Paul Ausserleitner (3 February 1925 – 9 January 1952) was an

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

n ski jumper. He died in an accident in

Bischofshofen Bischofshofen () is a List of cities and towns in Austria, town in the district of St. Johann im Pongau District, St. Johann im Pongau in the Austrian federal state of Salzburg (state), Salzburg. It is an important traffic junction located both on ...

ski jumping 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 final ...

hill while on a training jump in 1952. To honour his memory, the hill was renamed after the accident to ''

Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze ("Paul Ausserleitner Hill") was opened in 1947 as "Hochkönigsschanze", re-built in 2004, and is a ski jumping venue in Bischofshofen, Austria. It is one of the more important venues in the FIS Ski jumping World Cup, a ...

''. Ausserleitner holds the hill record in the K-50 hill in

Gaisberg The Gaisberg is, at above sea level, a mountain to the east of Salzburg, Austria. It belongs to Salzkammergut Mountains, a range of the Northern Limestone Alps. The mountain is one of the Salzburg ''Hausberge'', a recreational area offering views ...

Salzburg Salzburg is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020 its population was 156,852. The city lies on the Salzach, Salzach River, near the border with Germany and at the foot of the Austrian Alps, Alps moun ...

with 55 metres (achieved in 1949). The Gaisberg hill was later destroyed.

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1925 births 1952 deaths People from Bischofshofen Austrian male ski jumpers People from St. Johann im Pongau District Skiing deaths Sport deaths in Austria Skiers from Salzburg (federal state) 20th-century Austrian sportsmen {{Austria-skijumping-bio-stub