Kulm is a ski flying hill located in Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf, Styria, Austria opened in 1950."Tauplitz, Bad Mitterndorf" . skisprungschanzen.com. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
In 2003, The women's world record at 200 metres was set by Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, who at the time was the only woman in history to have jumped over two hundred meters.
Furthermore, the men's world record has been set three times at Kulm (1962, 1965 and 1986).
This hill is one of only five of its type in the world, allowing for jumps of more than 240 metres. The current hill record of 245.5 m (802 ft) was set by Domen Prevc on 1st March 2026.
They hosted the five FIS Ski Flying World Championships here in 1975, 1986, 1996, 2006, and 2016.
In 2015, the hill was last renovated to a current K200 and HS235, with much longer jumps possible.
History
1948/49: Hill construction Construction began in 1948 under leadership Viktor Stüger, president of Salzkammergut Ski Association, completed in 1949 as the largest natural ski jumping hill in the world, designed by Ing. Hans Peyerl.
1950: First unofficial event held On 8–12 March 1950, opening International Ski Flying Week competition was held on new built ski flying hill. Hubert Neuper Sr. was honoured to be the first to try new hill. The last two days counted for "Longest Ski Jump" competition won by Rudi Dietrich (103 metres) ahead of Hans Eder (102 m) and third placed shared by Werfener Huber and Fritz Ruepp (both 94 metres). However, International Ski Federation (FIS) did not approve the hill and not even this unofficial competition, as it turned out to be, that hill was very poorly and insufficiently built, by far from the International standards valid back then.
1951: Second unofficial event held On 16–18 March 1951, second International Ski Flying Week, an unofficial competition was held in front of total 15,000 people. Summary of total length of four jumps counted into final score. Already on first day, Bradl set new hill record at 115 meters. He was also the winner of the 4 jumps competition with 530 meters in total, in front of the 2nd ranked West German Sepp Hohenleitner (504 meters) and the 3rd ranked Rudi Dietrich (501 meters). Hill was rebuilt with many improvements, but to receive approval from the FIS to organize the official International Ski Flying Week, further requirements had to be met. Hill was again re-designed by Ing. Hans Peyerl in cooperation with the ski jumping FIS consultant Ing. Straumann.
In 1952, Salzkammergut Ski Association, governed body responsible for the hill was dissolved, because Ausseerland came back to Styria. In this way, it was possible to make this hill a top priority for the Styrian state government, which assigned the responsibility to the Styrian Ski Association.
1953: Hill officially opened with FIS approval On 27 February–1 March 1953, three-day competition, 1st official "FIS International Ski Flying Week", finally recognized by FIS due to many upgrades. About 50,000 people visited the event. Josef Bradl won the competition with 449.8 points ahead of Andreas Däscher and Roy Sherwood.
On 10–11 March 1956, two-day competition, 2nd official "International Ski Flying Week" was held. Total four jumps counted into official result, two best jumps from each day. Peter Lesser won the event with total 428.5 points ahead of Veikko Heinonen (FIN) and Olaf B. Bjørnstad (NOR).
On 20–22 March 1959, three-day competition, 3rd official "International Ski Flying Week" was held, on the last day alone crowd of 30,000 people. Six jumps in total, two best from each day counted into official result. Torbjørn Yggeseth (NOR), founder of FIS World Cup won the event.
1962: Lesser set first world record On 1–4 March 1962, three-day competition, 4th official "International Ski Flying Week" was held. Already on the first day, at the official training, East German Peter Lesser tied the world record with Jože Šlibar (Oberstdorf 1961), first on this hill, at 141 m (463 ft). His teammate Helmut Recknagel won ahead of two West Germans Wolfgang Happle and Max Bolkart, watched by more than 40,000 people on Sunday, the last day alone.
1965: Lesser set second world record On 19–21 March 1965, three-day competition, "K.O.P. International Ski Flying Week" was held. First day (Friday) counted as official training, but also as a reserved date, if one of two competition days (Saturday or Sunday) was cancelled, would be calculated into official result. Already on first day, Bjørn Wirkola fell at world record distance at 144 meters (472 ft). On Saturday, Peter Lesser also fell at world record distance at 147 metres (482 ft). On Sunday, in front of 30,000 people, Peter Lesser set official world record for the second time here after three years at 145.5 metres (477 ft).
1971: Competition blown away On 19–21 March 1971, three-day competition, "K.O.P. International Ski Flying Week", which would also be counting for "Europa Cup", was due to strong wind all three days, first and only time in history completely cancelled. Only four trial jumpers managed to perform the last day. Saturday and Sunday results were planned to count into official results, and if one of them was cancelled, Friday results would be counting as a reserve.
1986: Horrible crashes and WR tied On 8–9 March 1986, Kulm hosted "9th FIS Ski Flying World Championships" at enlarged and rebuilt with new K185 point, renovation plan inspired by Planica. More than 50,000 people in total visited in all three days. It started great already on official training (Friday), with new hill record at 188 meters (617 ft) set by Austrian Franz Neuländtner. On the last day (Sunday), Masahiro Akimoto, Ulf Findeisen and Rolf Åge Berg crashed very hard, from high in the air direct to the ground. Four best jumps in total (2 of 3 best jumps each day) counted into final results. For the great final Andreas Felder who became world champion, set the world record at 191 m (627 feet) and equaled it with Matti Nykänen (1985).
1996: World Championships counted also for World Cup On 10–11 February 1996, two-day competition "14th FIS Ski Flying World Championships", with each day also counting for FIS World Cup, was held. Total of 130,000 people gathered in all four days. It all started with free training on Thursday, when Jens Weißflog (201 m) became the first who managed to surpass two-hundred-meter mark on this hill and 8th jump over this barrier in history. Andreas Goldberger became world champion in front of home crowd with total four jumps, two from each day counting (183, 183, 194 and 198 m), with final score of total 738.1 points.
Events
DateYearHillsizeWinnerSecondThird ↓ International Ski Flying Week ↓(FIS did not officially recognize those two competitions)11–12 March 1950 K95 Rudi Dietrich Hans Eder Werfener Huber Fritz Ruepp16–18 March 1951 K95 Sepp Bradl Sepp Hohenleitner Rudi Dietrich↓ FIS International Ski Flying Week ↓27 February — 1 March 1953 K120 Sepp Bradl Andreas Däscher Roy Sherwood10–11 March 1956 K120 Werner Lesser Veikko Heinonen Olaf B. Bjørnstad 20–22 March 1959 K120 Torbjørn Yggeseth Helmut Recknagel Walter Habersatter 2–4 March 1962 K120 Helmut Recknagel Wolfgang Happle Max Bolkart↓ International Ski Flying Week ↓19–21 March 1965 K120 Henrik Ohlmeyer Bernd Karwofsky Peter Lesser3 March 1968 K120 Zbyněk Hubač Reinhold Bachler Jiří Raška ↓ K.O.P. International Ski Flying Week = FIS Europa Cup ↓19–21 March 1971 K120 strong wind all three days; only four jumps held in total ↓ 3rd FIS Ski Flying World Championships ↓14–16 March 1975 K165 Karel Kodejška Rainer Schmidt Karl Schnabl ↓ K.O.P. International Ski Flying Week ↓3–5 March 1978 K165 Peter Leitner Falko Weißpflog Alois Lipburger↓ FIS World Cup ↓12 March 1982 K165 Matti Nykänen Hubert Neuper Andreas Felder 13 March Hubert Neuper Matti Nykänen Ole Bremseth 14 March Hubert Neuper Ole Bremseth Armin Kogler ↓ 9th FIS Ski Flying World Championships ↓8–9 March 1986 K185 Andreas Felder Franz Neuländtner Matti Nykänen ↓ FIS World Cup ↓23 February 1991 K185 Stephan Zünd Ari-Pekka Nikkola Per-Inge Tällberg 24 February Stefan Horngacher Ralph Gebstedt Heinz Kuttin 30 January 1993 K185 Jaroslav Sakala Werner Haim Andreas Goldberger 31 January Jaroslav Sakala Didier Mollard Andreas Goldberger ↓ 14th FIS Ski Flying World Championships = FIS World Cup ↓10 February 1996 K185 Janne Ahonen Andreas Goldberger Ari-Pekka Nikkola 11 February Andreas Goldberger Christof Duffner Janne Ahonen Championships (10–11 February) Andreas Goldberger Janne Ahonen Urban Franc↓ FIS World Cup ↓8 February 1997 K185 Takanobu Okabe Andreas Goldberger Primož Peterka 9 February Primož Peterka Andreas Goldberger Takanobu Okabe 19 February 2000 K185 Sven Hannawald Andreas Widhölzl Tommy Ingebrigtsen 20 February cancelled due to strong wind 1 February 2003 K185 Florian Liegl Sven Hannawald Adam Małysz 2 February Sven Hannawald Florian Liegl Matti Hautamäki 15 January 2005 HS200 Andreas Widhölzl Roar Ljøkelsøy Adam Małysz 16 January Adam Małysz Andreas Widhölzl Risto Jussilainen↓ 19th FIS Ski Flying World Championships ↓13–14 January 2006 HS200 Roar Ljøkelsøy Andreas Widhölzl Thomas Morgenstern 15 January ↓ FIS World Cup ↓10 January 2009 HS200 Gregor Schlierenzauer Simon Ammann Martin Koch 11 January Gregor Schlierenzauer Harri Olli Simon Ammann 9 January 2010 HS200 Robert Kranjec Simon Ammann Martin Koch 10 January Gregor Schlierenzauer Robert Kranjec Harri Olli 14 January 2012 HS200 strong wind; postponed to the next day morning as event No.1 15 January Robert Kranjec Thomas Morgenstern Anders Bardal 15 January Anders Bardal Daiki Ito Kamil Stoch 11 January 2014 HS200 Noriaki Kasai Peter Prevc Gregor Schlierenzauer 12 January Peter Prevc Gregor Schlierenzauer Noriaki Kasai 10 January 2015 HS225 Severin Freund Stefan Kraft Jurij Tepeš11 January cancelled due to strong wind ↓ 24th FIS Ski Flying World Championships ↓15–16 January 2016 HS225 Peter Prevc Kenneth Gangnes Stefan Kraft 17 January ↓ FIS World Cup ↓13 January 2018 HS235 Andreas Stjernen Daniel-André Tande Simon Ammann14 January cancelled due to strong wind 15 February 2020 HS235 Piotr Żyła Timi Zajc Stefan Kraft16 February Stefan Kraft Ryōyū Kobayashi Timi Zajc28 January 2023 HS235 Halvor Egner Granerud Stefan Kraft Domen Prevc 29 January Halvor Egner Granerud Timi Zajc Stefan Kraft
Hill record
Men Possible HRs, start order in 2R unclear (7.3.1986) – Bauer (176m), Klauser (175m), Suorsa (172m), Nykänen (170m), Findeisen (169m).