Four Hills Tournament 2009/10 / Oberstdorf

Andreas Kofler led after the first round and later won the jumping

The start of the Four Hills Tournament 2009/10 took place on the Schattenbergschanze , just like it had been since the first event in 1953 in Oberstdorf . A cold snap in mid-December also ensured the snow supply, so that those responsible finally gave the green light for jumping on December 16.

The Austrians showed the strongest team performance both in training and in competition. After a quadruple success in qualification and a triple lead after the first round, Andreas Kofler , an athlete from the Alpine region , finally won . Second was the Finn Janne Ahonen , who only made his comeback in the World Cup at the beginning of the season and improved by nine places thanks to a good second attempt in the final. With Thomas Morgenstern and Wolfgang Loitzl, other Austrians followed in third and fourth . Surprisingly, the two tour favorites Simon Ammann and Gregor Schlierenzauer did not jump for victory and only finished fifth and ninth. From the disappointing German team, 18-year-old Pascal Bodmer was the best in twelfth place.

Hill data

The Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf (2006)

The competition took place on December 29th, 2009 on the Schattenbergschanze, which had a size of 137 meters, a calculation point of 120 meters, a landing inclination at the K-point of 35.50 °, a tower height of 43 meters, an inrun length of 93 meters and has a total length to the start of the run of 238 meters. The current hill record holder at the time of the competition was the Norwegian Sigurd Pettersen , who reached a distance of 143.5 meters on December 29, 2003.

training

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The longest jump in the first training round was made by Swiss overall World Cup leader Simon Ammann, who landed at 134 meters. The second-farthest jumped the Pole Adam Małysz with 131.5 meters. He was followed by Andreas Kofler, Wolfgang Loitzl and Janne Ahonen, who all three achieved a width of 131 meters. From a German perspective, Michael Neumayer was particularly convincing; he jumped 129 meters. The run-up was shortened for the last eight jumpers, while the athletes had previously started from hatches 18 and 17, the best of the overall World Cup jumped from hatch 15.

After a mediocre first jump of 123 meters - the second shortest distance for an Austrian - fellow favorite Gregor Schlierenzauer showed the best performance in the second and last training jump. Although the run-up length was changed several times and the favorites started a little lower than the previous athletes, Schlierenzauer jumped 135 meters and set the day's record. With a little more run-up, the Finn Harri Olli had landed as second best at 133 meters. Simon Ammann made the fourth longest jump with 130.5 meters, Pascal Bodmer was the best German in fifth with 129.5 meters.

qualification

The qualification took place on December 28, 2008 between 4:31 pm and 5:31 pm. 63 starters from 18 nations competed for it. The top ten in the overall World Cup were already pre-qualified.

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The qualification round, which the German Richard Freitag opened, began without any major wind problems. Friday landed at 118.5 meters, a distance that was finally enough for a place in the top 50 and thus for qualification. Exactly ten meters further, the first Austrian Stefan Thurnbichler jumped with the number 9. Since the competition jury had laid out the wind corridor wide before jumping, the athletes sometimes had to start in very different wind conditions. The athletes who jumped early benefited from better conditions. Thurnbichler, for example, kept the lead for a long time before Andreas Küttel from Switzerland, who started 40th, improved his best distance by 1.5 meters. In the meantime, several other - normally good - jumpers were eliminated, for example the Finn Janne Happonen , who only reached 109.5 meters.

The two Germans Martin Schmitt and Andreas Wank showed good jumps and qualified as did the Austrian Martin Koch. Küttel's top distance only held six jumps, then it was exceeded by the Norwegian Anders Jacobsen . Jacobsen jumped 134 meters, received good posture marks and finally won the qualification with ten points ahead of Andreas Küttel. In contrast, the Russian Dmitri Wassiljew , fifth on last year's tour, and the Pole Kamil Stoch missed the final. Both had the disadvantage of poor wind conditions. The last athletes who had to qualify for the competition in Oberstdorf were Janne Ahonen, Michael Uhrmann and Adam Małysz. All three jumpers made it into the finals, although Ahonen and Uhrmann did not make it into the top 30.

Before the last ten, whose qualifications had already been secured, completed their jumps, the racing jury decided to shorten the run-up by two hatches. This should prevent jumps that exceed the construction point too far in the difficult wind conditions . These ten jumpers were placed in their own ranking, which was placed before the ranking of the remaining participants. Pascal Bodmer managed a jump to 122.5 meters; because of the shortened approach, this was enough for eighth place - even before Anders Jacobsen, who had landed more than ten meters further. The best attempts were shown by the Austrians, of whom Thomas Morgenstern jumped the furthest with 127.5 meters. Gregor Schlierenzauer achieved the same result, but due to slightly poorer posture marks, he finished second ahead of his compatriots Wolfgang Loitzl and Andreas Kofler. While Schlierenzauer did not feel in the best shape - he had a gastrointestinal upset - qualifying winner Morgenstern was satisfied. The third, Wolfgang Loitzl, said of the Austrians' fourfold victory: “That’s an announcement for tomorrow. We want to try to land so close together again. "

On the other hand, Simon Ammann, one of the best from the training jumps, decided not to qualify and justified it as follows: “It's better for me not to be so busy. I feel good on the hill, I am well prepared, and therefore I don't necessarily need this third jump of the qualification. ”Although the Swiss was also prequalified, he did not take tenth place in the overall ranking of the qualification, but was the last one Rankings listed. Therefore, it was clear that he had to compete in the knockout system of the first round against the winner of the qualification, Thomas Morgenstern. With regard to this duel, which the media dubbed a “great pairing”, the Austrian said: “I'm looking forward to it. I'm good at jumping in a package with the Simi and the Schlieri. If we both make good jumps, we are both further. "

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 judging took place on December 29, 2009 between 4:33 pm and 5:53 pm. 50 jumpers from 15 nations competed for this. The start was from hatch 23. A trial run had already taken place beforehand, during which the inrun length was adjusted to the constantly rotating winds seven times. The German Andreas Wank set the longest jump there at 131 meters, of the favorites Andreas Kofler was the best with 123.5 meters.

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Wolfgang Loitzl , third after the first round

In the qualification, several athletes belonging to the top twenty in the World Cup started in bad wind conditions and thus did not make it into the first half of the classification. Therefore, in the knockout mode of the first round, some athletes who had jumped at roughly the same level in the previous season met each other. These included Shōhei Tochimoto and Anders Jacobsen or Robert Kranjec and Andreas Wank, who each jumped against each other for the finals. Due to Ammann's decision not to take part in the qualification jump, the Swiss competed against the winner Thomas Morgenstern.

For the first round, all Germans as well as the entire Austrian squad qualified. With seven jumpers each, these nations made up the largest contingent, followed by six Norwegians and five Finns. The competition started under bad weather conditions, rain and changing winds. The tenth pairing was the duel between Martin Koch and Martin Schmitt. Both the Austrian and the German achieved distances of 104 and 96 meters, which would not even have been sufficient for qualification the day before. Previously, the Pole Adam Małysz had already criticized the run-up as “not optimal” after jumping 116 meters - more than ten meters shorter than his attempt in the trial run. The jury reacted and decided to restart, all 20 athletes who had jumped so far were given a new attempt after a long run. However, in order to avoid a longer break from competition, these athletes only completed their jump at the end of the round, after all other participants had finished.

Although the start was postponed four hatches upwards, the widths of the now following jumpers did not come close to those of the previous day. The Slovenian Robert Kranjec was the first to start with an extended run-up and landed at 115 meters. With that he won his duel against the German Andreas Wank and kept the lead until the top ten athletes jumped. Before they did their attempt, it was initially two Germans' turn. However, both Richard Freitag and Michael Uhrmann failed because of their opponents Stefan Thurnbichler (Austria) and Andreas Küttel (Switzerland). Uhrmann, who finished last in the overall standings with 93.5 meters, said after his jump: "The tour is over for me, I can make a hook behind." Immediately after this duel between Kuettel and Uhrmann, Shōhei Tochimoto fell the bond had broken upon landing. The Japanese did not injure himself in the fall.

The favored Norwegian Bjørn Einar Romøren surprisingly lost against the Czech Martin Cikl . Both jumped equally far, but Cikl received the slightly better posture marks. In the following pairing, Pascal Bodmer from Germany took over the lead from Robert Kranjec with 118.5 meters. On the other hand, the next favorite was eliminated in the next duel with the French Emmanuel Chedal , he was defeated in a direct comparison by Cikl's farmer Lukáš Hlava . With that, all four Czechs - besides Hlava and Cikl also Janda and Jan Matura - had qualified for the second round.

An Austrian was involved in each of the last four pairings of the day. Andreas Kofler started as the first jumper of the team, who improved Bodmer's best distance by 6.5 meters and took the lead. His compatriots Loitzl, Schlierenzauer and Morgenstern did not change anything, neither did the Swiss Simon Ammann. While Morgenstern and Loitzl finished second and third and still had a chance to win, each about one point behind, Ammann and Schlierenzauer fell back to seventh and ninth, more than ten points behind. The Austrian triple lead remained in place when the athletes who jumped at the beginning made their second attempt. Of these jumpers, Jernej Damjan from Slovenia was the best, he scored 121.5 meters and came fourth. Right behind him, Martin Koch, the fourth Austrian, was among the top five. In addition, Michael Neumayer was eliminated in the match against Janne Ahonen, while Martin Schmitt qualified as a "lucky loser" and the only German alongside Pascal Bodmer for the final round.

Result

Second round

The second round of scoring took place on December 29, 2009 between 6:09 pm and 6:45 pm. 30 jumpers from eleven nations competed for this. The start was from hatch 25.

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All seven were Austrians among the 30 athletes who had qualified for the final. Six of them were among the top ten in the first round. The second largest contenders were the Czechs and the Finns, each with four athletes. All athletes from the Czech Republic who had even started in the qualification were among the best 30. A special feature was Kim Hyun-ki's participation in the final. The South Korean, who progressed as a "lucky loser", only reached the final of a Four Hills Tournament as the third jumper in his country.

Andreas Küttel from Switzerland opened the final round, which the media had already called the “big ÖSV flight show” in advance because of the triple Austrian leadership. This jumped 113.5 meters when the inrun was extended again and exceeded its distance from the first run by more than ten meters. But since other jumpers also improved significantly, Küttel's attempt was only enough for 28th place in the overall ranking. Behind him were only the South Korean Kim - who won World Cup points for the first time in 29th place - and the Finn Matti Hautamäki , who only managed 99 meters in poor wind conditions. The first Austrian, Stefan Thurnbichler, reached 115 meters and took the lead, which he had to hand over to Harri Olli only two jumpers later .

Since in the second round every jumper had a lead over all those who started before him, the lead changed frequently in the final. None of the first 15 athletes jumped more than 120 meters, not even Martin Schmitt, who dropped to 23rd place with 108 meters. Despite similarly bad conditions as the athletes who started before him, Noriaki Kasai reached 123 meters and initially took the lead. After two Japanese had led the competition in the meantime - Daiki Itō had lined up just behind his compatriot Kasai - 17-year-old Lukas Müller from Austria took the lead with 127 meters. The Finn Janne Ahonen, who jumped directly after the junior world champion, was even stronger and only landed at 136 meters. Both Müller and Ahonen benefited from the sudden loss of the tail wind that prevented other jumpers from larger distances.

After a short commercial break for television, which regularly interrupts the competition in front of the ten best athletes, there was again a tailwind. Neither Adam Małysz nor Gregor Schlierenzauer or Pascal Bodmer had a chance to displace the leaders. Schlierenzauer, who still had stomach problems, fell back to ninth place and still declared: “I'm not giving up on the tour win. But it's important to me to get really fit and that I don't drag anything away. ”Pascal Bodmer, who jumped as the last German, finished twelfth behind Schlierenzauer. He barely prevented the worst start of a German team's tour, in 1986 the best German Wolfgang Steiert only finished 13th. The German head coach Werner Schuster said after the competition that it was “definitely the worst possible start”. Bodmer wasn't completely satisfied either: “Of course my jumps weren't that bad. But you can only be really satisfied with a win. "

In conditions that continued to be worse than those that Ahonen and Müller exploited, Simon Ammann managed to jump to 125 meters. This put him in second place. Johan Remen Evensen and Martin Koch, on the other hand, did not pose a threat to the three leaders, Ahonen, Ammann and Müller. The Norwegian and Austrian ended up tied for tenth place. Jernej Damjan also fell behind the trio at the top, but he still came in seventh and achieved his best result of the season to date. The three Austrians at the top completed the competition. Neither Wolfgang Loitzl nor Thomas Morgenstern displaced Ahonen from the top position, but they each came second. Morgenstern, who was third in the end, said after jumping: “It's a fantastic feeling to be on the podium again. This third place naturally gives me a lot of self-confidence for the next competitions. ”Morgenstern said he hadn't set himself the goal of overall victory, unlike defending champion Wolfgang Loitzl, who said about his remaining chances:“ I'm not spoiled by top placings this year. But there were two good jumps, I'm happy with the placement. Nothing is lost yet. "

The last starter who could prevent Ahonen's victory was Andreas Kofler, who jumped the furthest in the first round. Kofler took a lead of about eight meters on the Finn. With 134 meters, the second longest attempt of the whole day, the Austrian was significantly better than Ahonen in the overall standings and won by almost twelve points. With these two jumps, Kofler also ensured a large lead of around 30 and even 36 points over the two favorites Simon Ammann and Gregor Schlierenzauer. After the competition, the winner said: “This is fantastic. I did a good competition with two very good jumps, and I'm very happy about that. I know I am good at ski jumping and I hope it continues like it does today. I'll take it easy, then you'll see what comes out of it. ”Ahonen also figured out chances of winning overall:“ Maybe I can win the tour for the sixth time. Second place is an incredible feeling, I am surprised myself. But that shows that anything is possible. "

Final score

rank Surname Points Width 1 Width 2 01  Andreas Kofler 265.2 125.0 m 134.0 m 02  Janne Ahonen 253.3 116.5 m 137.0 m 03  Thomas Morgenstern 250.3 124.5 m 126.5 m 04th  Wolfgang Loitzl 245.4 124.0 m 124.0 m 05  Simon Ammann 236.6 119.5 m 125.0 m 06th  Lukas Müller 232.9 116.0 m 127.0 m 07th  Jernej Damjan 230.9 121.5 m 121.5 m 08th  Adam Malysz 229.7 117.5 m 124.0 m 09  Gregor Schlierenzauer 228.8 118.0 m 123.0 m 10  Johan Remen Evensen 227.5 120.0 m 120.0 m 10  Martin Koch 227.5 121.5 m 121.0 m 12  Pascal Bodmer 226.9 118.5 m 122.0 m 13  Noriaki Kasai 221.3 115.5 m 123.0 m 14th  Daiki Itō 218.3 115.5 m 120.5 m 15th  Lukáš Hlava 204.2 113.0 m 116.0 m

rank Surname Points Width 1 Width 2 16  Robert Kranjec 203.3 115.0 m 113.5 m 17th  Harri Olli 202.8 111.0 m 117.5 m 18th  Mitja Mežnar 202.7 115.0 m 114.0 m 19th  Roar Ljøkelsøy 201.6 112.0 m 115.0 m 20th  Jan high school diploma 197.1 110.5 m 114.0 m 21st  Sebastian Colloredo 194.5 115.0 m 110.0 m 22nd  Stefan Thurnbichler 192.8 108.5 m 115.0 m 23  Martin Schmitt 190.8 115.5 m 108.0 m 24  Jacobsen is different 190.3 111.0 m 112.5 m 25th  Kalle Keituri 186.2 113.5 m 105.5 m 26th  Jakub Janda 184.1 106.0 m 113.5 m 27  Martin Cikl 182.8 108.0 m 110.5 m 28  Andreas Kuettel 179.2 103.0 m 113.5 m 29  Kim Hyun-ki 176.1 113.5 m 101.0 m 30th  Matti Hautamäki 164.6 113.0 m 099.0 m

Away from the jump

Before the start of the tour, the ski jumper Sven Hannawald , who had retired four years earlier , announced that he would start as a racing driver in the ADAC GT Masters series from April 2010 . In addition, the German, who was the first athlete to win all four touring competitions in 2001/02, acted as stadium announcer at the opening competition. In addition to Hannawald, his compatriots Dieter Thoma and Jens Weißflog were also ZDF experts in Oberstdorf, and Olympic champions Toni Nieminen and Espen Bredesen commented on Norwegian television.

On December 27th, one day before the qualification, the Finnish tour winner Janne Ahonen presented the German edition of his biography Königsadler . The book, which was published in Finnish in the summer, had caused a stir in the media, as Ahonen had written, for example, about excessive alcohol and starvation diets in ski jumping. In other respects, too, the public interest was particularly directed at the Finnish World Cup returnee, who was shown as an advertising medium on the cover of the official tour booklet.

Web links

Training results on fis-ski.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ All eagles on derstandard.at. Released December 28, 2009.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} 29.12.2009: 4 ST - Oberstdorf: Kofler wins the first competition on sportsplanet.at. Released December 29, 2009.
3. ↑ Morgenstern in a knockout duel against Ammann on kurier.at. Released December 28, 2009.
4. ↑ FIS.com: Oberstdorf - Results Qualification (PDF file, English, 281 KB; accessed on December 28, 2009)
5. ↑ Under the spell of the tailwinds ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sueddeutsche.de. Released December 29, 2009. 
6. ↑ Andreas Kofler wins on zeit.de in Oberstdorf . Released December 29, 2009.
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Kofler wins in Oberstdorf on oe24.at. Released December 29, 2009.
8. ↑ FIS.com: Oberstdorf - Unofficial Results 1 ^st Round (PDF file, English, 271 KB; accessed on December 29, 2009)
9. ↑ Kofler after Oberstdorf victory: "Everything is really possible" on diepresse.com. Released December 30, 2009.
10. ↑ Kofler wins in Oberstdorf, Bodmer twelfth on handelsblatt.com. Released December 29, 2009.
11. ↑ The "exceptional talent" is back on n-tv.de. Released December 30, 2009.
12. ↑ Sven Hannawald becomes a racing driver on spox.com. Released December 28, 2009.
13. ↑ Königsadler on sportsignale.de. Released December 24, 2009.
14. ↑ Der Königsadler  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on stuttgarter-zeitung.de. Released December 31, 2009.