Four Hills Tournament 1970/71

19th Four Hills Tournament
winner
Tour winner	Jiří Raška
Oberstdorf	Ingolf Mork
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Ingolf Mork
innsbruck	Zbyněk Hubač
Bischofshofen	Ingolf Mork
Attendees
Nations	13 ( AUT , FIN , FRA , FRG , GDR , HUN , NOR , POL , SWE , SUI , TCH , USA , YUG )
athlete	84
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During the 19th Four Hills Tournament 1970/71 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. Although Ingolf Mork was able to win on three of the four hills, he was only runner-up overall and Jiří Raška narrowly won the tour .

Nominee athletes

In the season between the last World Cup and the upcoming Olympic Games , the field of participants was not that big. The teams from Japan, Canada and Italy stayed away from the tour this time. Another team had to stay away, the team from the Soviet Union with double world champion Napalkov. After arriving in Munich and having a snack that followed, several Soviet jumpers showed symptoms of an infectious bowel disease. Thus, the Czechoslovaks, who have been strong for years around the eternal tour second Jiří Raška and the Norwegians, especially with Mork and Tomtum, are among the favorites. The three-time winner Wirkola was not in the line-up, but several young talents were called up. In addition, there were the resurgent Poles, from whom Gasienica had won bronze at the World Championships on the large hill. The GDR mission suffered a severe blow in the summer of 1970. The longtime selection trainer and discoverer of Helmut Recknagel, Hans Renner , died unexpectedly in July at the age of 50. The management of the DLSV was completely unprepared for the passing of the successful coach. With Ernst Tallowitz, an embarrassing solution was ultimately presented. He himself had been active in alpine skiing and up until then had mainly worked as a trainer in the youth field. Tallowitz nominated only four other jumpers around last year's winner Horst Queck and, in addition to the experienced Wolfgang Stöhr, had three 17-year-old tour beginners start. Touring athletes such as Heinz and Rainer Schmidt and Christian Kiehl were left out. Queck himself had become a two-time GDR champion in February 1970, but then fell badly in a ski flying competition in Oberstdorf. He still had to work on the consequences of the fall.

nation	Athletes
BR Germany	Henrik Ohlmeyer , Günther Göllner , Alfred Grosche , Sepp Schwinghammer , Ernst Wursthorn , Wilhelm Haydt , Heinz Ruddhardt , Franz Keller , Peter Hauser , Heini Ihle , Bernd Zapf , Helmut Fischer , Peter Dubb , Georg Bühl , Tim Ackermann , Toni Guggemoos
GDR	Bernd Eckstein , Wolfgang Stöhr , Henry Glass , Horst Queck , Eberhard Seifert
Austria	Max Golser , Reinhold Bachler , Ernst Kröll , Franz Salhofer , Sepp Lichtenegger , Walter Schwabl , Helmut Diess , Ernst Wimmer , Walter Habersatter , Sigfried Scheutz , Rudi Wanner , Harald Winkler , Karl Schnabl , Hans Wallner , Hermann Heindl , Edi Federer , Hans Millonig
Finland	Juhani Ruotsalainen , Tauno Käyhkö , Martti Niemi
France	Alain Macle , Gilbert Poirot , Jacques Gaillard
Yugoslavia	Janez Demsa , Marjan Mesec , Peter Štefančič , Ludvik Zajc , Branko Dolhar , Drago Pudgar
Norway	Bent Tomtum , Ingolf Mork , Frithjof Prydz , Jo Inge Bjørnebye , Odd Grette , Didrik Müller Ellefsen
Poland	Ryszard Witke , Stanisław Gąsienica Daniel , Jan Bieniek , Tadeusz Pawlusiak , Józef Przybyła , Adam Krzysztofiak
Sweden	Eilert Mähler , Håkon Lindbæck , Rolf Nordgren , Karl-Erik Johansson
Switzerland	Hans Schmid , Sepp Zehnder , Walter Steiner , Ernst von Grünigen
Czechoslovakia	Jiří Raška , Rudolf Höhnl , Zbyněk Hubač , Rudolf Doubek , Bohumil Doležal , Bohuslav Novák , Josef Kraus ,
Hungary	Mihály Gellér , Gyula Molnar , Antal Jambo
United States	Bruce Jennings , Bill Bakke , Greg Swor , Scott Berry

Oberstdorf

• Date: December 30, 1970
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Schattenbergschanze

The opening competition ended with a Norwegian double success, but it didn't look like it at all after the first round. Initially, after the first round, with a jump of 85.5 m, the Swiss Hans Schmid led ahead of the Pole Pawlusiak, two jumpers who were not necessarily expected to be in the lead. With Adam Krzysztofiak there was another Polish jumper in the top ten. The expected strong Czechoslovak team was also among the top ten with their aces Hubač, Raška and Höhnl. In the second round, however, the Norwegians Mork and Tomtum put in a strong 84 m jumps. Schmid, on the other hand, was unable to stand his 84 m jump and fell back to 25th place. Thus Ingolf Mork was able to achieve the first win of the day, just ahead of his countryman Tomtum. Pawlusiak followed up his good first jump with a better second jump and secured third place. After a weak 76 m in the first round, last year's winner Horst Queck was able to move up to seventh place with 83.5 m. Overall, however, no favorite had emerged after the first competition, the gaps were too close. Between first and fourth place there were only 3.2 points, between sixth and tenth place only 1.6 points. Basically, however, it was already foreseeable that the Norwegians could also be expected without Wirkola.

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Ingolf Mork	Norway	235.8
02	Bent Tomtum	Norway	234.1
03	Tadeusz Pawlusiak	Poland	233.7
04th	Zbyněk Hubač	Czechoslovakia	232.5
05	Jiří Raška	Czechoslovakia	227.5
06th	Rudolf Höhnl	Czechoslovakia	221.6
07th	Horst Queck	GDR	221.2
08th	Bernd Eckstein	GDR	221.1
09	Tauno Käyhkö	Finland	220.5
10	Józef Przybyła	Poland	220.0

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

• Date: January 1, 1971

• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Large Olympic hill
• Spectators: 15,000

Also at the New Year's event, the winner was Ingolf Mork from Norway, who won the jumping with two stylish jumps of 94.5 and 95 m. Nevertheless, the runner-up Jiří Raška left no stone unturned to make life difficult for Mork. The reward for his efforts was a new hill record of 97 m. For the first time since 1967, in third place with a fifth place in the World Championship on the large hill Tauno Käyhkö, a Finn again took a podium place in a ski jumping competition. In addition, four other Norwegians achieved top ten placements. In the midst of the Scandinavians and Czechoslovaks, the only 17-year-old junior European champion Bernd Eckstein was able to pull himself out of the affair with seventh place, which gave him a good eighth place in the overall standings. Last year's overall winner Horst Queck left the top ten overall in 60th place after two falls.

Intermediate result after 2 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Mork	476.0
02.	Raška	465.2
03.	Hubač	452.8

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Ingolf Mork	Norway	240.2
02	Jiří Raška	Czechoslovakia	237.7
03	Tauno Käyhkö	Finland	229.6
04th	Jo Inge Bjørnebye	Norway	225.2
05	Zbyněk Hubač	Czechoslovakia	220.3
06th	Didrik Müller Ellefsen	Norway	219.7
07th	Bernd Eckstein	GDR	218.4
08th	Frithjof Prydz	Norway	216.0
09	Odd Grette	Norway	215.6
10	Bohuslav Novák	Czechoslovakia	215.5

innsbruck

• Date: January 3, 1971
• Country: Austria 
• Ski jump: Bergisel ski jump

The Czechoslovak flag was flying on the Bergisel that day. Triple success for the team around Jiří Raška, five jumpers in the top ten and takeover of the overall ranking by Jiří Raška, who had been runner-up until then. In the first round he had already attacked Mork, who had been the overall leader until then, when he took the lead with a stylistically clean 94.5 m jump. Mork was able to counter with 93 m, befitting of his standing. In the second round, Hubač won the day with the best distance of 96 m and Raška again offered a strong jump with 92 m. His compatriot Rudolf Höhnl moved up to third place after 95 and 93.5 m. Ingolf Mork could have broken into this phalanx with a similar jump as in the first round, but could at least have secured the overall lead. But he couldn't take the jump and fell. This meant rank 16 in the daily standings and a loss of over 20 points to Raška. So the 10 point lead suddenly turned into almost 10 points behind in the overall standings. And the winner of the day Hubač was now just behind Mork, so that a Czechoslovak double success in the overall ranking was within the realm of possibility. Apart from this change at the top, there were two Swiss top ten placements in the daily standings. Despite a 20th place in Innsbruck, Bernd Eckstein, the best GDR jumper, was still ninth in the overall ranking.

Intermediate result after 3 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Raška	709.1
02.	Mork	699.7
03.	Hubač	698.8

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Zbyněk Hubač	Czechoslovakia	246.0
02	Jiří Raška	Czechoslovakia	243.9
03	Rudolf Höhnl	Czechoslovakia	240.2
04th	Bent Tomtum	Norway	237.0
05	Josef Kraus	Czechoslovakia	235.9
06th	Walter Steiner	Switzerland	235.4
07th	Tauno Käyhkö	Finland	234.1
08th	Jo Inge Bjørnebye	Norway	233.8
09	Bohumil Doležal	Czechoslovakia	230.9
10	Hans Schmid	Switzerland	228.4

Bischofshofen

• Date: January 6, 1971
• Country: Austria 
• Hill: Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze

The last competition was eagerly awaited, as overall leader Raška always won in Bischofshofen in the previous three tours. However, Mork did not give up prematurely and jumped 101 m in the first round, which Raška, who started shortly after, countered with 101.5 m and better grades. In the second round, Mork went one better with 102.5 m and thus secured the day's victory, but Raška, knowing Mork's result, jumped a safe 100 m, which meant only 2.3 points loss to the Norwegian in the end. In the shadow of this duel, Innsbruck winner Hubač secured his good overall result with third place. In addition, Kraus, Doležal and Höhnl again a total of five Czechoslovaks in the top ten of the daily ranking.

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Ingolf Mork	Norway	241.2
02	Jiří Raška	Czechoslovakia	238.9
03	Zbyněk Hubač	Czechoslovakia	226.6
04th	Tauno Käyhkö	Finland	225.5
05	Tadeusz Pawlusiak	Poland	224.8
06th	Walter Steiner	Switzerland	223.3
07th	Frithjof Prydz	Norway	220.8
08th	Josef Kraus	Czechoslovakia	220.7
09	Bohumil Doležal	Czechoslovakia	220.6
10	Rudolf Höhnl	Czechoslovakia	219.8
10	Didrik Müller Ellefsen	Norway	219.8

Total status

After Jiří Raška had always reached the top ten in the overall standings since his debut on the tour, including second place twice, this time he achieved the overall victory, and that without winning a jumping. The tour lived from the duel with the Norwegian Ingolf Mork, who was narrowly beaten despite three daily victories. The Norwegian and Czechoslovak teams each brought three jumpers under the top ten in the overall ranking and were by far the best teams. With Tauno Käyhkö's fourth place, the Finnish team showed a sign of life for the first time in years. One of the defeated teams was the GDR team around last year's winner Horst Queck, which had the best jumper in youngster Bernd Eckstein in tenth place. Speculation about how the tour would have turned out in the presence of the Soviet jumpers is idle. The team around double world champion Napalkow had a legitimate chance of an overall winner from its ranks.

rank	Surname	nation	Overall rating	Colonel village	Garmisch- Partenk.	Inns- Bruckhaus	Episcopate hofen
01	Jiří Raška	Czechoslovakia	948.0	227.5 / 05.	237.7 / 02.	243.9 / 02.	238.9 / 02.
02	Ingolf Mork	Norway	940.9	235.8 / 01.	240.2 / 01.	223.7 / 16.	241.2 / 01.
03	Zbyněk Hubač	Czechoslovakia	925.4	232.5 / 04.	220.3 / 05.	246.0 / 01.	226.6 / 03.
04th	Tauno Käyhkö	Finland	909.7	220.5 / 09.	229.6 / 03.	234.1 / 07.	225.5 / 04.
05	Rudolf Höhnl	Czechoslovakia	893.7	221.6 / 06.	215.5 / 11.	240.2 / 03.	219.8 / 11.
06th	Jo Inge Bjørnebye	Norway	890.9	218.7 / 11.	225.2 / 04.	233.8 / 08.	213.2 / 14.
07th	Tadeusz Pawlusiak	Poland	886.7	233.7 / 03.	208.8 / 16.	219.4 / 22.	224.8 / 05.
08th	Frithjof Prydz	Norway	877.5	213.9 / 14.	216.0 / 08.	226.8 / 12.	220.8 / 07.
09	Walter Steiner	Switzerland	876.9	218.1 / 12.	204.5 / 24.	235.4 / 06.	223.3 / 06.
10	Bernd Eckstein	GDR	869.0	221.1 / 08.	218.4 / 07.	220.0 / 20.	209.5 / 16.

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Germany of July 13, 1970 p. 7
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of August 31, 1970 p. 6
3. ↑ "We don't need Wirkola" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 31, 1970, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 31, 1970 p. 7
5. ↑ "Just don't lose your head!" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 3, 1971, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 2, 1971 p. 8
7. ↑ ND of January 4, 1971 p. 7
8. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 4, 1971 p. 7
9. ↑ ^{a b c} ND of January 7, 1971 p. 5
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