1976–77 Four Hills Tournament

At the 25th annual Four Hills Tournament, Jochen Danneberg became the third ski jumper after Helmut Recknagel and Bjørn Wirkola to defend his title. Crucial was a clear victory at the New Year's event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. For the first time in ten years, there were four different winners at the single events.

Four Hills Tournament
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationWest Germany, Austria
Dates30 December 1976 (1976-12-30) – 6 January 1977 (1977-01-06)
Competitors74 from 14 nations
Medalists
gold medal 
silver medal 
bronze medal 

Participating nations and athletes

NationNumber of AthletesAthletes
 West Germany8Alfred Grosche, Dirk Kramer, Peter Leitner, Frank Rombach, Manfred Runge, Sepp Schwinghammer, Rudi Tusch
 Austria13Reinhold Bachler, Edi Federer, Rupert Gürtler, Walter Habersatter jr., Toni Innauer, Alois Lipburger, Hans Millonig, Alfred Pungg, Willi Pürstl, Karl Schnabl, Klaus Tuchscherer, Hans Wallner, Rudolf Wanner
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia6Jaroslav Balcar, Zdeněk Janouch, František Novák, Josef Samek, Leoš Škoda, Ján Tánczos
 East Germany8Matthias Buse, Jochen Danneberg, Harald Duschek, Henry Glaß, Thomas Meisinger, Jürgen Thomas, Martin Weber, Falko Weißpflog
 Finland4P. Hyvävinen, Pentti Kokkonen, Tapio Räisänen, Jouko Törmänen
 Italy3Leo De Crignis, Lido Tomasi, Ivano Wegher
Japan Japan3Takao Itō, Yūji Kawamura, Manabu Ono
 Norway4Per Bergerud, Bjarne Næs, Roger Ruud, Johan Sætre
 Poland3Stanisław Bobak, Henryk Tajner, Janusz Waluś
Soviet Union Soviet Union5Aleksey Borovitin, Yury Ivanov, Aleksandr Karapuzov, Leonid Komarov, Sergey Saychik
 Sweden3Odd Brandsegg, Lennart Elimä, Seppo Reijonen
  Switzerland6Robert Mösching, Hans Schmid, Walter Steiner, Hansjörg Sumi, Jean Luc Ungricht, Ernst von Grünigen
 United States4Jim Denney, Jim Maki, Chris McNeill, Ron Steele
 Yugoslavia4Jože Demšar, Branko Dolhar, Janez Loštrek, Bogdan Norčič

Results

Oberstdorf

West Germany Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
30 December 1976[1]

RankNamePoints
1Austria Toni Innauer255.6
2East Germany Jochen Danneberg253.7
3Switzerland Walter Steiner252.3
4East Germany Harald Duschek248.2
5East Germany Henry Glaß239.4
6Austria Alois Lipburger236.6
7Finland Jouko Törmänen235.3
8Czechoslovakia František Novák232.5
9Austria Reinhold Bachler230.9
10Norway Johan Sætre229.8

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

West Germany Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1 January 1977[2]

RankNamePoints
1East Germany Jochen Danneberg235.2
2Austria Toni Innauer222.3
3East Germany Harald Duschek220.1
4East Germany Henry Glaß219.3
5Norway Johan Sætre213.5
6Switzerland Walter Steiner212.7
7Austria Alois Lipburger211.9
8Austria Alfred Pungg209.4
9East Germany Jürgen Thomas208.6
10East Germany Martin Weber208.3

Innsbruck

Austria Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
4 January 1977[3]

RankNamePoints
1East Germany Henry Glaß233.6
2Switzerland Walter Steiner226.3
3Austria Toni Innauer217.3
4Austria Karl Schnabl216.4
5Austria Reinhold Bachler216.1
6East Germany Jochen Danneberg213.9
7Soviet Union Yury Ivanov213.5
8Austria Alfred Pungg210.4
9Czechoslovakia Ján Tánczos207.9
10East Germany Thomas Meisinger203.5

Bischofshofen

Austria Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
6 January 1977[4]

After three events, the leading four were close together. Toni Innauer, leader Danneberg's closest rival, only placed 19th and fell back in the overall ranking. In spite of his win, Walter Steiner did not close the gap to Danneberg.

RankNamePoints
1Switzerland Walter Steiner220.4
2Austria Karl Schnabl217.0
3East Germany Jochen Danneberg215.7
4East Germany Thomas Meisinger211.6
5Austria Klaus Tuchscherer207.5
6East Germany Harald Duschek204.4
7Norway Per Bergerud200.2
8East Germany Henry Glaß200.1
9East Germany Martin Weber198.1
10Austria Hans Millonig196.1

Final ranking

RankNameOberstdorfGarmisch-PartenkirchenInnsbruckBischofshofenPoints
1East Germany Jochen Danneberg2nd1st6th3rd918.5
2Switzerland Walter Steiner3rd6th2nd1st911.7
3East Germany Henry Glaß5th4th1st8th892.4
4Austria Toni Innauer1st2nd3rd19th876.0
5East Germany Harald Duschek4th3rd11th6th875.8
6East Germany Thomas Meisinger12th11th10th4th845.7
7Austria Karl Schnabl29th21st4th2nd844.7
8Austria Reinhold Bachler9th14th5th25th828.8
9Austria Alfred Pungg16th8th8th14th827.1
10East Germany Martin Weber21st10th17th9th818.7

References

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