Four Hills Tournament 1980/81

29th Four Hills Tournament
winner
Tour winner	Hubert Neuper
Oberstdorf	Hubert Neuper
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Horst Bulau
innsbruck	Jari Puikkonen
Bischofshofen	Armin Kogler
Attendees
Nations	18th
athlete	111
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The 29th Four Hills Tournament 1980/81 was organized as part of the Ski Jumping World Cup 1980/1981 in Germany and Austria . It took place from December 30, 1980 to January 6, 1981 in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) as well as in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen (Austria). As in the previous year, the 20-year-old Austrian Hubert Neuper won the tour.

mode

As in the previous year, only the best 50 jumpers from the first round competed for the second round. Compared to the previous year, these jumped in the order of their grades and not according to their start numbers. In all four competitions, World Cup points were awarded for places 1 to 15 (1st place = 25 points, 2nd place = 20 points, 3rd place = 15 points, from 4th to 15th place 12 points to 1 point, descending).

Nominee athletes

A total of 111 athletes from 18 nations took part in the 4 competitions. There were four newcomers to the GDR team: Pschera, Zitzmann, Freitag and 16-year-old Jens Weißflog.

nation	Athletes
BR Germany	Joachim Ernst , Peter Rohwein , Uli Boll , Christoph Schwarz , Peter Schwinghammer , Thomas Klauser , Andreas Bauer , Thomas Prosser , Albert Wursthorn , Georg Waldvogel , Lorenz Wegscheider , Hubert Schwarz , Hermann Weinbuch , Thomas Müller
GDR	Matthias Buse , Thomas Meisinger , Ulrich Pschera , Manfred Deckert , Axel Zitzmann , Holger Freitag , Jens Weißflog
Austria	Hubert Neuper , Armin Kogler , Hans Wallner , Claus Tuchscherer , Hans Millonig , Alfred Groyer , Fritz Koch , Willi Pürstl , Manfred Steiner , Ernst Vettori , Andreas Felder , Alois Lipburger , Heinz Koch , Rupert Hirner , Alfred Lengauer
Finland	Jari Puikkonen , Pentti Kokkonen , Kari Heinonen , Kari Ylianttila , Jouko Törmänen , Jari Pulkkinen , Keijo Korhonen
France	Bernard Moullier , Gérard Colin , Philippe Jacoberger , Bernard Guillaume , Thierry Sauvanet
Italy	Massimo Rigoni , Lido Tomasi , Ivano Wegher , Loris Stella
Japan	Masahiro Akimoto , Hirokazu Yagi , Satoru Matsuhashi , Shin'ichi Tanaka , Masaru Nagaoka , Sakae Tsuruga , Yūji Kawamura , Rikiya Jinno
Yugoslavia	Primož Ulaga , Bogdan Norčič , Branko Benedek , Rajko Lotrič , Miro Bizjak , Marjan Urbančič , Andrej Kaizer
Canada	Horst Bulau , Steve Collins , Ron Richards , Tom Thompson
Norway	Roger Ruud , Per Bergerud , Johan Sætre , Terje Ødegård , Tom Levorstad , Jon Eilert Bøgseth
Poland	Stanisław Bobak , Piotr Fijas , Henryk Tajner , Jan Łoniewski
Sweden	Jan Holmlund , Seppo Toivonen , Per Balkåsen , Thomas Jernkrok , Anders Daun
Switzerland	Hansjörg Sumi , Schmidinger, Paul Egloff , Georges Jacquier , Benito Bonetti , Roland Glas
Soviet Union	Pyotr Sunin , Alexei Borowitin , Vladimir Chernyayev , Leonid Komarov , Vladimir Boyarinzew , Oleg Serov
Spain	Ángel Janiquet
Czechoslovakia	Leoš Škoda , Josef Samek , Josef Brzuchanski , Bohumil Vacek , Jiří Parma
Hungary	Gábor Gellér , Zoltán Kelemen , László Fischer
United States	Jeff Davis , John Denney , Reed Zuehlke , John Broman

Venues

Oberstdorf

In ideal conditions, last year's tournament winner Hubert Neuper achieved the greatest distance in both rounds and won the opening competition of the 29th Four Hills Tournament ahead of the Finn Jari Puikkonen and the Norwegian Roger Ruud. The GDR jumpers had to be satisfied with low grades and had their best man in Thomas Meisinger in sixth place. The Nordic Combined Hubert Schwarz in eleventh place was the best jumper of the German team, which moved into the second round with eight jumpers.

• Date: December 30, 1980.
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Schattenbergschanze
• Hill record: 113.0 m Alfred Groyer (1980) 

Item	Jumper	Points	Width 1	Width 2
01	Hubert Neuper	256.8	109.5 m	110.0 m
02	Jari Puikkonen	252.3	109.0 m	108.0 m
03	Roger Ruud	251.1	107.5 m	109.0 m
04th	Armin Kogler	248.3	107.5 m	107.0 m
05	Pentti Kokkonen	240.3	105.0 m	107.0 m
06th	Thomas Meisinger	239.5	106.5 m	106.0 m
07th	Jouko Törmänen	237.1	106.0 m	103.0 m
08th	Per Bergerud	235.3	101.5 m	108.0 m
09	Matthias Buse	234.2	107.0 m	101.0 m
10	Kari Ylianttila	234.1	105.5 m	101.0 m
11	Hubert Black	232.4	104.0 m	102.0 m
	Hirokazu Yagi	232.4	102.0 m	104.0 m
13	Ulrich Pschera	231.3	101.0 m	106.0 m
14th	Christoph Schwarz	231.0	101.0 m	106.5 m
15th	Stanislaw Bobak	229.6	103.5 m	103.0 m
...	...	...	...	...
17th	Manfred Deckert	227.4	100.5 m	105.5 m
19th	Hermann Weinbuch	224.7	099.5 m	103.5 m
20th	Peter raw wine	224.4	101.5 m	102.0 m
23	Peter Schwinghammer	221.1	100.5 m	101.0 m
24	Thomas Klauser	220.5	101.0 m	101.5 m
31	Joachim Ernst	217.3	102.0 m	100.0 m
35	Uli Boll	215.4	098.0 m	100.5 m

eliminated after the 1st round

52. Holger Freitag , 53. Thomas Prosser , 61. Georg Waldvogel , 63. Axel Zitzmann , 64. Thomas Müller , 71. Andreas Bauer , 77. Albert Wursthorn , 87. Lorenz Wegscheider and 90. Jens Weißflog         

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

In almost irregular wind conditions, Horst Bulau, a Canadian, triumphed in a ski jumping competition for the first time. The 18-year-old Bulau, in third place after the first round, achieved the second largest distance with 100.5 m in the second round, which was characterized by nerve-wracking breaks, and won ahead of the Norwegian Per Bergerud, who with 95.5 m the largest width of the first round had achieved. As in Oberstdorf, the German team made it into the second round with eight jumpers and had their best man in the 20-year-old Joachim Ernst. Ernst in second place after the first round, fell back to seventh place after only 91.5 m in the second round. The opposite happened to the Japanese Masahiro Akimoto, who was twelfth after 85.0 m and improved to fifth with a new hill record of 102.0 m in the second round.

• Date: January 1, 1981.
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Large Olympic hill
• Hill record: 101.0 m Josef Samek (1979) 

Item	Jumper	Points	Width 1	Width 2
01	Horst Bulau	226.4	95.0 m	100.5 m0
02	Per Bergerud	217.6	95.5 m	93.0 m
03	Armin Kogler	215.5	89.5 m	97.5 m
04th	Hubert Neuper	214.8	89.0 m	97.5 m
05	Masahiro Akimoto	213.0	85.0 m	102.0 m0
06th	Johan Sætre	212.9	91.0 m	92.0 m
07th	Joachim Ernst	210.3	95.0 m	91.5 m
08th	Hans Wallner	208.8	94.0 m	90.0 m
09	Matthias Buse	207.9	90.5 m	92.5 m
10	Jari Puikkonen	206.3	91.5 m	90.0 m
11	Uli Boll	203.9	87.0 m	93.5 m
12	Pentti Kokkonen	202.4	85.0 m	93.0 m
13	Ulrich Pschera	200.2	83.0 m	94.5 m
14th	Kari Heinonen	199.8
15th	Hirokazu Yagi	199.1	84.0 m	92.0 m
...	...	...	...	...
19th	Axel Zitzmann	195.9	83.0 m	92.5 m
22nd	Thomas Meisinger	193.6	84.0 m	89.5 m
24	Andreas Bauer	192.7	84.5 m	93.0 m
36	Thomas Prosser	183.2	83.5 m	89.0 m
42	Peter raw wine	176.9	83.5 m	84.5 m
44	Christoph Schwarz	171.2	80.5 m	82.0 m
46	Albert Wursthorn	165.3	81.5 m	80.0 m
47	Georg Waldvogel	148.1	84.5 m	69.0 m

eliminated after the 1st round

52. Peter Schwinghammer , …… and 95. Holger Friday  

innsbruck

The jumping was delayed by a good three hours due to heavy snowfall and subsequent fog. With the longest jump of the first round of 101.0 m, the Finn Jari Puikkonen took the lead. He defended this in the second round in front of Hubert Neuper, who was leading the tour. With the longest jump in the second run of 101.0 m, Armin Kogler improved from eighth to third place.

• Date: January 4, 1981.
• Country: Austria 
• Ski jump: Bergisel ski jump
• Hill record: 107.0 m Hubert Neuper (1980) 

Item	Jumper	Points	Width 1	Width 2
01	Jari Puikkonen	235.6	101.0 m0	99.5 m
02	Hubert Neuper	230.7	98.0 m	99.0 m
03	Armin Kogler	229.4	96.5 m	101.0 m0
04th	Pentti Kokkonen	228.2	98.0 m	99.0 m
05	Roger Ruud	220.6	97.0 m	96.0 m
06th	Claus Tuchscherer	219.6	95.0 m	98.0 m
07th	Kari Heinonen	217.5	98.5 m	93.0 m
08th	Johan Saetre	216.8	97.0 m	94.0 m
09	Pyotr Sunin	213.7	96.0 m	93.5 m
10	Hans Wallner	212.1	93.5 m	97.0 m
11	Axel Zitzmann	211.9	96.5 m	91.0 m
12	Jouko Törmänen	210.3
13	Per Bergerud	210.0
14th	Reed Zuehlke	208.3
15th	Leoš Škoda	208.0
16	Manfred Deckert	207.0	93.5 m	93.0 m
	Peter Schwinghammer	207.0	90.5 m	96.0 m
...	...	...	...	...
21st	Thomas Meisinger	205.1	93.0 m	92.5 m
29	Joachim Ernst	200.9	92.0 m	93.0 m
30th	Matthias Buse	200.1	90.5 m	92.5 m
32	Peter raw wine	199.0	92.0 m	92.0 m
33	Andreas Bauer	198.9	89.0 m	96.0 m
35	Uli Boll	196.6	88.0 m	92.5 m
36	Ulrich Pschera	196.4	91.5 m	88.5 m
38	Christoph Schwarz	195.3	88.0 m	93.0 m
42	Thomas Klauser	192.2	88.0 m	93.0 m
48	Thomas Prosser	188.1	89.0 m	89.0 m

eliminated after the 1st round

64. Holger Freitag - Jens Weissflog was due to a cold deregistered  

Bischofshofen

With good conditions in the first round, the Austrian Armin Kogler took the lead by equalizing the hill record. In the second run, drifting snow set in and reduced the approach speed on the natural hill by an average of 10 km / h. Kogler defied the new conditions and won the day ahead of the old and new tour winner Hubert Neuper. The Norwegian Per Bergerud prevented a three-day win for the Austrians with his third place ahead of Hans Wallner. Matthias Buse in sixth place, just like Thomas Meisinger at the start in Oberstdorf, achieved the best placement of a jumper from the GDR on this tour. With Peter Rohwein there was another jumper among the top ten for the German team.

• Date: January 6, 1981.
• Country: Austria 
• Hill: Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
• Hill record: 108.0 m Anton Innauer (1976) 

Item	Jumper	Points	Width 1	Width 2
01	Armin Kogler	234.2	108.0 m0	95.5 m
02	Hubert Neuper	228.7	107.5 m0	93.5 m
03	Per Bergerud	223.9	103.0 m0	96.0 m
04th	Hans Wallner	223.3	101.5 m0	96.0 m
05	Roger Ruud	222.4	101.0 m0	95.0 m
06th	Matthias Buse	211.8	98.0 m	92.0 m
07th	Johan Saetre	209.3	97.0 m	90.5 m
08th	Jouko Törmänen	204.9	97.5 m	89.0 m
09	Peter raw wine	204.5	94.5 m	93.5 m
10	Leoš Škoda	199.8	94.5 m	90.5 m
11	Jari Puikkonen	198.6	96.0 m	86.0 m
12	Masahiro Akimoto	197.4	94.0 m	90.0 m
13	Andreas fields	196.0	95.0 m	88.0 m
14th	Kari Heinonen	195.3	95.5 m	84.5 m
15th	Manfred Steiner	193.8	93.5 m	89.0 m
...	...	...	...	...
17th	Thomas Meisinger	190.0	93.5 m	87.0 m
25th	Thomas Klauser	184.7	93.5 m	85.0 m
27	Joachim Ernst	182.9	95.0 m	81.5 m
31	Manfred Deckert	177.3	87.5 m	85.0 m
34	Ulrich Pschera	175.7	87.0 m	84.0 m
38	Peter Schwinghammer	171.5	89.5 m	81.0 m
41	Christoph Schwarz	171.0	91.0 m	79.5 m
44	Uli Boll	168.7	87.0 m	81.5 m

eliminated after the 1st round

54. Andreas Bauer , 59. Holger Freitag , 67. Thomas Prosser and 72. Axel Zitzmann    

Tour final score

Hubert Neuper narrowly but successfully defended his tour victory from the previous year in front of his compatriot Armin Kogler. Both jumpers managed to place themselves in the top four four times. The Finn Jari Puikkonen only lost contact with the two Austrians in Bischofshofen and came in third. The only German jumper among the top ten was Matthias Buse from the GDR in eighth place.

rank	Jumper	Total points	Oberstdorf	Garmisch- Partenkirchen	innsbruck	Bischofshofen
01	Hubert Neuper	931.0	256.8 / 01.	214.8 / 04.	230.7 / 02.	228.7 / 02.
02	Armin Kogler	927.4	248.3 / 04.	215.5 / 03.	229.4 / 03.	234.2 / 01.
03	Jari Puikkonen	892.8	252.3 / 02.	206.3 / 10.	235.6 / 01.	198.6 / 11.
04th	Roger Ruud	891.2	251.1 / 03.	197.1 / 17.	220.6 / 05.	222.4 / 05.
05	Per Bergerud	886.8	235.3 / 08.	217.6 / 02.	210.0 / 13.	223.9 / 03.
06th	Hans Wallner	864.5	220.3 / 25.	208.8 / 08.	212.1 / 10.	223.3 / 04.
07th	Johan Saetre	864.0	225.0 / 18.	212.9 / 06.	216.8 / 08.	209.3 / 07.
08th	Matthias Buse	854.0	234.2 / 09.	207.9 / 09.	200.1 / 30.	211.8 / 06.
09	Pentti Kokkonen	841.5	240.3 / 05.	202.4 / 12.	228.2 / 04.	170.6 / 42.
10	Horst Bulau	835.8	228.5 / 16.	226.4 / 01.	203.5 / 25.	177.4 / 30.
11	Masahiro Akimoto	830.8	216.9 / 32.	213.0 / 05.	204.5 / 23.	197.4 / 12.
12	Thomas Meisinger	828.2	239.5 / 06.	193.6 / 22.	205.1 / 21.	190.0 / 17.
13	Kari Heinonen	825.3	212.7 / 38.	199.8 / 14.	217.5 / 07.	195.3 / 14.
14th	Hirokazu Yagi	823.6	232.4 / 11.	199.1 / 15.	204.6 / 22.	187.5 / 20.
15th	Pyotr Sunin	815.4	215.8 / 34.	196.7 / 18.	213.7 / 09.	189.2 / 18.
16	Joachim Ernst	811.4	217.3 / 31.	210.3 / 07.	200.9 / 29.	182.9 / 27.
17th	Peter raw wine	804.8	224.4 / 20.	176.9 / 42.	199.0 / 32.	204.5 / 09.
18th	Ulrich Pschera	803.6	231.3 / 13.	200.2 / 13.	196.4 / 36.	175.7 / 34.
...	...	...	...	...	...	...
24	Uli Boll	784.6	215.4 / 35.	203.9 / 11.	196.6 / 35.	168.7 / 44.
26th	Christoph Schwarz	768.5	231.0 / 14.	171.2 / 44.	195.3 / 38.	171.0 / 41.

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport81. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1981, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 283 .
• New Germany . No. 305-306 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1980, ISSN  0323-3375 .
• New Germany . No. 1-6 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1981, ISSN  0323-3375 .
• Foosball sports magazine . 2, 3 and 6. Olympia-Verlag , 1981, ISSN  0023-1290 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIS results list
2. ↑ FIS results list
3. ↑ FIS results list
4. ↑ FIS results list