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Four Hills Tournament
Venues Schattenbergschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Bergiselschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
Location Germany, Austria
Dates30 December 1960 (1960-12-30) – 8 January 1961 (1961-01-08)
Competitors75 from 12 nations
Medalists
gold medal 
silver medal 
bronze medal 
←  1959-60
1961-62 →

After the political scandal one year prior, no national flags were used at the ninth edition of the ninth annual Four Hills Tournament in Germany and Austria, only those of the host country and the hosting ski club. [1]

East German athlete Helmut Recknagel won the tournament for a record third time after his absence the previous year.

Participating nations and athletes

With the return of the East block nations, the 1960-61 tournament saw a record number of 12 participating nations.

Nation Number of Athletes Athletes
  Germany 18 Hermann Anwander, Arthur Bodenmüller, Max Bolkart, Rudi Duffke, Alois Haberstock, Wolfgang Happle, Otto Herz, Lothar Heyer, Heini Ihle, Helmut Kurz, Edi Lengg, Siegbert Mönch, Josef Pichler, Georg Thoma, Helmut Wegscheider, Hias Winkler, Hubert Witting, Axel Zerlaut
  Austria 18 Alfred Brunner, Willi Egger, Max Golser, Walter Habersatter, Ernst Kopp, Willi Köstinger, Ernst Kröll, Georg Lackner, Otto Leodolter, Sepp Lichtenegger, Heinz Moser, Horst Moser, Peter Müller, Georg Niederhammer, Alwin Plank, Baldur Preiml, Walter Steinegger, Ferdl Wallner
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 3 Drahomír Jebavý, Dalibor Motejlek, Jaromír Novlud
  Finland 3 Veikko Kankkonen, Juhani Kärkkäinen, Kalevi Kärkkäinen
  France 2 Phil Devouassoux, Robert Rey
  East Germany 9 Veit Kührt, Peter Lesser, Werner Lesser, Günter Oettel, Günther Pollmer, Helmut Recknagel, Kurt Schramm, Wolfgang Schüller, Willi Wirth
  Italy 4 Giacomo Aimoni, Bruno De Zordo, Dino De Zordo, Nilo Zandanell
  Norway 3 Gunnar Lie, Ole Tom Nord, Olaf Solli
Soviet Union Soviet Union 5 V. Ivannikov, Nikolay Kamenskiy, Nikolai Schamov, Koba Zakadze, Yuri Zubarev
  Sweden 3 Harry Bergquist, Gösta Nordin, Kjell Sjöberg
  Switzerland 3 Toni Cecchinato, Ueli Scheidegger, Peter Wenger
  Yugoslavia 4 Peter Eržen, Miro Oman, Marjan Pečar, Jože Šlibar

Results

Oberstdorf

Germany Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
30 December 1960 [2]

Rank Name Points
1 Finland Juhani Kärkkäinen 227.0
2 Sweden Kjell Sjöberg 223.0
3 Finland Kalevi Kärkkäinen 220.0
Austria Otto Leodolter 220.0
5 Soviet Union Koba Zakadze 218.0
6 East Germany Helmut Recknagel 217.0
7 East Germany Veit Kührt 215.0
8 Soviet Union Nikolai Schamov 213.5
9 Austria Walter Habersatter 212.5
10 Norway Ole Tom Nord 211.0

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Germany Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1 January 1961 [3]

Rank Name Points
1 Soviet Union Koba Zakadze 220.5
2 East Germany Helmut Recknagel 218.0
3 Italy Nilo Zandanell 217.0
4 Austria Otto Leodolter 215.0
5 Soviet Union Nikolay Kamenskiy 214.0
6 Sweden Kjell Sjöberg 213.5
7 Finland Juhani Kärkkäinen 213.0
8 Soviet Union Yuri Zubarev 212.0
9 Soviet Union Nikolai Schamov 209.5
East Germany Kurt Schramm 209.5

Innsbruck

Austria Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
6 January 1961 [4]

Rank Name Points
1 Finland Kalevi Kärkkäinen 218.5
2 East Germany Helmut Recknagel 217.6
3 Austria Otto Leodolter 213.4
4 Norway Olaf Solli 212.2
5 Finland Veikko Kankkonen 211.6
6 Germany Wolfgang Happle 211.0
7 Soviet Union Nikolay Kamenskiy 210.4
8 Germany Helmut Wegscheider 209.2
9 Austria Alwin Plank 207.7
10 Sweden Kjell Sjöberg 207.0

Bischofshofen

Austria Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
8 January 1961 [5]

In the overall lead already, Helmut Recknagel won the Bischofshofen event and thus the tournament.

Rank Name Points
1 East Germany Helmut Recknagel 229.1
2 Austria Otto Leodolter 225.6
3 Finland Kalevi Kärkkäinen 221.1
4 Soviet Union Nikolai Schamov 219.3
5 Germany Wolfgang Happle 212.8
6 Norway Olaf Solli 211.8
7 Italy Nilo Zandanell 210.0
8 East Germany Kurt Schramm 209.7
9 Italy Dino De Zordo 208.7
10 Soviet Union Koba Zakadze 207.7

Final ranking

Rank Name Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Points
1 East Germany Helmut Recknagel 6th 2nd 2nd 1st 881.7
2 Austria Otto Leodolter 3rd 4th 3rd 2nd 874.0
3 Finland Kalevi Kärkkäinen 3rd 22nd 1st 3rd 862.1
4 Soviet Union Koba Zakadze 5th 1st 11th 10th 851.9
5 Finland Juhani Kärkkäinen 1st 7th 12th 11th 850.7
6 Sweden Kjell Sjöberg 2nd 6th 10th 15th 848.2
7 Italy Nilo Zandanell 11th 3rd 14th 7th 839.6
8 Norway Olaf Solli 20th 26th 4th 6th 829.5
9 Soviet Union Nikolai Schamov 8th 9th 36th 4th 827.4
10 Germany Wolfgang Happle 39th 11th 6th 5th 826.8

References

  1. ^ "Die Geschichte der Vierschanzentournee" (in German). skispringen-news.de. 2014.
  2. ^ "Oberstdorf (GER)". FIS.
  3. ^ "Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER)". FIS.
  4. ^ "Innsbruck (AUT)". FIS.
  5. ^ "Bischofshofen (AUT)". FIS.

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