Word: oberstdorf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). The World Ski-Flying Championships from Oberstdorf, Germany, where the wind currents and the long, steep slope permit jumps of fantastic length. Plus the Duke Kahanamoku Surfing Championships from Hawaii...
...Oberstdorf, he turned in the longest jumps of the day. On his very first jump at Innsbruck's Berg Isel ski jump, site of next year's Olympic jumping, Engan broke the hill record with a 298-ft. jump. Fog and snow made a nightmare of Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen a few days later. But Engan still went 292 ft.-16 ft. past the "critical point." or safety limit of the hill. After the first three hills, he had the championship sewed up. "All he needs," said a competitor, "is to toss his shoes over the edge...
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