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1968–69 Four Hills Tournament

In 1969, Norwegian Bjørn Wirkola became the first person to win the Four Hills Tournament three times in a row. He was the fifth athlete to win the first three events, but yet again the 'Grand Slam' was denied, this time by Wirkola's closest rival Jiří Raška. It was a disappointing tournament for the two host nations with the best athlete from either being Reinhold Bachler, finishing 11th overall.

Four Hills Tournament
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationGermany, Austria
Dates29 December 1968 (1968-12-29) – 5 January 1969 (1969-01-05)
Competitors76 from 14 nations
Medalists
gold medal Norway Bjørn Wirkola
silver medal Czechoslovakia Jiří Raška
bronze medal Czechoslovakia Zbyněk Hubač
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Participating nations and athletes

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For the first time in seven years, no non-European nations participated. The national groups of Germany and Austria only competed at the two events in their respective countries.

Nation Number of Athletes Athletes
  Germany 5 (+5) Franz Bisle, Günther Göllner, Walter Lampe, Henrik Ohlmayr, Oswald Schinze
National Group: Alfred Grosche, Friedhelm Klapproth, Ralph Pöhland, Sepp Schwinghammer, Alfred Winkler
  Austria 11 (+3) Reinhold Bachler, Helmut Diess, Max Golser, Albert Haim, Ernst Kröll, Sepp Lichtenegger, Franz Salhofer, Willi Schuster, Erich Schwabl, Walter Schwabl, Janko Zwitter
National Group: Heinz Jölly, Franz Kuchlbacher, Ernst Wimmer
  Czechoslovakia 7 Ladislav Divila, Rudolf Höhnl, Zbyněk Hubač, Karel Kodejška, Jan Matouš, Jiří Raška, František Rydval
  East Germany 7 Bernd Karwofski, Horst Queck, Manfred Queck, Heinz Schmidt, Rainer Schmidt, Wilfried Schüller, Clemens Walter
  Finland 3 Keijo Leiho, Topi Mattila, Juhani Ruotsalainen
  France 4 Jannie Arnould, Nicolas Gaide, Alain Macle, Gilbert Poirot
  Hungary 3 László Gellér, Mihály Gellér, János Taffener
  Italy 3 Giacomo Aimoni, Albino Bazana, Mario Ceccon
  Norway 3 Lars Grini, Knut Kongsgård, Jan Olaf Roaldset, Bent Tomtum, Bjørn Wirkola
  Poland 2 Andrej Sztolf, Ryszard Witke
  Soviet Union 5 Vladimir Belousov, Aleksandr Ivannikov, Gariy Napalkov, Wiezeslav Zerbakov, Anatoliy Zheglanov
  Sweden 3 Torbjörn Hedberg, Thord Karlsson, Olle Martinsson
  Switzerland 4 Richard Pfiffner, Hans Schmid, Heribert Schmid, Urs Schönl, Sepp Zehnder
  Yugoslavia 6 Vinko Bogataj, Branko Dolhar, Janez Jurman, Marjan Mesec, Peter Štefančič, Ludvik Zajc

Results

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Oberstdorf

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  Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
29 December 1968[1]

Rank Name Points
1   Bjørn Wirkola 218.7
2   Jiří Raška 215.7
3   Josef Matouš 210.5
4   Heinz Schmidt 210.1
5   Manfred Queck 209.9
6   Rudolf Höhnl 205.4
7   Ladislav Divila 199.9
8   Vladimir Belousov 199.7
9   Reinhold Bachler 199.3
  Ludvik Zajc 199.3

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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  Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1 January 1969[2]

Rank Name Points
1   Bjørn Wirkola 241.2
2   Anatoliy Zheglanov 235.4
3   František Rydval 233.8
4   Vladimir Belousov 233.6
5   Heinz Schmidt 232.3
6   Zbyněk Hubač 228.4
7   Ladislav Divila 226.5
8   Gariy Napalkov 222.1
9   Horst Queck 221.8
10   Lars Grini 221.2

Innsbruck

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  Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
4 December 1969[3]

Rank Name Points
1   Bjørn Wirkola 236.3
2   Jiří Raška 235.5
3   Anatoliy Zheglanov 225.9
4   Lars Grini 222.6
5   Zbyněk Hubač 219.9
6   Rudolf Höhnl 214.1
7   František Rydval 212.4
8   Horst Queck 212.2
9   Gariy Napalkov 210.8
10   Heinz Schmidt 209.7

Bischofshofen

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  Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
5 January 1969[4]

Rank Name Points
1   Jiří Raška 234.7
2   Bjørn Wirkola 228.3
3   Lars Grini 222.6
4   Anatoliy Zheglanov 219.2
5   Zbyněk Hubač 218.8
6   Wiezeslav Zerbakov 211.4
7   Ladislav Divila 211.0
8   František Rydval 209.9
9   Vladimir Belousov 208.1
10   Bent Tomtum 207.0

Final ranking

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Rank Name Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Points
1   Bjørn Wirkola 1st 1st 1st 2nd 924.5
2   Jiří Raška 2nd 21st 2nd 1st 900.5
3   Zbyněk Hubač 11th 6th 5th 5th 866.0
4   Anatoliy Zheglanov 23rd 2nd 3rd 4th 862.0
5   František Rydval 14th 3rd 7th 8th 848.2
6   Vladimir Belousov 8th 4th 19th 9th 839.3
7   Rudolf Höhnl 6th 15th 6th 14th 838.3
8   Heinz Schmidt 4th 5th 10th 30th 830.8
9   Lars Grini 59th 10th 4th 3rd 812.5
10   Ladislav Divila 7th 7th 41st 7th 810.8

References

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