2006–07 Four Hills Tournament

Ski jumping competition series The 2006–07 Four Hills Tournament was a series of ski jumping competitions held in the traditional venues of Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen, located in Germany and Austria. The tournament was part of the 2006–07 Ski Jumping World Cup and points scored in each of the four competitions also counted towards the World Cup rankings. Before the tournament started on 28 December 2006 the World Cup leader was Simon Ammann. Norwegian Anders Jacobsen won the tournament, after finishing on the podium in both hills in Austria and never finishing worse than fifth on any of the four hills. He thus became the first debutant since Toni Nieminen in 1991–92 to win the tournament.Arne Scheie, NRK telecast from the Bischofshofen event, 7 January 2007. Gregor Schlierenzauer, who turned 17 on the day of the final event in Bischofshofen, won the first and last event, but finished over 15 points behind after 11th place in Innsbruck. Tournament review Results are listed for the top 15 skiers, as well as skiers among the top six in the overall World Cup before the tournament, former overall World Cup winners, former Four Hills Tournament winners, former world record holders, and former World or Olympic champions. Oberstdorf, 30 December 2006 Austrian junior world champion and newcomer Gregor Schlierenzauer, who with his 16 years of age was one of the key factors and surprises of the pre season also excelled in the first day of the Four Hills Tournament. His first jump of the day (135.5 metres) was the furthest jump in competition, with only World Cup leader Simon Ammann and Martin Koch able to finish 0.5 metres short. While Andreas Küttel set a new record for the day in the second jump when he reached a distance of 136.5 metres Schlierenzauer again showed his skills and his capability of keeping his nerves in control when he jumped 142.0 metres, just 1.5 metres short to equalise the hill record set by Sigurd Pettersen in 2003. Switzerland's Andreas Küttel claimed the second position, but trailed by 9.5 points, while Adam Małysz of Poland finished in third position, 6.2 points behind Küttel. The win was Schlierenzauer's third win in five World Cup meetings. 2005–06 shared winners Janne Ahonen and Jakub Janda only finished in seventh and 21st position respectively, while Olympic champion Thomas Morgenstern just reached a top 10 ranking. With his win Schlierenzauer not only took the lead in the Four Hills Tournament, but he also overtook Ammann to lead the overall World Cup. Pos.OberstdorfJump 1Jump 2PointsPos.TotalPoints 1. AUT Gregor Schlierenzauer 135.5 142.0 296.0 1. AUT Gregor Schlierenzauer 296.0 2. SUI Andreas Küttel 133.5 136.5 286.5 2. SUI Andreas Küttel 286.5 3. POL Adam Małysz 132.0 134.0 280.3 3. POL Adam Małysz 280.3 4. NOR Anders Jacobsen 131.5 135.0 279.7 4. NOR Anders Jacobsen 279.7 5. SUI Simon Ammann 135.0 133.0 276.9 5. SUI Simon Ammann 276.9 6. FIN Arttu Lappi 131.0 135.0 276.3 6. FIN Arttu Lappi 276.3 7. FIN Janne Ahonen 132.5 131.0 274.8 7. FIN Janne Ahonen 274.8 8. AUT Martin Koch 135.0 129.5 270.6 8. AUT Martin Koch 286.5 9. NOR Anders Bardal 130.0 129.5 267.1 9. NOR Anders Bardal 267.110. AUT Thomas Morgenstern 130.5 128.5 265.2 10. AUT Thomas Morgenstern 265.211. AUT Andreas Kofler 128.5 125.0 255.3 11. AUT Andreas Kofler 255.312. GER Jörg Ritzerfeld 129.5 124.5 254.7 12. GER Jörg Ritzerfeld 254.713. AUT Martin Höllwarth 127.5 125.5 254.4 13. AUT Martin Höllwarth 254.414. AUT Wolfgang Loitzl 126.5 124.5 251.8 14. AUT Wolfgang Loitzl 251.815. GER Michael Uhrmann 128.5 122.5 249.3 15. GER Michael Uhrmann 249.316. NOR Roar Ljøkelsøy 128.0 121.0 246.2 16. NOR Roar Ljøkelsøy 246.217. FIN Harri Olli 126.5 122.0 243.3 17. FIN Harri Olli 243.318. GER Martin Schmitt 126.0 122.0 241.4 18. GER Martin Schmitt 241.419. FIN Matti Hautamäki 126.5 120.0 239.7 19. FIN Matti Hautamäki 239.720. RUS Denis Kornilov 125.0 120.0 236.5 20. RUS Denis Kornilov 236.521. CZE Jakub Janda 121.5 123.5 235.0 21. CZE Jakub Janda 235.023. RUS Dmitry Vassiliev 123.0 120.5 232.8 23. RUS Dmitry Vassiliev 232.824. AUT Andreas Widhölzl 123.5 119.5 232.4 24. AUT Andreas Widhölzl 232.425. FIN Veli-Matti Lindström 125.0 118.0 231.9 25. FIN Veli-Matti Lindström 231.928. NOR Bjørn Einar Romøren 122.0 118.0 227.0 28. NOR Bjørn Einar Romøren 227.029. POL Kamil Stoch 123.5 116.5 226.0 29. POL Kamil Stoch 226.030. CZE Roman Koudelka 120.0 116.0 215.8 30. CZE Roman Koudelka 215.831. SLO Rok Benkovič 121.5 DNQ 115.2 31. SLO Rok Benkovič 115.2 45. JPN Takanobu Okabe 112.0 DNQ 96.6 49. JPN Takanobu Okabe 96.6 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 1 January 2007 In windy and rainy conditions, the New Year's Day ski jumping (Neujahrsskispringen) was cancelled after one jump. Noriaki Kasai, who failed to qualify for the event in Oberstdorf, finished third here after having the longest jump, but without a Telemark landing he was docked style points and finished third. Andreas Küttel won the event, and is now three points behind Schlierenzauer in the overall standings. Following Małysz' 12th place and Ammann's 16th place, Jacobsen advanced to third in the overall standings and second in the World Cup standings despite not having finished on the podium thus far in the Four Hills. Pos.Garmisch-PartenkirchenJump 1PointsPos.TotalPoints 1. SUI Andreas Küttel 125.5 135.9 1. AUT Gregor Schlierenzauer 425.4 2. FIN Matti Hautamäki 125.0 133.0 2. SUI Andreas Küttel 422.4 3. JPN Noriaki Kasai 128.0 132.9 3. NOR Anders Jacobsen 407.8 4. AUT Gregor Schlierenzauer 123.0 129.4 4. FIN Arttu Lappi 404.4 5. NOR Anders Jacobsen 122.0 128.1 5. POL Adam Małysz 404.2 5. FIN Arttu Lappi 122.0 128.1 6. SUI Simon Ammann 394.9 5. NOR Bjørn Einar Romøren 122.0 128.1 7. FIN Janne Ahonen 393.2 8. GER Martin Schmitt 122.0 127.6 8. AUT Thomas Morgenstern 389.9 9. AUT Andreas Kofler 120.5 124.9 9. NOR Anders Bardal 383.8 9. GER Michael Uhrmann 120.5 124.9 10. AUT Andreas Kofler 380.2 11. AUT Thomas Morgenstern 124.0 124.7 11. AUT Martin Koch 377.2 12. POL Adam Małysz 120.5 123.9 12. GER Michael Uhrmann 374.2 13. CZE Jakub Janda 120.0 123.5 13. FIN Matti Hautamäki 372.7 14. RUS Dmitry Vassiliev 121.5 122.2 14. GER Martin Schmitt 369.0 15. CZE Roman Koudelka 118.5 119.8 15. GER Jörg Ritzerfeld 367.6 16. SUI Simon Ammann 117.5 118.5 17. CZE Jakub Janda 358.5 17. FIN Janne Ahonen 118.0 118.4 18. NOR Roar Ljøkelsøy 356.0 20. NOR Anders Bardal 116.5 116.7 19. NOR Bjørn Einar Romøren 355.1 23. GER Jörg Ritzerfeld 115.5 112.9 20. RUS Dmitry Vassiliev 355.0 27. AUT Martin Koch 112.0 106.6 24. AUT Andreas Widhölzl 346.2 31. AUT Andreas Widhölzl 116.0 113.8 29. CZE Roman Koudelka 335.6 33. NOR Roar Ljøkelsøy 113.5 109.8 34. SLO Rok Benkovič 215.8 41. SLO Rok Benkovič 109.5 100.2 43. JPN Takanobu Okabe 172.9 49. JPN Takanobu Okabe 98.5 76.3 44. JPN Noriaki Kasai 132.9 Innsbruck, 4 January 2007 With neither Küttel nor Schlierenzauer able to make it past 123 metres in either leap, they lost plenty of points to winner Jacobsen, who won his second World Cup event of his career. He gained 38 points on Schlierenzauer, and went from third place to a ten-point lead, ahead of Finland's Lappi who finished fourth in the race. Schlierenzauer fell six places in the overall Four Hills standings, but remained within 20 points, or 11 metres, of Jacobsen. Norway called up Olympic champion and last year's Innsbruck winner, Lars Bystøl, to represent them in the Innsbruck event. However, Bystøl failed to qualify. Pos.InnsbruckJump 1Jump 2PointsPos.TotalPoints 1. NOR Anders Jacobsen 129.0 128.5 265.0 1. NOR Anders Jacobsen 672.8 2. AUT Thomas Morgenstern 128.5 129.5 263.9 2. FIN Arttu Lappi 662.1 3. SUI Simon Ammann 125.5 132.0 261.5 3. SUI Simon Ammann 656.4 4. FIN Arttu Lappi 125.5 128.5 257.7 3. SUI Andreas Küttel 656.4 5. FIN Janne Ahonen 125.5 126.0 257.2 5. POL Adam Małysz 654.1 6. POL Adam Małysz 124.0 126.5 249.9 6. AUT Thomas Morgenstern 653.8 7. SUI Andreas Küttel 122.0 120.5 234.0 7. AUT Gregor Schlierenzauer 652.7 8. AUT Martin Höllwarth 123.0 118.5 231.2 8. FIN Janne Ahonen 644.4 9. AUT Manuel Fettner 123.5 118.0 230.7 9. GER Michael Uhrmann 603.9 10. GER Michael Uhrmann 115.5 126.0 229.7 10. AUT Andreas Kofler 600.2 11. AUT Gregor Schlierenzauer 122.0 119.0 227.3 11. AUT Martin Höllwarth 596.3 12. RUS Dmitry Vassiliev 122.0 117.0 224.7 12. NOR Anders Bardal 592.5 13. AUT Andreas Kofler 121.0 114.0 220.0 13. AUT Martin Koch 590.5 14. AUT Wolfgang Loitzl 115.0 120.0 219.0 14. GER Martin Schmitt 584.1 15. POL Kamil Stoch 120.0 115.5 217.9 15. RUS Dmitry Vassiliev 579.7 17. GER Martin Schmitt 121.0 113.5 215.1 16. GER Jörg Ritzerfeld 575.5 18. AUT Martin Koch 119.0 114.5 213.3 17. AUT Wolfgang Loitzl 572.8 19. CZE Jakub Janda 119.5 113.5 212.9 18. CZE Jakub Janda 571.4 20. RUS Denis Kornilov 118.5 113.5 212.1 19. FIN Harri Olli 566.3 21. FIN Harri Olli 116.5 116.0 211.5 20. FIN Matti Hautamäki 565.0 23. AUT Andreas Widhölzl 120.0 111.0 209.3 21. NOR Roar Ljøkelsøy 563.5 24. FIN Veli-Matti Lindström 118.5 113.0 209.2 22. RUS Denis Kornilov 561.2 25. NOR Anders Bardal 118.5 113.0 208.7 23. POL Kamil Stoch 559.6 26. GER Jörg Ritzerfeld 115.5 115.0 207.9 24. AUT Andreas Widhölzl 555.5 27. NOR Roar Ljøkelsøy 119.0 111.0 207.5 25. FIN Veli-Matti Lindström 449.5 28. JPN Noriaki Kasai 117.0 109.5 202.2 26. NOR Bjørn Einar Romøren 458.6 29. FIN Matti Hautamäki 116.5 109.5 192.3 31. JPN Noriaki Kasai 335.1 33. NOR Bjørn Einar Romøren 115.0 DNQ 103.5 41. AUT Manuel Fettner 230.7 DNS SLO Rok Benkovič 43. SLO Rok Benkovič 215.8 DNS JPN Takanobu Okabe 50. JPN Takanobu Okabe 172.9 Bischofshofen, 7 January 2007 Gregor Schlierenzauer took his fourth World Cup win on his seventeenth birthday, but it wasn't enough to beat Jacobsen in the overall standings; despite having won two events to Jacobsen's one, Schlierenzauer had to be content with second place overall in the Four Hills tournament. Pos.InnsbruckJump 1Jump 2PointsPos.TotalPoints 1. AUT Gregor Schlierenzauer 139.5 141.0 291.9 1. NOR Anders Jacobsen 961.9 2. NOR Anders Jacobsen 137.5 142.0 289.1 2. AUT Gregor Schlierenzauer 944.7 3. SUI Simon Ammann 135.0 137.5 275.5 3. SUI Simon Ammann 931.9 4. RUS Dmitry Vassiliev 133.5 136.0 269.1 4. AUT Thomas Morgenstern 916.2 5. AUT Thomas Morgenstern 133.0 132.5 262.4 5. SUI Andreas Küttel 910.4 6. AUT Arthur Pauli 132.0 131.0 254.9 6. FIN Arttu Lappi 908.3 7. SUI Andreas Küttel 130.5 132.0 254.0 7. POL Adam Małysz 906.5 8. POL Adam Małysz 129.5 133.5 252.4 8. FIN Janne Ahonen 890.7 9. POL Kamil Stoch 126.5 124.5 251.3 9. GER Michael Uhrmann 852.0 10. GER Michael Uhrmann 127.0 132.5 248.1 10. RUS Dmitry Vassiliev 848.8 11. FIN Janne Ahonen 128.0 132.5 246.3 11. AUT Martin Koch 832.5 12. FIN Arttu Lappi 131.0 128.0 246.2 12. AUT Andreas Kofler 828.6 13. NOR Tom Hilde 127.5 129.5 243.1 13. AUT Martin Höllwarth 824.7 14. AUT Martin Koch 126.0 131.5 240.8 14. GER Martin Schmitt 819.9 15. AUT Mario Innauer 128.5 127.5 240.8 15. POL Kamil Stoch 810.9 16. NOR Roar Ljøkelsøy 125.5 128.5 237.2 17. NOR Roar Ljøkelsøy 800.7 18. GER Martin Schmitt 129.0 126.5 235.8 18. CZE Jakub Janda 791.8 22. AUT Martin Höllwarth 125.5 125.0 228.4 20. FIN Matti Hautamäki 788.9 24. AUT Andreas Widhölzl 124.0 124.0 224.9 22. AUT Andreas Widhölzl 780.4 25. FIN Matti Hautamäki 124.0 124.0 223.9 31. NOR Bjørn Einar Romøren 458.6 27. CZE Jakub Janda 123.5 122.0 220.4 34. JPN Noriaki Kasai 435.8 40. NOR Lars Bystøl 121.0 DNQ 104.3 50. JPN Takanobu Okabe 264.1 42. JPN Noriaki Kasai 119.0 DNQ 100.7 51. SLO Rok Benkovič 215.8 49. JPN Takanobu Okabe 114.0 DNQ 91.2 58. NOR Lars Bystøl 104.3 See also 2007 in ski jumping 2006–07 Ski Jumping World Cup References https://archive.today/20130123092912/http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/610.html?sector=JP&raceid=2191 Oberstdorf results, from fis-ski.com Garmisch-Partenkirchen results, from fis-ski.com Innsbruck results, from fis-ski.com Bischofshofen results, from fis-ski.com Further references and notes Four Hills Tournament Four Hills Tournament Four Hills Tournament Four Hills Tournament Four Hills Tournament Four Hills Tournament Four Hills Tournament Category:Four Hills Tournament