Four Hills Tournament 2009/10 / Garmisch-Partenkirchen

The second competition of the Four Hills Tournament 2009/10 was the traditional New Year's competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on the Great Olympic Hill .

After the opening competition in Oberstdorf was particularly characterized by changeable wind conditions, the conditions in Garmisch-Partenkirchen were praised as “excellent”; the jumping took place at an "extremely high level". Especially successful were the Austrians, like in Oberstdorf, who achieved a double victory through Gregor Schlierenzauer and Wolfgang Loitzl . In the overall standings, Andreas Kofler , an athlete from the Alpine region, continued to lead. The best jump of the competition was shown by Simon Ammann from Switzerland , who set a new hill record with 143.5 meters in the second round and took third place. Kofler and Ammann had been disqualified from qualifying for wearing illegal suits.

Hill data

The competition took place on January 1st, 2010 on the Great Olympic Hill, which had a hill size of 140 meters, a calculation point of 125 meters, a landing inclination at the K-point of 34.70 °, 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 at the time of the competition was Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer , who reached a distance of 141.0 meters on January 1st, 2008. In the second final round of jumping, Simon Ammann from Switzerland improved this record to 143.5 meters.

training

In the first of two training rounds Gregor Schlierenzauer jumped the furthest, the Austrian landed at 139.5 meters - the day's best distance - and thus only missed his own hill record by 1.5 meters. The second best was the tour leader Andreas Kofler, who fell three and a half meters behind his compatriot Schlierenzauer. The Swiss Simon Ammann was already six meters behind. The only other jumper who jumped over 130 meters was Martin Koch with 131 meters. The best German was Michael Neumayer , who reached 128 meters in sixth.

Martin Koch and the Norwegian Johan Remen Evensen decided the second training jump with 133 meters each. Koch was the only athlete who jumped over the 130-meter mark in both attempts. Almost all other athletes who were placed among the top ten in the overall World Cup reached a distance of around 125 meters; only Gregor Schlierenzauer had a small lead over his competitors in the overall standings with 129 meters. Andreas Wank was the best German with 130.5 meters and finished fourth, three places behind was the best Swiss with Andreas Küttel (129 meters).

qualification

The qualification took place on December 31, 2009 between 1:46 pm and 3:06 pm. 73 starters from 19 nations competed for it. The top ten in the overall World Cup were already pre-qualified. In addition to the 18 countries whose athletes had already participated in the opening competition in Oberstdorf , only the Swedes were added, who started two jumpers with Carl Nordin and Isak Grimholm .

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Richard Freitag held the lead in qualifying for a long time

After the training had taken place in fairly stable wind conditions - in contrast to Oberstdorf, the approach was not changed - the qualification round began without any major weather-related breaks. It was opened by six Germans who jumped in the national group, so they were only used because the jumping took place in their home country. The longest attempt of these athletes was shown by Severin Freund , who finally qualified for the final with 117.5 meters in 37th place; likewise his team mate Maximilian Mechler . On the other hand, Felix Schoft was eliminated in the end despite having a tie with the narrowly qualified Poland Krzysztof Miętus , which was due to the fact that Schoft was placed worse than Miętus in the overall World Cup so far.

The first jumper over 120 meters was also a German, Richard Freitag . The German's 123.5 meters were enough for 15th place, so Friday qualified for the top 50 in the World Cup for the second time. As the leader in the meantime, he declared: “It's a nice feeling after a really good jump.” The two Swiss Pascal Egloff and Rémi Français , who complemented the other two-man team Ammann and Küttel, were eliminated. Even Stephan Hocke only reached 110 meters and jumped so too short to move into the final. A quarter of an hour after the competition had started, there was the first interruption of about five minutes at around 2 p.m. due to a strong tail wind. Ten minutes later, there was another, somewhat shorter break before the competition could be completed as planned in the last 45 minutes.

Of the athletes who were placed in the middle of the World Cup and who therefore started in the middle of the qualification, none of them reached Richard Freitag, who was still at the top of the competition. However, there were also a few favorite cancellations; the only athlete who made it into the points in Oberstdorf and who did not qualify in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was the South Korean Kim Hyun-ki . With starting number 41, the German Michael Neumayer was the first to oust his team-mate Friday from the lead, so that there was a German one-two lead in the meantime. This did not last long, however, as the Czech Jakub Janda jumped two meters further than Neumayer with 127.5 meters. Another German, Andreas Wank , who was the best athlete in his country with 126 meters and finished ninth, took advantage of the now good conditions . With regard to the poor German performance at the start of the tour, Wank said: “We made a catch behind Oberstdorf. Now a new story is being written and I can still improve. "The German national coach Werner Schuster was also basically satisfied:" That was a clear sign of life, morale is intact. We are well positioned across the board, but we still lack top performance. "

Before the already pre-qualified top ten of the overall World Cup completed their attempt, the Finn Janne Ahonen , who finished second in Oberstdorf , showed a good jump of 128 meters. Ahonen was the best athlete in the actual qualification. The top ten was opened by Adam Małysz , who jumped half a meter shorter than the Finn, but still took the lead thanks to better posture marks. Of the other starters, three jumped over 130 meters: Thomas Morgenstern with 130.5 meters, Simon Ammann with 134 meters and the tour leader Andreas Kofler with 137.5 meters. Kofler won the qualification ahead of Ammann and Morgenstern, while Gregor Schlierenzauer only reached 126.5 meters, was tenth and said: “I'm not dissatisfied. The jump is not quite right, but not much is missing. It's going tomorrow. My first jump was the best today, maybe I'll skip the trial run tomorrow. ”During the routine material checks after the competition, those in charge discovered that both Kofler's and Ammann's suit did not conform to the rules; both jumpers were then disqualified. As pre-qualified, they were still allowed to start the competition, but they were placed in the last positions for the knockout show jumping. Kofler explained the illegal material as follows: "I tried a few things in the qualification, including a different suit, but unfortunately, according to the measurements, this was too big." but had to play against Kofler in the knockout system of the first round. The second pairing, in which both jumpers were among the best in the World Cup, was Wolfgang Loitzl against Simon Ammann.

Result

The ten leaders of the overall World Cup who were already pre-qualified for jumping are marked with an asterisk * in the list.

First try

The first round of scoring took place on January 1st, 2010 between 2:02 and 2:59 p.m. 50 jumpers from 14 nations competed for this. The start was from hatch 24. A trial run had already taken place in which Andreas Kofler and Martin Koch jumped the furthest with 134 meters each.

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With the exception of the two disqualified Andreas Kofler and Simon Ammann, few strong jumpers were placed in the lower half of the qualification classification. As a result, there were clear favorites in many duels. The largest contingent came from the Germans, eight of whom had qualified for the first round. Austria (seven jumpers) and Finland (six athletes) offered the next largest contingents.

In the first pairing, the Slovene Jernej Damjan , who was seventh at the start, and the young German athlete Pascal Bodmer competed against each other. Bodmer was the worst jumper from the top ten in the qualification, but with a width of 128 meters he beat Damjan and qualified for the second round. The Slovenian also made it into the top 30, as he was one of the five best losers, the so-called " lucky losers ". The Austrian junior world champion Lukas Müller won the third duel against Andreas Küttel from Switzerland with a width of 129 meters and took the lead. Küttel described his attempt at 114.5 meters, which was described in the Swiss media as “completely unsuccessful” and with which he finished 50th and last place in the end: “It's very annoying. I wasn't over-motivated and everything went well. But then I got into an inclined position. I wanted too much in flight, I attacked too hard. ”In the following pairing, the Norwegian Anders Jacobsen clearly set the new record with 136 meters. After the jump, he told Norwegian television that it was a matter of the head; he just had to lower his shoulders and jump. Jacobsen's opponent, the Italian Sebastian Colloredo , also qualified for the finals as a “lucky loser”.

None of the following jumpers reached Jacobsen's distance, almost all athletes landed before the 130-meter mark. As the second athlete in the competition, the Austrian Stefan Thurnbichler reached exactly this distance and defeated his opponent Richard Freitag from Germany. Before the top ten made their jump, there were two team-internal pairings. Michael Neumayer defeated his German team-mate Severin Freund and the Finn Harri Olli triumphed over his four-year-old team-mate Matti Hautamäki . In addition to his compatriot Ahonen, Olli was the only one of the six Finns who made it to the finals. Bjørn Einar Romøren also took second position with 131 meters, but was still five meters and more than ten points behind his teammate Jacobsen.

Wolfgang Loitzl was third after the first round

Most of the athletes who have now started reached a distance between 125 and 130 meters. Andreas Wank, who had achieved a good starting position as ninth in the qualification, also ended up in this range; With 128 meters he was the best German and jumped further than other athletes who had achieved similar results in qualifying. Both the Japanese Daiki Itō and the French Emmanuel Chedal came to 126.5 meters and placed just like Wank in midfield, in the lower half of the ranking. On the other hand, Gregor Schlierenzauer, who was the first favorite to go off the hill and with 136.5 meters, beat Jacobsen by half a meter and by a narrow point, took the lead of the field. Schlierenzauer had only finished ninth in Oberstdorf after a gastrointestinal upset, but he let his doctor treat him after the competition and so overcame the disease, only hoarseness remained. By the end of the round, no athlete came close to Schlierenzauer's record, even though his teammates Wolfgang Loitzl and Andreas Kofler were only just behind the 20-year-old with 135 and 136 meters respectively. Together with Anders Jacobsen, the three Austrians formed the leading quartet after the first round. Behind the four athletes, who are quite close together, Simon Ammann placed fifth, four meters behind Kofler, who was in front of him.

In contrast to the Austrians, who, like in Oberstdorf, brought all seven athletes to the finals, four of the eight Germans were eliminated in the first round. The German coach Werner Schuster said: “We look pretty old at the moment because we don't have anyone who can jump into the top. The established ones like Martin Schmitt are currently jumping far below their potential. ”While Schmitt qualified for the second run, his teammate Michael Uhrmann was eliminated like at the beginning of the first jump and commented:“ At some point I'll jump better again, too if nobody believes me at the moment. "

Result

Second round

The second round of scoring took place on January 1st, 2010 between 3:20 and 4:01 p.m. 30 jumpers from twelve nations competed for this. The start was from hatch 25.

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The Austrians again had the best starting situation before the final of the top 30, with all seven jumpers placed in the top 15 and five in the top eight. The Norwegians had also shown a good team performance, three athletes from the country were classified in the top ten. The only two athletes in the top ten who did not come from either country were Simon Ammann and Janne Ahonen . Despite his tenth place, the Finn was not satisfied with the first attempt: “What a shame about the first round. I couldn't show what I felt inside. There would have been more. ”Before the final, the inrun was extended, from starting hatch 24 to hatch 25. As a result, many athletes achieved a few meters better distances in the second round, Simon Ammann achieved a new hill record with 143.5 meters.

Robert Kranjec , the thirtieth of the first round, opened the final round with a jump of 128 meters. After that, the lead changed frequently, as each jumper took a lead. Martin Schmitt, who landed at 128.5 meters, was in the lead in the meantime and finished 25th in the end, which was an improvement of two places. Schmitt saw in it “at least a small step forward”, it is now important “that the jumps become safer and better”. The first jumper over 130 meters came the Russian Dmitri Wassiljew , who made up four places with 130.5 meters from 23rd place after the first jump. Michael Neumayer achieved two and a half meters more, who finally came seventeenth as the second-best German. The Japanese Noriaki Kasai then took the lead with the same distance, but a margin from the first round . The four following jumpers did not come close to Kasai's width and placed themselves behind him. These athletes also included the last two Germans Pascal Bodmer and Andreas Wank, who ultimately took positions 16 and 20. Bodmer, who was the best German as in the opening competition in Oberstdorf, said: "Those were two passable jumps, but certainly not a top level." With this, the German jumpers missed the top ten for the first time in tour history at their two home competitions , the national coach Werner Schuster called the result "naturally sobering".

The fifteenth of the first lap, the Austrian Martin Koch, took the lead with 132.5 meters ahead of Kasai. Nevertheless, Koch remained second weakest in the Austrian team, although he finally finished twelfth. Before the top ten left the hill, the Pole Adam Małysz took the lead with 132 meters. Małysz commented on his performance as follows: “The jumps were good, I'm doing much better again. But I still miss a little bit, there is still something missing up to the absolute top of the world. But if things continue to improve, then it's a good thing. ”After a short break, Janne Ahonen started as the first of the top ten in the first jump. Ahonen increased significantly from 129.5 meters to 137 meters compared to his first attempt and took the lead. With the sixth place, on which the Finn finished in the end, he still had a chance of a top place in the overall standings. Accordingly, he was satisfied: “The gap between the top jumpers is not that great, luckily. I'm already looking forward to the hill in Bischofshofen, hopefully I can score a lot there. I'm very confident. ”The Norwegian Johan Remen Evensen narrowly missed the record; At 136 meters, however, he was second and stayed in the top ten.

The two Austrians who are now starting, Stefan Thurnbichler and Thomas Morgenstern, did not come close to the record, but ultimately kept their place in the top ten as tenth and ninth. For Thurnbichler, tenth place meant the best World Cup placement in his career to date. This was followed by the Swiss Simon Ammann, who had lost several meters in the first round to the Austrians who were ahead in the overall standings. Ammann managed a jump to 143.5 meters, with which he improved the old hill record of his opponent Gregor Schlierenzauer by 2.5 meters and was clearly in the lead. With such a distance Ammann could no longer set a Telemark and received a clear point deduction. Nevertheless, the Swiss was satisfied: “Simply amazing, that's what I dreamed of. My heart rate was determined to be 180 above. You are not used to such moments, so I opened a little too early to land. It could have gone further. ”Because of the deduction in the posture marks, Ammann had only four points ahead of the leader Gregor Schlierenzauer in the second jump, although he would have had ten points ahead just because of the distance. As a result, despite the hill record, it was not enough for the Swiss to win, behind the two Austrians Schlierenzauer and Wolfgang Loitzl in third place.

Another Austrian, the tour leader Andreas Kofler, was only half a point behind third-placed Ammann. Since Schlierenzauer and Loitzl didn't get a big lead either - they landed at 137.5 and 135 meters respectively - Kofler retained his top position in the overall standings, with 19 points ahead of the new tour second Wolfgang Loitzl. Although Kofler was not satisfied with the competition, he also said: “I don't need to complain, because I'm in good shape.” Gregor Schlierenzauer finally secured the victory, who commented on the triumph: “It was a dream day, so to come back to Oberstdorf and the illness. Thanks to Dr. Lotz. It was very exciting. I noticed that Simi jumped very far. I wanted to make another good jump and I succeeded. My pleasure."

Final score

rank Surname Points Width 1 Width 2 01  Gregor Schlierenzauer 277.7 136.5 m 137.5 m 02  Wolfgang Loitzl 272.5 135.0 m 135.0 m 03  Simon Ammann 272.4 132.0 m 143.5 m 04th  Andreas Kofler 271.9 136.0 m 137.0 m 05  Jacobsen is different 269.5 136.0 m 134.0 m 06th  Janne Ahonen 259.2 129.5 m 137.0 m 07th  Johan Remen Evensen 259.0 129.0 m 136.0 m 08th  Bjørn Einar Romøren 258.4 131.0 m 134.5 m 09  Thomas Morgenstern 255.0 130.0 m 132.5 m 10  Stefan Thurnbichler 254.4 130.0 m 133.0 m 11  Adam Malysz 249.4 128.5 m 132.0 m 12  Martin Koch 248.7 129.0 m 132.5 m 13  Noriaki Kasai 247.0 127.0 m 133.0 m 14th  Jakub Janda 246.4 128.5 m 129.5 m 15th  Harri Olli 244.2 128.0 m 131.0 m

rank Surname Points Width 1 Width 2 16  Pascal Bodmer 243.6 128.0 m 131.5 m 17th  Michael Neumayer 242.1 126.5 m 133.0 m 18th  Emmanuel Chedal 238.3 126.5 m 129.5 m 19th  Dmitri Vasiliev 237.1 126.5 m 130.5 m 20th  Andreas Wank 235.9 128.0 m 127.5 m 21st  Jernej Damjan 235.1 125.5 m 129.0 m 22nd  Lukas Müller 234.9 129.0 m 126.5 m 23  Kamil Stoch 234.1 129.5 m 125.0 m 24  Daiki Itō 232.9 126.5 m 126.5 m 25th  Martin Schmitt 232.4 124.5 m 128.5 m 26th  Sebastian Colloredo 231.8 128.5 m 125.0 m 27  Lukáš Hlava 228.3 125.5 m 125.5 m 28  Peter Prevc 226.4 124.0 m 126.5 m 29  Robert Kranjec 225.0 122.0 m 128.0 m 30th  Roar Ljøkelsøy 216.6 121.5 m 123.0 m

Away from the jump

After there had been a lot of big New Year's Eve celebrations in previous years - especially at the Four Hills Tournament 1999/2000 - and the athletes had slept late, Martin Schmitt said at the turn of the year 2009/10: “New Year's Eve is becoming less important year after year. We are mostly up until midnight, after which we lie down as quickly as possible. The lights are off at half past twelve. ”Gregor Schlierenzauer also stated that although he had rockets with him for New Year's Eve, he didn't want to shoot them down until midnight. His teammate Andreas Kofler added: "We will save the best rockets for the New Year's competition."

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} From the doctor's office to the winner's podium on welt.de. Released January 2, 2010.
2. ↑ Training results on fis-ski.com (PDF; 292 kB)
3. ↑ Leadership duo disqualified on spox.com. Released December 31, 2009.
4. ↑ Eight Germans qualified for the New Year's jump on welt.de. Released December 31, 2009.
5. ↑ ^{a b} ÖSV also at the New Year's competition with a septet on derstandard.at. Released January 1, 2010.
6. ↑ Garmisch: Schlierenzauer strikes back and wins on sportsplanet.at. Released January 1, 2010.
7. ↑ FIS.com: Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Results Qualification (PDF file, English, 281 KB; accessed on December 31, 2009)
8. ↑ Schlierenzauer wins the New Year's competition on nzz.ch. Released January 1, 2010.
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Kofler remains fully on tour on berkutschi.com. Released January 1, 2010.
10. ↑ Jacobsen sviktet da det gjaldt on pub.tv2.no/nettavisen. Released January 1, 2010.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Rauer Hals, New Year, great luck on derstandard.at. Released January 1, 2010.
12. ↑ Schlierenzauer wins New Year's competition on spiegel.de. Released January 1, 2010.
13. ↑ Only Austria is happy on derwesten.de. Released January 1, 2010.
14. ↑ FIS.com: Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Unofficial Results 1st Round (PDF file, English, 271 KB; accessed on January 1, 2010)
15. ↑ ^{a b} At the top are the others on badische-zeitung.de. Released January 2, 2010.
16. ↑ Ammann despite the hill record without a break on sportalplus.com. Released January 1, 2010.
17. ↑ Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Morgenstern wins, Kofler disqualifies on de.eurosport.yahoo.com. Released January 1, 2010.