Josef "Sepp" / "Bubi" Bradl (8 January 1918 – 3 March 1982) was an Austrian

ski jumper Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the fin ...

who competed during the 1930s and 1950s. He was born in Wasserburg am Inn,

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Career

on 15 March 1936, he became the first man in history to stand to stand on feet a "flight" of more than one hundred meters at 101.5 m (333 ft) on Bloudkova velikanka hill in

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. On 15 March 1938, exactly two years later after historic jump, he set another world record at 107 m (351 ft), this time again on Bloudkova velikanka hill in

. He won the ski jumping gold medal at the 1939 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in

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while competing under

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in the wake of

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being annexed in late 1938. Following

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, Bradl wasn't allowed to compete in 1948 Olympics because he was a Sturmbannführer in the paramilitary Nazi organization

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. He returned to competition in the early 1950s and was the first winner of the Four Hills Tournament in 1952/53, this time representing his home country of Austria. He would earn one of his post-war victories at the Olympia hill in

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, West Germany in 1953 as part of the Four Hills tournament, then earn his final career victory the following year in Bischofshofen, Austria. On 3 March 1951, at the International Ski Flying Week competition, he set his personal best at 130 metres (430 ft) on Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze hill in

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. After retiring, he became a ski jumping coach, coaching the national teams of Germany and Austria. He lived in Mühlbach am Hochkönig in the province (state)

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where he died in March 1982.

Ski jumping world records

First official fully standing jump over 100 metres in history. *On 17 March 1935,

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as first ever broke hundred metres barrier at 103.5 m in

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, but crashed.

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* . AUT Nationality. * * 1918 births 1982 deaths People from Wasserburg am Inn Skiers from Upper Bavaria Austrian male ski jumpers Austrian ski jumping coaches FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping Olympic ski jumpers for Austria Ski jumpers at the 1936 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 1952 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 1956 Winter Olympics 20th-century Austrian sportsmen {{Austria-skijumping-bio-stub