1977–78 Four Hills Tournament

The 26th annual Four Hills Tournament was won by Finnish ski jumper Kari Ylianttila. In the final ranking, he led directly ahead of five East German athletes. Another one, defending champion Jochen Danneberg, was the overall leader after his victory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, but didn't compete at the events in Austria.

Four Hills Tournament
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationWest Germany, Austria
Dates30 December 1977 (1977-12-30) – 6 January 1978 (1978-01-06)
Competitors83 from 15 nations
Medalists
gold medal 
silver medal 
bronze medal 

Participating nations and athletes

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Nation Number of Athletes Athletes
  West Germany 7 Hans-Jürgen Eschrich, Wolfgang Hahn, Peter Leitner, Frank Rombach, Christoph Schwarz, Hubert Schwarz, Peter Schwinghammer
  Austria 15 Gebhard Aberer, Reinhold Bachler, Edi Federer, Alfred Groyer, Rupert Gürtler, Armin Kogler, Alois Lipburger, Hans Millonig, Hubert Neuper, Alfred Pungg, Willi Pürstl, Karl Schnabl, Klaus Tuchscherer, Hans Wallner, Rudolf Wanner
  Bulgaria 3 Vladimir Breitchev, Petar Dimitrov, Bojan Stoikov
  Czechoslovakia 7 Ivo Felix, Josef Hýsek, František Novák, Josef Rusko, Josef Samek, Leoš Škoda, Ján Tánczos
  East Germany 8 Matthias Buse, Jochen Danneberg, Bernd Eckstein, Harald Duschek, Henry Glaß, Jürgen Thomas, Martin Weber, Falko Weißpflog
  Finland 4 Tauno Käyhkö, Jari Puikkonen, Jouko Törmänen, Kari Ylianttila
  France 2 Patric Dubiez, Eric Fourrier
  Italy 3 Ermes De Crignis, Lido Tomasi, Ivano Wegher
  Japan 2 Yūji Kawamura, Sakae Tsuruga
  Norway 6 Per Bergerud, Stein Glømmi, Rune Hauge, Per Steinar Nordlien, Johan Sætre, Jens Unosen
  Poland 2 Tadeusz Pawlusiak, Józef Tajner
  Soviet Union 7 Aleksey Borovitin, Vladimir Bubjonov, Vladimir Chernyaev, Yury Ivanov, Aleksandr Karapuzov, Valery Savin, Sergey Saychik
  Switzerland 7 Oliver Favre, Georges Jaquier, Robert Mösching, Harald Reichenbach, Mario Rinaldi, Walter Steiner, Hansjörg Sumi
  United States 5 Jeff Davis, Jeff Denney, Jim Denney, John Denney, Kip Sundgaard
  Yugoslavia 5 Zdravko Bogataj, Andrej Kaizer, Marko Mlakar, Bogdan Norčič, Ivo Zupan

Results

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Oberstdorf

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  Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
30 December 1977[1]

Rank Name Points
1   Matthias Buse 118.2
2   Martin Weber 110.1
3   Kari Ylianttila 109.3
4   Bernd Eckstein 105.7
5   Peter Leitner 105.1
6   Jochen Danneberg 104.7
7   Walter Steiner 101.3
8   Henry Glaß 94.8
9   Sakae Tsuruga 92.3
10   Per Bergerud 91.9

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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  Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1 January 1978[2]

Rank Name Points
1   Jochen Danneberg 235.6
2   Kari Ylianttila 222.2
3   Henry Glaß 219.6
4   Falko Weißpflog 218.3
5   Leoš Škoda 213.0
6   Matthias Buse 212.0
7   Bernd Eckstein 209.0
8   Peter Leitner 208.6
9   Walter Steiner 207.5
10   Jürgen Thomas 204.8

Innsbruck

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  Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
4 January 1978[3]

Rank Name Points
1   Per Bergerud 247.1
2   Kari Ylianttila 239.1
3   Jouko Törmänen 231.2
4   Falko Weißpflog 229.2
5   Klaus Tuchscherer 227.3
6   Matthias Buse 223.3
7   Jari Puikkonen 219.0
8   Martin Weber 218.5
9   Bernd Eckstein 207.9
10   Henry Glaß 203.5

Bischofshofen

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  Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
6 January 1978[4]

Rank Name Points
1   Kari Ylianttila 242.3
2   Walter Steiner 229.0
3   Henry Glaß 227.9
4   Martin Weber 227.5
5   Falko Weißpflog 221.1
6   Bernd Eckstein 220.8
7   Matthias Buse 219.7
8   Per Bergerud 218.9
9   Harald Duschek 217.2
10   Jouko Törmänen 209.7

Final ranking

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Rank Name Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Points
1   Kari Ylianttila 3rd 2nd 2nd 1st 812.9
2   Matthias Buse 1st 6th 6th 7th 773.2
3   Martin Weber 2nd 11th 8th 4th 760.4
4   Henry Glaß 8th 3rd 10th 3rd 760.2
5   Falko Weißpflog 14th 4th 4th 5th 757.4
6   Bernd Eckstein 4th 7th 9th 6th 753.6
7   Per Bergerud 10th 22nd 1st 8th 749.7
8   Walter Steiner 7th 9th 24th 2nd 734.4
9   Jouko Törmänen 16th 15th 3rd 10th 727.8
10   Harald Duschek 11th 18th 11th 9th 718.8

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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