1971–72 Four Hills Tournament

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For the 20th edition of the Four Hills Tournament, the FIS deviated from the traditional order of events and started the tour in Innsbruck. The overall winner was Norwegian Ingolf Mork. In the previous year, Mork won three out of four events while only placing second overall.

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Before the tournament started, the Japanese team already announced that they would only participate in the first three events before returning to Japan in order to prepare for the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo five weeks later. This decision ended up taking the tournee victory from Yukio Kasaya, who won all three events he participated in, and had a lead of 50.4 points to Mork. He would have been the first non-European tour winner. The preparation paid off: The Japanese took all three medals at the Olympic Normal hill event, Kasaya winning Gold.

Four Hills Tournament
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Venues Schattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
Location Germany, Austria
Dates29 December 1971 (1971-12-29) – 6 January 1972 (1972-01-06)
Competitors100 from 17 nations
Medalists
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  1970–71
1972–73  

Participating nations and athletes

A Bulgarian jumper competed for the first time. The Japanese team did not sign up for the final event in Bischofshofen.

NationNumber of AthletesAthletes
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 11 Klaus Boll, Peter Dubb, Günther Göllner, Alfred Grosche, Franz Keller, Walter Lampe, Ralph Pöhland, Sepp Schwinghammer, Alfred Winkler, Ernst Wursthorn, Bernd Zapf
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 8 Reinhold Bachler, Max Golser, Ernst Kröll, Hans Millonig, Franz Salhofer, Karl Schnabl, Walter Schwabl, Rudolf Wanner
Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg Bulgaria 1 Ivan Sandov
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 4 Rick Gulyas, Ulf Kvendbo, Zdenek Mezl, Peter Wilson
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechoslovakia 9 Bohumil Doležal, Rudolf Höhnl, Zbynek Hubac, Karel Kodejška, Jaromír Liďák, Josef Matouš, Jiří Raška, František Rydval, Leoš Škoda
Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 8 Dietmar Aschenbach, Hans-Georg Aschenbach, Henry Glaß, Christian Kiehl, Heinz Schmidt, Rainer Schmidt, Manfred Wolf, Heinz Wosipiwo
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 4 Tauno Käyhkö, Esko Rautionaho, Jouko Törmänen, Kari Ylianttila
Flag of France.svg  France 4 Jacques Gaillard, Alain Macle, Gilbert Poirot, Yvan Richard
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 3 László Gellér, Mihály Gellér, Antal Zámbó
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 4 Albino Bazana, Mario Ceccon, Gelindo Fogliaresi, Bruno Patti
Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Japan 7 Seiji Aochi, Takashi Fujisawa, Hiroshi Itagaki, Yukio Kasaya, Akitsugu Konno, Mineyuki Mashiko, Hisayoshi Sawada
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 8 Jo Inge Bjørnebye, Lars Grini, Ingolf Mork, Odd Hammernes, Frithjof Prydz, Petter Skarseth, Bent Tomtum, Bjørn Wirkola
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 6 Wojciech Fortuna, Stanisław Gąsienica Daniel, Slawomir Kardas, Adam Krzysztofiak, Tadeusz Pawlusiak, Ryszard Witke
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union 7 Aleksandr Ivannikov, Yury Kalinin, Gariy Napalkov, Vladimir Terichev, Sergey Yanin, Koba Zakadze, Anatoliy Zheglanov
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 4 Tommy Eriksson, Eilerth Mähler, Andreas Lundquist, Rolf Nordgren
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 5 Eric Aubert, Hans Schmid, Walter Steiner, Ernst von Grünigen, Josef Zehnder
Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg  Yugoslavia 7 Marjan Mesec, Bogdan Norčič, Marian Prelovšek, Danilo Pudgar, Drago Pudgar, Peter Štefančič, Ludvik Zajc

Results

Innsbruck

Flag of Austria.svg Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
29 December 1971 [1]

Yukio Kasaya, who was in dominating form in the winter of 1971/72, became the first Non-European to win an event at the Four Hills Tournament. The Czechoslovak and Norwegian teams disappointed with modest results for several tournament favourites, among them title holder Jiří Raška (12th), Ingolf Mork (22nd) and three-time competition winner Bjørn Wirkola (44th).

RankNamePoints
1 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Yukio Kasaya 245.2
2 Flag of East Germany.svg Rainer Schmidt 235.5
3 Flag of Finland.svg Tauno Käyhkö 229.9
4 Flag of East Germany.svg Henry Glaß 225.4
5 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Yury Kalinin 224.6
6 Flag of East Germany.svg Heinz Wosipiwo 223.7
7 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Takashi Fujisawa 222.7
8 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Gariy Napalkov 222.4
9 Flag of East Germany.svg Heinz Schmidt 220.0
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Anatoliy Zheglanov 220.0

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Flag of Germany.svg Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1 January 1972 [2]

RankNamePoints
1 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Yukio Kasaya 242.9
2 Flag of Finland.svg Tauno Käyhkö 229.2
3 Flag of Norway.svg Ingolf Mork 227.5
4 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Takashi Fujisawa 222.5
Flag of East Germany.svg Heinz Wosipiwo 222.5
6 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Seiji Aochi 222.2
7 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Hiroshi Itagaki 221.4
8 Flag of Norway.svg Bjørn Wirkola 218.6
Flag of East Germany.svg Henry Glaß 218.6
10 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Anatoliy Zheglanov 218.3

Oberstdorf

Flag of Germany.svg Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
2 January 1972 [3]

RankNamePoints
1 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Yukio Kasaya 247.9
2 Flag of Norway.svg Ingolf Mork 246.5
3 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Hans Schmid 235.4
4 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Yury Kalinin 233.6
5 Flag of Finland.svg Esko Rautionaho 232.0
6 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Hiroshi Itagaki 231.3
7 Flag of East Germany.svg Rainer Schmidt 229.7
8 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Gariy Napalkov 228.3
9 Flag of Germany.svg Günther Göllner 226.8
10 Flag of East Germany.svg Hans-Georg Aschenbach 226.5

Bischofshofen

Flag of Austria.svg Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
6 January 1972 [4]

Not taking Kasaya into account, who would not compete at Bischofshofen, the leading field was close together. Mork, who was leading Käyhkö with a margin of 1.2 points, saw his closest competitors struggle: Käyhkö (31st), R. Schmidt (56th), Kalinin (21st).

Veteran Zakadze finished in the Top Ten, precisely sixteen years after his first victory at a Four Hills event.

RankNamePoints
1 Flag of Norway.svg Bjørn Wirkola 233.6
2 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Jiří Raška 233.0
3 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Zbynek Hubac 229.5
4 Flag of Norway.svg Ingolf Mork 229.0
5 Flag of Austria.svg Reinhold Bachler 228.8
6 Flag of East Germany.svg Hans-Georg Aschenbach 226.1
7 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Koba Zakadze 225.7
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Walter Steiner 225.7
9 Flag of East Germany.svg Henry Glaß 225.0
10 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Rudolf Höhnl 224.9

Final ranking

RankNameInnsbruckGarmisch-PartenkirchenOberstdorfBischofshofenPoints
1 Flag of Norway.svg Ingolf Mork 22nd3rd2nd4th914.6
2 Flag of East Germany.svg Henry Glaß 4th9th13th9th893.6
3 Flag of Finland.svg Tauno Käyhkö 3rd2nd12th31st892.3
4 Flag of East Germany.svg Heinz Wosipiwo 6th4th22nd11th888.8
5 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Yury Kalinin 5th16th4th21st886.4
6 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Jiří Raška 12th32nd25th2nd877.0
7 Flag of East Germany.svg Hans-Georg Aschenbach 35th18th10th6th872.0
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Koba Zakadze 19th13th20th7th872.0
9 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Gariy Napalkov 8th26th8th32nd869.8
10 Flag of Norway.svg Bjørn Wirkola 44th8th27th1st869.3

References

  1. "Innsbruck (AUT)". FIS.
  2. "Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER)". FIS.
  3. "Oberstdorf (GER)". FIS.
  4. "Bischofshofen (AUT)". FIS.