1966-67 Four Hills Tournament

Four Hills Tournament
Four Hills Tournament
Venues	Schattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
Location	Germany, Austria
Dates	30 December 1966 – 8 January 1967
Competitors	81 from 16 nations
Medalists
	Bjørn Wirkola
	Sepp Lichtenegger
	Dieter Neuendorf
	← 1965-66 1967-68 →

The 15th annual Four Hills Tournament was won by Norwegian athlete Bjørn Wirkola who secured three dominating victories after a surprising double victory for the East German team in Oberstdorf.

Participating nations and athletes

The national groups of Germany and Austria only competed at the two events in their respective countries.

Nation	Number of Athletes	Athletes
Germany	5 (+2)	Günther Göllner, Wolfgang Happle, Heini Ihle, Franz Keller, Henrik Ohlmayr National Group: Oswald Schinze, Alfred Winkler
Austria	7 (+7)	Reinhold Bachler, Max Golser, Albert Haim, Sepp Lichtenegger, Baldur Preiml, Willi Schuster, Walter Schwabl National Group: Willi Egger, Fritz Gamweger, Heinz Jölly, Franz Kuchlbacher, Erich Schwabl, Heinz Themesl, Janko Zwitter
Canada	2	Ulf Kvendbo, Patrick Morris
Czechoslovakia	7	Ladislav Divila, Rudolf Höhnl, Zbyněk Hubač, Jozef Metelka, Dalibor Motejlek, Jiří Raška, František Rydval
East Germany	7	Veit Kührt, Peter Lesser, Karl-Heinz Munk, Dietmar Neuendorf, Manfred Queck, Heinz Schmidt, Wolfgang Stöhr
Finland	6	Niilo Halonen, Veikko Kankkonen, Olli Korhonen, Paavo Maunu, Erkki Pukka, Heikki Väisänen
France	5	Maurice Arbez, Alain Macle, Jean-Marie Poirot, Gilbert Poirot, James Yerrly
Italy	3	Giacomo Aimoni, Mario Ceccon, Ezio Damolin
Japan	3	Takashi Fujisawa, Yoshihiko Itō, Kimio Saitō
Norway	3	Ronald Jensen, Christoffer Selbekk, Bjørn Wirkola
Poland	5	Sławomir Kardas, Józef Kocyan, Józef Przybyla, Piotr Wala, Ryszard Witke
Soviet Union	4	Waleri Jemeljanow, Pyotr Kovalenko, Mikhail Veretennikov, Koba Zakadze
Sweden	3	Thord Karlsson, Tommy Karlsson, Mats Östman
Switzerland	5	Richard Pfiffner, Hans Schmid, Heribert Schmid, Max Walter, Sepp Zehnder
United States	3	Dave Lundmark, Jay Martin, Adrian Watt
Yugoslavia	4	Peter Eržen, Marjan Pecar, Stanko Smolej, Ludvik Zajc

Results

Oberstdorf

Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
30 December 1966^[1]

Rank	Name	Points
1	Dieter Neuendorf	202.2
2	Peter Lesser	201.5
3	Veikko Kankkonen	200.6
3	Bjørn Wirkola	200.6
5	Sepp Lichtenegger	198.9
6	Józef Przybyla	198.3
7	Waleri Jemeljanow	194.5
7	Mikhail Veretennikov	194.5
9	Wolfgang Stöhr	192.6
10	Zbyněk Hubač	190.3

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
01 January 1967^[2]

Rank	Name	Points
1	Bjørn Wirkola	229.0
2	Reinhold Bachler	222.8
3	Veikko Kankkonen	222.4
4	Dieter Neuendorf	220.5
5	Manfred Queck	215.8
6	Waleri Jemeljanow	214.1
7	Peter Lesser	213.0
8	Ronald Jensen	209.4
9	Jiří Raška	208.8
10	Max Golser	208.4

Innsbruck

Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
6 December 1967^[3]

Rank	Name	Points
1	Bjørn Wirkola	237.7
2	Franz Keller	228.3
3	Sepp Lichtenegger	223.2
4	Christoffer Selbekk	222.0
5	Jiří Raška	215.9
6	Peter Lesser	215.2
7	Dieter Neuendorf	214.4
8	Jay Martin	214.0
9	Peter Eržen	213.7
10	Józef Kocyan	213.2

Bischofshofen

Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
08 January 1967^[4]

Rank	Name	Points
1	Bjørn Wirkola	242.7
2	Jiří Raška	233.4
3	Sepp Lichtenegger	219.4
4	Ronald Jensen	219.1
5	Veikko Kankkonen	214.8
6	Dieter Neuendorf	209.4
6	Zbyněk Hubač	209.4
8	Franz Keller	208.9
9	Adrian Watt	206.8
10	Manfred Queck	205.3

Final ranking

Rank	Name	Oberstdorf	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Innsbruck	Bischofshofen	Points
1	Bjørn Wirkola	3rd	1st	1st	1st	910.0
2	Sepp Lichtenegger	2nd	6th	1st	3rd	847.6
3	Dieter Neuendorf	1st	4th	7th	6th	846.5
4	Veikko Kankkonen	3rd	3rd	27th	5th	834.8
5	Peter Lesser	2nd	7th	6th	14th	833.0
6	Franz Keller	23rd	21st	2nd	8th	820.8
7	Jiří Raška	42nd	9th	5th	2nd	820.1
8	Zbyněk Hubač	10th	15th	16th	7th	812.6
9	Józef Przybyla	6th	22nd	15th	12th	811.9
10	Mikhail Veretennikov	7th	12th	18th	15th	810.2

References

External links

[1] "Oberstdorf (GER)". FIS.

[2] "Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER)". FIS.

[3] "Innsbruck (AUT)". FIS.

[4] "Bischofshofen (AUT)". FIS.

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