Four Hills Tournament 1981/82

30th Four Hills Tournament
winner
Tour winner	Manfred Deckert
Oberstdorf	Matti Nykänen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Roger Ruud
innsbruck	Manfred Deckert
Bischofshofen	Hubert Neuper
Attendees
Nations	17 (AUT, CAN, ESP, FIN, FRA, FRG GDR, HUN, ITA, JPN, NOR, SUI SWE, URS, TCH, USA, YUG)
athlete	90
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The 30th Four Hills Tournament 1981/82 was part of the Ski Jumping World Cup 1981/1982 .

The jumping in Oberstdorf took place on December 30th 1981, the jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on January 1st 1982 and the jumping in Innsbruck on January 4th 1982 . The final event in Bischofshofen was held on January 6, 1982. Manfred Deckert from the GDR won the tour ahead of the Norwegians Roger Ruud and Per Bergerud .

Nominee athletes

In the world championship season , the tour was the first real test of the ski jumping season after the opening event of the World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo . As a result, all the important jumping nations sent their best jumpers, above all the Austrians, who had the winner of the last two tours in their ranks in Hubert Neuper and the winner of the first ski jumping World Cup season in Armin Kogler . With Kari Ylianttila and Pentti Kokkonen, the Finns brought two tournament winners as well as Jouko Törmänen, the reigning Olympic champion from the large hill to the start. In addition, with Matti Nykänen as the reigning junior world champion and Markku Pusenius, two promising young talents were nominated. With Roger Ruud, the Norwegians at least had the World Cup runner-up of the previous season in their squad, but with Per Bergerud , Johan Sætre and Ole Bremseth they were also well positioned in terms of breadth. The strong Canadian Horst Bulau , third in last year's World Cup, and the Japanese Masahiro Akimoto , who took third place at the World Cup opener in Cortina and won the Christmas competition in St. Moritz , had outsider opportunities . The two German teams remained. In the DSV selection around selection trainer Ewald Roscher , the maximum number of starters per host country was again exhausted, a total of 16 athletes jumped, none of whom were suspected in advance of having anything to do with the tournament victory. After a very successful decade with tour victories by Jochen Danneberg and Hans-Georg Aschenbach after the debacle on the last tour, those responsible for the GDR became disillusioned. This led to a change in the selection coach, the Oberwiesenthal Gotthard drummer was replaced by the Thuringian Hans-Dieter Grellmann . In addition, there were the resignations of Danneberg and Falko Weißpflog as well as the injury-related absence of veterans Henry Glaß and Harald Duschk , which even led to the end of his career at Glaß. For example, selection coach Grellmann only nominated four jumpers from SC Dynamo Klingenthal in this de facto restart . With Holger Freitag there was only one newcomer from last year, but with Matthias Buse they still had a world champion in the team. In addition, the silver medalist from Lake Placid Manfred Deckert had won the Spring Tour of Friendship in Harrachov in mid-December 1981 and was in good shape.

nation	Athletes
BR Germany	Thomas Klauser , Georg Waldvogel , Peter Rohwein , Andreas Bauer , Joachim Ernst , Peter Schwinghammer , Wolfgang Steiert , Lorenz Wegscheider , Uli Boll , Thomas Hasselberger , Thomas Ihle , Thomas Prosser , Josef Heumann , Andreas Geiger , Frank Sternkopf , Christoph Schwarz
GDR	Klaus Ostwald , Mathias Buse , Manfred Deckert , Holger Freitag
Austria	Andreas Felder , Franz Wiegele , Richard Schallert , Ernst Vettori , Armin Kogler , Hubert Neuper , Adolf Hirner , Hans Wallner , Manfred Steiner , Claus Tuchscherer , Heinz Koch , Fritz Esser Alfred Groyer , Bernhard Zauner , Rupert Hirner , Norbert Leitner
Finland	Matti Nykänen , Kari Ylianttila , Jouko Törmänen , Markku Reijonen , Pentti Kokkonen , Markku Pusenius , Jari Puikkonen
France	Gérard Colin , Philippe Jacoberger , Patric Dubiez , Bernard Guillaume
Italy	Batista Carli , Lido Tomasi , Massimo Rigoni
Japan	Nobuo Nakatsu , Masaru Nagaoka , Satoru Matsuhashi , Chiharu Nishikata , Masahiro Akimoto , Hirokazu Yagi
Yugoslavia	Miran Tepeš , Vasja Bajc , Rajko Lotrič , Primož Ulaga
Canada	Horst Bulau , Steve Collins , Ron Richards
Norway	Dag Jensen Holmen , Roger Ruud , Olav Hansson , Per Bergerud , Johan Sætre , Ole Bremseth Halvor Asphol , Ivar Mobekk
Sweden	Anders Daun , Per Balkaasen , Bo Andersson , Seppo Toivonen
Switzerland	Roland Glas , Paul Egloff , Benito Bonetti , Hansjörg Sumi
Soviet Union	Leonid Komarov , Vladimir Chernyayev , Andrei Shakirov , Gennady Prokopenko , Igor Morosov , Sergei Muchin
Spain	José Rivera , Juan Meno
Czechoslovakia	Ján Tánczos , Josef Samek , František Novák , Miro Slušný
Hungary	László Fischer , Gábor Gellér
United States	Jeff Hastings , Reed Zuehlke , John Broman , John Denney

Oberstdorf

Before the opening competition, the Japanese Akimoto with 110m and the young German jumper Andreas Bauer with 111m had drawn attention in training. On the day of the jump itself there was once again the wind lottery, which did not stop at the top athletes either. If the first 50 or so jumpers still had the usual thermal updraft, the wind then began to turn and now pushed the jumpers down prematurely as a tailwind. In rows, alleged victory favorites were found after round one in unexpected ranks such as Neuper or Puikkonen in 20th, Deckert in 16th or Ostwald even in 36th. Conversely, jumpers who had been well placed up to then also fell victim to the wind in the second round, so slipped the leading Roger Ruud still in ninth place and the runner-up Mathias Buse even on rank 41 after an 80m jump! As a surprise, the performance of the two German jumpers Thomas Prosser and Christoph Schwarz could already be seen after the first round . Like the Finn Nykänen, Prosser jumped the second largest daily distance. In the end, with a stable second jump over 99.5, he achieved a surprising third place, which should remain his best individual placement of his career in World Cup jumping. The Finn Matti Nykänen coped best with the conditions and won his first competition on the tour. He referred Manfred Deckert from Klingenthal, who was one of the few jumpers in the field to improve in the second round, just 0.6 points ahead of second place. After this rather surprising outcome, some dreams of victory were already over, especially in the Austrian camp. With 28th place at the start, Hubert Neuper was able to write off his third tour victory.

• Date: December 30, 1981
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Schattenbergschanze

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Matti Nykänen	Finland	239.9
02	Manfred Deckert	GDR	239.3
03	Thomas Prosser	BR Germany	233.2
04th	Kari Ylianttila	Finland	226.0
05	Christoph Schwarz	BR Germany	225.4
06th	Dag Holmen-Jensen	Norway	223.2
07th	Primož Ulaga	Yugoslavia	220.2
08th	Klaus Ostwald	GDR	220.1
09	Roger Ruud	Norway	219.6
10	Johan Sætre	Norway	219.5
	Peter Schwinghammer	BR Germany	219.5

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

The New Year's competition was again affected by bad weather, but pouring rain and fog in the second round allowed for an exciting competition. Once again Manfred Deckert was one of the two main actors of the day and again he had to make do with second place. This time it was the Norwegian Roger Ruud who was only able to win the jumping with a lead of 0.4 with better posture marks. And the young German team in Garmisch also made people sit up and take notice, Andreas Bauer came in third. A sixth place for Christoph Schwarz rounded off the strong performance of the Roscher protégés, which put Schwarz in fourth place overall. Opening winner Matti Nykänen messed up his second jump so that this time it was only fifth. After the first two jumping competitions, Manfred Deckert was now leading in the overall standings ahead of Nykänen and Ruud.

• Date: January 1, 1982
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Large Olympic hill

Intermediate result after 2 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Deckert	475.9
02.	Nykänen	468.1
03.	Ruud	456.6
04th	black	452.9
05.	Ylianttila	438.7
06th	Asphalt	435.6

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Roger Ruud	Norway	237.0
02	Manfred Deckert	GDR	236.6
03	Andreas Bauer	BR Germany	232.4
04th	Per Bergerud	Norway	232.0
05	Matti Nykänen	Finland	228.2
06th	Christoph Schwarz	BR Germany	227.5
07th	Alfred Groyer	Austria	222.9
08th	Halvor Asphol	Norway	222.4
09	Olav Hansson	Norway	222.2
	Hubert Neuper	Austria	222.2

innsbruck

In warm temperatures, but with no wind, 25,000 spectators experienced a high-class jumping at the Olympic hill, which ended with a novelty. For the first time there were two winners on the Bergisel. The class was already evident in the first round, as first and sixth place were only 2.7 points apart. The leader was the again strong German jumper Andreas Bauer, who managed a 106m jump. After the run-up had been lengthened by half a meter for the second run, the jumpers had the advantage and so Manfred Deckert jumped from eighth place to the top. However, he had to share the space with the stylistically better jumping Norwegian Per Bergerud. Third was Garmisch's winner, Roger Ruud, who was just 0.2 points behind the top duo. The Norwegian team, of which two other jumpers made it into the top ten, had impressively demonstrated their good form before the World Cup in their own country. Andreas Bauer took a good fourth place and Christoph Schwarz came in eleventh place in the daily standings to third place, something that no German jumper has been granted for a long time. In Austria, too, the faces brightened up a little, after all, three jumpers had jumped into the top ten of the daily ranking for the first time. In the overall standings, Deckert was able to extend his lead, as Nykänen reached into the snow on his second jump and with 32nd place in the daily standings now fell hopelessly behind in the overall standings. The closest pursuer was now the Norwegian Ruud, who was almost 20 points behind Deckert.

• Date: January 3, 1982
• Country: Austria 
• Ski jump: Bergisel ski jump

Intermediate result after 3 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Deckert	719.4
02.	Ruud	699.9
03.	black	682.5
04th	Nykänen	677.2
05.	Farmer	673.0
06th	Bergerud	670.8

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Manfred Deckert	GDR	243.5
	Per Bergerud	Norway	243.5
03	Roger Ruud	Norway	243.3
04th	Andreas Bauer	BR Germany	241.7
05	Matthias Buse	GDR	234.4
	Alfred Groyer	Austria	234.4
07th	Johan Sætre	Norway	233.9
08th	Hubert Neuper	Austria	233.3
09	Dag Holmen-Jensen	Norway	231.9
10	Ernst Vettori	Austria	230.6

Bischofshofen

In constant rain, the Austrians, who were not used to success, finally managed to win the day they had longed for. The two-time tour winner Hubert Neuper, who had improved from jumping to jumping, achieved two stylistically clean jumps with almost identical distances, which in the end meant a lead of 1.6 over the Norwegian Aspohl. With Armin Kogler's third place and Rupert Hirner's seventh place , the Austrians also showed a strong team performance in anticipation of the first official team competition at a World Cup. With places five, six and ten, it also showed the GDR selection and the Norwegians for the first time, who placed four of their jumpers in the top ten. But since the best placed Roger Ruud failed with 19th place in the daily standings, Manfred Deckert could no longer take the overall victory. Accordingly, the Klingenthaler jumped up after 12th place in the first round and came in 5th place with the best distance in the second round of 103.5 m.

• Date: January 6, 1982
• Country: Austria 
• Hill: Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze

Item	Jumper	country	Points
01	Hubert Neuper	Austria	240.5
02	Halvor Asphol	Norway	238.4
03	Armin Kogler	Austria	237.6
04th	Per Bergerud	Norway	237.1
05	Manfred Deckert	GDR	232.0
06th	Klaus Ostwald	GDR	229.4
07th	Dag Holmen-Jensen	Norway	225.2
	Rupert Hirner	Austria	225.2
09	Ole Bremseth	Norway	225.0
10	Matthias Buse	GDR	224.4

Final score

After Jochen Danneberg won the last tour victory for the GDR in 1977, the jumpers from Aschberg showed that they could be expected again. The small, but fine, only four-member GDR selection had their flagship with the mighty Manfred Deckert, who ultimately won the tour with ease. Deckert had already laid the foundation stone for this in Oberstdorf, although he still benefited from the instability of the young Nykänen. The strong Norwegian team, in particular, showed considerable early form in their own country ahead of the World Cup and stayed on Deckert's heels in the form of Roger Rudd and Per Bergerud. Only Ruud's mistake in the last jump let Deckert's advantage grow. The team from Austria around selection coach Max Golser was also on the rise . The tour started poorly, but the two-time tour winner Hubert Neuper was able to improve and even win the jumping in Bischofshofen. At the World Championships on Holmenkollen, however, team-mate Armin Kogler was in the limelight, who won a complete set of medals. At the World Cup, the Finns also showed improvement. If Nykänen had won the start of the tour in Oberstdorf, he had to pay tuition for the other competitions. In Oslo, however, he became world champion on the large hill and won bronze with the team. However, the GDR selection came away empty-handed in Oslo. Deckert's tour victory and a World Cup victory by Klaus Ostwald were to remain the only notable international successes in the 1981/82 ski jumping season. The tour surprise, on the other hand, was the German selection around coach Ewald Roscher. The partly very young team was able to celebrate two third places on the tour by Thomas Prosser and Andreas Bauer. These were the first German podium finishes since Franz Keller in Innsbruck in 1967 . With Christoph Schwarz in fourth place and Andreas Bauer in seventh place, the German selection was able to place two jumpers among the top ten in the overall tour for the first time since 1963 . Andreas Bauer in particular could have jumped onto the podium in the overall standings if he had placed in the top ten in Oberstdorf.

rank	Surname	nation	Overall rating	Colonel village	Garmisch- Partenk.-	Inns- bruck	Episcopate hofen
01	Manfred Deckert	GDR	951.4	239.3 / 02.	236.2 / 02.	243.5 / 01.	232.0 / 05.
02	Roger Ruud	Norway	915.4	219.6 / 06.	237.0 / 01.	243.3 / 03.	215.5 / 19.
03	Per Bergerud	Norway	907.9	195.3 / 37.	232.0 / 04.	243.5 / 01.	237.1 / 04.
04th	Christoph Schwarz	BR Germany	904.5	225.4 / 05.	227.5 / 06.	229.6 / 11.	222.0 / 11.
05	Hubert Neuper	Austria	897.8	201.8 / 28.	222.2 / 09.	233.3 / 08.	240.5 / 01
	Halvor Asphol	Norway	897.8	213.2 / 17.	224.4 / 08.	223.8 / 14.	238.4 / 02.
07th	Andreas Bauer	BR Germany	894.5	198.9 / 34.	232.4 / 03.	241.7 / 04.	221.5 / 14
08th	Dag Holmen-Jensen	Norway	890.8	192.8 / 13.	210.5 / 21.	231.9 / 09.	225.2 / 07.
09	Alfred Groyer	Austria	889.2	210.1 / 21.	222.9 / 07.	234.4 / 05.	221.8 / 13.
10	Armin Kogler	Austria	879.5	218.1 / 13.	209.9 / 23.	213.9 / 24.	237.6 / 03.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neue Zeit of June 12, 1981 p. 6
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 11, 1982 p. 7
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland from December 31, 1981 p. 7
4. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 2, 1982 p. 7
5. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 4, 1982 p. 7
6. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 7, 1982 p. 7
7. ↑ FIS results list
8. ↑ FIS results list
9. ↑ FIS results list
10. ↑ FIS results list