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Coordinates: 46°36′04″N 90°05′25″W / 46.60111°N 90.09028°W / 46.60111; -90.09028
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Copper Peak
Ski jump and chairlift in 2008
LocationIronwood, Michigan
United States
Size
Hill recordWerner Schuster, Mathias Wallner
(158.0 m in 1994)
Copper Peak
Chris857/Copper Peak is located in Michigan
Chris857/Copper Peak
Location within the state of Michigan
Coordinates46°36′04″N 90°05′25″W / 46.60111°N 90.09028°W / 46.60111; -90.09028
NRHP reference No.73000948[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJanuary 4, 1973
Designated MSHSJanuary 22, 1971[2]

Copper Peak is a ski flying hill located in Ironwood, Michigan, United States. The hill is a Michigan State Historic Site (MSHS) and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History

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Copper Peak was built in 1969 and completed in early 1970.[3][4]

Copper Peak was built for a cost of $1,032,000, paid for entirely with federal funds, with all but $250,000 as grants.[5]

Copper Peak, along with some nearby copper mines, was designated a Michigan State Historic Site on January 22, 1971. On January 4, 1973, the hill was added to the National Register of Historic Places. An MSHS informational marker was erected on August 15, 1974.[2]

World Cup

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Year Winner Nationality
1981 Alois Lipburger[6] Austria AUT

Hill Record

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Date Name Length
1970 Czechoslovakia Zbyněk Hubač 134 m (440 ft)
1973 Japan Akitsugu Konno 136 m (446 ft)
1973 United States Jerry Martin 137 m (449 ft)
1973 Japan Akitsugu Konno 138 m (453 ft)
1974 United States Tom Dargay 144 m (472 ft)
1974 United States Jerry Martin 144 m (472 ft)
1975 United States Jerry Martin 147 m (482 ft)
1976 East Germany Hans-Georg Aschenbach 154 m (505 ft)
1981-2-13 Austria Alois Lipburger 154 m (505 ft)
1990 Czechoslovakia Stanislav Vasko 156 m (512 ft)
1994-1-22 Austria Mathias Wallner 158 m (518 ft)
1994-1-23 Austria Werner Schuster 158 m (518 ft)

References

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  2. ^ a b Staff (2009). "Copper Peak / Chippewa Hill Peak". Historic Sites Online. Michigan State Housing Development Authority. Retrieved February 18, 2012.
  3. ^ Ski Flying Comes To Michigan 1969, p. 186.
  4. ^ Getting off the Ground 1972, p. 178.
  5. ^ Brady & Ward 1970, p. 50.
  6. ^ FIS-Ski - resultats

Bibliography

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Media related to Copper Peak at Wikimedia Commons


Staff (November 25, 2013). "Copper Peak to be world's largest summer ski jump". Daily Mining Gazette. p. 3A.