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sport got a status boost when the
Norwegian royal family began
donating the King's Cup trophy. To
this day, the award is bestowed upon
the annual winner.
Coming to
America
In the late 19th
century, ski
jumping gained
traction in Europe
and North America.
Like in Norway, its
exponential growth
in the midwestern
and northwestern
United States
prompted the
formation of
countless ski clubs.
Lundin says the
popularity in these regions can be
linked to the infl x of Scandinavian
immigrants, who were drawn to
the areas by the climate, geography
and employment opportunities and
others who had emigrated before
them. They brought with them the
ski jumping skills they had learned
in the Old Country, and their
enthusiasm for the activity.
Many people credit ski jumping's
rapid acceleration in the U.S. to the
owner of the Boxrud & Hjermstad
department store in Red Wing,
Minnesota. A Norwegian-American,
Christian H. Boxrud unexpectedly
found himself managing the Aurora
Ski Club, a collection of fellow
immigrants who were looking to
introduce Norway's trendy sport to
their new homeland.
The ski club organized fl dgling
tournaments and exhibitions in
cities with strong NorwegianAmerican
populations, like its
fir t major contest in 1887 in Red
Wing. Competing in the event was
24-year-old Mikkel Hemmestvedt
who, the year prior, had won the
King's Cup in his home country
of Norway. Now a resident of
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Minnesota, he wowed the crowd by
soaring 37 feet to notch America's
fir t ski jumping record.
Boxrud, an organizational and
roots. (Later, the U.S.'s initial
governing body, the National Ski
Association, adopted the system
with minor tweaks.)
In 1890, at a meeting in St.
promotional wizard, saw what
Hemmestvedt could do and fl xed
his business-savvy muscles. He
vigorously recruited the skier and
his older brother Torjus, believing
the duo could turn Aurora into a
premier ski club and establish Red
Wing as the ski jumping capital of
the U.S. After two years of coaxing-
including guaranteeing them jobs at
Red Wing Furniture Company-the
siblings signed on.
Ski jumping to this period
had been seen
as a recreational
pastime. There
wasn't a governing
body keeping order,
so competitions
went on without
set rules, and hills
had no standards.
Boxrud looked to
change that. He and
Aurora's members
crafted a six-point
scoring system that
accounted for jump
distance and style,
which echoed the
sport's Norwegian
sonsofnorway.com
Paul, Minnesota, the Central
Ski Association (CSA) was
formed. America's fir t ski sport
organization, it managed all clubs in
the Midwest. The CSA's inaugural
tournament, deemed America's fir t
national ski jumping event, took
place a year later in Ishpeming,
Michigan. The Hemmestvedt
brothers treated the sizable audience
to a show, one-upping each other
with each jump. Mikkel finish d
the day with a 78-foot leap, and
at the end of the event, all three
athletes on the podium hailed from
Red Wing. The tournament put
the Aurora skiers in an even bigger
spotlight, and fans christened their
unique straight-body technique as
" Red Wing style. "
During this time, Lundin says it
was principally Norwegians who
both competed and watched their
favorite sport. But it didn't take
long for others to get on board.
" If you've seen ski jumping, it's an
exciting event. So, it pretty quickly
gained a following among nonScandinavians, "
he notes.
Tournaments expanded and
PHOTOS COURTESY INGRID WICKEN, INGRID P. WICKEN / CALIFORNIA SKI LIBRARY
http://www.sonsofnorway.com
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