Four Hills Tournament 1967/68
16. Four Hills Tournament | ||
winner | ||
Tour winner | Bjørn Wirkola | |
Oberstdorf | Dieter Neuendorf | |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Bjørn Wirkola | |
innsbruck | Gari Napalkov | |
Bischofshofen | Jiří Raška | |
Attendees | ||
Nations | 16 (AUT, FIN, FRA, FRG, GDR, HUN, ITA, JPN, NOR, POL, SWE, SUI, TCH, URS, USA, YUG,) |
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athlete | 97 | |
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At the 16th Four Hills Tournament in 1967/68 the jumping took place in Oberstdorf on December 30th, on January 1st the jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and on January 6th in Innsbruck followed . The event in Bischofshofen took place on January 7th.
Nominee athletes
In the 1968 Olympic season, the 16th Four Hills Tournament was the first meaningful test of strength among the world's best in ski jumping before the Olympic Games in Grenoble . With the Norwegian Wirkola as the reigning double world champion and the Finn Kankkonen as the Olympic champion on the normal hill, two tour winners were at the start who were among the closest favorites. There was also Dieter Neuendorf, Vice World Champion from the GDR, who by then had already finished second and third in the overall tour standings. These three jumpers had shaped the tour since 1965. The jumpers from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Wirkola's teammates were also counted among the extended group of favorites, as the course of the tour and the following Olympic Games should show.
Oberstdorf
- Date: December 31, 1967
- Country: BR Germany
- Hill: Schattenbergschanze
- Spectators: approx. 10,000
The training for the opening jump was characterized by difficult conditions, especially in the run, so that almost half of the jumpers fell. GDR athlete Josef Tonhauser even had to go to hospital with a concussion. In the jumping itself, co-favorite Dieter Neuendorf was able to prevail with a margin of just 0.8 points in good external conditions. After the first round, the eventual winner of the day was still in fourth place, last year's winner Wirkola only in seventh place. The only nineteen-year-old Norwegian Tomtum led the field, but slipped into sixth after a weaker second run. After Neuendorf was able to catch the Norwegian Grini with the second best daily distance of 77.5 m, it was enough for Wirkola with the daily best distance of 78 m for third place. However, Neuendorf and Wirkola only separated 1.1 points. In the phalanx of at least five Norwegians and three jumpers from the GDR among the top ten, only fellow favorite Jiri Raska and the Finnish old master Veikko Kankkonen were able to penetrate.
Item | Jumper | country | Points |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Dieter Neuendorf | GDR | 223.0 |
2 | Lars Grini | Norway | 222.2 |
3 | Bjørn Wirkola | Norway | 221.9 |
4th | Jiří Raška | Czechoslovakia | 218.8 |
5 | Roland Jensen | Norway | 218.6 |
6th | Bent Tomtum | Norway | 215.8 |
7th | Manfred Queck | GDR | 214.2 |
8th | Per Bjørnstad | Norway | 214.1 |
9 | Wolfgang Stöhr | GDR | 210.8 |
10 | Veikko Kankkonen | Finland | 210.6 |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Date: January 1, 1968
- Country: BR Germany
- Hill: Large Olympic hill
- Spectators: 10,000
The New Year's competition was the expected three-way fight after the first round; Wirkola led in front of Neuendorf and Raska. In the second round, Neuendorf offered 89.5 m, which Wirkola countered with the new hill record of 92.5 m. Raska jumped 91.5 m, but still reached into the snow after landing and thus fell back in the daily standings and thus also in the overall standings. A laughing third was the Austrian Reinhold Bachler, who was able to improve and, after finishing second in the previous year, fought for a podium again in Garmisch. In the overall standings, Wirkola was able to extend his lead over Neuendorf to almost 10 points, with the Norwegian Grini taking third place.
Intermediate result after 2 jumps | ||
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Item | Jumper | Points |
1. | Wirkola | 458.1 |
2. | Neuendorf | 448.2 |
3. | Grini | 432.0 |
Item | Jumper | country | Points |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Bjørn Wirkola | Norway | 236.2 |
2 | Dieter Neuendorf | GDR | 225.2 |
3 | Reinhold Bachler | Austria | 218.4 |
4th | Bent Tomtum | Norway | 215.5 |
5 | Ladislav Divila | Czechoslovakia | 213.2 |
6th | Lars Grini | Norway | 209.8 |
7th | Zbyněk Hubač | Czechoslovakia | 209.1 |
8th | Jozef Kocyan | Poland | 207.7 |
9 | Horst Queck | GDR | 207.2 |
10 | Gilbert Poirot | France | 206.9 |
innsbruck
The hour of the Soviet jumpers struck on the Bergisel. After the weather changed the night before the competition, a thaw set in, which slowed down the inrun. Only jumpers with good jumping ability were required and jumpers from the Soviet Union were among them. The team, which had been beaten up until then, managed to place five jumpers in the top ten after the first round. At that time, it led Pyotr Kovalenko ahead of Wirkola, Raska and 19-year-old Napalkow. With Wolfgang Stöhr (6th), Dieter Neuendorf (7th) and Heinz Schmidt (10th), three GDR jumpers completed the field of ten. In the second round, Kowalenko could not stand his jump, but Napalkow was able to snatch victory away from Wirkola with the best distance of 91 m of the day. The co-favorites Neuendorf and Raska lost further points in the overall standings to Wirkola, so that the Norwegian had the overall victory in mind after three competitions almost unassailable.
Intermediate result after 3 jumps | ||
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Item | Jumper | Points |
1. | Wirkola | 679.0 |
2. | Neuendorf | 656.0 |
3. | Grini | 638.7 |
Item | Jumper | country | Points |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Gari Napalkov | Soviet Union | 222.5 |
2 | Bjørn Wirkola | Norway | 220.9 |
3 | Jiří Raška | Czechoslovakia | 215.5 |
4th | Anatoly Scheglanov | Soviet Union | 212.7 |
5 | Dieter Neuendorf | GDR | 207.8 |
6th | Bent Tomtum | Norway | 207.7 |
7th | Lars Grini | Norway | 206.7 |
8th | Wolfgang Stöhr | GDR | 205.0 |
9 | Ryszard Witke | Poland | 203.1 |
10 | Heinz Schmidt | GDR | 200.1 |
Bischofshofen
The Czechoslovak Jiri Raska was the measure of all things in the last competition. In the first round he had already laid the foundation for the day's victory with the daily best distance of 98.5 m. The good overall performance of the Czechoslovaks was rounded off by Hubac with 3rd place and Motejlek with 5th place. The Soviet jumpers also brought another athlete to the podium in Scheglanov. Innsbruck winner Napalkow, still promisingly in fifth place after round one, missed his chances of a podium with a poor second jump like so many other jumpers. Dieter Neuendorf already showed nerves in the first run and ended up in eighth place together with the Austrian Bachler. The surprise of the day, however, was the Hungarian Laszlos Geller, who achieved the best daily result of a Hungarian jumper with tenth place.
- Date: January 7th, 1968
- Country: Austria
- Hill: Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
- Spectators: 6000
Item | Jumper | country | Points |
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1 | Jiří Raška | Czechoslovakia | 215.9 |
2 | Anatoly Scheglanov | Soviet Union | 201.4 |
3 | Zbyněk Hubač | Czechoslovakia | 199.8 |
4th | Bjørn Wirkola | Norway | 197.8 |
5 | Dalibor Motejlek | Czechoslovakia | 197.1 |
6th | Baldur Preiml | Austria | 196.9 |
7th | Manfred Queck | GDR | 195.0 |
8th | Reinhold Bachler | Austria | 192.9 |
Dieter Neuendorf | GDR | 192.9 | |
10 | László Gellér | Hungary | 192.8 |
Tour final score
After Wirkola's second tour victory was confirmed by Innsbruck at the latest, Bischofshofen could only be about the further podium places. In addition, the Norwegian Grini, who had been third up until then, was unable to start after a shoulder bruise in the last competition. Since Raska made up more than 20 points on Neuendorf in his day's victory, he managed to relegate the GDR jumper to third place in the end. With a podium place in Garmisch, where Raska fell far back from a grip in the snow, he could have contested the tour victory against Wirkola under certain circumstances. Even the Soviet Innsbruck winner Napalkow would have been a candidate for the podium if he had better placements, especially in the first competitions. Above all, however, the 46th place in Garmisch only allowed him to come in sixth. Björn Wirkola could celebrate his second tour victory, Bent Tomtum confirmed the strength of the Norwegians with fourth place. The Czechoslovak team, which was the only 3 jumpers to make it into the top ten, also made a very strong impression. This impression was confirmed shortly afterwards with Raska's Olympic victory on the normal hill. After finishing second and third in previous years, Dieter Neuendorf failed to succeed on tour again. In addition to him, Wolfgang Stöhr in particular made a positive impression, who achieved his best tour result with seventh place. At that time, no one could have suspected that Neuendorf would not return to the jumping circuit after a serious knee injury that he had suffered during a mat jump run in the autumn of 1968.
rank |
Surname | nation | Overall rating |
Colonel village |
Garmisch- Partenk.- |
Inns- bruck |
Episcopate hofen |
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1 | Bjørn Wirkola | Norway | 876.8 | 221.9 / | 3.236.2 / | 1.220.9 / | 2.197.8 / | 4.
2 | Jiří Raška | Czechoslovakia | 851.8 | 218.8 / | 4.201.6 / 21 | 215.5 / | 3.215.9 / | 1.
3 | Dieter Neuendorf | GDR | 848.9 | 223.0 / | 1.225.2 / | 2.207.8 / | 5.192.9 / | 8.
4th | Bent Tomtum | Norway | 822.3 | 215.8 / | 6.215.5 / | 4.207.7 / | 6.183.8 / 21. |
5 | Zbyněk Hubač | Czechoslovakia | 817.0 | 208.5 / 11. | 209.1 / | 8.199.6 / 11. | 199.8 / | 3.
6th | Gari Napalkov | Soviet Union | 807.8 | 204.8 / | 191.1 / 46. | 222.5 / | 1.189.4 / 13. |
7th | Wolfgang Stöhr | GDR | 804.5 | 210.8 / | 9.201.8 / 20. | 205.0 / | 8.186.9 / 15. |
8th | Anatoly Scheglanov | Soviet Union | 803.0 | 183.0 / | 205.9 / 12. | 212.7 / | 4.201.4 / | 2.
9 | Dalibor Motejlek | Czechoslovakia | 799.4 | 204.7 / | 200.3 / 24. | 197.3 / 16. | 197.1 / | 5.
10 | Ryszard Witke | Poland | 790.7 | 203.6 / | 193.2 / 39. | 203.1 / | 9.190.8 / 11. |
Individual evidence
- ^ FIS: Results Oberstdorf, December 30, 1967 (accessed January 24, 2009)
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 1, 1968 p. 7
- ↑ FIS: Results Garmisch-Partenkirchen, January 1, 1968 (accessed on January 24, 2009)
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 2, 1968 p. 5
- ^ FIS: Results Innsbruck, January 6, 1968 (accessed January 24, 2009)
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 7, 1968 p. 6
- ↑ a b Neues Deutschland from January 8, 1968 p. 5
- ↑ FIS: Results Bischofshofen, January 7, 1968 (accessed January 24, 2009)
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 22, 1969 p. 11