2005–06 Four Hills Tournament

The 54th edition of the annual Four Hills Tournament was held in the traditional venues: Oberstorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany, and Innsbruck and Bischofshofen in Austria. For the first and only time, the two ski jumpers at the top of the table shared exactly the same number of points after all four events. The competitors in question, Janne Ahonen and Jakub Janda, were both declared tournament winners. For Ahonen, it was the fourth tournament victory, equalizing the record of Jens Weißflog. He would surpass Weißflog and become the lone record holder two years later.

Four Hills Tournament
at the 2005-06 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Bergiselschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationGermany, Austria
Dates28 December 2005 (2005-12-28) – 6 January 2006 (2006-01-06)
Competitors100 from 23 nations
Medalists
gold medal 
bronze medal 
Janne Ahonen
Jakub Janda
Janne Ahonen and Jakub Janda, the joint winners of the 2005-06 Four Hills Tournament.

Format

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At each of the four events, a qualification round would be held. The 50 best jumpers would qualify for the competition. The fifteen athletes leading the World Cup at the time would qualify automatically. In case of an omitted qualification or a result that would normally result in elimination, they would instead qualify as 50th.

Unlike the procedure at normal World Cup events, the 50 qualified athletes would be paired up for the first round of the final event, with the winner qualifying for the second round. The rounds start with the duel between #26 and #25 from the qualification round, followed by #27 vs #24, up to #50 vs #1. The five best duel losers, so-called 'Lucky Losers' also qualify for the second round.

For the tournament ranking, the total points earned from each jump are added together. The World Cup points collected during the four events are disregarded in this ranking.

World Cup Standings

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The events during the Four Hills tournament count as part of the World Cup season. The standings at the time of the tournament, after seven out of twenty-two events, were as follows:[1]

Rank Name Points
01.   Jakub Janda 552
02.   Janne Ahonen 435
03.   Andreas Küttel 430
04.   Michael Uhrmann 367
05.   Andreas Widhölzl 254
06.   Adam Małysz 240
07.   Lars Bystøl 239
08.   Thomas Morgenstern 228
09.   Robert Kranjec 206
10.   Roar Ljøkelsøy 180

Participating nations and athletes

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The number of athletes a nation was allowed to nominate was dependent on previous results. In addition, a "national group" from the host nation is added to each event.

The defending champion was Janne Ahonen. Four other competitors had also previously won the Four Hills tournament: Primož Peterka in 1996-97, Andreas Widhölzl in 1999-00, Adam Małysz in 2000-01 and Sigurd Pettersen in 2003-04.

The following athletes were nominated:

Nation Starting Spots Number of Athletes Athletes
  Germany 6 + 6 13 Michael Uhrmann, Georg Spaeth, Martin Schmitt (until Innsbruck), Michael Neumayer, Alexander Herr, Jörg Ritzerfeld (withdrew in Oberstorf, then replaced), Maximilian Mechler (National Group in Oberstorf, afterwards part of the squad)
National Group: Stephan Hocke, Julian Musiol, Andreas Wank, Erik Simon, Kai Bracht, Mario Kürschner (only Garmisch-Partenkirchen)
  Austria 8 + 8 16 Andreas Widhölzl, Thomas Morgenstern, Andreas Kofler, Wolfgang Loitzl, Martin Koch, Martin Höllwarth, Balthasar Schneider, Stefan Thurnbichler
National Group: Reinhard Schwarzenberger, Manuel Fettner, Stefan Kaiser, Roland Müller, Bastian Kaltenböck, Gerald Wambacher, Mathias Hafele, Artur Pauli
  Belarus 2 2 Maksim Anisimov, Petr Chaadaev
  Bulgaria 2 2 Petar Fartunov, Georgi Zharkov
  Canada 1 1 Stefan Read
  China 2 2 Tian Zhandong, Li Yang
  Czech Republic 4 5 Jakub Janda, Jan Matura, Antonin Hajek, Jan Mazoch (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Ondřej Vaculík (Innsbruck onward)
  Estonia 2 2 Jens Salumäe, Jaan Jüris (Innsbruck onward)
  Finland 7 7 Janne Ahonen, Matti Hautamäki, Janne Happonen, Risto Jussilainen (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen, not replaced), Joonas Ikonen, Tami Kiuru, Harri Olli
  France 3 3 David Lazzaroni, Emmanuel Chedal (Garmisch-Partenkirchen onward), Vincent Descombes (Garmisch-Partenkirchen onward)
  Italy 2 2 Sebastian Colloredo, Andrea Morassi
  Japan 6 6 Takanobu Okabe, Noriaki Kasai, Daiki Itō, Tsuyoshi Ichinohe, Hideharu Miyahira, Hiroki Yamada
  Kazakhstan 2 2 Ivan Karaulov, Nikolay Karpenko
  Norway 6 8 Lars Bystøl, Roar Ljøkelsøy, Daniel Forfang (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Tommy Ingebrigtsen, Bjørn Einar Romøren, Sigurd Pettersen (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Henning Stensrud (Innsbruck onward), Anders Bardal (Innsbruck onward)
  Poland 4 6 Adam Małysz (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Kamil Stoch, Robert Mateja, Marcin Bachleda (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Stefan Hula (Innsbruck onward), Rafał Śliż (Innsbruck onward)
  Russia 4 4 Dimitry Vassiliev, Denis Kornilov, Dimitry Ipatov, Ildar Fatchullin
  Slovakia 1 1 Martin Mesík
  Slovenia 5 6 Robert Kranjec, Primož Peterka, Rok Benkovič, Jernej Damjan (until Innsbruck), Jurij Tepeš, Primož Pikl (only Bischofshofen)
  South Korea 2 3 Choi Heung-chul, Choi Yong-jik (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Kim Hyun-ki (Innsbruck onward)
  Sweden 2 3 Isak Grimholm, Johan Erikson (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Jakob Grimholm (Innsbruck onward)
  Switzerland 4 4 Andreas Küttel, Simon Ammann, Michael Möllinger, Guido Landert (Innsbruck onward)
  Ukraine 1 1 Volodymyr Boschuk (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen)
  United States 1 1 Alan Alborn (only Bischofshofen)

Results

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Oberstorf

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  Schattenbergschanze, Oberstorf
28-29 December 2005

Qualification winner:   Andreas Widhölzl

Rank Name Points
1   Janne Ahonen 270.9
2   Roar Ljøkelsøy 268.4
3   Jakub Janda 262.6
4   Takanobu Okabe 260.8
5   Matti Hautamäki 258.0
6   Andreas Widhölzl 248.1
7   Georg Spaeth 245.3
8   Simon Ammann 244.8
9   Michael Uhrmann 244.4
10   Bjørn Einar Romøren 243.8

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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  Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
31 December 2005 - 1 January 2006

Qualification winner:   Noriaki Kasai

Rank Name Points
1   Jakub Janda 264.7
2   Janne Ahonen 262.2
3   Matti Hautamäki 260.3
4   Andreas Küttel 259.8
5   Roar Ljøkelsøy 249.8
6   Andreas Kofler 248.9
7   Michael Uhrmann 246.6
8   Simon Ammann 242.9
9   Georg Spaeth 240.8
10   Takanobu Okabe 238.6

Innsbruck

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  Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
03-4 January 2006

Qualification winner:   Janne Ahonen

Rank Name Points
1   Lars Bystøl 264.7
2   Jakub Janda 263.2
3   Bjørn Einar Romøren 258.1
4   Thomas Morgenstern 257.6
5   Roar Ljøkelsøy 256.9
6   Janne Ahonen 255.4
7   Andreas Küttel 255.2
8   Takanobu Okabe 253.8
9   Noriaki Kasai 251.7
10   Rok Benkovič 251.4

Bischofshofen

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  Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
05-6 January 2006

Qualification winner:   Janne Ahonen

After three out of four events, World Cup leader Jakub Janda was two points ahead of defending champion Janne Ahonen. With Janda skipping the qualification tournament, and Ahonen winning it, there was a direct duel between the two jumpers at the first round of the final tournament. Janda jumped first, and reached 141.0m, surpassing the leading Ljøkelsøy by four meters. Ahonen then reached the same distance, but lost the duel due to worse Judges Marks by one point. As the best duel loser, he still qualified for the second and final round in second place.

Ahonen reached 141.5 meters in his second attempt, earning 146.7 points. With Janda then reaching 'only' 139.0 meters in the tournament's final jump (still the second-furthest jump of the second round), earning 143.7 points, Ahonen surpassed him in the Bischofshofen ranking and equalized in the tournament ranking - both having scored exactly 1081.5 points over the four events.

Rank Name Points
1   Janne Ahonen 293.0
2   Jakub Janda 291.0
3   Roar Ljøkelsøy 282.0
4   Andreas Küttel 277.7
5   Bjørn Einar Romøren 265.8
6   Takanobu Okabe 264.6
7   Alexander Herr 262.0
8   Thomas Morgenstern 257.6
9   Andreas Widhölzl 256.6
10   Andreas Kofler 255.9

Final ranking

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Rank Name Oberstorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Points
1   Janne Ahonen 1st 2nd 6th 1st 1,081.5
  Jakub Janda 3rd 1st 2nd 2nd 1,081.5
3   Roar Ljøkelsøy 2nd 5th 5th 3rd 1,057.1
4   Andreas Küttel 20th 4th 7th 4th 1,022.9
5   Matti Hautamäki 5th 3rd 15th 15th 1,018.0
6   Takanobu Okabe 4th 10th 8th 6th 1,017.8
7   Bjørn Einar Romøren 10th 16th 3rd 5th 997.9
8   Andreas Kofler 15th 6th 11th 10th 992.8
9   Noriaki Kasai 13th 12th 9th 11th 981.5
10   Georg Spaeth 7th 9th 13th 22nd 976.7

Lars Bystøl, who won the Innsbruck event, placed only 20th or above in the other three competitions and placed 16th in the final ranking.

References

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  1. ^ ""e.on ruhrgas" FIS World Cup Ski-Jumping 2005/2006 World Cup Standings" (PDF). FIS. 2005.
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