Ski jumping season 1978/79

The 1978/79 ski jumping season is an overview of the most important ski jumping competitions in the 1978/79 winter sports season. Outstanding competitions in this pre-Olympic winter were the Four Hills Tournament and the 5th Ski Flying World Championships in Planica . Since various traditional ski jumping competitions overlapped, especially in February and March 1979, the FIS finally decided at its 32nd Congress in Nice in mid-May 1979 to introduce a ski jumping World Cup for the coming 1979/80 winter sports season. It followed a development that began in the early 1970s with the introduction of the Alpine Ski World Cup.

Competition overview

date	venue	Jump	comment	winner	Second	Third
December 26, 1978	St. Moritz		Christmas jumping	Hansjörg Sumi	Robert Mösching	Sakae Tsuruga
27th Four Hills Tournament :
December 30, 1978	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze K115		Yuri Mikhailovich Ivanov	Jochen Danneberg	Pentti Kokkonen
2nd January 1979	Garmisch-Part.	Large Olympic hill K107		Josef Samek	Bogdan Norčič	Pentti Kokkonen
3rd January 1979	innsbruck	Bergiselschanze K106		Pentti Kokkonen	Roger Ruud	Jochen Danneberg
January 6, 1979	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze K106		Pentti Kokkonen	Johan Sætre	Piotr Fijas
Tour overall rating:				Pentti Kokkonen	Hansjörg Sumi	Jochen Danneberg
January 11, 1979	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Trampolino Italia K92		Alfred Groyer	Hans Millonig	Hans Wallner
4th February 1979	Murau			Armin Kogler	Klaus Tuchscherer	Peter Leitner
February 8, 1979	Lake Placid		Pre-Olympic competitions	Peter Leitner	Pentti Kokkonen	Jochen Danneberg
February 10, 1979				Pentti Kokkonen	Harald showerk	Jim Denney
February 14, 1979	St. Moritz	Olympic hill K94	Swiss knights tour	Hansjörg Sumi	Robert Mösching	Klaus Tuchscherer
February 16, 1979	Gstaad	Ski jump K88		Hansjörg Sumi	Lido Tomasi	Thomas Meisinger
18th February 1979	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze K116		Robert Mösching	Bjarne Næs	Peter Leitner
February 23, 1979	Falun	Lugnet ski jumps K89	Swedish ski games	Roger Ruud	Pentti Kokkonen	Hansjörg Sumi
February 24, 1979		Lugnet ski jumps K89		Johan Sætre	Pentti Kokkonen	Jim Denney
February 23, 1979	Sapporo		Miyasama Games	Harald showerk	Hirokazu Yagi	Jouko Törmänen
February 24, 1979				Per Bergerud	Hirokazu Yagi	Harald showerk
February 25, 1979				Jochen Danneberg	Jouko Törmänen	Per Bergerud
February 24, 1979	Thunder Bay	Big Thunder K89	Thunder Bay International	Pertti Tuhkanen	Keijo Korhonen	Tauno Käyhkö
February 25, 1979		Big Thunder K120		Horst Bulau	Pertti Tuhkanen	Tauno Käyhkö
February 24, 1979	United States	Pine Mountain Jump	Iron Mountain International	Alois Lipburger	Alfred Groyer	Kip Sundgaard
February 25, 1979				Armin Kogler	Alfred Groyer	Kip Sundgaard
February 27, 1979	Zakopane	Średnia Krokiew K82	VII. SKDA Winter Partakiade	Jochen Danneberg	Stanislaw Bobak	Martin Weber
March 4th 1979		Wielka Krokiew K115		Jochen Danneberg	Ján Tánczos	Stanislaw Bobak
March 3, 1979	Lahti	Salpausselkä ski jump K70	Lahti Ski Games	Jim Denney	Kari Heinonen	Alexei Borowitin
March 4th 1979		Salpausselkä ski jump K90		Pentti Kokkonen	Bogdan Norčič	Klaus Tuchscherer
3rd / 4th March 1979	Oberstdorf		Ski flying week	Andreas Hille	Josef Samek	Leoš Škoda
March 11, 1979	Oberhof		VIII. International Oberhof Ski Games	Harald showerk	Andreas Hille	Jochen Danneberg
March 11, 1979	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken K105		Per Bergerud	Johan Sætre	Valery Sawin
15th to 18th March 1979 World Ski Flying Championships in Planica
March 23, 1979	Štrbské Pleso	MS 1970 A K110	Tatra Cup	Piotr Fijas	Martin Weber	Ján Tánczos
March 24, 1979				Hansjörg Sumi	Piotr Fijas	Leoš Škoda
March 31, 1979	Oberwiesenthal		International competition for the Free Press Cup	Hubert Neuper	Martin Weber	Armin Kogler
April 1, 1979				Hansjörg Sumi	Martin Weber	Jochen Danneberg