Four Hills Tournament 1958/59

7th Four Hills Tournament
winner
Tour winner	Helmut Recknagel
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Helmut Recknagel
Oberstdorf	Helmut Recknagel
innsbruck	Helmut Recknagel
Bischofshofen	Walter Habersatter
Attendees
Nations	8 ( AUT , FIN , FRG , GDR , ITA , NOR , TCH , URS )
athlete	57
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The 7th Four Hills Tournament 1958/59 began this season on December 28th with jumping in Oberstdorf . The jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen followed on New Year's Day . Then the touring caravan moved to Austria, where the jumping in Innsbruck followed on January 4th . The final competition in Bischofshofen took place on January 6th. The tour was again able to win Helmut Recknagel from the GDR. He was the first jumper to do this for the second time. The tour ended tragically for the favorite Finnish jumpers. The reigning ski jumping world champion Juhani Kärkinen could not start due to an injury and after 2 falls in Innsbruck even the third place in the overall standings, Eino Kirjonen, fell hopelessly behind. In the end, no Finn was able to place in the top ten in the overall standings.

Nominee athletes

The mid-season between the 1958 World Championships and the upcoming Squaw Valley Olympics was obviously not that interesting from a sporting point of view. After a steady increase in participating nations, there was a decrease for the first time. In addition, several nations only sent two to three jumpers. With a total of 40 jumpers from the Federal Republic, the GDR and Austria, the total of 57 participants spoke mainly German on the 4 hills.

nation	Athletes
BR Germany	Helmut Bleier , Heinrich Zapf , Max Bolkart , Hans Leppert , Helmut Kurz , Arthur Bodenmüller , Sepp Kleisl , Hermann Anwander , Hias Winkler , Otto Herz , Konrad Simmerl , Franz Fischer , Hubert Witting , Georg Thoma , Helmut Reicherts , Helmut Wegscheider , Ewald Roscher , Wolfgang Happle , Toni Hörter
GDR	Harry Glaß , Werner Lesser , Helmut Recknagel , Manfred Brunner , Adolf Baldauf , Hugo Fuchs , Harald Pfeffer , Willi Wirth , Manfred Matthäi
Austria	Willi Egger , Walter Habersatter , Otto Leodolter , Alois Leodolter , Walter Steinegger , Albin Plank , Peter Müller , Ferdl Wallner , Ernst Kröll , Theo Schett , Fredi Schirmer , Waldemar Heigenhauser
Finland	Eino Kirjonen , Pekka Tirkkonen , Veiko Kankkonen
Italy	Dino De Zordo , Nilo Zandanel , Luigi Pennacchio
Norway	Anders Woldseth , Arne Hoel , Kjell Kopstad
Soviet Union	Nikolai Kamenski , Nikolai Schamow , Witali Sannikow , Koba Zakadse , Rudolf Nikolajewitsch Bykow , Jaroslav Masanek , Juri Samsonow
Czechoslovakia	Miroslav Martinak , Emil Ulrych ,

Oberstdorf

In rainy weather, Helmut Recknagel was able to live up to his favorite role on the Schattenbergschanze. He won from the Finns Kirjonen and Nikolai Schamow from the Soviet Union. The Finns with places 2 and 6 and also the Norwegians with places 4 and 9 immediately showed that they were to be expected after last year's abstinence. But the jumpers from Austria also showed their increased performance with places 5 and 10.

• Date: December 28, 1958
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Schattenbergschanze

Item	Jumper	country	Points
1.	Helmut Recknagel	GDR	226.5
2.	Eino Kirjonen	Finland	222.0
3.	Nikolai Shamov	Soviet Union	221.0
4th	Not so Woldseth	Norway	219.5
5.	Otto Leodolter	Austria	218.0
6th	Pekka Tirkkonen	Finland	217.5
7th	Nikolai Kamensky	Soviet Union	216.5
8th.	Harry Glass	GDR	215.0
9.	Arne Hoel	Norway	214.0
10.	Willi Egger	Austria	212.5

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

On the hill, which was well prepared despite the warm weather, Helmut Recknagel also won the New Year's competition in front of 30,000 spectators. Cross winds and pouring rain made the competition difficult. This time it was mainly the Soviet jumpers, above all Koba Zakadse, Recknagel who contested victory. Four Soviet jumpers were among the ten best jumpers. Harry Glaß gave away a good position in the front field with a fall in the second round. In the overall standings, Recknagel was able to extend his lead over Schamow to almost 15 points.

• Date: January 1, 1959
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Large Olympic hill

Intermediate result after 2 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Recknagel	452.2
02.	Shamov	437.5
03.	Kirjonen	434.6

Item	Jumper	country	Points
1.	Helmut Recknagel	GDR	225.7
2.	Koba Zakadze	Soviet Union	223.0
3.	Nikolai Shamov	Soviet Union	216.5
4th	Yuri Samsonov	Soviet Union	215.7
5.	Veikko Kankkonen	Finland	215.3
6th	Kjell Kopstad	Norway	213.7
7th	Nikolai Kamensky	Soviet Union	213.1
8th.	Arne Hoel	Norway	212.2
9.	Eino Kirjonen	Finland	212.1
10.	Walter Habersatter	Austria	211.8

innsbruck

Like three years ago, there was again little snow. With 20 large transport vehicles and with the help of more than a hundred workers, around 650 cubic meters of snow were brought from Reith near Seefeld to the Bergisel ski jump on New Year's Day in order to prepare the facility. The hill was only released for training one day before the competition. In order to prevent the snow from being washed away by rain, a new method was used and a huge plastic sheet was placed over the runway and landing strip and anchored to the ground at the edges with pegs.

Even before the competition began, jumping had its first upsets. Garmisch's runner-up of the day, Koba Zakadse, crashed during training and had to retire. In addition, Helmut Recknagel had announced a victory on the Bergisel the day before. He succeeded in doing this in front of 20,000 enthusiastic spectators. He relegated the Finns Kankkonen and the Norwegian Woldseth to their places. This made Recknagel the 2 jumpers who achieved 3 victories in a row. Harry Glaß, who fell in Garmisch, took a good 4th place. There was also movement in the overall standings. The up to then third placed Finn Kirjonen fell in both rounds and had to bury his hopes for a podium place with 38th place and more than 60 points behind the winner in the daily standings. Nikolai Shamov also continued to lose ground. In return, the consistent Norwegian Hoel moved up to third place overall. Behind it was the Austrian Walter Habersatter.

• Date: January 4, 1959
• Country: Austria 
• Ski jump: Bergisel ski jump

Intermediate result after 3 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Recknagel	682.2
02.	Shamov	650.0
03.	Hoel	640.2

Item	Jumper	country	Points
1.	Helmut Recknagel	GDR	230.0
2.	Veikko Kankkonen	Finland	222.5
3.	Not so Woldseth	Norway	219.5
4th	Harry Glass	GDR	217.0
5.	Walter Habersatter	Austria	214.5
6th	Arne Hoel	Norway	214.0
7th	Nikolai Shamov	Soviet Union	212.5
8th.	Pekka Tirkkonen	Finland	212.0
8th.	Willi Egger	Austria	212.0
10.	Otto Leodolter	Austria	211.5
10.	Yuri Samsonov	Soviet Union	211.5

Bischofshofen

According to the experts, the 4th day's win for Recknagel was only a matter of form. But, even to the surprise of these experts, in the end a local Austrian stood on the top podium in front of 6,000 spectators. Walter Habersatter decided the jumping in front of the Finn Kirjonen and Nikolai Kamenski from the Soviet Union. Helmut Recknagel fell in the first run after having set the hill record of 96.5 m in the deep snow of the run. Despite a painful bruised rib, he jumped the best distance in the second round and came in 15th place in the daily standings. The up to then overall second Shamov fell in the 2nd round and finished 21st. Max Bolkart was able to record at least one respectable success for the disappointing jumpers from the Federal Republic with the 8th place.

• Date: January 6, 1959
• Country: Austria 
• Hill: Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze

Item	Jumper	country	Points
1.	Walter Habersatter	Austria	222.5
2.	Eino Kirjonen	Finland	220.2
3.	Nikolai Kamensky	Soviet Union	218.6
4th	Not so Woldseth	Norway	215.0
5.	Harry Glass	GDR	214.5
6th	Walter Steinegger	Austria	211.7
7th	Yuri Samsonov	Soviet Union	210.4
8th.	Max Bolkart	BR Germany	210.3
9.	Arne Hoel	Norway	210.2
10.	Rudolf Bykov	Soviet Union	206.9

Overall rating

Helmut Recknagel from the GDR was the sovereign overall winner. With 3 day wins he put his stamp on the tour. Despite the fall in Bischofshofen, he won by over 20 points. After the last jump, the ranking was mixed up again. Walter Habersatter achieved the silver rank in the final accounts with his daily victory. At the same time, Nikolai Shamow slipped to fourth place behind the constantly jumping Norwegian Hoel. The Soviet Union, however, had the best team with 4 jumpers in the top ten. Harry Glaß's fall while jumping in Garmisch was fatal. A single-digit placement in the daily ranking of the New Year's event would have been enough for a podium place in the overall ranking. So it was only enough for 10th place.

rank	Surname	nation	Overall rating	Colonel village	Garmisch- Partenk.-	Inns- bruck	Episcopate hofen
01	Helmut Recknagel	GDR	883.0	226.5 / 01.	225.7 / 01.	230.0 / 01.	201.0 / 15.
02	Walter Habersatter	Austria	860.8	212.0 / 11.	211.8 / 10.	214.5 / 05.	222.5 / 01.
03	Arne Hoel	Norway	850.4	214.0 / 09.	212.2 / 08.	214.0 / 06.	210.2 / 09.
04th	Nikolai Shamov	Soviet Union	839.7	221.0 / 03.	216.5 / 03.	212.5 / 07.	189.7 / 22.
05	Nikolai Kamensky	Soviet Union	838.2	216.5 / 07.	213.1 / 07.	190.0 / 31.	218.6 / 03.
06th	Otto Leodolter	Austria	837.6	218.0 / 05.	204.5 / 18.	211.5 / 10.	203.7 / 13.
07th	Not so Woldseth	Norway	835.2	219.5 / 04.	181.2 / 34.	219.5 / 03.	215.0 / 04.
08th	Yuri Samsonov	Soviet Union	835.1	197.5 / 21.	215.7 / 04.	211.5 / 10.	210.4 / 07.
09	Rudolf Bykov	Soviet Union	833.9	211.5 / 11.	209.5 / 11.	206.0 / 15.	206.9 / 10.
10	Harry Glass	GDR	831.0	215.0 / 08.	184.5 / 31.	217.0 / 04.	214.5 / 05.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Austria's jumping team third . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 30, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ FIS results list
3. ↑ No one jumped as confidently as Recknagel . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 3, 1959, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ↑ FIS results list
5. ↑ Innsbruck is preparing . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 3, 1959, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ↑ Recknagel won again . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 6, 1959, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
7. ↑ FIS results list
8. ↑ Habersatt surprise winner . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 8, 1959, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
9. ↑ FIS results list
10. ^ FIS Cup Standings

literature

• Robert Kauer, Raymund Stolze, Klaus Taglauer: 50 + 1 years International Four Hills Tournament Flying & Siegen . 3. Edition. wero press, Pfaffenweiler 2002, ISBN 3-9808049-0-9 .