Four Hills Tournament 1954/55

3. Four Hills Tournament
winner
Tour winner	Hemmo Silvennoinen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Aulis Kallakorpi
Oberstdorf	Aulis Kallakorpi
innsbruck	Torbjørn Ruste
Bischofshofen	Torbjørn Ruste
Attendees
Nations	7 ( AUT , FIN , FRG , JUG , NOR , SUI , SWE )
← 1953/54	1955/56 →

In the 3rd Four Hills Tournament 1954/55 the jumping took place in Oberstdorf on December 30th, on January 1st the jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and on January 6th the jumping in Innsbruck followed . The event in Bischofshofen took place on January 8th. The tour was shaped by the Finnish jumpers Hemmo Silvennoinen , Eino Kirjonen and Aulis Kallakorpi , who also won the tour in this order. They took 9 of 12 podium places. Above all, they were able to convince the judges with their new style of jumping with their arms drawn instead of outstretched. This jumping technique, then also known as the Finnish style, proved its worth until the end of the 1980s, when it was replaced by the V-style. In addition to the jumping nation Norway, the Austrian and German jumpers also increasingly fought for podium places.

Oberstdorf

• Date: December 30, 1954
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Schattenbergschanze

The first 10 places were shared by only 3 nations: Finland, Norway and Germany. The Finns achieved the very first triple success in the history of the Four Hills Tournament. With 4 placements among the top 10, the German jumpers ensured a respectable success in front of a home crowd of around 3000 spectators. The co-favorite Sepp Bradl, first tour winner, landed in 13th place after a training fall in which he suffered facial injuries. Due to the lack of snow and the resulting occupation of the approach with snow bricks, the approach was shortened to minimize the risk of injury.

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Aulis Kallakorpi	Finland	224.0
02	Hemmo Silvennoinen	Finland	220.0
	Eino Kirjonen	Finland	220.0
04th	Kjell Knarvik	Norway	217.0
	Torbjörn Ruste	Norway	217.0
06th	Toni Brutscher	BR Germany	216.5
07th	Sepp Hohenleitner	BR Germany	216.0
08th	Gunder Gundersen	Norway	215.0
09	Max Bolkart	BR Germany	213.5
10	Sepp Kleisl	BR Germany	210.0

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

• Date: January 1, 1955
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Large Olympic hill

There was also a Finnish triple success at the New Year's competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Aulis Kallkorpi was able to win the competition again and was now leading the overall standings with a lead of 11.5 points. The German jumpers again showed a strong team performance, 3 jumpers came under the best 10th old master Sepp Bradl came in 12th place.

Intermediate result after 2 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Kallakorpi	452.0
02.	Kirjonen	440.5
03.	Silvennoinen	438.5

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Aulis Kallakorpi	Finland	228.0
02	Eino Kirjonen	Finland	220.5
03	Hemmo Silvennoinen	Finland	218.5
04th	Sepp Hohenleitner	BR Germany	215.5
04th	Kjell Knarvik	Norway	215.5
06th	Asbjørn Moland	Norway	205.0
07th	Franz Dengg	BR Germany	203.5
08th	Lars-Åke Bergseije	Sweden	199.0
09	Albin Plank	Austria	196.0
10	Sepp Kleisl	BR Germany	195.5
	Franz Eder	BR Germany	195.5

innsbruck

• Date: January 6, 1955
• Country: Austria 
• Ski jump: Bergisel ski jump

On Epiphany, the Norwegians managed to return to the podium. With the setting of the hill record of 79 m at the time, Torbjørn Ruste won the jumping. Overall leader Aulis Kallakorpi crashed in the second round and only came in 20th. This broke the dream of overall victory. The Finn now found himself in third place with an almost unassailable 24.5 points behind his compatriot Hemmo Silvennoinen, who is now in the lead. The third Finn, Eino Kirjonen, was only two points behind in second place overall. However, the surprise of the day was provided by the German Max Bolkart, who came in third and left jumpers like Eino Kirjonen (4th) or Sepp Bradl (5th) behind. Bolkart achieved the 2nd German podium finish in the Four Hills Tournament after Toni Brutscher in 1953.

Intermediate result after 3 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Silvennoinen	660.5
02.	Kirjonen	658.5
03.	Kallakorpi	636.0

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Torbjørn Ruste	Norway	225.0
02	Hemmo Silvennoinen	Finland	222.0
03	Max Bolkart	BR Germany	221.0
04th	Eino Kirjonen	Finland	218.5
05	Sepp Bradl	Austria	212.0
06th	Sepp Hohenleitner	BR Germany	211.5
07th	Albin Plank	Austria	210.5
08th	Gunder Gundersen	Norway	209.5
09	Toni Brutscher	BR Germany	209.0
10	Toivo Lauren	Sweden	206.0

Bischofshofen

• Date: January 8, 1955
• Country: Austria 
• Hill: Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze

In Bischofshofen, too, the Norwegian Torbjørn Ruste relegated the competition to the places. If he set the hill record of 91 m at that time in the first run, he decided the jumping by a margin in the second run with the new hill record of 91.5 m. However, a fierce battle broke out for 2nd place. The Finns Silvennoinen and Kirjonen were able to intercept the Austrian Sepp Bradl, who was still in second place after the first round on his birthday, and referred him to fourth place.

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Torbjørn Ruste	Norway	224.5
02	Hemmo Silvennoinen	Finland	217.5
03	Eino Kirjonen	Finland	216.2
04th	Sepp Bradl	Austria	215.1
05	Franz Eder	BR Germany	205.8
06th	Aulis Kallakorpi	Finland	205.1
07th	Toivo Lauren	Sweden	204.2
08th	Albin Plank	Austria	201.9
09	Kjell Knarvik	Norway	200.8
10	Alois Leodolter	Austria	198.0

Total status

Unsurprisingly, 3 Finns came in on the first 3 places in the overall ranking. The runner-up Eino Kirjonen was separated by only 3 points from the winner Hemmo Silvennoinen. Aulis Kallakorpi's fall in Innsbruck possibly prevented a better placement after two day victories. The same thing happened to the Norwegian Torbjørn Ruste. Despite two victories on the day and a fifth place, but also a crash in Garmisch, in the end it wasn't even enough for him to finish in the top ten. Former master Sepp Bradl was a respectable fourth of the tour on his 37th birthday.

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Hemmo Silvennoinen	Finland	878.0
02	Eino Kirjonen	Finland	875.2
03	Aulis Kallakorpi	Finland	851.1
04th	Sepp Bradl	Austria	831.1
05	Kjell Knarvik	Norway	824.3
06th	Albin Plank	Austria	818.2
07th	Sepp Kleisl	BR Germany	799.5
08th	Franz Dengg	BR Germany	791.4
09	Asbjørn Moland	Norway	790.6
10	Lars-Åke Bergseije	Sweden	788.9
	Max Bolkart	BR Germany	788.9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Three Finns at the top . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 31, 1954, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ The Finns dominated again . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 4th 1955, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ The Norwegians got their revenge . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 8, 1955, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ↑ Once again Ruste jumped out of his competitors . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 11, 1955, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ↑ FIS results list