Four Hills Tournament 1982/83

31st Four Hills Tournament
winner
Tour winner	Matti Nykänen
Oberstdorf	Horst Bulau
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Armin Kogler
innsbruck	Matti Nykänen
Bischofshofen	Jens Weißflog
Attendees
Nations	18 (AUT, BUL, CAN, ESP, FIN, FRA, FRG, GDR, HUN, ITA, JPN, NOR POL, SUI, URS, TCH, USA, YUG)
athlete	95
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The 31st Four Hills Tournament 1982/83 was part of the Ski Jumping World Cup 1982/1983 .

The jumping in Oberstdorf took place on December 30, 1982, the jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on January 1, 1983 and the jumping in Innsbruck on January 4, 1983 . The final event in Bischofshofen was held on January 6, 1983.

Nominee athletes

After the appearances at last year's tour and the World Cup in Oslo , three teams emerged, from which the tour favorites came. Norway with an enormous density of top jumpers, which was expressed with the first official world championship in team jumping. In addition, two Norwegians took the podium at the first World Cup competition of the new season in Cortina. Next, the Austrians were to call, with Armin Kogler the world champion on the normal hill and the reigning World Cup champion and with Hubert Neuper presented the World Cup second last year and two-time Tour winner. Then there were the Finns, where Matti Nykänen , world champion on the large hill in Oslo, was preparing to become the new ski jumping star. The victory at the World Cup opener in Cortina was proof of his good form. Once again, the Canadian lone fighter Horst Bulau was not to be ignored, after all he had finished third in the World Cup the previous season. The performance of the DSV selection was eagerly awaited in the Federal Republic. The Roscher protégés had returned to the extended world elite on the last tour and now had two jumpers of international stature in Andreas Bauer and Christoph Schwarz . With the Polish and Bulgarian teams, two teams from Eastern Europe were back at the start after several years of breaks, while the Swedes stayed away this time. The once so successful Czechoslovakian ski jumping team dared a new start with several young newbies after years of drought. The GDR selection remained. This left last year's winner Manfred Deckert at home, allegedly he was injured. In truth, his maladjustment towards some sports officials stood in his way. Selection trainer Grellmann nominated two real newcomers in Stefan Stannarius and Ulf Findeisen , and Jens Weißflog was an almost newcomer. After his rather disastrous debut on the 1980/81 tour , the Flea vom Fichtelberg was not considered the previous year. Now it should work better together with the Klingenthalers Klaus Ostwald and Holger Freitag as other nominated teammates.

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 , Christoph Schwarz , Wolfgang Hartmann
GDR	Klaus Ostwald , Jens Weißflog , Ulf Findeisen , Stefan Stannarius , Holger Freitag
Austria	Andreas Felder , Richard Schallert , Armin Kogler , Hubert Neuper , Adolf Hirner , Hans Wallner , Alfred Groyer , Rupert Hirner , Norbert Leitner , Fritz Esser , Franz Wiegele , Bernhard Zauner , Paul Erat , Raimund Resch , Franz Neuländtner , Robert Kueffe , Guenter Vettori
Bulgaria	Vladimir Brejchev , Valentin Boschkov
Finland	Matti Nykänen , Pentti Kokkonen , Markku Pusenius , Jari Puikkonen , Tuomo Ylipulli , Jukka Kalso
France	Gérard Colin , Bernard Guillaume
Italy	Roberto Varutti , Massimo Rigoni , Lido Tomasi
Japan	Hirokazu Yagi , Masaru Nagaoka , Chiharu Nishikata , Masahiko Takahashi
Yugoslavia	Miran Tepeš , Vasja Bajc , Rajko Lotrič , Primož Ulaga , Matjas Zagar , Brane Benedik
Canada	Horst Bulau , Steve Collins , Ron Richards , Roger Zilkowsky
Norway	Roger Ruud , Per Bergerud , Ole Bremseth Ivar Mobekk , Steinar Braaten , Olav Hansson , Jan Henrik Trøen Jon Eilert Boegseth
Poland	Pjotr ​​Fijas , Janusz Duda , Jan Łoniewski , Bogdan Zwijacz
Switzerland	Hansjörg Sumi , Christian Hauswirth
Soviet Union	Leonid Komarow , Vladimir Chernyayev , Sergei Muchin , Valeri Karetnikow , Anatoly Taranow
Spain	José Rivera , Juan Meno , Thomas Cano
Czechoslovakia	Ján Tánczos , Peter Ciz , Bohumil Vacek , Jiří Parma , Pavel Ploc
Hungary	László Fischer , Gábor Gellér , Zoltán Kelemen
United States	Jeff Hastings , Mike Holland , Dennis McGrane

Oberstdorf

After the Norwegians in particular repeatedly jumped up to the previous hill record in training, there was no doubt in the professional and media world that the winner of the opening competition would be a Scandinavian. In addition, there was Matti Nykänen from Finland, who had reached into the snow with his 112.5m set. When jumping, however, a Canadian stole the show from the others. Horst Bulau, after all, Junior World Champion in 1979, jumped in the first round in ideal conditions, calm and freezing temperatures, already a hill record of 114.5 m and followed this set with another 114 m in the second round, despite a shortened approach by half a meter. The fact that jumping remained exciting was mainly thanks to Nykänen, who held against it with jumps of 114 and 113m and finished second, just 3.1 points behind. Third was the Austrian Armin Kogler. With Schallert in fourth and Neuper in sixth, selection coach Golser was satisfied with the performance of his team. The Norwegians also brought four jumpers into the top ten, although more was expected after the training performance. Favorite Per Bergerud had problems in the inrun and only came in seventh. From a GDR perspective, the performance was disappointing, up until then there had never been a worse jump in Oberstdorf. All five jumpers made it to the finals, but only Klaus Ostwald kept up with the leaders with a 16th place. Jens Weißflog only came in 27th place.

• Date: December 30, 1982
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Schattenbergschanze

Item	Jumper	country	Points
1	Horst Bulau	Canada	264.9
2	Matti Nykänen	Finland	261.8
3	Armin Kogler	Austria	255.2
4th	Richard Schallert	Austria	251.6
5	Steinar Braaten	Norway	251.0
6th	Hubert Neuper	Austria	248.7
7th	Olav Hansson	Norway	248.1
7th	Per Bergerud	Norway	248.1
9	Piotr Fijas	Poland	247.0
10	Ole Bremseth	Norway	245.0

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

The New Year's competition in Garmisch in front of 30,000 spectators was again dramatic. Jens Weißflog already beat the hill record with 102m during training and showed what he could do. He also showed this in competition. With the very low starting number eight, he jumped 99m and surprised the competition. Due to his good posture, the Oberwiesenthaler stayed in the lead for a surprisingly long time. It was initially reserved for Armin Kogler to set the hill record of the Japanese Akimoto with 101.5m. With this longest jump in the first round, he now took the lead. With the new hill record of 103.5m, however, the Norwegian Steinar Braaten , fifth in Oberstdorf, threw the gauntlet in the second round. Since Kogler jumped last as the leader, the tension lasted until the end. And the Austrian came down at 97.5, but was able to claim the day's victory with the smallest possible advantage of 0.1 points thanks to his good posture. Jens Weißflog had previously confirmed his performance with a very good 102.5m and came in only 0.8 behind Kogler in third place. For Weißflog, this also meant the first podium finish on the tour and in the ski jumping World Cup. Since Nykänen finished fourth, tied with his teammate Puikkonen , the Finn stayed in the overall standings. Only 1.1 points behind Bulau, who was sixth this time, he was now in second place ahead of Kogler. But also the Austrian, who was only three points behind the Finn, and the Norwegian Braaten could still hope for the overall victory after half of the tour. Jens Weißflog had already worked his way up to 12th place in the overall ranking thanks to his podium place. Since Ostwald (8th) and Stannarius (11th) were able to collect two more GDR jumpers in World Cup points, the GDR team leadership was more satisfied this time, even though Friday and Findeisen did not make it through to the finals.

• Date: January 1, 1983
• Country: BR Germany 
• Hill: Large Olympic hill

Intermediate result after 2 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Bulau	501.4
02.	Nykänen	500.3
03.	Kogler	497.5
04th	Braaten	493.2
05.	Bergerud	484.0
06th	Schallert	480.8

Item	Jumper	country	Points
1	Armin Kogler	Austria	242.3
2	Steinar Braaten	Norway	242.2
3	Jens Weißflog	GDR	241.5
4th	Jari Puikkonen	Finland	238.5
4th	Matti Nykänen	Finland	238.5
6th	Horst Bulau	Canada	236.5
7th	Per Bergerud	Norway	235.9
8th	Klaus Ostwald	GDR	234.7
9	Pentti Kokkonen	Finland	234.5
10	Pavel Ploc	Czechoslovakia	232.2

innsbruck

After 2 competitions in the best conditions, the hill on Bergisel was once again the executioner of the tour due to thick fog. In front of 20,000 spectators, it was mainly the young jumpers, including at least three former junior world champions, who got along best with the conditions. While the Finn Nykänen left no doubts about his win of the day with the longest jumps in each round of 105 and 104m, Jens Weißflog confirmed with his jumps that Garmisch's podium was no accident. After fourth place in the first round, he was the only jumper to improve in the second round and finished in second place after a total of four interruptions in jumping due to fog. With third place in the daily standings, Bulau kept all the chances in the overall standings, in which Nykänen had meanwhile overtaken him. Jens Weißflog made a jump from 12th to fifth place in the overall standings with his podium. While Ernst Vettori, who appeared for the first time in fourth place, was one of the surprises of the day , team-mate Armin Kogler became the tragic hero of the day. In the trial competition he had landed at 104m, now he was in 29th place with 94 m after the first round and after 91m in the second round he only improved to 22nd place, more than 40 points behind Nykänen. As a result, Kogler slipped to eighth place in the overall standings and the dream of winning the tour was over.

• Date: January 4, 1983
• Country: Austria 
• Ski jump: Bergisel ski jump

Intermediate result after 3 jumps
Item	Jumper	Points
01.	Nykänen	749.6
02.	Bulau	743.3
03.	Bergerud	718.3
04th	Braaten	716.0
05.	Weissflog	715.5
06th	Cocoons	709.9

Item	Jumper	country	Points
1	Matti Nykänen	Finland	249.5
2	Jens Weißflog	GDR	243.3
3	Horst Bulau	Canada	241.9
4th	Ernst Vettori	Austria	238.6
5	Pentti Kokkonen	Finland	236.4
6th	Per Bergerud	Norway	234.3
7th	Hansjörg Sumi	Switzerland	228.4
7th	Ole Bremseth	Norway	228.4
9	Jari Puikkonen	Finland	226.5
10	Richard Schallert	Austria	225.4

Bischofshofen

The records tumbled again on the converted natural hill. During training, Stefan Stannarius had almost pulverized Toni Innauer's old record with 114m with 108m. The 109.5m jump of Jens Weißflog was officially recognized, but the Norwegians Braaten with 110 and Hansson with 110.5m improved it in the second round. After passing through, however, Weißflog led in front of Klaus Ostwald, a long-missing image from the GDR's point of view. The second overall Horst Bulau only came in 40th place in the first round and lost over 39 points to Weißflog with his 35th place in the daily ranking. This improved in the second round and sailed on 110m, which in the end meant the first victory of the day on the tour for Weißflog with seven points ahead of the Norwegian Olav Hansson. Third was the Austrian Richard Schallert, who was now chosen as the last hope, while Klaus Ostwald achieved his best position of the day with fourth place. Matti Nykänen finally achieved a seventh place to win the tour with a reassuring lead.

Jens Weißflog

• Date: January 6, 1983
• Country: Austria 
• Hill: Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze

Item	Jumper	country	Points
1	Jens Weißflog	GDR	256.7
2	Olav Hansson	Norway	249.7
3	Richard Schallert	Austria	248.7
4th	Klaus Ostwald	GDR	245.0
5	Pentti Kokkonen	Finland	242.2
6th	Per Bergerud	Norway	241.2
7th	Matti Nykänen	Finland	240.0
8th	Steinar Bråten	Norway	239.1
9	Ole Bremseth	Norway	237.8
10	Ivar Mobekk	Norway	233.0

Final score

The 1982/83 tour marked the final breakthrough for two ski jumpers who were to dominate ski jumping for the next few years. If the first tour win of the Finn Matti Nykänen after his world championship title last year did not come as a complete surprise, the first win of the day and the second place in the tour evaluation for Jens Weißflog were not necessarily predictable. After a rather botched start in Oberstdorf, the Oberwiesenthaler improved enormously and gradually climbed the podium. With Klaus Ostwald in tenth place in the overall ranking, the GDR team also had another international class jumper. Despite his absence in Bischofshofen, the Canadian Horst Bulau was one of the surprises of the tour. He was the first North American to win a jumping competition on the tour and was even in the lead in the meantime. In the end, it was enough to finish third just before the Norwegian Bergerud. The Norwegians had to be counted among the defeated teams after the advance laurels. Although they were always in the World Cup prizes with several jumpers and were to be seen as the strongest team on the tour, it was not enough to win the day. The conclusion for the Austrians was even more disappointing. If your best jumper Armin Kogler started brilliantly on the two German hills, he jumped after the competition on the hills in his own country. After the successes at the World Cup in Oslo, the performance of the Austria Eagles caused disillusionment. However, Kogler was able to stabilize in the further course of the season and was again third in the World Cup ranking .

rank	Surname	nation	Overall rating	Colonel village	Garmisch- Partenk.	Inns- Bruckhaus	Episcopate hofen
01	Matti Nykänen	Finland	989.8	261.8 / 02.	238.4 / 04.	249.5 / 01.	240.0 / 07.
02	Jens Weißflog	GDR	972.2	230.7 / 27.	241.5 / 03.	243.3 / 02.	256.7 / 01.
03	Horst Bulau	Canada	960.9	264.9 / 01.	236.5 / 06.	241.9 / 03.	217.6 / 35.
04th	Per Bergerud	Norway	959.5	248.1 / 07.	235.9 / 07.	234.3 / 06.	241.2 / 06.
05	Steinar Braaten	Norway	955.1	251.0 / 05.	242.2 / 02.	222.8 / 12.	239.1 / 08.
06th	Richard Schallert	Austria	954.9	251.6 / 04.	229.2 / 15.	225.4 / 10.	248.7 / 03.
07th	Pentti Kokkonen	Finland	952.1	239.0 / 15.	234.5 / 09.	236.4 / 05.	242.2 / 05.
08th	Olav Hansson	Norway	945.9	248.1 / 07.	229.0 / 16.	219.1 / 14.	249.7 / 02.
09	Ole Bremseth	Norway	936.8	245.0 / 10.	225.6 / 19.	228.4 / 07.	237.8 / 09.
10	Klaus Ostwald	GDR	929.1	238.2 / 16.	234.7 / 08.	211.2 / 18.	245.0 / 04.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kogler kept up bravely . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 31, 1982, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland from December 31, 1982 p. 15
3. ↑ Kogler does not want to burden himself with thoughts of overall victory . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 3, 1983, p. 09 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 3, 1983 p. 8
5. ↑ Fog carried him to victory . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 5, 1983, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 5, 1983 p. 7
7. ↑ Nykänen kept nerves in check . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna 7th January 1983, p. 09 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
8. ↑ Neues Deutschland, January 7, 1983, p. 7