Four Hills Tournament 1968/69
17th Four Hills Tournament | ||
winner | ||
Tour winner | Bjørn Wirkola | |
Oberstdorf | Bjørn Wirkola | |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Bjørn Wirkola | |
innsbruck | Bjørn Wirkola | |
Bischofshofen | Jiří Raška | |
Attendees | ||
Nations | 14 (AUT, FIN, FRA, FRG, GDR, HUN, ITA, NOR, POL, SWE, SUI, TCH URS, YUG,) |
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athlete | 76 | |
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At the 17th Four Hills Tournament 1968/69 the jumping took place in Oberstdorf on December 30th, on January 1st the jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and on January 3rd the jumping in Innsbruck followed . The event in Bischofshofen took place on January 6th.
Nominee athletes
The post-Olympic tour promised high tension again, as Jiri Raska and the surprise winner Vladimir Belousov both competed at the start. In addition, there was the two-time tour winner Björn Wirkola from Norway, who, to the surprise of the professional world, remained medalless in Grenoble. Other top jumpers were the Norwegians Grini and Tomtum as well as the Olympic runner-up on the normal hill Reinhold Bachler from Austria. Then there was the strong Czechoslovak team, which caused a sensation on the last tour. The Soviet jumpers Napalkow and Scheglanow were also good for a surprise. There was also news from a German perspective. On the one hand, Ralph Pöhland, a GDR jumper who fled shortly before the Olympic Games, started on the West German side. On the other hand, the GDR team suffered severe setbacks. Last year's third Dieter Neuendorf was seriously injured, could not take part in the tour and ended the competitive sport after the tour. Last year, the second best GDR jumper, Wolfgang Stöhr, was injured at home. Coach Hans Renner therefore spoke of rebuilding the national team, which accordingly had three twenty-year-old athletes in its ranks, Rainer and Heinz Schmidt and Clemens Walther.
Oberstdorf
- Date: December 30, 1968
- Country: BR Germany
- Hill: Schattenbergschanze
With the onset of heavy snowstorms, Wirkola already showed in the first run with the daily best distance of 78m that the day's victory had to be fought with him. The closest to him came Heinz Schmidt with the same width and the Czechoslovaks Matous with 77.5 m and Raska with 76.5 m. After the run-up length was shortened before the second round, hardly any jumper placed in front could repeat his first distance. Only Manfred Queck was able to move up to fifth place with two jumps of 74m each. In the end, Wirkola won ahead of the Czechoslovaks Raska and Matous. With fourth place, Heinz Schmidt achieved his best single placement on his tour participations. With Divila and Höhnl, a total of four Czechoslovak jumpers came in among the top ten.
Item | Jumper | country | Points |
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1 | Bjørn Wirkola | Norway | 218.7 |
2 | Jiří Raška | Czechoslovakia | 215.7 |
3 | Josef Matouš | Czechoslovakia | 210.5 |
4th | Heinz Schmidt | GDR | 210.1 |
5 | Manfred Queck | GDR | 209.9 |
6th | Rudolf Höhnl | Czechoslovakia | 205.4 |
7th | Ladislav Divila | Czechoslovakia | 199.9 |
8th | Vladimir Belousov | Soviet Union | 199.7 |
9 | Reinhold Bachler | Austria | 199.3 |
Ludvik Zajc | Yugoslavia | 199.3 |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Date: January 1, 1969
- Country: BR Germany
- Hill: Large Olympic hill
After the New Year's competition, a small preliminary decision had already been made. With standing jumps of 94 and 92.5 m, Wirkola also won the second jump by some margin. Jiri Raska jumped 97.5m in the first round, but could not stand the jump and therefore only took 21st place, which ruined all opportunities for him to win the tour. Since only four of the ten best jumpers in the opening event in Garmisch ended up in the top ten, including Heinz Schmidt, the Zella-Mehliser suddenly found himself in second place after two competitions after finishing fifth. Olympic champion Belousov finished third after half-time.
Intermediate result after 2 jumps | ||
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Item | Jumper | Points |
1. | Wirkola | 459.9 |
2. | Schmidt | 442.4 |
3. | Belousov | 433.3 |
Item | Jumper | country | Points |
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1 | Bjørn Wirkola | Norway | 241.2 |
2 | Anatoly Scheglanov | Soviet Union | 235.4 |
3 | František Rydval | Czechoslovakia | 233.8 |
4th | Vladimir Belousov | Soviet Union | 233.6 |
5 | Heinz Schmidt | GDR | 232.3 |
6th | Zbyněk Hubač | Czechoslovakia | 228.4 |
7th | Ladislav Divila | Czechoslovakia | 226.5 |
8th | Gari Napalkov | Soviet Union | 222.1 |
9 | Horst Queck | GDR | 221.8 |
10 | Lars Grini | Norway | 221.2 |
innsbruck
Before the jumping, the organizers had to struggle with heavy snowfalls, so that after more than half a meter of fresh snow, a first training session could only be carried out three hours before the jumping on the day of the competition. The jumping competition itself turned into a duel between the two-time tour winner Wirkola and the Olympic champion Raska. After the first round, the Czechoslovakian led thanks to the T with the daily maximum distance of 94m with a wafer-thin 0.2 point lead over Wirkola, who jumped 93.5m with a better posture. With a shortened run-up, Wirkola was able to use his jumping safety and his finer jumping style in his favor in the second round: with the same distance of 89m, he made up one point compared to Raska with better posture marks and thus also won the third jump of the tour in a row, albeit only with a wafer-thin lead. Raska catalpulted himself to second place in the overall standings with this daily placement, even though he had no more chance of winning the tour with more than 30 points behind Wirkola. This pushed him in front of Heinz Schmidt, who with his fifth place in the daily standings still held a respectable third place in the overall standings. However, the competition, especially from the Czechoslovak team, was already on his heels with only small point differences.
Intermediate result after 3 jumps | ||
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Item | Jumper | Points |
1. | Wirkola | 696.2 |
2. | Raška | 665.8 |
3. | Schmidt | 652.1 |
Item | Jumper | country | Points |
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1 | Bjørn Wirkola | Norway | 236.3 |
2 | Jiří Raška | Czechoslovakia | 235.5 |
3 | Anatoly Scheglanov | Soviet Union | 225.9 |
4th | Lars Grini | Norway | 222.6 |
5 | Zbyněk Hubač | Czechoslovakia | 219.9 |
6th | Rudolf Höhnl | Czechoslovakia | 214.1 |
7th | František Rydval | Czechoslovakia | 212.4 |
8th | Horst Queck | GDR | 212.2 |
9 | Gari Napalkov | Soviet Union | 210.8 |
10 | Heinz Schmidt | GDR | 209.7 |
Bischofshofen
- Date: January 6, 1969
- Country: Austria
- Hill: Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
As in Innsbruck, the duel in Bischofshofen was Raska - Wirkola, although the Norwegian did not have to take the last risk with his lead in the overall standings. Raska, on the other hand, went full on attack and showed with the daily best of 101m in the first round that the day's victory should be his this time. In the end he won the jumping by a good seven points. At first only jumpers from Czechoslovakia, whose team brought four jumpers into the top ten, came from Norway and the Soviet Union. This also named the strongest teams on this tour. Heinz Schmidt was unable to build on his performance in the first three competitions. After a fall in the second round, he was only 30th in the daily standings.
Item | Jumper | country | Points |
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1 | Jiří Raška | Czechoslovakia | 235.4 |
2 | Bjørn Wirkola | Norway | 228.3 |
3 | Lars Grini | Norway | 222.6 |
4th | Anatoly Scheglanov | Soviet Union | 219.2 |
5 | Zbyněk Hubač | Czechoslovakia | 218.8 |
6th | Vyacheslav Shcherbakov | Soviet Union | 211.4 |
7th | Ladislav Divila | Czechoslovakia | 211.0 |
8th | František Rydval | Czechoslovakia | 209.9 |
9 | Vladimir Belousov | Soviet Union | 208.1 |
10 | Bent Tomtum | Norway | 207.0 |
Total status
Bjørn Wirkola won the 17th Four Hills Tournament and was the first ski jumper to win this prestigious competition for the third time. So far he is the only ski jumper to have won the tour three times in a row. With a lead of 24 points, he relegated the Czechoslovak Olympic champion Jiří Raška to second place. With a good result in Garmisch, he would have had a chance of overall victory. His compatriot Zbyněk Hubač followed him in third place. A total of five Czechoslovak jumpers made it into the top ten. Until then, only the German jumpers had succeeded in doing this on the 1959/60 tour. Heinz Schmidt slipped into eighth place after his poor performance in Bischofshofen.
rank |
Surname | nation | Overall rating |
Colonel village |
Garmisch- Partenk.- |
Inns- bruck |
Episcopate hofen |
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1 | Bjørn Wirkola | Norway | 924.5 | 218.7 / | 1.241.2 / | 1.236.3 / | 1.228.3 / | 2.
2 | Jiří Raška | Czechoslovakia | 900.5 | 215.7 / | 2.214.6 / 21. | 235.5 / | 2.235.4 / | 1.
3 | Zbyněk Hubač | Czechoslovakia | 866.0 | 198.9 / 11. | 225.2 / | 2.219.9 / | 5.218.8 / | 5.
4th | Anatoly Scheglanov | Soviet Union | 862.0 | 181.5 / 23. | 235.4 / | 2.225.9 / | 3.219.2 / | 4.
5 | František Rydval | Czechoslovakia | 848.2 | 192.1 / 14. | 233.8 / | 3.212.4 / | 7.209.9 / | 8.
6th | Vladimir Belousov | Soviet Union | 839.3 | 199.7 / | 8.233.6 / | 4.197.9 / 19. | 208.1 / | 9.
7th | Rudolf Höhnl | Czechoslovakia | 838.3 | 205.4 / | 6.218.0 / 15. | 214.1 / | 6.200.8 / 14. |
8th | Heinz Schmidt | GDR | 830.8 | 210.1 / | 4.232.3 / | 5.209.7 / 10. | 178.7 / 30. |
9 | Lars Grini | Norway | 812.5 | 146.1 / 59. | 221.2 / 10. | 222.6 / | 4.222.6 / | 3.
10 | Ladislav Divila | Czechoslovakia | 809.3 | 199.9 / | 7.226.5 / | 7.173.4 / 41. | 211.0 / | 7.
Individual evidence
- ^ FIS: Results Oberstdorf, December 30, 1968 (accessed January 24, 2009)
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, December 30, 1968, p. 15
- ↑ FIS: Results Garmisch-Partenkirchen, January 1, 1969 (accessed on January 24, 2009)
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 2, p. 4
- ↑ FIS: Results Innsbruck, January 3, 1969 (accessed on January 24, 2009)
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 5, 1969 p. 8
- ↑ FIS: Results Bischofshofen, January 6, 1969 (accessed on January 24, 2009)
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 6, 1969 p. 7
- ↑ FIS-Ski - Cup evaluation