | KOP | Steve Collins | Armin Kogler | Tom Levorstad |
| 19-20 March 1983 | K185 | SFWC | Klaus Ostwald | Pavel Ploc | Matti Nykänen |
| 23 February 1985 | K185 | WC | Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl | Miran Tepeš | Jiří Parma |
| 24 February 1985 | K185 | WC | strong wind | strong wind | strong wind |
| 18 March 1989 | K185 | WC | Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl | Mike Holland | Jan Boklöv |
| 19 March 1989 | K185 | WC | strong wind | strong wind | strong wind |
| 21 March 1992 | K185 | SFWC(d1) / WC | Noriaki Kasai | Andreas Goldberger | Roberto Cecon |
| 22 March 1992 | K185 | SFWC(d2) / WC | stopped and cancelled; strong wind | stopped and cancelled; strong wind | stopped and cancelled; strong wind |
| World Championships Overall (21-22 March) | World Championships Overall (21-22 March) | World Championships Overall (21-22 March) | Noriaki Kasai | Andreas Goldberger | Roberto Cecon |
| 9 March 1996 | K185 | WC | Andreas Goldberger | Christof Duffner | Jaroslav Sakala |
| 9 March 1996 | K185 | WC | cancelled | cancelled | cancelled |
| 6 February 1999 | K185 | WC | next day on large hill | next day on large hill | next day on large hill |
| 13 January 2001 | K185 | WC | Adam Małysz | Martin Schmitt | Risto Jussilainen |
| 14 January 2001 | K185 | WC | Adam Małysz | Janne Ahonen | Martin Schmitt |
| 10 March 2002 | K185 | SFWC | Sven Hannawald | Martin Schmitt | Matti Hautamäki |
| 19 January 2008 | HS205 | WC | strong wind | strong wind | strong wind |
| 20 January 2008 | HS205 | WC | Janne Ahonen | Tom Hilde | Anders Jacobsen |
| (night) 8 January 2011 | HS205 | WC | Martin Koch | Thomas Morgenstern | Adam Małysz |
| 9 January 2011 | HS205 | WC | Thomas Morgenstern | Simon Ammann | Roman Koudelka |
| (night) 2 February 2013 | HS205 | WC | first event next day | first event next day | first event next day |
| 3 February 2013 | HS205 | WC | Gregor Schlierenzauer | Robert Kranjec | Jan Matura |
| 3 February 2013 | HS205 | WC | Gregor Schlierenzauer | Jan Matura | Jurij Tepeš |
| (night) 15 March 2014 | HS205 | SFWC-I | Severin Freund | Anders Bardal | Peter Prevc |
| 17 March 2014 | HS205 | SFWC-T | strong wind | strong wind | strong wind |

## Hill record
### Large hill

| Date | | Length |
| 5 January 1980 | Ladislav Jirásko | 59.0 m (194 ft) |
| 6 January 1980 | František Novotný | 75.0 m (246 ft) |
| 6 January 1980 | Jaroslav Balcar | 88.0 m (289 ft) |
| 6 January 1980 | Ivo Peterka | 91.0 m (299 ft) |
| 6 January 1980 | Břetislav Počík | 97.0 m (318 ft) |
| 6 January 1980 | Ladislav Jirásko | 101.0 m (331 ft) |
| 6 January 1980 | Ivo Felix | 103.0 m (338 ft) |
| 6 January 1980 | Ivo Felix | 109.0 m (358 ft) |
| 10 January 1981 | Armin Kogler | 122.0 m (400 ft) |
| 6 February 1983 | Pavel Ploc | 122.0 m (400 ft) |
| Date | | Length |
| 13 January 1985 | Pavel Ploc | 123.0 m (404 ft) |
| 13 January 1996 | Andreas Goldberger | 129.0 m (423 ft) |
| 14 January 1996 | Jakub Sucháček | 137.0 m (449 ft) |
| 14 January 1996 | Kazuyoshi Funaki | 140.0 m (459 ft) |
| 14 January 1996 | Kazuyoshi Funaki | 141.5 m (464 ft) |
| 10 December 2004 | Andreas Widhölzl | 142.0 m (466 ft) |
| 11 December 2004 | Adam Małysz | 143.0 m (469 ft) |
| 12 December 2004 | Janne Ahonen | 145.5 m (477 ft) |
| 17 December 2004 | Martin Koch | 151.0 m (495 ft) |

### Flying hill

Official
Date
Length
27 March 1980   Armin Kogler176.0 m (577 ft)
19 March 1983   Pavel Ploc181.0 m (594 ft)
23 February 1985   Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl183.0 m (600 ft)
9 March 1996   Roar Ljøkelsøy201.0 m (659 ft)
9 March 1996   Andreas Goldberger201.0 m (659 ft)
9 March 1996   Jakub Jiroutek201.0 m (659 ft)
9 March 1996   Jan Balcar203.0 m (666 ft)
9 March 1996   Andreas Goldberger204.0 m (669 ft)
Date
Length
13 January 2001   Matti Hautamäki205.0 m (673 ft)
13 January 2001   Janne Ahonen206.5 m (677 ft)
13 January 2001   Adam Małysz206.5 m (677 ft)
14 January 2001   Risto Jussilainen212.5 m (697 ft)
9 March 2002   Anders Bardal212.5 m (697 ft)
9 March 2002   Matti Hautamäki214.5 m (704 ft)
18 March 2008   Thomas Morgenstern214.5 m (704 ft)
Invalid
Date
Length
22 March 1992   Christof Duffner194.0 m (636 ft)
19 January 2008   Thomas Morgenstern214.5 m (704 ft)
9 January 2011   Simon Ammann215.5 m (707 ft)
3 February 2013   Jurij Tepeš220.0 m (722 ft) :