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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.

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 Bulgaria 1 Ivan Sandov
 Canada 4 Rick Gulyas, Ulf Kvendbo, Zdenek Mezl, Peter Wilson
Czechoslovakia 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 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 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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Austria 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 Japan Yukio Kasaya 245.2
2 East Germany Rainer Schmidt 235.5
3 Finland Tauno Käyhkö 229.9
4 East Germany Henry Glaß 225.4
5 Soviet Union Yury Kalinin 224.6
6 East Germany Heinz Wosipiwo 223.7
7 Japan Takashi Fujisawa 222.7
8 Soviet Union Gariy Napalkov 222.4
9 East Germany Heinz Schmidt 220.0
Soviet Union Anatoliy Zheglanov 220.0

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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

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

Oberstdorf

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Germany Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
2 January 1972[3]

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

Bischofshofen

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Austria 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 Norway Bjørn Wirkola 233.6
2 Czechoslovakia Jiří Raška 233.0
3 Czechoslovakia Zbynek Hubac 229.5
4 Norway Ingolf Mork 229.0
5 Austria Reinhold Bachler 228.8
6 East Germany Hans-Georg Aschenbach 226.1
7 Soviet Union Koba Zakadze 225.7
Switzerland Walter Steiner 225.7
9 East Germany Henry Glaß 225.0
10 Czechoslovakia Rudolf Höhnl 224.9

Final ranking

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