1974–75 Four Hills Tournament

At the 23rd edition of the annual Four Hills Tournament, Willi Pürstl became the first Austrian tour winner since Sepp Bradl, who won the inaugural tournament.

Karl Schnabl, who only placed 35th (170.5 pts) in Oberstdorf, became the third person within five years to win three out of four events and still fail to win the tournament.

Four Hills Tournament
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationWest Germany, Austria
Dates29 December 1974 (1974-12-29) – 6 January 1975 (1975-01-06)
Competitors86 from 17 nations
Medalists
gold medal Austria Willi Pürstl
silver medal Austria Edi Federer
bronze medal Austria Karl Schnabl

Participating nations and athletes

Nation Number of Athletes Athletes
 West Germany 5 Toni Angerer, Peter Dubb, Alfred Grosche, Sepp Schwinghammer, Rudi Tusch
 Austria 8 Reinhold Bachler, Edi Federer, Alois Lipburger, Hans Millonig, Alfred Pungg, Willi Pürstl, Karl Schnabl, Hans Wallner
 Canada 5 Richard Grady, Richard Graves, Paul Martin, Lyle Speers, Peter Wilson
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 6 Jindřich Balcar, Rudolf Höhnl, Karel Kodejška, Břetislav Novák, František Novák, Leoš Škoda
 East Germany 8 Dietmar Aschenbach, Hans-Georg Aschenbach, Jochen Danneberg, Henry Glaß, Dietrich Kampf, Rainer Schmidt, Eberhard Seifert, Heinz Wosipiwo
 Finland 4 Harri Blumen, Paavo Maunu, Esko Rautionaho, Jouko Törmänen, Kari Ylianttila
 France 4 Jacques Gaillard, Philippe Jacoberger, Gilbert Poirot, Michel Roche
 Hungary 2 Gyula Henyel, István Roman
 Italy 3 Marcello Bazana, Leo De Crignis, Lido Tomasi
Japan Japan 6 Kasuhiro Akimoto, Takao Itō, Koji Kakuta, Yūji Katsuro, Hideyuki Kuwabara, Manabu Ono
 Norway 6 Per Bergerud, Dag Fossum, Finn Halvorsen, Odd Hammernes, Johan Sætre, Kai Solbustad
 Poland 4 Stanisław Bobak, Wojciech Fortuna, Adam Krzysztofiak, Aleksander Stołowski
Soviet Union Soviet Union 5 Dimitri Abramow, Aleksey Borovitin, Yury Kalinin, Alexei Petrow, Sergey Suslikov
 Sweden 3 Odd Brandsegg, Lennart Elimä, Christer Karlsson
 Switzerland 4 Ernst Egloff, Robert Mösching, Hans Schmid, Ernst von Grünigen
 United States 6 Gene Burmeister, Jim Denney, Tom Dargay, Terry Kern, Ron Steele, Greg Windsperger
 Yugoslavia 6 Janez Demšar, Branko Dolhar, Bogdan Norčič, Marian Prelovšek, Danilo Pudgar, Stane Rakar

Results

Oberstdorf

West Germany Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
29 December 1974[1]

Rank Name Points
1 Austria Willi Pürstl 217.4
2 Poland Stanisław Bobak 210.9
3 East Germany Rainer Schmidt 210.6
4 Norway Finn Halvorsen 203.0
5 Norway Johan Sætre 200.9
6 Austria Edi Federer 200.5
7 Soviet Union Yury Kalinin 199.3
8 Finland Paavo Maunu 198.8
9 East Germany Heinz Wosipiwo 194.6
10 Switzerland Hans Schmid 193.8

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

West Germany Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1 January 1975[2]

Rank Name Points
1 Austria Karl Schnabl 226.2
2 Finland Kari Ylianttila 226.0
3 Austria Hans Millonig 222.2
4 Austria Edi Federer 221.6
5 Austria Willi Pürstl 220.7
6 East Germany Rainer Schmidt 220.3
7 East Germany Hans-Georg Aschenbach 220.1
8 Austria Alois Lipburger 216.2
9 Soviet Union Sergey Suslikov 213.5
10 East Germany Jochen Danneberg 209.4

Innsbruck

Austria Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
3 January 1975[3]

Rank Name Points
1 Austria Karl Schnabl 239.6
2 Austria Edi Federer 233.3
3 Austria Hans Wallner 231.3
4 Czechoslovakia Karel Kodejška 226.4
5 Austria Willi Pürstl 226.0
6 Poland Stanisław Bobak 225.3
7 East Germany Jochen Danneberg 224.8
8 Czechoslovakia Rudolf Höhnl 224.3
9 Austria Reinhold Bachler 222.7
10 East Germany Dietrich Kampf 221.7

Bischofshofen

Austria Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
6 January 1975[4]

Rank Name Points
1 Austria Karl Schnabl 227.0
2 Czechoslovakia Karel Kodejška 224.6
3 East Germany Hans-Georg Aschenbach 221.1
4 Czechoslovakia Rudolf Höhnl 220.9
5 Austria Edi Federer 218.8
6 Austria Hans Millonig 215.7
7 Austria Willi Pürstl 214.9
8 East Germany Jochen Danneberg 211.3
9 East Germany Dietrich Kampf 210.0
10 East Germany Eberhard Seifert 208.8

Final ranking

Rank Name Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Points
1 Austria Willi Pürstl 1st 5th 5th 7th 879.0
2 Austria Edi Federer 6th 4th 2nd 5th 874.2
3 Austria Karl Schnabl 35th 1st 1st 1st 863.3
4 Czechoslovakia Karel Kodejška 11th 14th 4th 2nd 853.2
5 Poland Stanisław Bobak 2nd 18th 6th 22nd 839.4
6 East Germany Rainer Schmidt 3rd 6th 12th 30th 834.4
7 Czechoslovakia Rudolf Höhnl 24th 22nd 8th 4th 831.7
8 East Germany Jochen Danneberg 21st 10th 7th 8th 829.2
9 Soviet Union Yury Kalinin 7th 12th 19th 12th 821.8
10 Austria Hans Wallner 17th 24th 3rd 20th 821.6

References

  1. ^ "Oberstdorf (GER)". FIS.
  2. ^ "Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER)". FIS.
  3. ^ "Innsbruck (AUT)". FIS.
  4. ^ "Bischofshofen (AUT)". FIS.