Igman Olympic Jumps

Great place that take kids for a few hours, especially when there is a lot of snow. Great place for beginners and intermediary skiers, a people who like to sledding.

Although it is ruined, you can climb to top and observe Igman mountain. Definitely it is interesting to visit.

Ski slopes are great for beginners. Nature all around but looking at the buildings there all looks very old and in bad shape.

It was good I jad some weird experince there and almost all the snow melted and snow is half ice so its slippery

Perched upon the slopes of Mt. Igman overlooking the alpine fields of 'Malo polje' or 'Little Meadow' (approximately 15km southwest of Sarajevo's city center as the crow flies) are the remains of the 1984 Winter Olympic ski jump venue. This sprawling complex was constructed specifically for these Olympic games and planning for its construction begun soon after Sarajevo won the bid to host the Winter Olympics in 1977. Out of 12 submitted proposals, the Olympic ski jump design concept selected to be built was the one put forward by the the Slovenian brothers Janez Gorišek & Vlado Gorišek, who were both not only architects and engineers highly respected at that time for their work creating ski jump complexes around the world, but they were both accomplished ski jumpers themselves (Janez participated in the 1956 Winter Olympics at Cortina d'Ampezzo). Completed in December of 1982, the Igman Ski Jump complex consist of two primary jumps: a large jump (with a K-point of 112m) and a smaller jump (with a K-point of 90m). The jumps were oriented parallel to each other, which resulted in the need for only one judging pavillion. The methods and technology integrated into this pair of ski jumps by the Gorišek brothers and their construction team were hugely innovative for its time and these design approaches went on to become the industry standard over subsequent decades for ski jump design. In addition to the ski jumps, the Gorišek brothers also designed the ancilary buildings around the jumps (such as the Ski Center, the Judges Pavillion, among others), crafting them in a modernist architectural style of sloping and angular features which would complement and seemlessly integrate into the dramatic form of the ski jumps themselves. As an Olympic venue, the Mt. Igman Ski Jumps were a resounding success, with tens of thousands of people attending the events here. The ski jumping events here at Mt. Igman are particularly remembered for famous and notorious Finnish skier Matti Nykänen making his Olympic debut by setting the hill's distance record in front of a stunning 90,000 spectators, while also winning the large hill event by the widest margin in Olympic history. After the end of the Olympic Games, there was a considerable increased interest in the sport of ski jumping among the youth of Sarajevo, with many using the Mt. Igman facilities to practice and train. However, during the Bosnian War, the region around the ski jumps turned into a front line of fighting between Bosnian Serb forces and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia & Herzegovina. Some stories even relate that the winner's podium at the far end of the ski jumps was used to conduct executions, but I was not able to find confirmation of this. Later in the war, UN peacekeeping forces took over the Judges Pavilion as a lookout post. The structure bears their emblem up to the present day. By the end of the war in 1995, the ski jumps were left in a completely unusable ruins. Through the 2000s, numerous efforts were put forward to refurbish and rehabilitate the ski jumps, but, as of yet, these have not manifested into actionable results. In 2016, the local municipality of Hadžići, which oversees the ski jump site, has put forward a plan to construct a small 25m K-point ski jump for young people to train on, with the complex's original creator Janez Gorišek even putting forward collaboration efforts. Regardless of the rehabilitation of the ski jumps, the area around the Malo polje continues to be a popular winter sports playground, with downhill skiing, sledding and other such activities.