Over the years, the successes of the development work in the Nordic sector became increasingly apparent, especially in the Nord. Combination Saalfelden regularly provided top athletes for the national squad and participants in world championships and Olympic Games, as the greatest Nordic success of this time is the 4th place in the jumping at the Nord. World Championship 1970 by Ernst Kröll. Due to the special conditions and efforts, Saalfelden gradually develops into a Nordic center, the founding of a Nordic skiing high school and the skiing high school, the new construction of the jumping facilities and the cross-country skiing center at the Ritzensee accelerate the development in the sector of Nordic skiing.
