1966-67 Four Hills Tournament

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.

Four Hills Tournament
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationGermany, Austria
Dates30 December 1966 (1966-12-30) – 8 January 1967 (1967-01-08)
Competitors81 from 16 nations
Medalists
gold medal 
silver medal 
bronze medal 

Participating nations and athletes

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

NationNumber of AthletesAthletes
 Germany5 (+2)Günther Göllner, Wolfgang Happle, Heini Ihle, Franz Keller, Henrik Ohlmayr
National Group: Oswald Schinze, Alfred Winkler
 Austria7 (+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
 Canada2Ulf Kvendbo, Patrick Morris
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia7Ladislav Divila, Rudolf Höhnl, Zbyněk Hubač, Jozef Metelka, Dalibor Motejlek, Jiří Raška, František Rydval
 East Germany7Veit Kührt, Peter Lesser, Karl-Heinz Munk, Dietmar Neuendorf, Manfred Queck, Heinz Schmidt, Wolfgang Stöhr
 Finland6Niilo Halonen, Veikko Kankkonen, Olli Korhonen, Paavo Maunu, Erkki Pukka, Heikki Väisänen
 France5Maurice Arbez, Alain Macle, Jean-Marie Poirot, Gilbert Poirot, James Yerrly
 Italy3Giacomo Aimoni, Mario Ceccon, Ezio Damolin
Japan Japan3Takashi Fujisawa, Yoshihiko Itō, Kimio Saitō
 Norway3Ronald Jensen, Christoffer Selbekk, Bjørn Wirkola
 Poland5Sławomir Kardas, Józef Kocyan, Józef Przybyla, Piotr Wala, Ryszard Witke
Soviet Union Soviet Union4Waleri Jemeljanow, Pyotr Kovalenko, Mikhail Veretennikov, Koba Zakadze
 Sweden3Thord Karlsson, Tommy Karlsson, Mats Östman
  Switzerland5Richard Pfiffner, Hans Schmid, Heribert Schmid, Max Walter, Sepp Zehnder
 United States3Dave Lundmark, Jay Martin, Adrian Watt
 Yugoslavia4Peter Eržen, Marjan Pecar, Stanko Smolej, Ludvik Zajc

Results

Oberstdorf

Germany Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
30 December 1966[1]

RankNamePoints
1East Germany Dieter Neuendorf202.2
2East Germany Peter Lesser201.5
3Finland Veikko Kankkonen200.6
Norway Bjørn Wirkola200.6
5Austria Sepp Lichtenegger198.9
6Poland Józef Przybyla198.3
7Soviet Union Waleri Jemeljanow194.5
Soviet Union Mikhail Veretennikov194.5
9East Germany Wolfgang Stöhr192.6
10Czechoslovakia Zbyněk Hubač190.3

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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

RankNamePoints
1Norway Bjørn Wirkola229.0
2Austria Reinhold Bachler222.8
3Finland Veikko Kankkonen222.4
4East Germany Dieter Neuendorf220.5
5East Germany Manfred Queck215.8
6Soviet Union Waleri Jemeljanow214.1
7East Germany Peter Lesser213.0
8Norway Ronald Jensen209.4
9Czechoslovakia Jiří Raška208.8
10Austria Max Golser208.4

Innsbruck

Austria Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
6 December 1967[3]

RankNamePoints
1Norway Bjørn Wirkola237.7
2Germany Franz Keller228.3
3Austria Sepp Lichtenegger223.2
4Norway Christoffer Selbekk222.0
5Czechoslovakia Jiří Raška215.9
6East Germany Peter Lesser215.2
7East Germany Dieter Neuendorf214.4
8United States Jay Martin214.0
9Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Peter Eržen213.7
10Poland Józef Kocyan213.2

Bischofshofen

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

RankNamePoints
1Norway Bjørn Wirkola242.7
2Czechoslovakia Jiří Raška233.4
3Austria Sepp Lichtenegger219.4
4Norway Ronald Jensen219.1
5Finland Veikko Kankkonen214.8
6East Germany Dieter Neuendorf209.4
Czechoslovakia Zbyněk Hubač209.4
8Germany Franz Keller208.9
9United States Adrian Watt206.8
10East Germany Manfred Queck205.3

Final ranking

RankNameOberstdorfGarmisch-PartenkirchenInnsbruckBischofshofenPoints
1Norway Bjørn Wirkola3rd1st1st1st910.0
2Austria Sepp Lichtenegger2nd6th1st3rd847.6
3East Germany Dieter Neuendorf1st4th7th6th846.5
4Finland Veikko Kankkonen3rd3rd27th5th834.8
5East Germany Peter Lesser2nd7th6th14th833.0
6Germany Franz Keller23rd21st2nd8th820.8
7Czechoslovakia Jiří Raška42nd9th5th2nd820.1
8Czechoslovakia Zbyněk Hubač10th15th16th7th812.6
9Poland Józef Przybyla6th22nd15th12th811.9
10Soviet Union Mikhail Veretennikov7th12th18th15th810.2

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