Tour winner Wolfgang Loitzl
The 57th Four Hills Tournament 2008/09 (official name 57th International Jack Wolfskin Four Hills Tournament ) is a series of ski jumping competitions organized by the International Ski Federation between December 28, 2008 and January 6, 2009 as part of the Ski Jumping World Cup 2008/09 . The winner was the Austrian Wolfgang Loitzl ahead of the Swiss Simon Ammann and the Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer .
The opening competition, which took place in Oberstdorf on December 29, 2008 , was won by Simon Ammann from Switzerland, ahead of Wolfgang Loitzl from Austria and Dmitri Wassiljew from Russia . The New Years competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was won by Loitzl ahead of Ammann and the Finn Harri Olli . Loitzl won the third tournament on January 4, 2009 in Innsbruck ahead of the Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer and the German Martin Schmitt . The final three-king competition in Bischofshofen was won by Loitzl ahead of Ammann and Wassiljew.
Wolfgang Loitzl received the top score of 20.0 points five times in the first round of his 142.5 meter jump in Bischofshofen, setting a new record. In the history of ski jumping, only four jumpers had managed to reach this mark, but never before in the Four Hills Tournament. Loitzl could almost have repeated this feat with an equally perfect 141.5 meter jump in the second round, but the Czech judge Václav Kraml with his score (19.5 points) denied him the fifth 20.0 score.
Oberstdorf
The Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf
The jumping in Oberstdorf took place on the Schattenbergschanze , which had a hill size of 137 meters, a calculation point of 120 meters, a landing incline of 35.50 ° at the K-point, a tower height of 43 meters, an inrun length of 93 meters and a total length of up to having at the beginning of the run of 238 meters. The current hill record holder was the Norwegian Sigurd Pettersen who reached a distance of 143.5 meters on December 29, 2003.
The race director was the FIS delegate Walter Hofer , the technical delegate was the Norwegian Torgeir Nordby and the hill boss was the German Ralf Schmid. The judges were Václav Kraml (Czech Republic), Marek Tucznio (Poland), Johann Bachmayer (Austria), Vladimir Bras (Slovenia) and Michael Herzig (Germany).
qualification
The qualification took place on December 28, 2008 between 4:30 pm and 5:42 pm. 71 starters from 18 nations competed for it. In front of the three best placed jumpers in the overall World Cup, the jury shortened the attempt by one hatch. These jumped for places one to three regardless of the placements of the remaining starters. The ten leaders of the overall World Cup who were already pre-qualified for jumping are marked with an asterisk * in the list .
Results of the qualification
First try
The first round of judging took place on December 29, 2008 between 4:30 pm and 5:24 pm. 50 jumpers from 13 nations competed for this. The start was from hatch 16.
The results of the qualification resulted in the following duels for the knockout system used in this round . The direct winners of the knockout duels are marked with the addition "(S)". The jumpers authorized to start in the second round via the lucky loser rule are marked with the addition "(LL)". After Roman Koudelka and Adam Małysz, who competed against each other, remained tied for distance and points, Koudelka was declared the winner of the duel due to his better result in the qualification. The Norwegian Anders Bardal fell immediately after landing.
Results of the knockout duels
Classification after the first round
Second round and final result
The second round took place on December 29, 2008 between 5:40 pm and 6:50 pm. 30 jumpers from ten nations competed with the 25 winners of the knockout duels and the five lucky losers. As in the first round, the start was made from hatch 16.
The day's victory went to Swiss Simon Ammann, who won 1.2 points ahead of Austrian Wolfgang Loitzl and 2.0 points ahead of Russian Dmitri Wassiljew . Simon Ammann achieved the daily maximum distance of 136.5 meters in the first round. In the second round, Dmitri Wassiljew managed the longest jump with 136.0 meters. The Russian Dmitri Wassiljew secured the title of “ Man of the day ”.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
The jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen took place on the Great Olympic Hill, which had a hill size of 140 meters, a calculation point of 125 meters, a landing incline of 34.70 ° at the K point, a tower height of 60.4 meters, an inrun length of 103 .5 meters and a total length to the beginning of the run of 235 meters. The current hill record holder was Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer , who reached a distance of 141.0 meters on January 1st, 2008.
The race director was the FIS delegate Walter Hofer, the Austrian Paul Ganzenhuber acted as the technical delegate and the German Franz Rappenglück acted as the head of the hill. The judges Christian Diechtler (Germany), Vladimir Bras (Slovenia), Václav Kraml (Czech Republic), Marek Tucznio (Poland) and Stefan Wolf (Austria) were responsible for the evaluation.
qualification
The qualification took place on December 31, 2008 between 1:46 pm and 2:57 pm. 67 starters from 16 nations competed for it. The Swiss Simon Ammann , who was leading in the tour evaluation, skipped the qualification round, the German Erik Simon was disqualified for skis that were too long. The start was from hatch 21. The ten leaders of the overall World Cup who were already pre-qualified for jumping are marked with an asterisk * in the list .
Results of the qualification
First try
The first evaluation round took place on January 1st, 2009 between 1:48 pm and 2:42 pm. 50 jumpers from 15 nations competed for him. The start was from hatch 20.
The results of the qualification resulted in the following duels for the knockout system used in this round. The direct winners of the knockout duels are marked with the addition "(S)". The jumpers authorized to start in the second round via the lucky loser rule are marked with the addition "(LL)". Since Denis Kornilow and Roman Koudelka were tied for fifth place among the lucky losers, instead of the usual five, six lucky losers advanced to the second round.
Results of the knockout duels
Classification after the first round
Second round and final result
The second round took place on January 1, 2009 between 3:04 and 3:41 pm. With the 25 winners of the knockout duels and the six lucky losers, 31 jumpers from ten nations competed for him. As in the first round, hatch 20 took off.
The day's victory went to the Austrian Wolfgang Loitzl, who was able to win the first World Cup competition of his career. The Swiss Simon Ammann achieved the daily maximum distance of 140.0 meters in the first round. In the second round, Wolfgang Loitzl managed the longest jump with 136.5 meters. Norwegian Anders Jacobsen secured the title of “Man of the day” .
Tour intermediate result
Taking into account the results of Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the following intermediate result in the overall tour standings resulted (the twenty best starters are listed):
Tour intermediate result after two competitions
innsbruck
The Bergisel ski jump in Innsbruck
The jumping in Innsbruck took place on the Bergiselschanze , which had a hill size of 130 meters, a calculation point of 120 meters and a landing incline of 34.34 ° at the K-point, a tower height of 50.0 meters, an inrun length of 91.3 meters and has a total length to the start of the run of 316 meters. The current hill record holder was the German Sven Hannawald , who reached a distance of 134.5 meters on January 4th, 2004; The existing mat record was held by the Pole Adam Małysz with 136.0 meters (set on September 11, 2004).
The race director was the FIS delegate Walter Hofer. The technical delegate was the Japanese Manabu Ono and the ski jumping hill boss the Austrian Paul Ganzenhuber. Vladimir Bras (Slovenia), Fritz Pollhammer (Austria) Václav Kraml (Czech Republic), Marek Tucznio (Poland) and Peter Schlank (Slovakia) acted as judges .
qualification
The qualification took place on January 3rd, 2009 between 1:48 pm and 2:53 pm. 65 starters from 15 nations competed for it. The Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer skipped the qualification round. The start was from Luke 13. The ten leaders of the overall World Cup who were already pre-qualified for jumping are marked in the list with an asterisk * .
Results of the qualification
First try
The first round of scoring took place on January 4th, 2009 between 1:49 pm and 2:43 pm. 50 jumpers from 13 nations competed for this. The start was from hatch 12.
The results of the qualification resulted in the following duels for the knockout system used in this round. The direct winners of the knockout duels are marked with the addition "(S)". The jumpers authorized to start in the second round via the lucky loser rule are marked with the addition "(LL)".
Results of the knockout duels
Classification after the first round
Second round and final result
The second round took place on January 4, 2009 between 3:03 and 3:39 pm. With the 25 winners of the knockout duels and the five lucky losers, 30 jumpers from nine nations competed for him. The start was from hatch 14. The final result is calculated from the addition of the points of the first and second evaluation round.
The Austrian Wolfgang Loitzl secured the day's victory. The maximum daily distance of 128.5 meters was achieved by two jumpers, the German Martin Schmitt in the first run and Wolfgang Loitzl in the second run. The Finn Matti Hautamäki secured the title of “Man of the day” .
Tour intermediate result
Taking into account the results of Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck, the following intermediate result in the overall tour standings results (the 20 best jumpers are listed):
Tour intermediate result after three competitions
Bischofshofen
The Paul Ausserleitner ski jump in Bischofshofen
The jumping in Bischofshofen took place on the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze , which had a hill size of 140 meters, a calculation point of 125 meters, a landing incline of 35.0 ° at the K-point, a tower height of 52.0 meters, an inrun length of 118.5 meters and a total length to the beginning of the run of 362 meters. The official hill record holder was the Japanese Daiki Itō , who reached a distance of 143.0 meters on January 6, 2005; The unofficial record was held by Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer with 145.0 meters (set up in the qualification on January 5, 2005).
The race director was the FIS delegate Walter Hofer, assisted by the technical delegate Manabu Ono (Japan) and the hill boss Gerhard Krab. Marek Tucznio (Poland), Václav Kraml (Czech Republic), Christian Kathol (Austria), Vladimir Bras (Slovenia) and Peter Schlank (Slovakia) acted as judges.
qualification
The qualification took place on January 5th, 2009 between 16:31 and 17:37. 65 starters from 15 nations competed for it. The Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer and the Swiss Simon Ammann skipped the qualification. The start was from Luke 25. The top ten of the overall World Cup who were already pre-qualified for jumping are marked with an asterisk * in the list .
Results of the qualification
First try
The first round of judging took place on January 6th, 2009 between 4:31 pm and 5:22 pm. 50 jumpers from 15 nations competed for him. The start was from Luke 26. The Austrian Wolfgang Loitzl, who was the leader in the tour evaluation, received the highest score of 20.0 points from all five judges for his jump of 142.5 meters, making him the first to receive this highest score at the Four Hills Tournament.
The results of the qualification resulted in the following duels for the knockout system used in this round. The direct winners of the knockout duels are marked with the addition "(S)". The jumpers authorized to start in the second round via the lucky loser rule are marked with the addition "(LL)".
Results of the knockout duels
Classification after the first round
Second round and final result
The second round took place on January 6, 2009 between 5:42 pm and 6:14 pm. With the 25 winners of the knockout duels and the five lucky losers, 30 jumpers from eleven nations competed for him. The start was from hatch 25. The final result is calculated by adding up the points from the first and second rounds.
The superior win of the day, the third in a row, was secured by the Austrian Wolfgang Loitzl, who achieved the daily maximum distance in both rounds - 142.5 meters in the first and 141.5 meters in the second. Loitzl received the highest score of 20.0 points nine times for these two jumps. The tenth 20.0 rating, which would have meant a new record, was denied by the Czech judge Václav Kraml. The German Michael Neumayer secured the title of “Man of the day”.
Tour final score
Web links
Individual evidence
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↑ FIS.com: Oberstdorf - Results Qualification (PDF file, English, 279 KB; accessed on December 28, 2008)
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↑ FIS.com: Oberstdorf - Unofficial Results 1st Round (PDF file, English, 271 KB; accessed on December 28, 2008)
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↑ FIS.com: Oberstdorf - Official Results (PDF file, English, 228 KB; accessed on December 29, 2008)
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↑ FIS.com: Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Results Qualification (PDF file, English, 276 KB; accessed on December 31, 2008)
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↑ FIS.com: Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Unofficial Results 1st Round (PDF file, English, 276 KB; accessed on January 1, 2009)
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↑ FIS.com: Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Official Results (PDF file, English, 228 KB; accessed on January 1, 2009)
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↑ FIS.com: Jack Wolfskin 4-Schanzen-Tournee Standing (PDF file, English, 256 KB; accessed on January 1, 2009)
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↑ FIS.com: Innsbruck - Results Qualification (PDF file, English, 275 KB; accessed on January 3, 2009)
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↑ FIS.com: Innsbruck - Unofficial Results 1 Round (PDF file, English, 267 KB; accessed on January 4, 2009)
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↑ FIS.com: Innsbruck - Official Results (PDF file, English, 238 KB; accessed on January 4, 2009)
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↑ FIS.com: Jack Wolfskin 4- Hill Tour Standing (PDF file, English, 257 KB; accessed on January 4, 2009)
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↑ a b c FIS.com: Bischofshofen - Official Results (PDF file, English, 272 KB; accessed on January 6, 2009)
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↑ FIS.com: Bischofshofen - Results Qualification (PDF file, English, 274 KB; accessed on January 5, 2009)
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↑ FIS.com: Bischofshofen - Unofficial Results 1st Round (PDF file, English, 265 KB; accessed on January 6, 2009)