Steve Collins
Country Canada
Born (1964-03-13) 13 March 1964 (age 59)
Thunder Bay, Canada
Personal best172 m (564 ft)
Harrachov, 28-29 March 1980
World Cup career
Seasons1980–1986
1988
1991–1992
Starts63
Podiums3
Wins1
Updated on 10 February 2016.

Steve Collins (born 13 March 1964) is a Canadian former ski jumper who was successful in the 1980s.[1]

Career

Steve began his World Cup jumping career on 27 December 1979 with a 10th place finish at Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy on the Large Hill, followed 3 days later with a 66th place finish on the K-115 hill at Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf, Germany. The following year, on 28 February 1980, he won the FIS Junior World Ski Championships at Örnsköldsvik in Sweden.[2] In 1979 Collins won the national Tom Longboat Award that recognizes Aboriginal athletes for their outstanding contributions to sport in Canada.[3] He once held the record for the longest jump on a 90-meter hill with 128.5 meters at Big Thunder in Thunder Bay on 15 December 1980.[4] Along with team-mate Horst Bulau, Canada gained more than respectable results in the sport that had been dominated by Europeans.[5][6] He left the World Cup circuit in 1988, but returned to his home hill in Thunder Bay for both hills in 1990 and his final World Cup appearance on 12 February 1991.[2]

World Cup

Standings

 Season  Overall 4H SF
1979/80 12 42 N/A
1980/81 15 37 N/A
1981/82 55 73 N/A
1982/83 32 37 N/A
1983/84 69 20 N/A
1984/85 27 — N/A
1985/86 20 49 N/A
1987/88 42 123 N/A
1990/91 — — —
1991/92 — — —

Wins

No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 1979/80 9 March 1980   Finland Lahti Salpausselkä K113 LH

Additional podiums

Rank Season Date Location Hill Size
3rd 1980/81 21 February 1981   Canada Thunder Bay Big Thunder, K-90 NH
3rd 1985/86 15 December 1985   United States Lake Placid MacKenzie Intervale K86 NH

Olympics

Year Location Rank (Normal Hill) Rank (Large Hill)
1980 Lake Placid 28 9
1984 Sarajevo 25 36
1988 Calgary 13 35

References

  1. ^ "The Canadian Ski Hall of Fame: Steve Collins" (PDF). Canadian Ski Museum. 30 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
  2. ^ a b "COLLINS Steve - Biographie". data.fis-ski.com. Archived from the original on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  3. ^ Forsyth, Janice (2005). "List of Regional(R) and National(N) "Tom Longboat" recipients 1951-2001" (PDF). Aboriginal Sports Circle. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 7, 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  4. ^ "The Canadian Ski Hall of Fame: Steve Collins" (PDF). Canadian Ski Museum. 30 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
  5. ^ "Catching up with Canadian ski jumping legend Horst Bulau". St. Catharines Standard. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  6. ^ "USA Nordic Sport Story Project". ??. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2018.((cite web)): CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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