1954–55 Four Hills Tournament

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Four Hills Tournament
LocationGermany, Austria
Dates30 December 1954 (1954-12-30) – 8 January 1955 (1955-01-08)
Nations6
Medalists
1955-56
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At the third edition of the annual Four Hills Tournament in Germany and Austria, Hemmo Silvennoinen became the first ski jumper to win the tournament without winning any of the single events. He won ahead of two other Finns.

Participating nations and athletes

Defending champion

Sepp Bradl
did compete and ended up fourth overall, in spite of disappointing results on the German hills (15th and 12th).

The following athletes are on the

FIS
record, although it is likely incomplete.

Nation Athletes
 Germany
 Austria
 Finland Aulis Kallakorpi, Eino Kirjonen, Hemmo Silvennoinen
 Norway Gunder Gundersen, Kjell Knarvik, Asbjørn Moland, Torbjørn Ruste, Thorleif Schjelderup
 Sweden Lars-Åke Bergseije, Toivo Lauren
 Switzerland Gottfried Bühler, Andreas Däscher, Hans Däscher

Results

Oberstdorf

Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf

30 December 1954
[1]

Rank Name Points
1 Finland Aulis Kallakorpi 224.0
2 Finland Eino Kirjonen 220.0
Finland Hemmo Silvennoinen 220.0
4 Norway Kjell Knarvik 217.0
Norway Torbjørn Ruste 217.0
6 Germany Toni Brutscher 216.5
7 Germany Sepp Hohenleitner 216.0
8 Norway Gunder Gundersen 215.0
9 Germany Max Bolkart 213.5
10
Sepp Kleisl
210.0

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Germany Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
01 January 1955[2]

Rank Name Points
1 Finland Aulis Kallakorpi 228.0
2 Finland Eino Kirjonen 220.5
3 Finland Hemmo Silvennoinen 218.5
4 Germany Sepp Hohenleitner 215.5
Norway Kjell Knarvik 215.5
6 Norway Asbjørn Moland 205.0
7 Germany Franz Dengg 203.5
8 Sweden Lars-Åke Bergseije 199.0
9
Sepp Kleisl
196.0
Austria Alwin Plank 196.0

Innsbruck

Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck

06 January 1954
[3]

After two consecutive victories, Aulis Kallakorpi only finished twentieth in Innsbruck, falling back in the overall ranking. Winner Ruste, similarly, was missing a competitive result from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Thus, Hemmo Silvennoinen took the overall lead, only 1.5 points ahead of Eino Kirjonen.

Rank Name Points
1 Norway Torbjørn Ruste 225.0
2 Finland Hemmo Silvennoinen 222.0
3 Germany Max Bolkart 221.0
4 Finland Eino Kirjonen 218.5
5
Sepp Bradl
212.0
6 Germany Sepp Hohenleitner 211.5
7 Austria Alwin Plank 210.5
8 Norway Gunder Gundersen 209.5
9 Germany Toni Brutscher 209.0
10 Sweden Toivo Lauren 206.0

Bischofshofen

Austria Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
08 January 1954[4]

Rank Name Points
1 Norway Torbjørn Ruste 224.5
2 Finland Hemmo Silvennoinen 217.5
3 Finland Eino Kirjonen 216.2
4
Sepp Bradl
215.1
5 Germany Franz Eder 205.8
6 Finland Aulis Kallakorpi 205.1
7 Sweden Toivo Lauren 204.2
8 Austria Alwin Plank 201.9
9 Norway Kjell Knarvik 200.8
10 Austria Otto Leodolter 199.0

Final ranking

Rank Name Garmisch-Partenkirchen Oberstorf Innsbruck Bischofshofen Points
1 Finland Hemmo Silvennoinen 2nd 3rd 2nd 2nd 878.0
2 Finland Eino Kirjonen 2nd 2nd 4th 3rd 875.2
3 Finland Aulis Kallakorpi 1st 1st 20th 6th 851.1
4
Sepp Bradl
15th 12th 5th 4th 830.1
5 Norway Kjell Knarvik 4th 4th 24th 9th 824.3

References

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