1971–72 Four Hills Tournament


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.

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
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationGermany, Austria
Dates29 December 1971 (1971-12-29) – 6 January 1972 (1972-01-06)
Competitors100 from 17 nations
Medalists
gold medal 
silver medal 
bronze medal 

Participating nations and athletes

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

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

Results

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Innsbruck

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  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 Czechoslovakian 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).

Rank Name Points
1   Yukio Kasaya 245.2
2   Rainer Schmidt 235.5
3   Tauno Käyhkö 229.9
4   Henry Glaß 225.4
5   Yury Kalinin 224.6
6   Heinz Wosipiwo 223.7
7   Takashi Fujisawa 222.7
8   Gariy Napalkov 222.4
9   Heinz Schmidt 220.0
  Anatoliy Zheglanov 220.0

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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  Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1 January 1972[2]

Rank Name Points
1   Yukio Kasaya 242.9
2   Tauno Käyhkö 229.2
3   Ingolf Mork 227.5
4   Takashi Fujisawa 222.5
  Heinz Wosipiwo 222.5
6   Seiji Aochi 222.2
7   Hiroshi Itagaki 221.4
8   Bjørn Wirkola 218.6
  Henry Glaß 218.6
10   Anatoliy Zheglanov 218.3

Oberstdorf

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  Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
2 January 1972[3]

Rank Name Points
1   Yukio Kasaya 247.9
2   Ingolf Mork 246.5
3   Hans Schmid 235.4
4   Yury Kalinin 233.6
5   Esko Rautionaho 232.0
6   Hiroshi Itagaki 231.3
7   Rainer Schmidt 229.7
8   Gariy Napalkov 228.3
9   Günther Göllner 226.8
10   Hans-Georg Aschenbach 226.5

Bischofshofen

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  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.

Rank Name Points
1   Bjørn Wirkola 233.6
2   Jiří Raška 233.0
3   Zbynek Hubac 229.5
4   Ingolf Mork 229.0
5   Reinhold Bachler 228.8
6   Hans-Georg Aschenbach 226.1
7   Koba Zakadze 225.7
  Walter Steiner 225.7
9   Henry Glaß 225.0
10   Rudolf Höhnl 224.9

Final ranking

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Rank Name Innsbruck Garmisch-Partenkirchen Oberstdorf Bischofshofen Points
1   Ingolf Mork 22nd 3rd 2nd 4th 914.6
2   Henry Glaß 4th 9th 13th 9th 893.6
3   Tauno Käyhkö 3rd 2nd 12th 31st 892.3
4   Heinz Wosipiwo 6th 4th 22nd 11th 888.8
5   Yury Kalinin 5th 16th 4th 21st 886.4
6   Jiří Raška 12th 32nd 25th 2nd 877.0
7   Hans-Georg Aschenbach 35th 18th 10th 6th 872.0
  Koba Zakadze 19th 13th 20th 7th 872.0
9   Gariy Napalkov 8th 26th 8th 32nd 869.8
10   Bjørn Wirkola 44th 8th 27th 1st 869.3

References

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