Four Hills Tournament 1961/62

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winner
Tour winner FinlandFinland Eino Kirjonen
Oberstdorf FinlandFinland Eino Kirjonen
innsbruck AustriaAustria Willi Egger
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Georg Thoma
Bischofshofen AustriaAustria Willi Egger
Attendees
Nations 14 (AUT, FIN, FRA, FRG, GDR, HUN, ITA, NOR,
POL, SUI, SWE, URS, TCH, YUG)
athlete 84
1960/61 1962/63

During the 10th Four Hills Tournament 1961/62 the jumping took place in Oberstdorf on December 28th, the jumping in Innsbruck on December 30th and the jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on January 1st . The event in Bischofshofen took place on January 6th. A new attendance record was set for the anniversary tour. A total of athletes from 14 countries competed, including for the first time from Hungary, a rather exotic ski jumping nation. After several years of abstinence, a Polish team took part in the tour again, which of course wanted to look good at the upcoming World Cup in Zakopane .

The tour in the shadow of the wall

On the anniversary of all things, the tour got caught up in the maelstrom of inner-German sports relations, as it did in its 8th edition. If in 1959 it was still the flag dispute, the construction of the Wall on August 13, 1961 had another impact on the field of participants. As a result of this event, the DSB passed its so-called Düsseldorf resolutions on August 16, 1961 . Among other things, these prohibited the holding of sports events with sports groups from the GDR in the Federal Republic until further notice. Since the federal government ensured compliance with these resolutions and the mood in the West German population of the GDR was not necessarily well-disposed, the DSV failed to invite ski jumpers from the GDR to the jumps in Oberstdorf and Garmisch. The ÖSV, however, issued an invitation, which was also accepted by the GDR side. This made it clear from the start that defending champion Helmut Recknagel would not be able to tackle a fourth tour win. Unlike in 1959, however, this time not all Eastern European sports associations showed solidarity with the GDR jumpers. Only the Czechoslovak athletes did not compete on the German jumps, while the Polish, Hungarian and Soviet jumpers competed in all four competitions.

Nominee athletes

With Silvennoinen, Kamenski, Bolkart and Helmut Recknagel there were four tour winners at the start, with Recknagel only taking part in two competitions.

nation Athletes
Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany Max Bolkart , Helmut Kurz , Hermann Anwander , Georg Thoma , Helmut Wegscheider , Wolfgang Happle , Alois Haberstock , Heini Ihle , Arthur Bodenmüller , Wolfgang Schüller , Hias Winkler , Edi Heilingbrunner , Josef Schiffner , Axel Zerlaut
Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR Helmut Recknagel , Willi Wirth , Kurt Schramm , Peter Lesser , Dieter Bokeloh , Lothar Heyer , Siegbert Münch , Johannes Riedel
AustriaAustria Austria Willi Egger , Walter Habersatter , Otto Leodolter , Gerhard Niederhammer , Peter Müller , Baldur Preiml , Willi Köstinger , Horst Moser , Sepp Lichtenegger , Walter Steinegger , Ferdl Wallner
FinlandFinland Finland Eino Kirjonen , Hemmo Silvennoinen , Antero Immonen , Niilo Halonen , Veikko Kankkonen
FranceFrance France Guy Mollier , Claude Jean-Prost
Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia Božo Jemc , Ludvik Zajc , Miro Oman , Marjan Pečar , Jože Šlibar , Peter Eržen , Milan Rojina
ItalyItaly Italy Nilo Zandanel , Dino De Zordo , Giacomo Aimoni , Bruno De Zordo , Agostino De Zordo
NorwayNorway Norway Oddvar Saga , Guttorm Heldahl , Asbjørn Osnes
Poland 1944Poland Poland Stanisław Polok , Andrzej Kocyan , Antoni Łaciak , Ryszard Witke , Piotr Wala , Gustaw Bujok , Antoni Wieczorek , Władysław Tajner
SwedenSweden Sweden Holger Karlsson , Kjell Sjöberg , Inge Lindqvist , Bert Andersson , Harry Bergqvist , Bengt Eriksson
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland Francis Perret , Toni Cecchinato , Ueli Scheidegger
Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union Nikolai Kamenski , Nikolai Schamow , Koba Zakadse , Rudolf Bykow , Juri Samsonow , Wladimir Bykow
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Zbyněk Hubač , Drahomír Jebavý , Jaromír Novlud
HungaryHungary Hungary Endre Kiss , Tamás Sudár , László Gellér , Janos Horvath

Oberstdorf

In the best weather, an old friend won on the Schattenbergschanze. Kirjonen had already finished second three times in the overall tour. He prevailed with the best stylistic jumps. The Yugoslav Božo Jemc came in surprisingly second. Of the German jumpers, only Wolfgang Happle was among the top ten. Max Bolkart jumped two maximum distances, but could not stand both jumps in the run and so fell back hopelessly.

Item Jumper country Points
01 Eino Kirjonen FinlandFinland Finland 226.5
02 Božo Jemc Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia 219.5
03 Oddvar saga NorwayNorway Norway 219.0
04th Hemmo Silvennoinen FinlandFinland Finland 218.0
05 Holger Karlsson SwedenSweden Sweden 216.0
06th Wolfgang Happle Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 215.5
07th Koba Zakadze Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 215.0
07th Kjell Sjöberg SwedenSweden Sweden 215.0
09 Nikolai Shamov Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 214.0
10 Georg Thoma Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 213.0
10 Inge Lindqvist SwedenSweden Sweden 213.0
10 Nikolai Kamensky Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 213.0

innsbruck

  • Date: December 30, 1961
  • Country: AustriaAustriaAustria 
  • Ski jump: Bergisel ski jump
  • Spectators: 20,000

On the construction site at Bergisel, construction work was taking place for the next Olympic Games, the Austrians were ahead of the game. Willi Egger won with a hill record of 89.5 m and Walter Habersatter just missed second place, 0.3 points behind. First of all, the big Polish team in the form of Antoni Wieczorek put a warning, he came in fifth. Last year's winner Helmut Recknagel took eleventh place, according to press releases he had not completed enough training jumps. Due to his fourth place, Eino Kirjonen consolidated his first place in the overall ranking.

Intermediate result after 2 jumps
Item Jumper Points
01. Kirjonen 445.0
02. Zakadze 434.7
03. Silvennoinen 430.2
Item Jumper country Points
01 Willi Egger AustriaAustria Austria 225.0
02 Koba Zakadze Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 219.7
03 Walter Habersatter AustriaAustria Austria 219.4
04th Eino Kirjonen FinlandFinland Finland 218.5
05 Antoni Wieczorek Poland 1944Poland Poland 214.4
06th Max Bolkart Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 213.4
07th Nikolai Shamov Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 212.6
08th Kjell Sjöberg SwedenSweden Sweden 212.5
09 Hemmo Silvennoinen FinlandFinland Finland 212.2
10 Yuri Samsonov Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 210.1

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Just as it was the day of the Austrians in Innsbruck, the New Year's competition was the day of the German team. There had not yet been three German jumpers among the top four places on the tour. Ironically, a combiner won the day's ranking. The Olympic champion in Nordic combined , Georg Thoma, won ahead of the again strong Austrian Willi Egger and Wolfgang Happle. Former master Max Bolkart rounded off the good performance of the West German jumpers with fourth place. Due to this result and the fact that Koba Zakadze, who had been second in the overall standings up to that point, only finished in 43rd place, the overall standings were upset. Kirjonen was still the undisputed leader with almost 20 points, but behind Georg Thoma suddenly there was a chance of a podium place in the overall standings. Somewhat surprisingly, the Swede Lindqvist took 4th place in the overall ranking at this point.

Intermediate result after 3 jumps
Item Jumper Points
01. Kirjonen 661.2
02. Silvennoinen 641.4
03. Thoma 641.0
04th Lindqvist 636.5
05. Shamov 634.6
06th Kamensky 633.9
07th Habersatter 633.7
08th. Wieczorek 630.9
09. Egger 630.7
10. Samsonov 624.5
Item Jumper country Points
01 Georg Thoma Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 225.5
02 Willy Egger AustriaAustria Austria 221.7
03 Wolfgang Happle Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 220.0
04th Max Bolkart Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 216.4
05 Eino Kirjonen FinlandFinland Finland 216.2
06th Nikolai Kamensky Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 215.2
07th Niilo halons FinlandFinland Finland 214.2
07th Inge Lindqvist SwedenSweden Sweden 214.2
09 Veikko Kankkonen FinlandFinland Finland 213.0
10 Holger Karlsson SwedenSweden Sweden 212.4

Bischofshofen

The final competition turned out to be memorable in every respect. It started with the fact that Georg Thoma, who was third in the overall ranking, did not take part in the fourth jumping and instead competed in the Nordic Combined around Neukirch . He gave up this in the running competition after running about 1.5 km because he had become completely overgrown. If the German performance in Garmisch was already outstanding, the German jumpers of both teams went one better in Bischofshofen. In second to sixth place five German jumpers, 3 from the GDR, 2 from the Federal Republic, came in among the top ten places. To the delight of the audience, Willi Egger won his second jumping of this tour after Innsbruck and improved from ninth to second place in the overall ranking. The overall leading Kirjonen took 12th place.

Item Jumper country Points
01 Willy Egger AustriaAustria Austria 222.7
02 Helmut Recknagel Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 220.3
03 Wolfgang Happle Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 215.0
04th Dieter Bokeloh Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 213.6
05 Werner Lesser Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 212.8
06th Heini Ihle Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 210.5
07th Koba Zakadze Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 210.0
08th Oddvar saga NorwayNorway Norway 208.8
09 Antoni Wieczorek Poland 1944Poland Poland 208.5
10 Nikolai Shamov Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 206.1

Total status

Old master Eino Kirjonen made a strong comeback after three second places. He laid the foundation stone for this right from the first competition in Oberstdorf, where he also benefited from Willi Egger's fall. The Austrian was the outstanding jumper on this tour, winning two competitions and finishing second in Garmisch. But his fall in Oberstdorf robbed him of the overall victory.

rank Surname nation Overall
rating
Colonel
village
Inns-
bruck
Garmisch-
Partenk.-
Episcopate
hofen
01 Eino Kirjonen FinlandFinland Finland 865.1 226.5 / 01. 218.5 / 04. 216.2 / 05. 203.9 / 12.
02 Willi Egger AustriaAustria Austria 853.4 184.0 / 52. 225.0 / 01. 221.7 / 02. 222.7 / 01.
03 Hemmo Silvennoinen FinlandFinland Finland 843.2 218.0 / 04. 212.2 / 09. 211.2 / 12. 201.8 / 14.
04th Nikolai Shamov Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 840.7 214.0 / 09. 212.6 / 07. 208.0 / 18. 206.1 / 10.
05 Antoni Wieczorek Poland 1944Poland Poland 839.4 212.0 / 13. 214.4 / 05. 204.5 / 26. 209.5 / 09.
06th Walter Habersatter AustriaAustria Austria 833.4 206.0 / 23. 219.4 / 03. 208.3 / 17. 199.7 / 18.
07th Koba Zakadze Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 833.0 215.0 / 07. 219.7 / 02. 188.3 / 43. 210.0 / 07.
08th Inge Lindqvist SwedenSweden Sweden 832.5 213.0 / 10. 209.3 / 13. 214.2 / 07. 196.0 / 24.
09 Oddvar saga NorwayNorway Norway 830.4 219.0 / 03. 195.4 / 27. 207.2 / 21. 208.8 / 08.
10 Max Bolkart Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 828.7 193.0 / 42. 213.4 / 06. 216.4 / 04. 205.9 / 11.

Individual evidence

  1. Eino Kirjonen won in world class style . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 29, 1961, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. Hamburger Abendblatt of December 29, 1961 p. 10
  3. Jumps like in a dream - that was the victory . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 31, 1961, p. 37 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. Austria's jumpers not yet in shape . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 3, 1962, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. Egger is one of the best in the world . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 9, 1962, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. Hamburger Abendblatt, January 8, 1962, p. 6
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