Nordic Tournament
The Nordic Tournament was a series of ski jumping competitions that were held annually in March from 1997 to 2010 as part of the FIS - Ski Jumping World Cup .
history
The Nordic Tournament was held from 1997 to 2010 and was the Northern European equivalent of the Four Hills Tournament . In the first few years, when the tournament in German-speaking countries was also known as the Nordland Tournee, the jumps took place on annually changing ski jumps in Falun , Lahti , Kuopio and Trondheim . Only the Holmenkollen in Oslo hosted every Nordic tournament except 2009. In 1999 and 2001 the tournament was only held on three, in 2003 only on two hills.
Since 2004 the jumps have not been rotated and only Lahti, Kuopio, the newly added Lillehammer and Oslo are used as venues. Due to the renovation of the Holmenkollen in Oslo, no jumping could take place there in 2009. Instead, a ski flying was held in Vikersund . Due to the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo, the Nordic Tournament was canceled for the first time this season. Subsequently, the series was discontinued because of the departure of the sponsor. In 2017, with the Raw Air, a similar series of events was launched at the end of the season on ski jumping hills in Norway.
Venues and jumps
place | Jump | K point | Hillsize | Alignment years | |
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Oslo | Holmenkollen | 115 m | 128 m | 1997-2008, 2010 | |
Lahti | Salpausselkä ski jump | 116 m | 130 m | 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002-2007, 2010 | |
90 m | 97 m | 1999, 2000, 2009 | |||
Kuopio | Puijo ski jump | 120 m | 127 m | 1997, 2004-2010 | |
Lillehammer | Lysgårds ski jump | 123 m | 138 m | 2004-2006, 2008-2010 | |
Trondheim | Granåsen | 123 m | 140 m | 1998-2002 | |
Falun | Lugnet ski jump | 115 m | 124 m | 1997–1999, 2001, 2002 | |
Vikersund | Vikersundbakken | 195 m | 225 m | 2009 |
procedure
Since 2004, the competition has included the last four competitions of the Ski Jumping World Cup on ski jumping hills; Traditionally, the end of the World Cup season is ski flying in Planica, Slovenia . Two individual Nordic Tournament competitions took place in Finland and Norway . These were in detail:
- The opening jump in Lahti as part of the Finnish Ski Festival ( Salpausselän kisat )
- The second jumping on the traditional Puijo hill in Kuopio
- The third competition on the 1994 Olympic hill in Lillehammer.
- At the end of the most prestigious individual competition of the entire ski jumping world cup on the Holmenkollenschanze, the birthplace of ski jumping.
As in the Four Hills Tournament, the overall winner was calculated from the added scores of the four competitions. The overall winner received 25,000 euros; a total of 50,000 euros in prize money was awarded.
List of winners
With three overall victories, Adam Małysz is the most successful ski jumper in the competition; Matti Hautamäki was the first jumper to win all four individual competitions in 2005, and Simon Ammann also achieved a four-fold victory in 2010 . Małysz was also able to win all competitions of the tournament in 2003, but this year the Nordic Tournament consisted of only three competitions. The tightest decision came in 2009 when Gregor Schlierenzauer won just 0.6 points ahead of Harri Olli .
1 because of strong winds the jumping planned for Lillehammer was moved to Oslo
2 because of strong winds the jumping planned for Lahti was moved to Kuopio