Max Bolkart

Max Bolkart (29 July 1932 โ€“ 26 April 2025) was a West German ski jumper who competed from 1954 to 1966.

Career

He finished fourth in the individual large hill at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo and sixth in the same event at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley.

Bolkart is best known as being the winner of the Four Hills Tournament in 1959โ€“60 when he won three of the four events (Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and Innsbruck) while finishing fifth in the last event at Bischofshofen. Those three victories were the only ones in his career.

Invalid ski jumping world record

  Not recognized! Crashed at world record distance.

References

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