Four Hills Tournament 1957/58

6. Four Hills Tournament
winner
Tour winner	Helmut Recknagel
Oberstdorf	Nikolai Kamensky
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Willi Egger
innsbruck	Helmut Recknagel
Bischofshofen	Helmut Recknagel
Attendees
Nations	11 ( AUT , CAN , FRG , GDR , ITA POL , SWE , SUI , TCH , URS , YUG )
athlete	75
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The 6th Four Hills Tournament 1957/58 took place again in its usual order. The opening competition in Oberstdorf on December 30th was followed by the competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on New Year's Day 1958 . Then it went to Austria, where on January 5th the jumping in Innsbruck and the day after the final competition in Bischofshofen followed. For the first time jumpers from Italy were at the start. Even before the start, the organizers had to accept two refusals: the Norwegians stayed at home due to insufficient preparation due to the general shortage of snow, the Finns were even banned from starting abroad by their association. Due to the Nordic World Ski Championships taking place in Lahti in February 1958 , the jumpers should prepare for the event of the year in their home country. At least the Finns were among the contenders for overall victory, and shortly afterwards they confirmed their position as favorites at the World Cup.

Nominee athletes

nation	Athletes
BR Germany	Helmut Bleier , Heinrich Zapf , Max Bolkart , Hans Leppert , Helmut Kurz , Ewald Roscher , Arthur Bodenmüller , Klaus Lechler , Leopold Bartenschläger , Georg Thoma , Sepp Kleisl , Toni Brutscher , Sepp Hohenleitner , Hermann Anwander , Willy Gotthold , Hias Winkler , Otto Herz , Helmut Ackermann , Konrad Simmerl , Hans Kiessling , Bernd Drexl , Franz Eder
GDR	Harry Glaß , Werner Lesser , Helmut Recknagel , Manfred Münch , Manfred Brunner , Adolf Baldauf , Hugo Fuchs , Siegmund Pabst , Harald Pfeffer
Austria	Willi Egger , Walter Habersatter , Rudi Schweinberger , Otto Leodolter , Alois Leodolter , Walter Steinegger , Ferdl Kerber , Albin Plank , Peter Müller , Ernst Wilhelm , Karl Wilhelm , Ernst Kröll , Fredi Schirmer , Klaus Fichtner , Anton Wieser , Waldemar Heigenhauser , Ferdl Wallner , Andreas Krallinger
Italy	Nilo Zandanel , Luigi Pennacchio
Yugoslavia	Jože Zidar , Mato Krznarič , Jože Langus
Canada	Jacques Charland , Claude Dupuis
Poland	Andrzej Gąsienica Daniel , Władysław Tajner , Józef Huczek
Sweden	Folke Mikaelsson , Erik Styf , Inge Lindqvist , Holger Karlsson
Switzerland	Giovanelli, Francis Perret
Soviet Union	Nikolai Kamenski , Nikolai Schamow , Boris Nikolajew , Koba Zakadse , Rudolf Nikolajewitsch Bykow , Valeri Kondratjew
Czechoslovakia	Jáchym Bulín , Zdeněk Remsa , František Felix , Jaromír Novlud

Oberstdorf

• Date: December 30, 1957
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Schattenbergschanze

After winning the Holmenkollen in March 1957, Helmut Recknagel was now one of the favorites, especially in the absence of the Finns. However, in the opening competition in front of 10,000 spectators, the tour winner of 1955/56, Nikolai Kamenski, relegated Recknagel to second place with his victory. The Austrian jumpers under coach Sepp Bradl were able to achieve a podium place again after a long dry spell and were among the top ten with 3 athletes.

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Nikolai Kamensky	Soviet Union	227.5
02	Helmut Recknagel	GDR	222.0
03	Walter Habersatter	Austria	216.5
03	Walter Steinegger	Austria	216.5
05	Werner Lesser	GDR	215.5
06th	Jáchym Bulín	Czechoslovakia	211.5
07th	Nikolai Shamov	Soviet Union	210.5
08th	Rudolf Bykov	Soviet Union	210.0
09	Otto Leodolter	Austria	209.5
10	Folke Mikaelsson	Sweden	207.0

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

• Date: January 1, 1958
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Large Olympic hill

The New Year's competition in Garmisch in front of 40,000 spectators ended with a surprise. The Austrian Willi Egger, who started in the Nordic combined at the Olympics in 1956, won ahead of Nikolai Schamow and Werner Lesser. Austria, the Soviet Union and the German jumpers increasingly left their mark on the competition. Due to a fall in the second round, fellow favorite Helmut Recknagel only ended up in 35th place. With a deficit of more than 25 points, an overall victory was almost unthinkable. The Soviet jumpers Kamenski and Schamow in particular had this in mind after 2 competitions.

Intermediate result after 2 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Kamensky	436.8
02.	Shamov	433.7
03.	Steinegger	430.9
	Lesser	430.9
05.	Bykov	418.2
06th	Bulin	417.4
07th	Bolkart	415.1
08th.	Leodolter	412.3
09.	Recknagel	411.1
10.	Styf	408.4

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Willi Egger	Austria	226.6
02	Nikolai Shamov	Soviet Union	223.2
03	Werner Lesser	GDR	215.4
04th	Walter Steinegger	Austria	214.4
05	Boris Nikolayev	Soviet Union	211.8
06th	Max Bolkart	BR Germany	210.1
07th	Nikolai Kamensky	Soviet Union	209.3
08th	Rudolf Bykov	Soviet Union	208.2
09	Jáchym Bulín	Czechoslovakia	205.9
10	Hugo Fuchs	GDR	205.7

innsbruck

• Date: January 5, 1958
• Country: Austria 
• Ski jump: Bergisel ski jump

In Innsbruck, Helmut Recknagel achieved the first day victory of a German jumper in the Four Hills Tournament. He relegated Nikolai Kamenski to second place with a 10 point gap. With this, Recknagel, who had already been written off after his fall in Garmisch and a resultant deficit of 25 points on Kamenski, moved up from 9th to 5th place in the overall standings. Initially Werner Lesser was still the best German jumper, as he finished third in the overall standings, just 0.8 points behind Nikolai Schamow. Again, only German jumpers and jumpers from the Soviet Union and Austria dominated the competition.

Intermediate result after 3 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Kamensky	653.3
02.	Shamov	644.7
03.	Lesser	643.9
04th	Steinegger	638.3
05.	Recknagel	637.6
06th	Bykov	631.2

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Helmut Recknagel	GDR	226.5
02	Nikolai Kamensky	Soviet Union	216.5
03	Walter Habersatter	Austria	216.0
04th	Otto Leodolter	Austria	215.5
05	Harry Glass	GDR	215.0
06th	Max Bolkart	BR Germany	214.0
07th	Rudolf Bykov	Soviet Union	213.0
07th	Werner Lesser	GDR	213.0
09	Nikolai Shamov	Soviet Union	211.0
10	Walter Steinegger	Austria	207.5

Bischofshofen

• Date: January 6, 1958
• Country: Austria 
• Ski jump: Laideregg ski jump

On Epiphany, Helmut Recknagel again won the day, this time ahead of his teammate Harry Glaß. Werner Lesser and Manfred Brunner with places 6 and 10 rounded off the strong performance of the jumpers from the GDR. Up until then the overall leader Nikolai Kamenski, for whom the experts had already predicted the second victory in the tour, couldn't manage at all on the small Laideregg hill and only finished 18th. In the end, this should have an impact on the overall ranking.

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Helmut Recknagel	GDR	227.5
02	Harry Glass	GDR	225.0
03	Koba Zakadze	Soviet Union	219.2
04th	Otto Leodolter	Austria	218.8
05	Max Bolkart	BR Germany	215.8
06th	Nikolai Shamov	Soviet Union	215.6
07th	Walter Habersatter	Austria	215.2
08th	Werner Lesser	GDR	214.1
09	Willi Egger	Austria	213.2
10	Manfred Brunner	GDR	212.9

Total status

Thanks to a hitherto unprecedented race to catch up in the last two competitions, Helmut Recknagel finally won the overall standings after a fall in the second competition and meanwhile 25 points behind the leader. Nikolai Kamenski, who led to Bischofshofen, finished in third place after his 18th place in the last competition, just behind his compatriot Schamow. Werner Lesser came in just one point behind. The Austrians were able to celebrate a victory of the day and placed in the top ten with 3 jumpers. However, the sporting value of the tour was reduced by the absence of Finnish and Norwegian jumpers. This became evident almost two months later at the World Ski Championships in Lahti, where Recknagel had to give way to the Finns Juhani Kärkinen and Ensio Hyytiä.

rank	Surname	nation	Overall rating	Colonel village	Garmisch- Partenk.-	Inns- bruck	Episcopate hofen
01	Helmut Recknagel	GDR	865.1	222.0 / 02.	189.1 / 35.	226.5 / 01.	227.5 / 01.
02	Nikolai Shamov	Soviet Union	860.3	210.5 / 07.	223.2 / 02.	211.0 / 09.	215.6 / 06.
03	Nikolai Kamensky	Soviet Union	859.2	227.5 / 01.	217.5 / 03.	216.5 / 02.	197.7 / 18.
04th	Werner Lesser	GDR	857.2	215.5 / 05.	215.4 / 03.	213.0 / 07.	214.1 / 08.
05	Walter Steinegger	Austria	848.6	216.5 / 03.	214.4 / 04.	207.5 / 10.	210.2 / 13.
06th	Otto Leodolter	Austria	846.6	209.5 / 09.	202.8 / 14.	215.5 / 04.	218.8 / 04.
07th	Max Bolkart	BR Germany	844.9	205.0 / 13.	210.1 / 06.	214.0 / 06.	215.8 / 05.
08th	Rudolf Bykov	Soviet Union	841.5	210.0 / 08.	208.2 / 08.	213.0 / 07.	210.3 / 12.
09	Walter Habersatter	Austria	831.3	216.5 / 03.	183.6 / 42.	216.0 / 03.	215.2 / 07.
10	Erik Styf	Sweden	816.6	205.5 / 12.	202.9 / 13.	200.0 / 14.	208.2 / 15.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} FIS results list
2. ↑ An outsider jumped the furthest . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 3, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ ^{a b} FIS results list
4. ↑ ^{a b} FIS results list
5. ^ New Germany of January 8, 1958, p. 8
6. ↑ FIS results list
7. ↑ FIS results list