Four Hills Tournament 2009/10 / Innsbruck
The third competition of the Four Hills Tournament 2009/10 was held in Innsbruck on the Bergiselschanze .
Hill data
The competition took place on January 3rd, 2010 on 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 a total length to the start of the run of 316 meters. The current hill record holder is the German Sven Hannawald , who reached a distance of 134.5 meters on January 4th, 2004; Adam Małysz from Poland holds the existing mat record with 136.0 meters (set on September 11, 2004).
Training and postponing qualifications
The first training round was characterized by bad wind conditions. After two jumpers from the Austrian national group had started from starting hatch 15, the inrun was initially shortened by two hatches. Shortly before the top ten of the overall World Cup completed their attempt, the Austrian Martin Koch reached a distance of 135 meters and jumped half a meter further than the previous hill record holder Sven Hannawald, who had landed at 134.5 meters. Koch's mark was only considered an unofficial hill record, as it was not set up in the actual competition. Immediately after the Austrian jumped, the jury shortened the run-up again, this time to starting hatch 11. The athletes who were now starting did not come close to Koch's distance with a slower run-up speed. Thomas Morgenstern was the best of the favorites with 121.5 meters. While overall World Cup leader Simon Ammann only finished 22nd with 114.5 meters, the winners of the first two tour competitions, Andreas Kofler and Gregor Schlierenzauer , did not jump. Both came from Innsbruck and knew Bergiselschanze particularly well as a home hill.
The wind conditions deteriorated further after the first training jump, so that the second attempt and the qualification were ultimately canceled. Race director Walter Hofer justified the rejection as follows: “The gusts got stronger and stronger, safety was not guaranteed.” Thomas Morgenstern explained that he would have liked to jump, but also said that it would be better to cancel the competition before jumping in adverse conditions perform. Since the external conditions on the day of the competition should be better according to the weather forecast, the qualification was postponed to January 3rd. The first round should take place immediately afterwards, but it should not be played in knockout mode. Instead, the jury resorted to the World Cup system, in which the athletes started according to the qualification order and the 30 best jumpers qualified for the final.
qualification
The qualification took place on January 3, 2009 between 12:00 and 13:09. 75 starters from 19 nations competed for it. The top ten in the overall World Cup were already pre-qualified.
course
Due to the postponement of the qualification from Friday to Saturday, the program was pushed to the actual day of the competition. The qualification began at twelve o'clock, half an hour after the end of the first round at 1:45 p.m., which was not carried out in the usual knockout system. The last time these short-term changes were made at the Four Hills Tournament 2007/08 , when the competition in Innsbruck was completely canceled.
Since the competition took place in Austria, the alpine country was allowed to nominate six other athletes for jumping in Innsbruck in addition to the seven athletes in the national team. In an internal team elimination at the end of December, Mario Innauer and Manuel Fettner prevailed. Previously Been Michael Hayböck , Markus Eggenhofer , Andreas Strolz and David Unterberger been selected.
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