The "Giuseppe Dal Ben" Ski Jumping Arena (in Italian: Stadio del salto "Giuseppe Dal Ben") is a ski jumping venue in Predazzo, Val di Fiemme, Trentino, in northern Italy.[1] After the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 were awarded by the international committee meeting in Istanbul in 1988, the Predazzo jumping stadium was inaugurated in 1989.The cost of the construction of the sports facility, considered avant-garde at the time, was 14.5 billion lire, entirely financed by the Autonomous Province of Trento.[2] The Predazzo Arena hosted the ski jumping and Nordic combined competitions of the 1991 Nordic World Ski Championships, where Franci Petek was the last athlete to win a medal for Yugoslavia shortly before his country fell to the tragedy of war; in the same competition, Jens Weißflog was the first German athlete to win an individual medal for Germany after the reunification of East and West Germany.The main building hosts also the Organising Committee of the cross-country ski event "Marcialonga", that every January passes through the arena.