Four Hills Tournament 1956/57

5. Four Hills Tournament
winner
Tour winner	Pentti Uotinen
Oberstdorf	Pentti Uotinen
innsbruck	Nikolai Shamov
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Nikolai Kamensky
Bischofshofen	Eino Kirjonen
Attendees
Nations	10 ( AUT , FIN , FRG , GDR , NOR , POL , SWE , SUI , TCH , URS )
athlete	57
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The 5th Four Hills Tournament 1956/57 began with jumping in Oberstdorf on December 29th and was a guest in Innsbruck the next day, December 30th . On January 1st, the traditional New Year's competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen followed , with 3 competitions being held in just 4 days. Then there was a longer break until the final competition in Bischofshofen on January 6th . Polish jumpers competed for the first time. The Finns competed without their 1956 Olympic champion Antti Hyvärinen and the 1954/55 tour winner Hemmo Silvennoinenon. Nevertheless, they were the overall winner with tour newcomer Pentii Uotinen. Of the other tour winners, only last year's winner Kamenski from the Soviet Union competed.

Nominee athletes 56/57

nation	Athletes
BR Germany	Max Bolkart , Georg Thoma , Sepp Kleisl , Toni Brutscher , Edi Heilingbrunner , Sepp Hohenleitner , Hermann Anwander , Willi Fischer , Willy Gotthold , Helmut Ackermann , Alfred Winkler , Hans Kriner , Hias Winkler
GDR	Harry Glaß , Werner Lesser , Helmut Recknagel , Harald Pfeffer , Horst Lesser , Helmut Döbrich , Hugo Fuchs , Herbert Arnold
Austria	Willi Egger , Walter Habersatter , Rudi Schweinberger , Otto Leodolter , Alois Leodolter , Walter Steinegger , Ferdl Kerber , Albin Plank , Heinz Winkler
Finland	Pentti Uotinen , Eino Kirjonen , Aulis Kallakorpi
Norway	Asbjørn Osnes , Kjell Kopstad , Arne Larsen , Toralf Engan
Poland	Władysław Tajner , Józef Huczek , Jan Kula , Jakub Węgrzynkiewicz
Sweden	Toivo Lauren , Arne Ström
Switzerland	Andreas Däscher , Francis Perret
Soviet Union	Nikolai Kamensky , Nikolai Shamow , Nikolai Trussow , Koba Zakadze , Juri Skworzow , Juri Moschkin , Valeri Kondratjew
Czechoslovakia	Mojmír Stuchlík , Jáchym Bulín , Zdeněk Remsa , Drahomír Jebavý , Antonín Chraust

Oberstdorf

• Date: December 29, 1956
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Schattenbergschanze

For the third time in a row, in front of 10,000 spectators, the Finnish jumpers achieved a double victory in the opening competition on the Schattenbergschanze. This time, Pentti Uotinen, who had not appeared so far, won ahead of the Olympic wide Aulis Kallakorpi. Third place was firmly in German hands twice with Werner Lesser and Toni Brutscher. Helmut Recknagel fell in the first round and was only 35th. The sporting value of jumping was reduced by the lack of Soviet jumpers, who were the tour winners when they participated for the first time last year. They were refused entry by the German authorities.

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Pentti Uotinen	Finland	227.0
02	Aulis Kallakorpi	Finland	223.0
03	Werner Lesser	GDR	218.5
	Toni Brutscher	BR Germany	218.5
05	Andreas Däscher	Switzerland	218.0
06th	Max Bolkart	BR Germany	217.5
07th	Kjell Kopstad	Norway	215.5
08th	Harry Glass	GDR	212.5
09	Walter Steinegger	Austria	212.0
10	Asbjørn Osnes	Norway	210.5
	Toivo Lauren	Sweden	210.5
	Georg Thoma	BR Germany	210.5

innsbruck

• Date: December 30, 1956
• Country: Austria 
• Ski jump: Bergisel ski jump

Contrary to the normal order, there was a jump in Innsbruck the following day. The Soviet jumpers starting for the first time surprised with the first two podium places. With 4th place, Koba Zakadze completed the result of his team. While the Finns did not intervene in the decision this time, the German jumpers showed a good team performance with places 3, 4 and 6. For the first time, the only 19-year-old Helmut Recknagel was able to draw attention to himself during the tour with place 6. In the overall standings, too, the strength of the German jumpers was evident after 2 competitions. After the leading Finn Pentii Uotinen, Max Bolkart with 3.5 and Werner Lesser with 5.5 points were still very promising in the race.

Intermediate result after 2 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Uotines	438.5
02.	Bolkart	435.0
03.	Lesser	433.0

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Nikolai Shamov	Soviet Union	221.5
02	Nikolai Kamensky	Soviet Union	218.5
03	Max Bolkart	BR Germany	217.5
04th	Koba Zakadze	Soviet Union	213.5
04th	Werner Lesser	GDR	213.5
06th	Helmut Recknagel	GDR	212.5
06th	Eino Kirjonen	Finland	212.5
08th	Pentti Uotinen	Finland	211.5
09	Zdeněk Remsa	Czechoslovakia	210.5
10	Aulis Kallakorpi	Finland	209.0

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

• Date: January 1, 1957
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Large Olympic hill

After protests, also with the support of the West German Ski Association, the Soviet jumpers were allowed to start in Garmisch in front of 30,000 spectators. And they also won the duel with the Finns in the New Year's competition. However, Nikolai Kamenski won by a very thin 0.3 points ahead of Eino Kirjonen. Nikolai Schamow set a new hill record in the second round with 91.5 m. The second highest width was 83.5 m. A total of 4 Soviet jumpers were placed in the top ten. Of the German jumpers only Max Bolkart and Harry Glaß were able to keep up with the leaders in 7th and 8th place. Nevertheless, the results were sufficient for Bolkart and Lesser to maintain their preliminary podium positions. The Finn Kirjonen had made up ground and was already just behind Lesser.

Intermediate result after 3 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Uotines	653.9
02.	Bolkart	645.7
03.	Lesser	633.1

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Nikolai Kamensky	Soviet Union	217.9
02	Eino Kirjonen	Finland	217.6
03	Pentti Uotinen	Finland	215.4
04th	Nikolai Shamov	Soviet Union	215.0
05	Koba Zakadze	Soviet Union	212.3
06th	Nikolai Trusov	Soviet Union	211.8
07th	Max Bolkart	BR Germany	210.7
08th	Harry Glass	GDR	206.4
09	Toralf Engan	Norway	205.8
10	Wladyslaw Tajner	Poland	202.5

Bischofshofen

• Date: January 6, 1957
• Country: Austria 
• Hill: Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze

On Epiphany there was another Finn on the podium. Eino Kirjonen relegated the Soviet jumpers Kamenski and Schamow to the other podium places with a new hill record of 94 m and a gap of almost 10 points. The German jumpers showed a strong performance with places 4 to 7. The promisingly placed Max Bolkart lost in 11th place with only 204.5 points, believe it or not, 26 points to the winner of the day Kirjonen, so that he pushed him from second place in the overall standings.

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Eino Kirjonen	Finland	230.5
02	Nikolai Kamensky	Soviet Union	220.6
03	Nikolai Shamov	Soviet Union	217.2
04th	Helmut Recknagel	GDR	214.5
05	Georg Thoma	BR Germany	213.6
06th	Werner Lesser	GDR	212.1
07th	Harry Glass	GDR	211.8
08th	Pentti Uotinen	Finland	208.9
09	Walter Habersatter	Austria	208.2
10	Walter Steinegger	Austria	207.6

Total status

Despite a brilliant performance by Eino Kirjonen in Bischofshofen, it wasn't quite enough for the overall victory in the end. With an eighth place on the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Pentii Uotinen saved a lead of 0.7 points for winning the tour. The German jumpers were able to place themselves in the top ten with 5 athletes, whereby Helmut Recknagel built a better overall ranking with his fall in Oberstdorf. In the meantime there were even two German jumpers in the podium. In the end, however, at least Max Bolkart achieved the first podium placement in the overall tour for a German jumper with 3rd place. The performance of the Soviet athletes was not taken into account due to the lack of jumping in Oberstdorf. If you only use the points of the last 3 competitions purely arithmetically, the order would have been Kirjonen, Kamenski, Schamow, Uotinen. So one can assume that the overall ranking would have looked different without the entry ban to Oberstdorf.

rank	Surname	nation	Overall rating	Colonel village	Inns- bruck	Garmisch- Partenk.-	Episcopate hofen
01	Pentti Uotinen	Finland	862.8	227.0 / 01.	211.5 / 08.	215.4 / 03.	208.9 / 08.
02	Eino Kirjonen	Finland	862.1	201.5 / 17.	212.5 / 06.	217.6 / 02.	230.5 / 01.
03	Max Bolkart	BR Germany	853.6	217.5 / 06.	217.5 / 03.	210.7 / 07.	204.5 / 11.
04th	Werner Lesser	GDR	845.2	219.5 / 03.	213.0 / 05.	200.6 / 11.	212.1 / 06.
05	Harry Glass	GDR	827.3	212.5 / 08.	196.5 / 24.	206.4 / 08.	211.8 / 07.
06th	Walter Steinegger	Austria	825.0	212.0 / 09.	208.0 / 11.	197.4 / 13.	207.6 / 10.
07th	Aulis Kallakorpi	Finland	821.1	223.0 / 02.	209.0 / 10.	191.5 / 20.	197.6 /?
08th	Georg Thoma	BR Germany	812.0	210.5 / 10.	195.5 / 25.	192.4 / 18.	213.6 / 05.
09	Wladyslaw Tajner	Poland	810.9	207.0 / 15.	201.5 / 15.	202.5 / 10.	199.9 /?
10	Helmut Recknagel	GDR	808.6	188.0 / 35.	212.5 / 07.	198.6 / 12.	214.5 / 04.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} ND of January 3, 1957 p. 6
2. ↑ Finn triumph in Oberstdorf . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 30, 1956, p. 20 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized version).
3. ↑ Surprise at Innsbruck jumping . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 1, 1957, p. 32 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ^ ND of January 2, 1957 p. 4
5. ↑ ^{a b} Impressive revenge from the Finns . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 8, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ↑ FIS results list
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