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
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:
in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen: Choi Seou ; in Oberstdorf and Innsbruck: Choi Heung-chul ; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck: Kim Hyun-ki
GermanyErdinger 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.
GermanyGroße 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.
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):
AustriaBergiselschanze (HS130)
The qualification for the third competition in Innsbruck took place on January 2nd, 2016. The competition took place on January 3, 2016.
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):
AustriaPaul-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.
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.