1975–76 Four Hills Tournament

The 24th edition of the annual Four Hills Tournament was won by East German Jochen Danneberg.

For the tenth time, three out of the four events were won by the same athlete. However, for the fourth time within six years, it was not enough to win the Tournament: Toni Innauer only placed 24th in Innsbruck and lost too much ground to his competitors.

Four Hills Tournament
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationWest Germany, Austria
Dates30 December 1975 (1975-12-30) – 6 January 1976 (1976-01-06)
Competitors96 from 15 nations
Medalists
 
 
 

Participating nations and athletes

NationNumber of AthletesAthletes
 West Germany6Alfred Grosche, Peter Leitner, Frank Rombach, Sepp Schwinghammer, Rudi Tusch, Albert Wursthorn
 Austria10Reinhold Bachler, Rupert Gürtler, Walter Habersatter jr., Toni Innauer, Hans Millonig, Willi Pürstl, Karl Schnabl, Walter Schwabl, Hans Wallner, Rudolf Wanner
Bulgaria4Valentin Bozhkov, Peter Dimitrov, Ivan Iankov, Zdravko Idravkov
 Canada6Kim Fripp, Donald Grady, Richard Grady, Richard Graves, Paul Martin, Peter Wilson
Czechoslovakia6Jaroslav Balcar, Jindřich Balcar, Ivo Felix, Rudolf Höhnl, Zdeněk Janouch, Karel Kodejška, Leoš Škoda
 East Germany8Dietmar Aschenbach, Hans-Georg Aschenbach, Jochen Danneberg, Bernd Eckstein, Henry Glaß, Dietrich Kampf, Rainer Schmidt, Martin Weber
 Finland6Harri Blumen, P. Hyvävinen, Tauno Käyhkö, Tapio Räisänen, Esko Rautionaho, Jouko Törmänen
 France4Jacques Gaillard, Philippe Jacoberger, Gilbert Poirot, Michel Roche
 Norway7Per Bergerud, Odd Grette, Finn Halvorsen, Bjarne Næs, Johan Sætre, Kai Solbustad
 Poland5Stanisław Bobak, Adam Krzysztofiak, Tadeusz Pawlusiak, Aleksander Stołowski, Janusz Waluś
Soviet Union7Aleksey Borovitin, Yury Ivanov, Yury Kalinin, Aleksandr Karapuzov, Gariy Napalkov, Sergey Saychik, Sergey Suslikov
 Sweden9Odd Brandsegg, Lennart Elimä, Christer Karlsson, Håkon Lindbäck, Thomas Lundgren, Anders Lundqvist, Esa Mattila, Rolf Nordgren, N.O. Westberg
  Switzerland6Josef Bonetti, Ernst Egloff, Robert Mösching, Hans Schmid, Walter Steiner, Ernst von Grünigen
 United States5Jim Denney, Jerry Martin, Chris McNeill, Ron Steele, Greg Windsperger
 Yugoslavia6Janez Demšar, Branko Dolhar, Janez Loštrek, Marko Mlakar, Bogdan Norčič, Peter Štefančič

Results

Oberstdorf

Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
30 December 1975[1]

RankNamePoints
1 Toni Innauer252.2
2 Jochen Danneberg249.8
3 Reinhold Bachler247.1
4 Hans-Georg Aschenbach242.8
5 Stanisław Bobak239.2
6 Rudolf Wanner239.0
7 Karl Schnabl238.2
8 Bernd Eckstein237.0
9 Walter Steiner236.1
10 Sepp Schwinghammer229.8

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1 January 1976[2]

RankNamePoints
1 Toni Innauer231.3
2 Karl Schnabl229.6
3 Jochen Danneberg227.5
4 Reinhold Bachler214.7
5 Aleksey Borovitin213.0
6 Ernst von Grünigen212.9
7 Tadeusz Pawlusiak212.5
8 Hans-Georg Aschenbach212.2
9 Dietmar Aschenbach208.6
10 Aleksandr Karapuzov207.7

Innsbruck

Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
4 January 1976[3]

After his two victories, Toni Innauer only placed 24th (181.5 pts), losing over 30 points to his closest competitors and falling back to 4th place in the overall ranking.

RankNamePoints
1 Jochen Danneberg220.9
2 Karl Schnabl219.6
3 Reinhold Bachler217.7
4 Walter Steiner208.3
5 Rudolf Wanner205.4
6 Rudolf Höhnl203.0
7 Hans Wallner198.1
8 Walter Schwabl196.5
Johan Sætre196.5
10 Sepp Schwinghammer195.7

Bischofshofen

Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
6 January 1976[4]

RankNamePoints
1 Toni Innauer236.2
2 Stanisław Bobak225.5
3 Johan Sætre225.0
4 Karl Schnabl223.5
5 Reinhold Bachler222.4
6 Jochen Danneberg222.0
7 Rudolf Wanner218.0
8 Bernd Eckstein216.9
9 Rudolf Höhnl212.2
10 Aleksey Borovitin211.2

Final Ranking

RankNameOberstdorfGarmisch-PartenkirchenInnsbruckBischofshofenPoints
1 Jochen Danneberg2nd3rd1st6th920.2
2 Karl Schnabl7th2nd2nd4th910.9
3 Reinhold Bachler3rd4th3rd5th901.9
4 Toni Innauer1st1st24th1st901.2
5 Rudolf Wanner6th13th5th7th868.9
6 Stanisław Bobak5th22nd15th2nd851.4
7 Walter Steiner9th24th4th14th848.6
8 Rudolf Höhnl11th15th6th9th847.8
9 Bernd Eckstein8th27th16th8th834.8
10 Sepp Schwinghammer10th26th10th11th831.6

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