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1978–79 Four Hills Tournament

The 27th annual Four Hills Tournament was won by Finnish athlete Pentti Kokkonen after two Third place finishes and two victories. No competitor had the necessary constancy over the course of the tournament. Yury Ivanov, the winner of Oberstdorf, only placed 56th (85.2 pts) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Josef Samek's Garmisch victory was followed by a 38th place (169.1 pts) in Innsbruck.

Four Hills Tournament
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationWest Germany, Austria
Dates30 December 1978 (1978-12-30) – 6 January 1979 (1979-01-06)
Competitors84 from 17 nations
Medalists
gold medal Finland Pentti Kokkonen
silver medal Switzerland Hansjörg Sumi
bronze medal East Germany Jochen Danneberg

Participating nations and athletes

Spain was represented at the Four Hills Tournament for the first time.

NationNumber of AthletesAthletes
 West Germany11Hans-Jürgen Eschrich, Thomas Klauser, Dirk Kramer, Peter Leitner, Thomas Prosser, Christoph Schwarz, Hubert Schwarz, Peter Schwinghammer, Frank Sternkopf, Georg Waldvogel, Hermann Weinbuch
 Austria12Fritz Esser, Edi Federer, Alfred Groyer, Heinz Koch, Armin Kogler, Alfred Lengauer, Alois Lipburger, Hans Millonig, Hubert Neuper, Willi Pürstl, Klaus Tuchscherer, Rudolf Wanner
Czechoslovakia4Ivo Felix, Josef Samek, Leoš Škoda, Ján Tánczos
 East Germany8Matthias Buse, Jochen Danneberg, Manfred Deckert, Bernd Eckstein, Harald Duschek, Klaus Ostwald, Martin Weber, Falko Weißpflog
 Finland7Tauno Käyhkö, Pentti Kokkonen, Keijo Korhonen, Jari Puikkonen, Tapio Räisänen, Jouko Törmänen, Kari Ylianttila
 France4Patric Dubiez, Philippe Jacoberger, Bernard Moullier, Thierry Sauvanet
 Hungary4László Fischer, Robert Fogarasi, Gábor Gellér, Zoltán Kelemen
 Italy2Lido Tomasi, Ivano Wegher
Japan3Yūji Kawamura, Sakae Tsuruga, Hirokazu Yagi
 Norway4Per Bergerud, Ulf Jørgensen, Roger Ruud, Johan Sætre
 Poland3Stanisław Bobak, Piotr Fijas, Stanisław Pawlusiak
Soviet Union7Aleksey Borovitin, Vladimir Chernyaev, Yury Ivanov, Sergej Muchin, Valery Savin, Sergey Saychik, Vladimir Vlasov
Spain1Tomás Cano
 Sweden2Christer Karlsson, Seppo Reijonen
 Switzerland5Paul Egloff, Robert Mösching, Harald Reichenbach, Mario Rinaldi, Hansjörg Sumi
 United States2Jim Denney, Kip Sundgaard
 Yugoslavia5Zdravko Bogataj, Andrej Kaizer, Marko Mlakar, Bogdan Norčič, Miran Tepeš

Results

Oberstdorf

Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
30 December 1978[1]

RankNamePoints
1 Yury Ivanov235.4
2 Jochen Danneberg234.5
3 Pentti Kokkonen232.4
4 Klaus Tuchscherer224.4
5 Ján Tánczos222.8
6 Harald Duschek222.6
7 Willi Pürstl221.6
8 Hansjörg Sumi220.2
9 Leoš Škoda217.7
10 Jari Puikkonen216.3

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
2 January 1979[2]

RankNamePoints
1 Josef Samek120.5
2 Bogdan Norčič117.6
3 Pentti Kokkonen114.4
4 Harald Duschek113.2
5 Matthias Buse112.5
6 Ján Tánczos111.5
7 Hansjörg Sumi111.2
8 Jim Denney110.3
9 Jochen Danneberg110.1
10 Stanisław Bobak109.4

Innsbruck

Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
4 January 1979[3]

RankNamePoints
1 Pentti Kokkonen231.3
2 Roger Ruud224.6
3 Jochen Danneberg218.8
4 Harald Duschek216.0
5 Hansjörg Sumi215.4
6 Manfred Deckert213.3
7 Klaus Tuchscherer213.2
8 Johan Sætre212.3
9 Martin Weber212.2
10 Klaus Ostwald211.3

Bischofshofen

Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
6 January 1979[4]

RankNamePoints
1 Pentti Kokkonen237.5
2 Johan Sætre236.9
3 Piotr Fijas236.0
4 Hansjörg Sumi235.8
5 Jouko Törmänen221.2
6 Martin Weber219.1
7 Leoš Škoda217.8
8 Jochen Danneberg217.4
9 Tapio Räisänen213.7
10 Harald Duschek213.6

Final ranking

RankNameOberstdorfGarmisch-PartenkirchenInnsbruckBischofshofenPoints
1 Pentti Kokkonen3rd3rd1st1st815.6
2 Hansjörg Sumi8th7th5th4th782.6
3 Jochen Danneberg2nd9th3rd8th780.8
4 Harald Duschek6th4th4th10th765.4
5 Johan Sætre11th20th8th2nd765.3
6 Leoš Škoda9th11th13th7th748.3
7 Klaus Tuchscherer4th23rd7th15th748.1
8 Matthias Buse16th5th11th15th741.9
9 Martin Weber27th13th9th6th739.5
10 Piotr Fijas38th17th12th3rd737.2

References

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