Nordic Tournament

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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

Nordic Tournament (Scandinavia)
Lillehammer
Lillehammer
Oslo
Oslo
Trondheim
Trondheim
Vikersund
Vikersund
Falun
Falun
Lahti
Lahti
Kuopio
Kuopio
Location of the venues
Red pog.svgVenue 2010
Black pog.svgVenues from previous years
place Jump K point Hillsize Alignment years
Holmenkollen NorwayNorway Oslo Holmenkollen 115 m 128 m 1997-2008, 2010
Salpausselkä ski jump FinlandFinland Lahti Salpausselkä ski jump 116 m 130 m 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002-2007, 2010
90 m 97 m 1999, 2000, 2009
Puijo ski jump FinlandFinland Kuopio Puijo ski jump 120 m 127 m 1997, 2004-2010
Lysgårds ski jump NorwayNorway Lillehammer Lysgårds ski jump 123 m 138 m 2004-2006, 2008-2010
Granåsen NorwayNorway Trondheim Granåsen 123 m 140 m 1998-2002
Lugnet ski jump SwedenSweden Falun Lugnet ski jump 115 m 124 m 1997–1999, 2001, 2002
Vikersundbakken NorwayNorway 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 .

year Venues Overall winner 2nd place 3rd place
1997 Lahti, Kuopio, Falun, Oslo JapanJapan Kazuyoshi Funaki NorwayNorway Kristian Brenden AustriaAustria Andreas Widhölzl
1998 Lahti, Falun, Trondheim, Oslo AustriaAustria Andreas Widhölzl GermanyGermany Sven Hannawald JapanJapan Hiroya Saitō
1999 Lahti, Trondheim, Falun, Oslo JapanJapan Noriaki Kasai JapanJapan Kazuyoshi Funaki GermanyGermany Sven Hannawald
2000 Lahti, Trondheim, Oslo GermanyGermany Sven Hannawald FinlandFinland Janne Ahonen FinlandFinland Ville Kantee
2001 Falun, Trondheim, Oslo PolandPoland Adam Malysz AustriaAustria Andreas Goldberger GermanyGermany Martin Schmitt
2002 Lahti, Falun, Trondheim, Oslo FinlandFinland Matti Hautamäki PolandPoland Adam Malysz GermanyGermany Martin Schmitt
2003 Oslo, Lahti PolandPoland Adam Malysz FinlandFinland Matti Hautamäki FinlandFinland Tami Kiuru
2004 Lahti, Kuopio, Lillehammer, Oslo NorwayNorway Roar Ljøkelsøy NorwayNorway Bjørn Einar Romøren SwitzerlandSwitzerland Simon Ammann
2005 Lahti, Kuopio, Lillehammer, Oslo FinlandFinland Matti Hautamäki NorwayNorway Roar Ljøkelsøy GermanyGermany Michael Uhrmann
2006 Lahti, Kuopio, Lillehammer, Oslo AustriaAustria Thomas Morgenstern SwitzerlandSwitzerland Andreas Kuettel FinlandFinland Janne Happonen
2007 Lahti, Kuopio, (Lillehammer) 1 , Oslo PolandPoland Adam Malysz AustriaAustria Andreas Kofler SwitzerlandSwitzerland Simon Ammann
2008 (Lahti) 2 , Kuopio, Lillehammer, Oslo AustriaAustria Gregor Schlierenzauer NorwayNorway Tom Hilde FinlandFinland Janne Happonen
2009 Lahti, Kuopio, Lillehammer, Vikersund AustriaAustria Gregor Schlierenzauer FinlandFinland Harri Olli SwitzerlandSwitzerland Simon Ammann
2010 Lahti, Kuopio, Lillehammer, Oslo SwitzerlandSwitzerland Simon Ammann PolandPoland Adam Malysz AustriaAustria Thomas Morgenstern

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

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