The Four Hills Tournament (Vierschanzentournee) is composed of four Ski Jumping World Cup events and has taken place in Germany and Austria each year since 1952. The tournament is second only to the World Cup and the Winter Olympics as the most sought after title on the ski jumping world circuit. 1952 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... A runner carries the Olympic torch The Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics for short but more correctly The Olympic Winter Games, are the cold-weather counterpart to the Summer Olympic Games. ... Ski jumping is a winter sport in which skiers go down a hill with a take-off ramp (the jump), attempting to go as far as possible. ...

The Four Hills Tournament is comprised of four individual World Cup events and points gained in the Four Hills Tournament are added to points gained in other World Cup events throughout the season.

Tournament Hills

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Previous Winners

List of combined Four Hills Tournament Winners See also: Four Hills Tournament - Ski Jumping 2004/2005: Janne Ahonen, Finland 2003/2004: Sigurd Pettersen, Norway 2002/2003: Janne Ahonen, Finland 2001/2002: Sven Hannawald, Germany 2000/2001: Adam Małysz, Poland 1999/2000: Andreas Widhölzl, Austria 1998/1999: Janne Ahonen, Finland 1997/1998: Kazuyoshi Funaki, Japan 1996/1997: Primoz...

Records

Jens Weissflog (DDR/D) is the only ski jumper to have won the tournament fours times. He won the tournament in (1984, 1985, 1991 and 1996). Behind him are Helmut Recknagel (DDR), Björn Wirkola (Nor) and Janne Ahonen (Finland) with three titles each. As he is currently an active ski jumper, Ahonen can still equal Weissflog's record of 4 wins. Jens Weißflog (born July 21, 1964, Erlabrunn, Erzgebirge, Germany) is the most successful German ski jumper of all time. ... The Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is one of the worlds leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The Kingdom of Norway is a Nordic country on the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering Sweden, Finland and Russia, with territorial waters bordering Danish and British waters. ... Zakopane 2005 fot. ...

Jens Weissflog und Bjørn Wirkola have both won ten individual competitions within the Four Hills Tournament. Matti Nykänen (FIN) is next with 7 victories. Matti Nykänen (born July 17, 1963) is a Finnish ski-jumper, and inarguably one of the greatest in that sport, winning five olympic medals (four golden), 15 world championships medals (six golden) and 22 Finnish championships medals (13 golden). ... The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta, Swedish: Republiken Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bordered by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west. ...

During the 50th edition of the tournament (2001/2002), Sven Hannawald was the first person to win all four competitions in a single year. 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Germany has the most winners with 16 (11 of which were pre-1989), next comes Finland with 14 victories and then Norway and Austria with 9 wins. The following coutries all have a single victory: Japan, Slovenia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the USSR.

External link

• http://www.vierschanzen.org