2005–06 Four Hills Tournament

The 54th edition of the annual Four Hills Tournament was held in the traditional venues: Oberstorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany, and Innsbruck and Bischofshofen in Austria. For the first and only time, the two ski jumpers at the top of the table shared exactly the same number of points after all four events. The competitors in question, Janne Ahonen and Jakub Janda, were both declared tournament winners. For Ahonen, it was the fourth tournament victory, equalizing the record of Jens Weißflog. He would surpass Weißflog and become the lone record holder two years later.

Four Hills Tournament
at the 2005-06 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Bergiselschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationGermany, Austria
Dates28 December 2005 (2005-12-28) – 6 January 2006 (2006-01-06)
Competitors100 from 23 nations
Medalists
 
 
Janne Ahonen and Jakub Janda, the joint winners of the 2005-06 Four Hills Tournament.

Format

At each of the four events, a qualification round would be held. The 50 best jumpers would qualify for the competition. The fifteen athletes leading the World Cup at the time would qualify automatically. In case of an omitted qualification or a result that would normally result in elimination, they would instead qualify as 50th.

Unlike the procedure at normal World Cup events, the 50 qualified athletes would be paired up for the first round of the final event, with the winner qualifying for the second round. The rounds start with the duel between #26 and #25 from the qualification round, followed by #27 vs #24, up to #50 vs #1. The five best duel losers, so-called 'Lucky Losers' also qualify for the second round.

For the tournament ranking, the total points earned from each jump are added together. The World Cup points collected during the four events are disregarded in this ranking.

World Cup Standings

The events during the Four Hills tournament count as part of the World Cup season. The standings at the time of the tournament, after seven out of twenty-two events, were as follows:[1]

RankNamePoints
01. Jakub Janda552
02. Janne Ahonen435
03. Andreas Küttel430
04. Michael Uhrmann367
05. Andreas Widhölzl254
06. Adam Małysz240
07. Lars Bystøl239
08. Thomas Morgenstern228
09. Robert Kranjec206
10. Roar Ljøkelsøy180

Participating nations and athletes

The number of athletes a nation was allowed to nominate was dependent on previous results. In addition, a "national group" from the host nation is added to each event.

The defending champion was Janne Ahonen. Four other competitors had also previously won the Four Hills tournament: Primož Peterka in 1996-97, Andreas Widhölzl in 1999-00, Adam Małysz in 2000-01 and Sigurd Pettersen in 2003-04.

The following athletes were nominated:

NationStarting SpotsNumber of AthletesAthletes
 Germany6 + 613Michael Uhrmann, Georg Spaeth, Martin Schmitt (until Innsbruck), Michael Neumayer, Alexander Herr, Jörg Ritzerfeld (withdrew in Oberstorf, then replaced), Maximilian Mechler (National Group in Oberstorf, afterwards part of the squad)
National Group: Stephan Hocke, Julian Musiol, Andreas Wank, Erik Simon, Kai Bracht, Mario Kürschner (only Garmisch-Partenkirchen)
 Austria8 + 816Andreas Widhölzl, Thomas Morgenstern, Andreas Kofler, Wolfgang Loitzl, Martin Koch, Martin Höllwarth, Balthasar Schneider, Stefan Thurnbichler
National Group: Reinhard Schwarzenberger, Manuel Fettner, Stefan Kaiser, Roland Müller, Bastian Kaltenböck, Gerald Wambacher, Mathias Hafele, Artur Pauli
 Belarus22Maksim Anisimov, Petr Chaadaev
 Bulgaria22Petar Fartunov, Georgi Zharkov
 Canada11Stefan Read
 China22Tian Zhandong, Li Yang
 Czech Republic45Jakub Janda, Jan Matura, Antonin Hajek, Jan Mazoch (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Ondřej Vaculík (Innsbruck onward)
 Estonia22Jens Salumäe, Jaan Jüris (Innsbruck onward)
 Finland77Janne Ahonen, Matti Hautamäki, Janne Happonen, Risto Jussilainen (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen, not replaced), Joonas Ikonen, Tami Kiuru, Harri Olli
 France33David Lazzaroni, Emmanuel Chedal (Garmisch-Partenkirchen onward), Vincent Descombes (Garmisch-Partenkirchen onward)
 Italy22Sebastian Colloredo, Andrea Morassi
 Japan66Takanobu Okabe, Noriaki Kasai, Daiki Itō, Tsuyoshi Ichinohe, Hideharu Miyahira, Hiroki Yamada
 Kazakhstan22Ivan Karaulov, Nikolay Karpenko
 Norway68Lars Bystøl, Roar Ljøkelsøy, Daniel Forfang (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Tommy Ingebrigtsen, Bjørn Einar Romøren, Sigurd Pettersen (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Henning Stensrud (Innsbruck onward), Anders Bardal (Innsbruck onward)
 Poland46Adam Małysz (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Kamil Stoch, Robert Mateja, Marcin Bachleda (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Stefan Hula (Innsbruck onward), Rafał Śliż (Innsbruck onward)
 Russia44Dimitry Vassiliev, Denis Kornilov, Dimitry Ipatov, Ildar Fatchullin
 Slovakia11Martin Mesík
 Slovenia56Robert Kranjec, Primož Peterka, Rok Benkovič, Jernej Damjan (until Innsbruck), Jurij Tepeš, Primož Pikl (only Bischofshofen)
 South Korea23Choi Heung-chul, Choi Yong-jik (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Kim Hyun-ki (Innsbruck onward)
 Sweden23Isak Grimholm, Johan Erikson (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Jakob Grimholm (Innsbruck onward)
  Switzerland44Andreas Küttel, Simon Ammann, Michael Möllinger, Guido Landert (Innsbruck onward)
 Ukraine11Volodymyr Boschuk (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen)
 United States11Alan Alborn (only Bischofshofen)

Results

Oberstorf

Schattenbergschanze, Oberstorf
28-29 December 2005

Qualification winner: Andreas Widhölzl

RankNamePoints
1 Janne Ahonen270.9
2 Roar Ljøkelsøy268.4
3 Jakub Janda262.6
4 Takanobu Okabe260.8
5 Matti Hautamäki258.0
6 Andreas Widhölzl248.1
7 Georg Spaeth245.3
8 Simon Ammann244.8
9 Michael Uhrmann244.4
10 Bjørn Einar Romøren243.8

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
31 December 2005 - 1 January 2006

Qualification winner: Noriaki Kasai

RankNamePoints
1 Jakub Janda264.7
2 Janne Ahonen262.2
3 Matti Hautamäki260.3
4 Andreas Küttel259.8
5 Roar Ljøkelsøy249.8
6 Andreas Kofler248.9
7 Michael Uhrmann246.6
8 Simon Ammann242.9
9 Georg Spaeth240.8
10 Takanobu Okabe238.6

Innsbruck

Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
03-4 January 2006

Qualification winner: Janne Ahonen

RankNamePoints
1 Lars Bystøl264.7
2 Jakub Janda263.2
3 Bjørn Einar Romøren258.1
4 Thomas Morgenstern257.6
5 Roar Ljøkelsøy256.9
6 Janne Ahonen255.4
7 Andreas Küttel255.2
8 Takanobu Okabe253.8
9 Noriaki Kasai251.7
10 Rok Benkovič251.4

Bischofshofen

Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
05-6 January 2006

Qualification winner: Janne Ahonen

After three out of four events, World Cup leader Jakub Janda was two points ahead of defending champion Janne Ahonen. With Janda skipping the qualification tournament, and Ahonen winning it, there was a direct duel between the two jumpers at the first round of the final tournament. Janda jumped first, and reached 141.0m, surpassing the leading Ljøkelsøy by four meters. Ahonen then reached the same distance, but lost the duel due to worse Judges Marks by one point. As the best duel loser, he still qualified for the second and final round in second place.

Ahonen reached 141.5 meters in his second attempt, earning 146.7 points. With Janda then reaching 'only' 139.0 meters in the tournament's final jump (still the second-furthest jump of the second round), earning 143.7 points, Ahonen surpassed him in the Bischofshofen ranking and equalized in the tournament ranking - both having scored exactly 1081.5 points over the four events.

RankNamePoints
1 Janne Ahonen293.0
2 Jakub Janda291.0
3 Roar Ljøkelsøy282.0
4 Andreas Küttel277.7
5 Bjørn Einar Romøren265.8
6 Takanobu Okabe264.6
7 Alexander Herr262.0
8 Thomas Morgenstern257.6
9 Andreas Widhölzl256.6
10 Andreas Kofler255.9

Final Ranking

RankNameOberstorfGarmisch-PartenkirchenInnsbruckBischofshofenPoints
1 Janne Ahonen1st2nd6th1st1,081.5
Jakub Janda3rd1st2nd2nd1,081.5
3 Roar Ljøkelsøy2nd5th5th3rd1,057.1
4 Andreas Küttel20th4th7th4th1,022.9
5 Matti Hautamäki5th3rd15th15th1,018.0
6 Takanobu Okabe4th10th8th6th1,017.8
7 Bjørn Einar Romøren10th16th3rd5th997.9
8 Andreas Kofler15th6th11th10th992.8
9 Noriaki Kasai13th12th9th11th981.5
10 Georg Spaeth7th9th13th22nd976.7

Lars Bystøl, who won the Innsbruck event, placed only 20th or above in the other three competitions and placed 16th in the final ranking.

References

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