Four Hills Tournament 1965/66

14th Four Hills Tournament
winner
Tour winner	Veikko Kankkonen
Oberstdorf	Veikko Kankkonen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Paavo Lukkariniemi
innsbruck	Dieter Neuendorf
Bischofshofen	Veikko Kankkonen
Attendees
Nations	15 ( AUT , FIN , FRA , FRG , GDR , HUN , ITA , NOR , POL , SUI , SWE , TCH , URS , USA , YUG ,)
athlete	93
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The 14th Four Hills Tournament 1965/66 took place from December 30, 1965 to January 6, 1966 in the 4 traditional host cities of Oberstdorf , Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Innsbruck and Bischofshofen . The overall winner was the Finn Veikko Kankkonen ahead of Dieter Neuendorf from the GDR and the Norwegian Bjørn Wirkola.

Development in advance

With 93 starters from 15 countries there was a new participation record. After 4 tours that saw no GDR jumpers on the ski jumps in Oberstdorf and Garmisch as a result of political disputes, the entire world class in ski jumping competed on all four hills for the first time. It was on October 8, 1965 on the 63rd IOC mission in Madrid that the GDR's IOC was recognized as an independent member. Thus, in the end, the German government had to allow GDR athletes to compete on German territory. However, you couldn't bring yourself to introduce the athletes as jumpers from the GDR. So it was agreed to indicate the home clubs of the GDR athletes instead. After the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 and the previous year's tour, there was only one tour favorite left with the Olympic champion from Innsbruck, the Finn Veikko Kankkonen. The Norwegians Toralf Engan and Torgeir Brandtzæg , but also the three-time tour winner Helmut Recknagel , had retired from competitive sports. The previous year's runner-up, the Norwegian Bjørn Wirkola, and the up-and-coming Czechoslovakian jumpers were also to be expected. The GDR jumpers around the Holmenkollensieger of 1965, Dieter Neuendorf, who are now fully competing again for the first time, were the great unknown.

Nominee athletes

nation	Athletes
BR Germany	Max Bolkart , Georg Thoma , Wolfgang Happle , Henrik Ohlmeyer , Heini Ihle , Franz Keller , Helmut Wegscheider , Günther Göllner , Helmut Kurz , Wolfgang Schüller , Helmut Reicherts , Alfred Winkler , Udo Pfeffer , Oswald Schinze , Hias Winkler , Karl-Heinz Munk
GDR	Dieter Neuendorf , Dieter Bokeloh , Bernd Karwofsky , Horst Queck , Peter Lesser , Dieter Müller
Austria	Willi Egger , Peter Müller , Herbert Schiffner , Max Golser , Sepp Lichtenegger , Willy Schuster , Baldur Preiml , Reinhold Bachler , Waldemar Heigenhauser , Fritz Gamweger , Helmut Voggenberger , Walter Bründlinger , Johann Grander
Finland	Veikko Kankkonen , Paavo Lukkariniemi , Risto Tarkkila , Niilo Halonen , Seppo Hannula , Topi Mattila , Harri Jussilainen
France	Alain Macle , Gilbert Poirot , Jean-Marie Poirot
Yugoslavia	Ludvik Zajc , Marjan Pečar , Marjan Koprivsek , Janez Jurman , Peter Eržen , Otto Giacomelli , Miro Oman
Italy	Giacomo Aimoni , Mario Cecon , Nilo Zandanel
Norway	Hans Olav Sørensen , Björn Wirkola , Erling Stranden , Lars Grini
Poland	Józef Przybyła , Piotr Wala , Antoni Łaciak , Andrzej Sztolf , Józef Kocyan , Józef Kochel
Sweden	Kurt Elimä , Ulf Norberg , Mats Östman , Kjell Sjöberg , Sven Magnusson , Rolf Strandberg
Switzerland	Herbert Schmid , Sepp Zehnder , Richard Pfiffner , Alois Kälin , Urs Schöni , José Wirth
Soviet Union	Yuri Subarew , Alexander Ivannikow , Koba Zakadze , Mikhail Veretennikow
Czechoslovakia	Dalibor Motejlek , Josef Matouš , Jiří Raška , Rudolf Höhnl
Hungary	László Gellér , László Csávás , Mihály Gellér
United States	John Balfanz , Randy Garreton , Dave Hicks , Dave Norby

Oberstdorf

• Date: December 30, 1965
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Schattenbergschanze
• Spectators: 6,000

In very adverse weather conditions, which changed from fog to snowfall and finally to rain, the inrun track iced over with increasing cold. As a result, there were more falls than confessed jumps in the end. Prominent fall victims were, for example, fellow favorite Lars Grini or the Soviet jumper Yuri Subarew, who was still in second place after the first round. Nevertheless, the jumping became extremely exciting in the end. The GDR jumper Dieter Neuendorf, who was fifth after the first round, moved up to second place thanks to the daily best distance of 75 m and very good posture marks. In the end, only 0.9 points separated him from the winner Veikko Kankkonen. In the shadow of this exciting final, the Czechoslovak jumpers once again attracted attention. After a 3rd place from Dalibor Motejlek in the overall ranking of the previous year's tour, the Czechoslovak team was able to bring 3 athletes into the top ten this time in the opening competition.

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01.	Veikko Kankkonen	Finland	213.8
02.	Dieter Neuendorf	GDR	212.9
03.	Paavo Lukkariniemi	Finland	205.1
04th	Bjørn Wirkola	Norway	203.0
05.	John Balfanz	United States	201.5
06th	Alexander Ivannikov	Soviet Union	200.4
07th	Dalibor Motejlek	Czechoslovakia	200.0
08th.	Josef Matouš	Czechoslovakia	198.4
09.	Piotr Wala	Poland	197.7
10.	Jiří Raška	Czechoslovakia	194.5
	Günther Göllner	BR Germany	194.5

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

• Date: January 1, 1966
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Large Olympic hill
• Spectators: 30,000

In front of a large backdrop, jumping on the Olympic hill was firmly in Finnish hands. 4 jumpers from the Scandinavian country were placed among the top ten. The winner Paavo Lukkariniemi moved up to second place in the overall standings with his victory, while Dieter Neuendorf slipped down to third place with sixth place in the daily standings. However, only five points separated him from overall leader Kankkonen. Both German teams showed a great improvement in Garmisch, and a total of four German jumpers made it into the top ten. Thanks to their good results for the day, Göllner, Ohlmeyer and Karwofsky also moved into the top ten jumpers in the overall ranking. Due to falls in Oberstdorf, the Norwegian Grini and the Austrian Preiml did not compete in Garmisch. The Soviet jumper Subarew had to give up after a fall in the first round.

Intermediate result after 2 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Kankkonen	423.9
02.	Lukkariniemi	420.4
03.	Neuendorf	419.1

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01.	Paavo Lukkariniemi	Finland	215.3
02.	Bjørn Wirkola	Norway	212.6
03.	Veikko Kankkonen	Finland	210.1
04th	Niilo halons	Finland	207.1
05.	Günther Göllner	BR Germany	206.8
06th	Dieter Neuendorf	GDR	206.2
07th	Henrik Ohlmeyer	BR Germany	205.1
08th.	Josef Matouš	Czechoslovakia	204.4
09.	Harri Jussilainen	Finland	203.7
10.	Bernd Karwofsky	GDR	203.6

innsbruck

• Date: January 2, 1966
• Country: Austria 
• Ski jump: Bergisel ski jump
• Spectators: 12,000

With the first victory of a GDR jumper since Helmut Recknagel, the cards in the overall standings were reshuffled. Since Kankkonen landed on an indisputable 17th place after the first round due to overgrowth, Neuendorf was able to confidently win the jumping with the two longest jumps of the day by a considerable margin in the second round, despite the Finn's enormous catch-up. Kankkonen was able to move up to second just ahead of Günther Göllner because of his excellent jumping style. After the third competition, Neuendorf now had an apparently reassuring lead of over 11 points over Kankkonen. It looked a lot like that after Recknagel the next GDR athlete could win the tour.

Intermediate result after 3 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Neuendorf	645.2
02.	Kankkonen	633.8
03.	Lukkariniemi	628.7

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01.	Dieter Neuendorf	GDR	226.1
02.	Veikko Kankkonen	Finland	209.9
03.	Günther Göllner	BR Germany	209.0
04th	Josef Matouš	Czechoslovakia	208.6
05.	Paavo Lukkariniemi	Finland	208.3
06th	Mikhail Veretennikov	Soviet Union	204.9
07th	Peter Lesser	GDR	203.7
08th.	Topi Mattila	Finland	203.2
09.	Dave Hicks	United States	202.1
10.	Heini Ihle	BR Germany	201.9

Bischofshofen

• Date: January 6, 1966
• Country: Austria 
• Hill: Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze

After the Czechoslovak Moteiljek fell in the trial run, the run-up was shortened by 3 meters before the start of the competition. Nonetheless, jumpers with a poorer position came back to jumps of over 100 meters, some of which they could not stand. Therefore, Dieter Neuendorf's trainer Hans Renner decided to let his protégé start two meters further down, so that the approach speed was reduced to make the jump safely. This safety thinking resulted in a jump of 97 meters, which was graded 109.7 points. Rival Kankkonen took this rather cautious jump at full risk and was rewarded. He jumped 100.5 meters and landed stylistically clean, so that he was given 116.6 points in the end. As a result, Neuendorf's lead was reduced to 4.5 points after the first round. After the first round, the jury shortened the run-up by four meters. Neuendorf now jumped 98 meters while Kankkonen landed again at 100.5 meters. In addition, there were three times 19 points in the posture marks, the best posture mark during the entire tour. So Kankkonen won the jumping with over 14 points ahead of Neuendorf, who was also overtaken by Wirkola. The Swede Elimä, who took fourth place, provided a warning sign.

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01.	Veikko Kankkonen	Finland	235.7
02.	Bjørn Wirkola	Norway	227.2
03.	Dieter Neuendorf	GDR	221.3
04th	Kurt Elimae	Sweden	219.9
05.	Jiří Raška	Czechoslovakia	217.8
06th	Peter Eržen	Yugoslavia	215.3
07th	Hans Olav Sørensen	Norway	214.9
	Seppo Hannula	Finland	214.9
09.	Henrik Ohlmeyer	BR Germany	213.7
10.	Erling stranding	Norway	212.2

Total status

The tour lived off the duel in Kankkonen- Neuendorf, which the Finn won in a dramatic final in Bischofshofen and thus won the 14th tour. It was his second overall victory after 1963/64. With Dieter Neuendorf, the GDR team had a title candidate in their ranks, but his coach gambled away in Bischofshofen. With third place in the overall standings, the Norwegian Bjørn Wirkola already indicated his class, which would later lead him to three tour victories. The Czechoslovak jumpers did not have a winning jumper yet, but got 3 jumpers in the top ten. The German jumper Hendrik Ohlmeyer achieved his best tour result with fifth place. The performance of the jumpers from Austria, who had nothing to do with the decision, was disappointing. Sepp Lichtenegger was ranked 18th as the best jumper.

rank	Surname	nation	Overall rating	Colonel village	Garmisch- Partenk.	Inns- Bruckhaus	Episcopate hofen
01	Veikko Kankkonen	Finland	870.0	213.8 / 01.	210.1 / 03.	209.9 / 02.	235.7 / 01.
02	Dieter Neuendorf	GDR	866.5	212.9 / 02.	206.2 / 06.	226.1 / 01.	221.3 / 03.
03	Bjørn Wirkola	Norway	843.0	203.0 / 04.	212.6 / 02.	213.8 / 05.	227.2 / 02.
04th	Paavo Lukkariniemi	Finland	828.7	205.1 / 03.	215.3 / 01.	208.3 / 05.	200.0 / 020.
05	Henrik Ohlmeyer	BR Germany	806.8	191.1 / 16.	205.1 / 07.	196.9 / 17.	213.7 / 09.
06th	Dalibor Motejlek	Czechoslovakia	795.6	200.0 / 07.	192.2 / 16.	198.1 / 15.	205.3 / 14.
07th	Hans Olav Sørensen	Norway	789.6	191.6 / 14.	190.3 / 18.	192.8 / 24.	214.9 / 07.
08th	Jiří Raška	Czechoslovakia	787.1	194.5 / 10.	190.1 / 18.	184.7 / 34.	217.8 / 05.
09	Josef Matouš	Czechoslovakia	786.4	198.4 / 08.	204.4 / 08.	208.6 / 04.	175.0 / 40.
10	Piotr Wala	Poland	782.2	197.7 / 09.	183.3 / 24.	194.6 / 20.	206.6 / 13.

Individual evidence

1. ^ FIS-Ski - results Oberstdorf
2. ^ FIS-Ski - results Garmisch-Partenkirchen
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 2, 1966 p. 5
4. ↑ FIS Ski Results Innsbruck
5. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 3, 1966 p. 5
6. ↑ FIS ski results in Bischofshofen
7. ↑ Neues Deutschland, January 7, 1966, p. 8
8. ↑ FIS-Ski - Cup evaluation
9. ↑ FIS results list
10. ↑ FIS results list
11. ↑ FIS results list
12. ↑ FIS results list

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 .