Four Hills Tournament 1969/70
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Tour winner |
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen |
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Oberstdorf |
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innsbruck |
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Bischofshofen |
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Attendees | ||
Nations | 17 ( AUT , CAN , FIN , FRA , FRG , GDR , HUN , ITA , JPN , NOR , POL , |
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athlete | 99 | |
← 1968/69 | 1970/71 → |
At the 18th Four Hills Tournament 1969/70 the jumping took place in Oberstdorf on December 28th, on January 1st the jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and on January 4th the jumping in Innsbruck followed . The event in Bischofshofen took place on January 6th. Horst Queck from the GDR won the tour without even winning a single competition.
Nominee athletes
As in previous years, the tour was the first indicator of the 1970 season, which culminated in the Nordic World Ski Championships in Štrbské Pleso in Czechoslovakia . However, the Winter Olympics , which took place for the first time in Asia in Sapporo , Japan , were already casting their shadows. For the first time a larger Japanese team took part in the tour, which also caused one or two surprises during the course of the competition. The favorites again included the Norwegians around the triple winner Wirkola, who had other top jumpers at the start with Grini, Tomtum and Mork. In addition, there were teams from Czechoslovakia around Jiří Raška and from the Soviet Union around Olympic champion Belousov. The expectations of the host teams were rather subdued. Even the expectations of the GDR selection were not overburdened after the performance on the previous year's tour, especially since the ski flying world record holder Manfred Wolf and the experienced Wolfgang Stöhr had to do without due to injuries. At the GDR representation, which with the exception of Christian Kiehl from SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal consisted only of jumpers from SC Motor Zella-Mehlis , even after a Christmas competition in Oberhof, no top jumper had emerged. The 18-year-old Hans-Georg Aschenbach made his debut.
Oberstdorf
- Date: December 28, 1969
- Country: BR Germany
- Hill: Schattenbergschanze
On the rebuilt Oberstdorf hill, the take-off table and the hill profile had been changed, there was a not necessarily expected winner of the day; Gari Napalkow from the Soviet Union. With clean jumps of 79.5 and 80 m, he relegated Horst Queck to second place. With the daily maximum distance of 82m, this wrested the silver rank from the Czechoslovakian Matouš. In a tight decision, triple winner Wirkola finished fifth, but only four points behind the winner of the day. After the Japanese Kasaya had already flown 86m in the trial run, his compatriot Fujisawa surprised the experts with eighth place. With Raška, Grini and the new Norwegian talent Mork, other favorites for the overall victory ended up in the top ten. From a GDR perspective, the performance with three jumpers in the top ten was also very gratifying. However, for the talent Aschenbach from the GDR and the now West German jumper Ralph Pöhland, the tour was already over after falling: both had to be hospitalized with suspected concussions.
Item | Jumper | country | Points |
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1 | Gari Napalkov |
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225.7 |
2 | Horst Queck |
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223.8 |
3 | Josef Matouš |
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223.3 |
4th | Lars Grini |
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222.9 |
5 | Bjørn Wirkola |
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221.3 |
6th | Christian Kiehl |
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218.2 |
7th | Jiří Raška |
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215.3 |
8th | Takashi Fujisawa |
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213.9 |
9 | Ingolf Mork |
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213.8 |
10 | Clemens Walther |
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213.4 |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Date: January 1, 1970
- Country: BR Germany
- Hill: Large Olympic hill
Jiří Raška won the New Year's competition with the greatest distance in both rounds of 92.5 and 92m. Behind him, Scheglanow and Belousov, two Soviet jumpers came in, whose team, in Ivanikov, was able to bring another jumper into the top ten. Above all, Belousov's third place was all the more remarkable because he was 92nd in the opening competition after two falls. These inconsistencies generally marked the second competition. Last year's winner Wirkola only came in 16th and the winner from Oberstdorf Napalkow even came in 18th. Thus, after two competitions, two Czechoslovak jumpers took the lead in the overall standings, followed by the most consistent Norwegian Grini. With two top ten placements, the GDR representatives Horst Queck and Christian Kiehl did not necessarily follow in the next places. Co-favorite Wirkola came in seventh. The sometimes close gaps showed, however, that nothing had yet been decided in the race for overall victory.
Intermediate result after 2 jumps | ||
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Item | Jumper | Points |
1. | Raška | 456.7 |
2. | Matouš | 450.4 |
3. | Grini | 450.0 |
4th | Queck | 445.2 |
5. | Kiehl | 443.7 |
6th | Napalkov | 443.1 |
7th | Wirkola | 439.8 |
8th. | Mork | 434.4 |
Item | Jumper | country | Points |
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1 | Jiří Raška |
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241.4 |
2 | Anatoly Scheglanov |
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233.2 |
3 | Vladimir Belousov |
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230.2 |
4th | Lars Grini |
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227.1 |
4th | Josef Matouš |
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227.1 |
6th | Rudolf Höhnl |
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226.1 |
7th | Christian Kiehl |
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225.5 |
8th | Stanisław Gąsienica Daniel |
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223.8 |
9 | Alexander Ivannikov |
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222.8 |
10 | Horst Queck |
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221.4 |
innsbruck
As so often, a preliminary decision was made on the Bergisel hill. In addition, there was a competition that could hardly be surpassed in terms of drama, which shook up the overall ranking again. When the cold wind set in, which made the track freeze, there were rows of favorites falls because the jumpers could not stand their distance. Overall leader Raška fell at 97m, Christian Kiehl at 96m. In contrast to Wirkola, who stood his 98m safely. Horst Queck went one better with a standing 99m and thus a new hill record in the first round. His lead was only 0.4 points ahead of the Norwegian due to the slightly poorer posture marks. After the jury shortened the run-up for the second round, the distances fell by an average of several meters. Since Wirkola also jumped the best distance in the second round with 92.5m, he was sure to win the day because Queck landed a meter shorter. With two consistent jumps, Heinz and Rainer Schmidt were also able to land in the top ten and thus moved up a lot in the overall standings. With seventh place, the Austrian Bachler achieved a respectable individual placement for his team for a long time. In the overall ranking, the most consistent jumper was suddenly in front, Horst Queck. Although he had not yet won a competition, he was the only one to land in the top ten in all three competitions. However, only 2.9 points separated him from Wirkola, who could justifiably hope for his fourth tour victory.
Intermediate result after 3 jumps | ||
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Item | Jumper | Points |
1. | Queck | 691.2 |
2. | Wirkola | 688.3 |
3. | Napalkov | 675.2 |
4th | Raška | 659.8 |
5. | Scheglanov | 658.2 |
6th | R. Schmidt | 657.4 |
7th | H. Schmidt | 657.0 |
8th. | Grini | 648.0 |
Item | Jumper | country | Points |
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1 | Bjørn Wirkola |
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248.5 |
2 | Horst Queck |
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246.0 |
3 | Anatoly Scheglanov |
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237.8 |
4th | Gari Napalkov |
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232.1 |
5 | Heinz Schmidt |
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227.6 |
6th | Rainer Schmidt |
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225.8 |
7th | Reinhold Bachler |
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224.8 |
8th | Stanislaw Pawlusiak |
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216.2 |
9 | Hans Schmid |
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212.0 |
10 | Alfred Grosche |
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211.8 |
Bischofshofen
- Date: January 6, 1970
- Country: Austria
- Hill: Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
The eagerly awaited final competition started in the worst possible conditions. The thaw and rain made it impossible to train in advance, so only one trial run was scheduled before the jump. In a close decision, first and fourth place differed by just 3.2 points, the already beaten co-favorite Raška prevailed, who jumped the daily best distance of 104 m in the first round. His worst competitor this time, however, was somewhat surprisingly the GDR representative Rainer Schmidt, who only lost 2.5 points in jumps of 100.5 and 101 m due to poor posture marks. In the duel of the leaders in the overall standings, Wirkola was only able to make up a minimum of 0.1 points on Queck, whereby the GDR jumper surprisingly got the better grades compared to the Norwegian. With Asari in tenth place, another Japanese put another warning sign.
Item | Jumper | country | Points |
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1 | Jiří Raška |
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235.4 |
2 | Rainer Schmidt |
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232.9 |
3 | Bjørn Wirkola |
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232.3 |
4th | Horst Queck |
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232.2 |
5 | Gari Napalkov |
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226.3 |
6th | Rudolf Höhnl |
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225.2 |
7th | Alexander Ivannikov |
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223.3 |
8th | Ingolf Mork |
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218.3 |
9 | Frithjof Prydz |
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216.0 |
10 | Masakatsu Asari |
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215.6 |
Total status
Seldom has a jumping been so exciting until the last competition in Bischofshofen. With Horst Queck, the most consistent jumper finally prevailed with just 2.8 points ahead of the three-time winner Wirkola. Queck was the only jumper to land in the top ten in every competition. However, his victory was also favored by outliers in the competition, so Scheglanow in Garmisch and Raska in Innsbruck lost their chances of overall victory. With the three jumpers in the top ten of the overall ranking and the first tour victory after Helmut Recknagel in 1961, the GDR team ultimately achieved a result that nobody had expected before the tour. Co-favorite Raška had to wait for the overall victory again. With tenth place overall, the Japanese Kasaya indicated his future potential. At the subsequent Nordic World Ski Championships he was already runner-up on the normal hill, while the third of the tour, Gari Napalkow, was double world champion. Wirkola and Queck had nothing to do with the championship outcome.
rank |
Surname | nation | Overall rating |
Colonel village |
Garmisch- Partenk. |
Inns- Bruckhaus |
Episcopate hofen |
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1 | Horst Queck |
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923.4 | 223.8 / | 2.221.4 / 10. | 246.0 / | 2.232.2 / | 4.
2 | Bjørn Wirkola |
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920.6 | 221.3 / | 5.218.5 / 16. | 248.5 / | 1.232.3 / | 3.
3 | Gari Napalkov |
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901.5 | 225.7 / | 1.217.4 / 18. | 232.1 / | 4.226.3 / | 5.
4th | Jiří Raška |
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895.2 | 215.3 / | 7.241.4 / | 1.203.1 / 23. | 235.4 / | 1.
5 | Rainer Schmidt |
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890.3 | 211.4 / 14. | 220.2 / 14. | 225.8 / | 6.232.9 / | 2.
6th | Rudolf Höhnl |
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870.3 | 208.1 / 20. | 226.1 / | 6.210.4 / 10. | 225.2 / | 6.
7th | Anatoly Scheglanov |
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867.7 | 187.2 / 53. | 233.2 / | 2.237.8 / | 3.209.5 / 14. |
8th | Ingolf Mork |
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860.4 | 213.8 / | 9.220.6 / 13. | 207.7 / 17. | 218.3 / | 8.
9 | Heinz Schmidt |
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860.0 | 210.3 / 17. | 215.1 / 15. | 227.6 / | 5.203.0 / 24. |
10 | Yukio Kasaya |
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852.2 | 211.8 / 12. | 216.1 / 20. | 208.8 / 15. | 215.5 / 11. |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wirkola: "I will not be the winner" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 30, 1969, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ New Germany of December 29, 1969 p. 7
- ↑ Raska, Scheglanow, Grini, Wirkola . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 3, 1970, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 2, 1970 p. 8
- ↑ Before the duel between Queck and Wirkola . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 6, 1970, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 5, 1970 p. 7
- ↑ a b Circle of World Cup contenders? In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 8, 1970, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 7, 1970 p. 5
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