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1978–79 Four Hills Tournament

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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 
silver medal 
bronze medal 

Participating nations and athletes

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

Nation Number of Athletes Athletes
 West Germany 11 Hans-Jürgen Eschrich, Thomas Klauser, Dirk Kramer, Peter Leitner, Thomas Prosser, Christoph Schwarz, Hubert Schwarz, Peter Schwinghammer, Frank Sternkopf, Georg Waldvogel, Hermann Weinbuch
 Austria 12 Fritz Esser, Edi Federer, Alfred Groyer, Heinz Koch, Armin Kogler, Alfred Lengauer, Alois Lipburger, Hans Millonig, Hubert Neuper, Willi Pürstl, Klaus Tuchscherer, Rudolf Wanner
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 4 Ivo Felix, Josef Samek, Leoš Škoda, Ján Tánczos
 East Germany 8 Matthias Buse, Jochen Danneberg, Manfred Deckert, Bernd Eckstein, Harald Duschek, Klaus Ostwald, Martin Weber, Falko Weißpflog
 Finland 7 Tauno Käyhkö, Pentti Kokkonen, Keijo Korhonen, Jari Puikkonen, Tapio Räisänen, Jouko Törmänen, Kari Ylianttila
 France 4 Patric Dubiez, Philippe Jacoberger, Bernard Moullier, Thierry Sauvanet
 Hungary 4 László Fischer, Robert Fogarasi, Gábor Gellér, Zoltán Kelemen
 Italy 2 Lido Tomasi, Ivano Wegher
Japan Japan 3 Yūji Kawamura, Sakae Tsuruga, Hirokazu Yagi
 Norway 4 Per Bergerud, Ulf Jørgensen, Roger Ruud, Johan Sætre
 Poland 3 Stanisław Bobak, Piotr Fijas, Stanisław Pawlusiak
Soviet Union Soviet Union 7 Aleksey Borovitin, Vladimir Chernyaev, Yury Ivanov, Sergej Muchin, Valery Savin, Sergey Saychik, Vladimir Vlasov
Spain Spain 1 Tomás Cano
 Sweden 2 Christer Karlsson, Seppo Reijonen
 Switzerland 5 Paul Egloff, Robert Mösching, Harald Reichenbach, Mario Rinaldi, Hansjörg Sumi
 United States 2 Jim Denney, Kip Sundgaard
 Yugoslavia 5 Zdravko Bogataj, Andrej Kaizer, Marko Mlakar, Bogdan Norčič, Miran Tepeš

Results

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Oberstdorf

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West Germany Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
30 December 1978[1]

Rank Name Points
1 Soviet Union Yury Ivanov 235.4
2 East Germany Jochen Danneberg 234.5
3 Finland Pentti Kokkonen 232.4
4 Austria Klaus Tuchscherer 224.4
5 Czechoslovakia Ján Tánczos 222.8
6 East Germany Harald Duschek 222.6
7 Austria Willi Pürstl 221.6
8 Switzerland Hansjörg Sumi 220.2
9 Czechoslovakia Leoš Škoda 217.7
10 Finland Jari Puikkonen 216.3

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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

Rank Name Points
1 Czechoslovakia Josef Samek 120.5
2 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Bogdan Norčič 117.6
3 Finland Pentti Kokkonen 114.4
4 East Germany Harald Duschek 113.2
5 East Germany Matthias Buse 112.5
6 Czechoslovakia Ján Tánczos 111.5
7 Switzerland Hansjörg Sumi 111.2
8 United States Jim Denney 110.3
9 East Germany Jochen Danneberg 110.1
10 Poland Stanisław Bobak 109.4

Innsbruck

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Austria Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
4 January 1979[3]

Rank Name Points
1 Finland Pentti Kokkonen 231.3
2 Norway Roger Ruud 224.6
3 East Germany Jochen Danneberg 218.8
4 East Germany Harald Duschek 216.0
5 Switzerland Hansjörg Sumi 215.4
6 East Germany Manfred Deckert 213.3
7 Austria Klaus Tuchscherer 213.2
8 Norway Johan Sætre 212.3
9 East Germany Martin Weber 212.2
10 East Germany Klaus Ostwald 211.3

Bischofshofen

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

Rank Name Points
1 Finland Pentti Kokkonen 237.5
2 Norway Johan Sætre 236.9
3 Poland Piotr Fijas 236.0
4 Switzerland Hansjörg Sumi 235.8
5 Finland Jouko Törmänen 221.2
6 East Germany Martin Weber 219.1
7 Czechoslovakia Leoš Škoda 217.8
8 East Germany Jochen Danneberg 217.4
9 Finland Tapio Räisänen 213.7
10 East Germany Harald Duschek 213.6

Final ranking

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Rank Name Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Points
1 Finland Pentti Kokkonen 3rd 3rd 1st 1st 815.6
2 Switzerland Hansjörg Sumi 8th 7th 5th 4th 782.6
3 East Germany Jochen Danneberg 2nd 9th 3rd 8th 780.8
4 East Germany Harald Duschek 6th 4th 4th 10th 765.4
5 Norway Johan Sætre 11th 20th 8th 2nd 765.3
6 Czechoslovakia Leoš Škoda 9th 11th 13th 7th 748.3
7 Austria Klaus Tuchscherer 4th 23rd 7th 15th 748.1
8 East Germany Matthias Buse 16th 5th 11th 15th 741.9
9 East Germany Martin Weber 27th 13th 9th 6th 739.5
10 Poland Piotr Fijas 38th 17th 12th 3rd 737.2

References

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