Four Hills Tournament 1964/65

13th Four Hills Tournament
winner
Tour winner	Torgeir Brandtzæg
Oberstdorf	Torgeir Brandtzæg
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Erkki Pukka
innsbruck	Torgeir Brandtzæg
Bischofshofen	Bjørn Wirkola
Attendees
Nations	14 (AUT, FIN, FRA, FRG, YUG, ITA, NOR, POL, SWE, SUI, TCH, URS, HUN, USA)
athlete	72
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During the 13th Four Hills Tournament in 1964/65 , jumping took place in Oberstdorf on December 27th, followed by jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on January 1st, and jumping in Innsbruck on January 3rd . The event in Bischofshofen took place on January 6th. The tour was won by the two-time bronze medalist at the Innsbruck Olympic Games, the Norwegian Torgeir Brandtzæg, ahead of his compatriot Björn Wirkola. In the post-Olympic season, the field of participants was not that big, especially since the jumpers from the GDR were completely absent this time. After the resignation of the three-time tour winner Helmut Recknagel, various injuries and ongoing political quarrels due to the Düsseldorf resolutions, no team from the GDR took part this time. The Norwegians were favored, with Engan and Brandtzæg, two medal winners from Innsbruck, and with Wirkola a promising talent. The outstanding jumper of the previous season and last year's winner, the Finn Veikko Kankkonen, had to take a break due to jaundice. And the Austrians also competed with a handicap. Her best jumper Baldur Preiml, who was third last year after all, paused due to a serious fall injury.

Nominee athletes

nation	Athletes
BR Germany	Max Bolkart , Georg Thoma , Wolfgang Happle , Henrik Ohlmeyer , Heini Ihle , Franz Keller , Helmut Wegscheider , Wolfgang Happle , Günther Göllner , Helmut Kurz , Wolfgang Schüller , Alois Haberstock , Axel Zerlaut , Hias Winkler , Georg Bühl , Oswald Schinze
Austria	Willi Egger , Peter Müller , Herbert Schiffner , Max Golser , Sepp Lichtenegger , Willy Schuster , Waldemar Heigenhauser , Willi Köstinger , Scherübl
Finland	Seppo Hannula , Paavo Lukkariniemi , Erkki Pukka , Eino Kirjonen
France	Alain Macle , Gilbert Poirot , Jean-Marie Poirot , Albert Vionnet
Yugoslavia	Ludvik Zajc , Peter Eržen , Miro Oman
Italy	Giacomo Aimoni , Mario Cecon , Nilo Zandanel , Dino De Zordo
Norway	Torgeir Brandtzæg , Björn Wirkola , Toralf Engan , Per Cucheron , Ole Arntzen
Poland	Józef Przybyła , Ryszard Witke , Piotr Wala
Sweden	Olle Martinsson , Kurt Elimä , Ulf Norberg , Mats Östman
Switzerland	Herbert Schmid , Sepp Zehnder , Max Walter , Richard Pfiffner
Soviet Union	Vladimir Sologub , Yuri Subarew , Alexander Ivannikov , Pyotr Kovalenko , Yuri Sakoljugin , Mikhail Veretennikov , Viktor Kryukov
Czechoslovakia	Zbyněk Hubač , Dalibor Motejlek , Josef Matouš , Rudolf Doubek
Hungary	Endre Kiss , Tamás Sudár , László Gellér , László Csávás
United States	John Balfanz , Martin Jay , Dave Hicks

Oberstdorf

• Date: December 27, 1964
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Schattenbergschanze
• Spectators: 7,000

The first competition was won by the Olympic third from Innsbruck, Torgeir Brandtzæg. This achievement is all the more remarkable because the Scandinavian jumpers arrived in Oberstdorf late the evening before, because there were no flights from Scandinavia to Central Europe on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. He caused even bigger surprises for American Hicks in 3rd place and Italian Aimoni in 6th place. Max Bolkart, who had actually ended his career after the Olympic Games, jumped on his house hill and came in on a very respectable 9th place.

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Torgeir Brandtzæg	Norway	230.5
02	Pyotr Kovalenko	Soviet Union	215.5
03	Dave Hicks	United States	206.7
04th	Ludvik Zajc	Yugoslavia	205.8
05	Bjorn Wirkola	Norway	205.4
06th	Giacomo Aimoni	Italy	204.9
07th	Toralf Engan	Norway	203.4
08th	Georg Thoma	BR Germany	202.6
09	Max Bolkart	BR Germany	201.1
10	Heini Ihle	BR Germany	200.7

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

• Date: January 1, 1965
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Large Olympic hill

The New Year's jumping ended curiously. After a so-called quick evaluation, the German jumper Heini Ihle was declared the winner, which was also reported in the television broadcast. Only after a further check was the result corrected, the winner was now the previously unknown Finn Erki Pukka. With his second place, Ihle moved up to an excellent third place in the overall ranking. This continued to lead Brandtzæg, who managed a fifth place.

Intermediate result after 2 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Brandtzæg	440.7
02.	Kovalenko	428.8
03.	Ihle	416.6
04th	Motejlek	408.3
05.	Przybyła	403.2
06th	Wirkola	402.5

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Erkki Pukka	Finland	216.0
02	Heini Ihle	BR Germany	215.9
03	Helmut Kurz	BR Germany	215.2
04th	Pyotr Kovalenko	Soviet Union	213.3
05	Torgeir Brandtzaeg	Norway	210.2
06th	Yuri Subarev	Soviet Union	209.6
07th	Dalibor Motejlek	Czechoslovakia	209.5
08th	Sepp Lichtenegger	Austria	209.0
09	Peter Müller	Austria	208.7
10	Mikhail Veretennikov	Soviet Union	208.6

innsbruck

• Date: January 3, 1965
• Country: Austria 
• Ski jump: Bergisel ski jump
• Spectators: 10,000

In the snowstorm, there was a Norwegian double success on the Olympic hill. The young Björn Wirkola was able to achieve a podium place on the tour for the first time behind the winner of the day Brandtzæg. Heini Ihle, who was third in the overall standings up to Innsbruck, fell in the first round and did not compete in the second round. As a result, he was no longer eligible for a promising placement in the overall ranking. With his third place in the daily standings, just 0.2 points behind Wirkola, Pole Przybyła now moved up to second place in the overall standings. Przybyła had already achieved the same ranking in the previous year before the final competition in Bischofshofen, but at that time with justified hopes of overall victory. This time Brandtzæg was almost unassailable ahead with a lead of over 46 points, the overall victory was only a matter of form.

Intermediate result after 3 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Brandtzæg	670.0
02.	Przybyła	623.1
03.	Wirkola	622.6
04th	Motejlek	622.1
05.	Engan	611.2
06th	Pukka	610.3

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Torgeir Brandtzæg	Norway	229.3
02	Bjorn Wirkola	Norway	220.1
03	Józef Przybyła	Poland	219.9
04th	Erkki Pukka	Finland	217.9
05	Dalibor Motejlek	Czechoslovakia	213.8
06th	Viktor Kryukov	Soviet Union	213.2
07th	Henrik Ohlmeyer	BR Germany	208.9
08th	Toralf Engan	Norway	208.8
09	Ryszard Witke	Poland	207.5
10	Ole Arntzen	Norway	205.1

Bischofshofen

• Date: January 6, 1965
• Country: Austria 
• Hill: Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze

The 21-year-old Björn Wirkola celebrated his first win of the day in Bischofshofen. In sometimes adverse weather conditions, he even jumped a new hill record of 103 m, but was later replaced by the Czechoslovak Motejlek with 104.5 m. But as Wirkola got the significantly better posture grades, Motejlek only got second place. Torgeir Brandtzaeg jumped more on safety and came in 7th, which was enough to secure overall victory. As in the previous year, the Pole Przybyła did not get by in Bischofshofen and did not place in the top twenty jumpers.

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Bjørn Wirkola	Norway	220.2
02	Dalibor Motejlek	Czechoslovakia	217.6
03	Viktor Kryukov	Soviet Union	210.8
04th	Yuri Subarev	Soviet Union	208.0
05	Max Golser	Austria	202.5
06th	Ludvik Zajc	Yugoslavia	201.7
07th	Torgeir Brandtzaeg	Norway	199.5
08th	Peter Müller	Austria	199.0
09	Sepp Lichtenegger	Austria	197.6
10	Per Cucheron	Norway	191.8

Total status

If the question of overall victory was resolved after the jumping in Innsbruck at the latest, the struggle for the podium was an exciting one. In the end, Wirkola was able to secure second place with his win in Bischofshofen. Dalibor Motejlek climbed to third place in the overall ranking thanks to his second place in Bischofshofen, which also meant the first podium placement of a Czechoslovak jumper on the tour. The Polish Przybyła suffered the same fate as last year, but this time after his miserable jumping in Bischofshofen he was only passed fifth in the overall ranking. After Heini Ihle's retirement, the German jumpers had nothing to do with the outcome of the tour, as did the Austrians, whose best jumper Peter Müller was still sixth overall.

rank	Surname	nation	Overall rating	Colonel village	Garmisch- Partenk.	Inns- Bruckhaus	Episcopate hofen
01	Torgeir Brandtzæg	Norway	869.5	230.5 / 01.	210.2 / 05.	229.3 / 01.	199.5 / 07.
02	Bjorn Wirkola	Norway	842.8	205.4 / 05.	197.1 / 23.	220.1 / 02.	220.2 / 01.
03	Dalibor Motejlek	Czechoslovakia	839.7	198.8 / 14.	209.5 / 07.	213.8 / 05.	217.6 / 02.
04th	Yuri Subarev	Soviet Union	809.1	189.6 / 25.	209.6 / 06.	201.9 / ??.	208.0 / 04.
05	Józef Przybyła	Poland	803.0	200.5 / 11.	202.7 / 15.	219.9 / 03.	179.9 / ??.
06th	Peter Müller	Austria	800.7	192.2 / 20.	208.7 / 09.	200.8 / 15.	199.0 / 08.
07th	Erkki Pukka	Finland	798.7	176.4 / 39.	216.1 / 01.	217.9 / 04.	188.4 / ??.
08th	Toralf Engan	Norway	792.2	203.4 / 07.	199.0 / 20.	208.8 / 08.	181.0 / ??.
09	Viktor Kryukov	Soviet Union	791.0	170.4 / 49.	196.6 / 25.	213.2 / 06.	210.8 / 03.
10	Mikhail Veretennikov	Soviet Union	790.1	186.7 / 27.	208.6 / 10.	203.3 / 11.	191.5 / 11.

literature

• Robert Kauer, Raymund Stolze, Klaus Taglauer: 50 + 1 years International Four Hills Tournament Flying & Siegen . 3. Edition. wero press, Pfaffenweiler 2002, ISBN 3-9808049-0-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norwegian Brandtzägg won in Oberstdorf . In: Passauer Neue Presse . No. 299, December 28, 1964, p. 11.
2. ↑ Brandtzäg ruled the field . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 29, 1964, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ Robert Kauer, Raymund Stolze, Klaus Taglauer: 50 + 1 years of the International Four Hills Tournament Flying & Siegen . 3. Edition. wero press, Pfaffenweiler 2002, ISBN 3-9808049-0-9 . P. 42
4. ↑ One hour winner then second . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 3, 1965, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ↑ Finnish Pukka yesterday winner in Garmisch . In: Passauer Neue Presse . No. 1, January 2, 1965, p. 8.
6. ↑ Brandtzaeg- "Please do not congratulate!" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 5, 1965, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
7. ↑ The Norwegian won ski jumping in Innsbruck . In: Passauer Neue Presse . No. 2, January 4, 1965, p. 9.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Torgeir Brandtzäg takes over from Engan . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 8, 1965, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
9. ↑ FIS results list
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12. ↑ FIS results list