Four Hills Tournament 2015/16

64th Four Hills Tournament
winner
Tour winner	Peter Prevc
Oberstdorf	Severin friend
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Peter Prevc
innsbruck	Peter Prevc
Bischofshofen	Peter Prevc
Attendees
Nations	18th
athlete	82
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The 64th Four Hills Tournament 2015/16 was a series of ski jumping competitions . It took place as part of the Ski Jumping World Cup 2015/16 between December 28, 2015 and January 6, 2016 and was organized by the FIS . The defending champion was the Austrian Stefan Kraft . As every year, the competition venues were the ski jumps in Oberstdorf , Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Innsbruck and Bischofshofen . As with all World Cup competitions, there were also World Cup points for the four stages of the tour. Overall winner was the Slovene Peter Prevc ahead of Severin Freund and Michael Hayböck . Prevc was the first overall winner since the Four Hills Tournament 2008/09 who is not an Austrian who had previously won the tour seven times in a row. It was Slovenia's second overall victory after the success of Primož Peterka on the 1996/97 tour .

Apron

Before the Four Hills Tournament, seven individual competitions were completed in the World Cup. The season began at the end of November 2015 in Klingenthal, Germany .

Overall World Cup before the Four Hills Tournament

rank	Surname	Points
01.	Peter Prevc	564
02.	Severin friend	399
03.	Kenneth Gangnes	370
04th	Johann André Forfang	284
05.	Daniel-André Tande	266
06th	Michael Hayboeck	257
07th	Richard Friday	215
08th.	Domen Prevc	211
09.	Stefan Kraft	189
10.	Andreas Stjernen	168

Nominee athletes

The number of athletes that the nations are allowed to start depends on the results previously achieved in the World Cup, Grand Prix and Continental Cup. In addition, the host nations Germany (in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen) and Austria (in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen) will send a national group of six athletes each to the start. A total of 82 athletes from 18 nations were nominated:

nation	number	Athletes
Germany	13	Richard Freitag , Severin Freund , Karl Geiger , Stephan Leyhe , Michael Neumayer , Andreas Wank , Andreas Wellinger ; in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen: Markus Eisenbichler , Tim Fuchs , Marinus Kraus , Pius Paschke , David Siegel , Paul Winter
Austria	12	Manuel Fettner , Michael Hayböck , Stefan Kraft (defending champion), Manuel Poppinger ; in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck: Gregor Schlierenzauer ; in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen: Clemens Aigner , Florian Altenburger , Philipp Aschenwald , Andreas Kofler , Markus Schiffner , Elias Tollinger ; in Bischofshofen: Thomas Diethart
Bulgaria	01	Vladimir Sografski
Estonia	01	Martti Nõmme
Finland	04th	Ville Larinto ; in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen: Lauri Asikainen , Harri Olli ; in Bischofshofen: Andreas Alamommo
France	02	Vincent Descombes Sevoie , Ronan Lamy Chappuis
Italy	01	in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen: Sebastian Colloredo
Japan	06th	Daiki Itō , Noriaki Kasai , Junshirō Kobayashi , Kento Sakuyama , Taku Takeuchi , Shōhei Tochimoto
Canada	01	MacKenzie Boyd-Clowes
Kazakhstan	02	Marat Schaparov , Radik Schaparov
Norway	08th	Anders Fannemel , Johann André Forfang , Kenneth Gangnes , Joachim Hauer , Andreas Stjernen , Daniel-André Tande ; in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen: Halvor Egner Granerud ; in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen: Tom Hilde
Poland	07th	Stefan Hula , Maciej Kot , Kamil Stoch ; in Oberstdorf: Piotr Żyła ; in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen: Klemens Murańka ; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen: Dawid Kubacki ; in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen: Andrzej Stękała
Russia	04th	Vladislav Bojarinzew , Ilmir Chasetdinow , Yevgeny Klimov , Denis Kornilow
Switzerland	04th	Simon Ammann , Gregor Deschwanden ; in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck: Killian Peier ; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck: Luca Egloff
Slovenia	07th	Tilen Bartol , Robert Kranjec , Anže Lanišek , Domen Prevc , Peter Prevc , Anže Semenič , Jurij Tepeš
South Korea	03	in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen: Choi Seou ; in Oberstdorf and Innsbruck: Choi Heung-chul ; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck: Kim Hyun-ki
Czech Republic	04th	Lukáš Hlava , Jakub Janda , Roman Koudelka , Jan Matura
United States	02	Nicholas Alexander , Michael Glasder

Venues

Oberstdorf

Erdinger Arena (Große Schattenbergschanze, HS 137)
The qualification for the opening competition of the 64th Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf took place on December 28, 2015. A complete power failure in the community during the official training before the qualification caused an incident. After more than an hour, the training round was finally continued, but the planned second training round was canceled due to a delay and the qualification started slightly late.

The competition took place on December 29, 2015.

rank Surname Points Width 1 Width 2 01  Severin friend 307.2 126.0 m 137.5 m 02  Michael Hayboeck 304.2 130.0 m 139.0 m 03  Peter Prevc 299.9 129.5 m 130.0 m 04th  Not so with Fannemel 295.8 130.5 m 129.0 m 05  Noriaki Kasai 290.6 127.0 m 133.5 m 06th  Kenneth Gangnes 288.6 129.0 m 135.5 m 07th  Stefan Kraft 287.7 130.0 m 127.5 m 08th  Johann André Forfang 278.8 121.5 m 127.0 m 09  Richard Friday 276.5 121.0 m 130.0 m 10  Daniel-André Tande 273.9 133.0 m 119.0 m 11  Joachim Hauer 269.8 127.0 m 126.5 m 12  Simon Ammann 267.3 123.5 m 127.0 m 13  Andreas Wank 264.5 120.5 m 130.5 m 14th  Stephan Leyhe 263.5 118.5 m 129.0 m 15th  Andreas Wellinger 261.0 118.5 m 130.0 m

rank Surname Points Width 1 Width 2 16  Anže Lanišek 254.3 122.5 m 120.0 m 17th  Vincent Descombes Sevoie 251.4 117.0 m 124.5 m 18th  Taku Takeuchi 250.1 119.5 m 119.0 m 19th  Michael Neumayer 249.5 123.0 m 123.0 m 20th  Andreas Stjernen 248.2 114.0 m 124.5 m  Manuel Fettner 248.2 117.5 m 126.5 m 22nd  Jakub Janda 247.7 120.5 m 121.5 m 23  Kamil Stoch 247.2 121.0 m 123.5 m 24  Roman Koudelka 246.3 122.5 m 121.5 m  Daiki Itō 246.3 120.5 m 113.5 m 26th  Karl Geiger 238.6 119.0 m 120.0 m 27  Domen Prevc 233.1 121.5 m 108.5 m 28  Yevgeny Klimov 231.6 117.5 m 113.5 m 29  Pius Paschke 231.5 112.5 m 118.0 m 30th  Robert Kranjec 225.7 114.0 m 120.0 m

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Große Olympiaschanze (HS140)
The qualification for the second competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the so-called New Year’s competition , took place on December 31, 2015. The competition took place on January 1st, 2016.

rank Surname Points Width 1 Width 2 01  Peter Prevc 272.7 133.5 m 136.0 m 02  Kenneth Gangnes 260.1 132.0 m 134.0 m 03  Severin friend 256.8 133.5 m 132.5 m 04th  Johann André Forfang 250.8 128.0 m 133.5 m 05  Michael Hayboeck 247.3 131.0 m 132.0 m 06th  Richard Friday 243.6 130.0 m 127.5 m 07th  Not so with Fannemel 241.5 132.5 m 126.0 m 08th  Roman Koudelka 241.0 129.0 m 128.0 m 09  Stefan Kraft 238.6 128.5 m 127.5 m 10  Daiki Itō 234.0 130.0 m 125.0 m 11  Andreas Wank 231.8 126.5 m 126.0 m 12  Noriaki Kasai 231.0 126.5 m 125.0 m 13  Simon Ammann 227.3 127.5 m 125.5 m 14th  Andreas Wellinger 226.4 123.5 m 130.0 m 15th  Andreas Stjernen 226.1 125.0 m 127.5 m

rank Surname Points Width 1 Width 2 16  David Siegel 222.5 128.5 m 121.0 m 17th  Stephan Leyhe 221.8 126.5 m 120.5 m 18th  Domen Prevc 220.2 122.0 m 126.0 m 19th  Vincent Descombes Sevoie 219.5 124.5 m 122.0 m  Kamil Stoch 219.5 125.0 m 122.5 m 21st  Gregor Schlierenzauer 218.0 124.5 m 123.5 m 22nd  Manuel Fettner 217.0 123.5 m 123.0 m 23  Anže Lanišek 215.0 122.5 m 124.0 m 24  Stefan Hula 213.5 125.0 m 122.0 m 25th  Lukáš Hlava 212.1 123.0 m 122.0 m 26th  Kento Sakuyama 206.1 122.0 m 122.5 m 27  Jakub Janda 205.9 121.0 m 121.0 m 28  Jan high school diploma 204.7 114.0 m 123.5 m 29  Michael Neumayer 204.6 120.0 m 118.0 m 30th  Daniel-André Tande 193.5 118.5 m 115.5 m

Tour intermediate result

Taking into account the results of Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the following intermediate result was obtained in the overall tour ranking (the ten best jumpers are listed):

rank	Surname	Points
01.	Peter Prevc	572.6
02.	Severin friend	564.0
03.	Michael Hayboeck	551.5
04th	Kenneth Gangnes	548.7
05.	Not so with Fannemel	537.3
06th	Johann André Forfang	529.6
07th	Stefan Kraft	526.3
08th.	Noriaki Kasai	521.6
09.	Richard Friday	520.1
10.	Andreas Wank	496.3

innsbruck

Bergiselschanze (HS130)
The qualification for the third competition in Innsbruck took place on January 2nd, 2016. The competition took place on January 3, 2016.

rank Surname Points Width 1 Width 2 01  Peter Prevc 269.5 125.0 m 132.0 m 02  Severin friend 258.4 122.5 m 128.0 m 03  Kenneth Gangnes 251.5 126.5 m 124.0 m 04th  Johann André Forfang 249.7 122.0 m 124.0 m 05  Michael Hayboeck 247.5 119.0 m 123.5 m 06th  Andreas Wellinger 239.5 122.5 m 120.0 m 07th  Noriaki Kasai 236.8 124.5 m 119.5 m 08th  Daiki Itō 235.8 120.0 m 121.0 m 09  Andreas Wank 235.4 120.0 m 122.5 m 10  Richard Friday 233.3 117.5 m 123.0 m 11  Stefan Kraft 231.9 117.0 m 123.5 m 12  Not so with Fannemel 231.8 120.0 m 118.5 m 13  Roman Koudelka 231.3 116.0 m 124.0 m 14th  Vincent Descombes Sevoie 230.9 122.5 m 118.0 m 15th  Jan high school diploma 226.6 117.5 m 120.0 m

rank Surname Points Width 1 Width 2 16  Kamil Stoch 226.1 118.5 m 120.5 m 17th  Tom Hilde 226.0 123.0 m 116.5 m 18th  Taku Takeuchi 225.7 118.0 m 120.5 m 19th  Andreas Stjernen 225.6 120.5 m 117.0 m 20th  Lukáš Hlava 224.7 119.0 m 120.5 m 21st  Stephan Leyhe 223.7 117.5 m 119.5 m 22nd  Simon Ammann 220.6 123.5 m 117.5 m 23  Domen Prevc 220.1 111.0 m 121.5 m 24  Dawid Kubacki 219.3 118.5 m 118.0 m 25th  Joachim Hauer 219.1 119.5 m 114.5 m 26th  Manuel Fettner 216.3 120.5 m 113.0 m 27  Stefan Hula 213.8 114.5 m 118.0 m 28  Ronan Lamy Chappuis 208.8 117.5 m 113.5 m 29  Clemens Aigner 204.0 112.5 m 116.5 m 30th  Kento Sakuyama 199.9 115.0 m 110.5 m

Tour intermediate result

Taking into account the results of Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck, the following intermediate result was obtained in the overall tour ranking (the ten best jumpers are listed):

rank	Surname	Points
01.	Peter Prevc	842.1
02.	Severin friend	822.4
03.	Kenneth Gangnes	800.2
04th	Michael Hayboeck	799.0
05.	Johann André Forfang	779.3
06th	Not so with Fannemel	769.1
07th	Noriaki Kasai	758.4
08th.	Stefan Kraft	758.2
09.	Richard Friday	753.4
10.	Andreas Wank	731.7

Bischofshofen

Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze (HS140)
The qualification for the final, fourth competition in Bischofshofen, traditionally also called Dreikönigsspringen , took place on January 5th, 2016. The competition took place on January 6, 2016. Peter Prevc was also able to win in Bischofshofen and thus fix the overall victory.

rank Surname Points Width 1 Width 2 01  Peter Prevc 297.3 139.0 m 142.5 m 02  Severin friend 290.5 136.0 m 141.0 m 03  Michael Hayboeck 282.6 134.0 m 139.0 m 04th  Stefan Kraft 278.0 136.0 m 138.0 m 05  Kenneth Gangnes 273.3 131.5 m 137.0 m 06th  Domen Prevc 265.1 132.0 m 135.5 m 07th  Johann André Forfang 256.2 135.5 m 129.5 m 08th  Simon Ammann 255.7 136.0 m 132.0 m 09  Noriaki Kasai 254.8 129.0 m 131.0 m 10  Daiki Itō 251.2 130.5 m 130.0 m 11  Richard Friday 248.0 129.0 m 129.5 m 12  Jakub Janda 247.1 126.0 m 134.5 m 13  Andreas Stjernen 245.2 128.0 m 128.0 m 14th  Roman Koudelka 244.5 127.0 m 127.5 m 15th  Andreas Wellinger 243.4 124.5 m 129.0 m

rank Surname Points Width 1 Width 2 16  Vincent Descombes Sevoie 242.7 125.5 m 132.0 m  Andreas Wank 242.7 126.0 m 128.0 m 18th  Not so with Fannemel 241.0 125.5 m 131.0 m 19th  Joachim Hauer 239.9 130.0 m 125.5 m 20th  Anže Lanišek 239.0 124.0 m 129.0 m 21st  Daniel-André Tande 237.0 127.0 m 124.0 m 22nd  Jurij Tepeš 231.8 126.0 m 125.5 m 23  Manuel Fettner 231.6 123.0 m 127.0 m 24  Stefan Hula 231.0 124.5 m 127.0 m 25th  Jan high school diploma 229.9 123.0 m 126.0 m 26th  Andreas Kofler 229.2 125.0 m 126.0 m 27  Manuel Poppinger 227.1 120.0 m 126.5 m 28  Maciej Kot 223.4 123.5 m 123.0 m 29  Philipp Aschenwald 222.9 122.0 m 123.0 m 30th  Andrzej Stękała 210.6 119.0 m 122.0 m

Tour final score

Peter Prevc (2014)

Overall ranking of the 64th Four Hills Tournament

After all four jumps, the points of the jumpers from all four jumps were added. The jumper with the highest number of points was the overall winner of the tour.

rank Surname Points 01.  Peter Prevc 1139.4 02.  Severin friend 1112.9 03.  Michael Hayboeck 1081.6 04th  Kenneth Gangnes 1073.5 05.  Stefan Kraft 1036.2 06th  Johann André Forfang 1035.5 07th  Noriaki Kasai 1013.2 08th.  Not so with Fannemel 1010.1 09.  Richard Friday 1001.4 10.  Andreas Wank 0974.4 11.  Simon Ammann 0970.9 12.  Andreas Wellinger 0970.3 13.  Daiki Itō 0967.3 14th  Roman Koudelka 0963.1 15th  Andreas Stjernen 0945.1 16.  Vincent Descombes Sevoie 0944.5 17th  Domen Prevc 0938.5 18th  Manuel Fettner 0913.1 19th  Joachim Hauer 0825.3 20th  Stephan Leyhe 0807.4 21st  Jakub Janda 0806.0 22nd  Anže Lanišek 0801.3 23.  Kamil Stoch 0800.3 24.  Daniel-André Tande 0793.5 25th  Stefan Hula 0766.4 26th  Taku Takeuchi 0680.1 27.  Jan high school diploma 0661.2 28.  Michael Neumayer 0656.2 29  Lukáš Hlava 0649.6 30th  Kento Sakuyama 0622.5 31.  Karl Geiger 0549.4 32.  Maciej Kot 0541.1 33.  Gregor Schlierenzauer 0439.4 34.  Manuel Poppinger 0438.9

rank Surname Points 35.  Dawid Kubacki 0421.4 36.  Ronan Lamy Chappuis 0415.5 37.  Shōhei Tochimoto 0400.0 38.  Denis Kornilov 0391.5 39.  Pius Paschke 0331.8 40.  Tom Hilde 0329.3 41.  Yevgeny Klimov 0326.4 42.  Robert Kranjec 0323.9 43.  Clemens Aigner 0304.6 44.  Jurij Tepeš 0299.2 45.  Ville Larinto 0294.9 46.  Vladimir Sografski 0277.7 47.  Gregor Deschwanden 0275.3 48.  Andreas Kofler 0229.2 49.  Philipp Aschenwald 0222.9 50.  David Siegel 0222.5 51.  Andrzej Stękała 0210.6 52.  Marinus Kraus 0204.7 53.  Elias Tollinger 0203.5 54.  Junshirō Kobayashi 0203.4 55.  Halvor Egner Granerud 0200.8 56.  MacKenzie Boyd-Clowes 0200.6  Ilmir Khasetdinov 0200.6 58.  Florian Altenburger 0198.5 59.  Markus Schiffner 0197.9 60.  Tilen Bartol 0179.3 61.  Nicholas Alexander 0112.2 62.  Sebastian Colloredo 0110.7 63.  Markus Eisenbichler 0108.2 64.  Piotr Żyła 0100.1 65.  Killian Peier 0096.6 66.  Luca Egloff 0093.4 67.  Michael Glasder 0086.8 68.  Anže Semenič 0063.5

Overall World Cup after the Four Hills Tournament

rank	Surname	Points
01.	Peter Prevc	924
02.	Severin friend	719
03.	Kenneth Gangnes	595
04th	Michael Hayboeck	487
05.	Johann André Forfang	452
06th	Richard Friday	334
07th	Stefan Kraft	328
08th.	Daniel-André Tande	303
09.	Noriaki Kasai	278
10.	Domen Prevc	276

Web links

• Announcement of the Four Hills Tournament 2015/2016
• Official website
• Current news and general information about the Four Hills Tournament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Start list of the qualification in Oberstdorf. (PDF; 208 kB) December 27, 2015, accessed on December 31, 2015 (English). 
2. ↑ Start list of the qualification in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. (PDF; 213 kB) December 30, 2015, accessed on December 31, 2015 (English). 
3. ↑ Start list for the qualification in Innsbruck. (PDF; 210 kB) January 1, 2016, accessed on January 2, 2016 (English). 
4. ↑ Start list of the qualification in Bischofshofen. (PDF; 207 kB) January 5, 2016, accessed January 5, 2016 (English). 
5. ↑ Four Hills Tournament: Training in Oberstdorf interrupted due to power failure. In: Spiegel Online. December 28, 2015, accessed December 30, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Results of the jumping in Oberstdorf ( memento of the original from January 6, 2016 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. , Vierschanzentournee.com, January 6, 2016 
7. ↑ Results of the jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 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. , Vierschanzentournee.com, January 6, 2016 
8. ↑ Results of the jump in Innsbruck ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 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. , Vierschanzentournee.com, January 6, 2016 
9. ↑ Results of the jumping in Bischofshofen ( memento of the original from January 6, 2016 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. , Vierschanzentournee.com, January 6, 2016