1975–76 Four Hills Tournament

The 24th edition of the annual Four Hills Tournament was won by East German Jochen Danneberg.

For the tenth time, three out of the four events were won by the same athlete. However, for the fourth time within six years, it was not enough to win the Tournament: Toni Innauer only placed 24th in Innsbruck and lost too much ground to his competitors.

Four Hills Tournament
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationWest Germany, Austria
Dates30 December 1975 (1975-12-30) – 6 January 1976 (1976-01-06)
Competitors96 from 15 nations
Medalists
gold medal 
silver medal 
bronze medal 

Participating nations and athletes

NationNumber of AthletesAthletes
 West Germany6Alfred Grosche, Peter Leitner, Frank Rombach, Sepp Schwinghammer, Rudi Tusch, Albert Wursthorn
 Austria10Reinhold Bachler, Rupert Gürtler, Walter Habersatter jr., Toni Innauer, Hans Millonig, Willi Pürstl, Karl Schnabl, Walter Schwabl, Hans Wallner, Rudolf Wanner
Bulgaria Bulgaria4Valentin Bozhkov, Peter Dimitrov, Ivan Iankov, Zdravko Idravkov
 Canada6Kim Fripp, Donald Grady, Richard Grady, Richard Graves, Paul Martin, Peter Wilson
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia6Jaroslav Balcar, Jindřich Balcar, Ivo Felix, Rudolf Höhnl, Zdeněk Janouch, Karel Kodejška, Leoš Škoda
 East Germany8Dietmar Aschenbach, Hans-Georg Aschenbach, Jochen Danneberg, Bernd Eckstein, Henry Glaß, Dietrich Kampf, Rainer Schmidt, Martin Weber
 Finland6Harri Blumen, P. Hyvävinen, Tauno Käyhkö, Tapio Räisänen, Esko Rautionaho, Jouko Törmänen
 France4Jacques Gaillard, Philippe Jacoberger, Gilbert Poirot, Michel Roche
 Norway7Per Bergerud, Odd Grette, Finn Halvorsen, Bjarne Næs, Johan Sætre, Kai Solbustad
 Poland5Stanisław Bobak, Adam Krzysztofiak, Tadeusz Pawlusiak, Aleksander Stołowski, Janusz Waluś
Soviet Union Soviet Union7Aleksey Borovitin, Yury Ivanov, Yury Kalinin, Aleksandr Karapuzov, Gariy Napalkov, Sergey Saychik, Sergey Suslikov
 Sweden9Odd Brandsegg, Lennart Elimä, Christer Karlsson, Håkon Lindbäck, Thomas Lundgren, Anders Lundqvist, Esa Mattila, Rolf Nordgren, N.O. Westberg
  Switzerland6Josef Bonetti, Ernst Egloff, Robert Mösching, Hans Schmid, Walter Steiner, Ernst von Grünigen
 United States5Jim Denney, Jerry Martin, Chris McNeill, Ron Steele, Greg Windsperger
 Yugoslavia6Janez Demšar, Branko Dolhar, Janez Loštrek, Marko Mlakar, Bogdan Norčič, Peter Štefančič

Results

Oberstdorf

West Germany Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
30 December 1975[1]

RankNamePoints
1Austria Toni Innauer252.2
2East Germany Jochen Danneberg249.8
3Austria Reinhold Bachler247.1
4East Germany Hans-Georg Aschenbach242.8
5Poland Stanisław Bobak239.2
6Austria Rudolf Wanner239.0
7Austria Karl Schnabl238.2
8East Germany Bernd Eckstein237.0
9Switzerland Walter Steiner236.1
10West Germany Sepp Schwinghammer229.8

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

West Germany Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1 January 1976[2]

RankNamePoints
1Austria Toni Innauer231.3
2Austria Karl Schnabl229.6
3East Germany Jochen Danneberg227.5
4Austria Reinhold Bachler214.7
5Soviet Union Aleksey Borovitin213.0
6Switzerland Ernst von Grünigen212.9
7Poland Tadeusz Pawlusiak212.5
8East Germany Hans-Georg Aschenbach212.2
9East Germany Dietmar Aschenbach208.6
10Soviet Union Aleksandr Karapuzov207.7

Innsbruck

Austria Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
4 January 1976[3]

After his two victories, Toni Innauer only placed 24th (181.5 pts), losing over 30 points to his closest competitors and falling back to 4th place in the overall ranking.

RankNamePoints
1East Germany Jochen Danneberg220.9
2Austria Karl Schnabl219.6
3Austria Reinhold Bachler217.7
4Switzerland Walter Steiner208.3
5Austria Rudolf Wanner205.4
6Czechoslovakia Rudolf Höhnl203.0
7Austria Hans Wallner198.1
8Austria Walter Schwabl196.5
Norway Johan Sætre196.5
10West Germany Sepp Schwinghammer195.7

Bischofshofen

Austria Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
6 January 1976[4]

RankNamePoints
1Austria Toni Innauer236.2
2Poland Stanisław Bobak225.5
3Norway Johan Sætre225.0
4Austria Karl Schnabl223.5
5Austria Reinhold Bachler222.4
6East Germany Jochen Danneberg222.0
7Austria Rudolf Wanner218.0
8East Germany Bernd Eckstein216.9
9Czechoslovakia Rudolf Höhnl212.2
10Soviet Union Aleksey Borovitin211.2

Final ranking

RankNameOberstdorfGarmisch-PartenkirchenInnsbruckBischofshofenPoints
1East Germany Jochen Danneberg2nd3rd1st6th920.2
2Austria Karl Schnabl7th2nd2nd4th910.9
3Austria Reinhold Bachler3rd4th3rd5th901.9
4Austria Toni Innauer1st1st24th1st901.2
5Austria Rudolf Wanner6th13th5th7th868.9
6Poland Stanisław Bobak5th22nd15th2nd851.4
7Switzerland Walter Steiner9th24th4th14th848.6
8Czechoslovakia Rudolf Höhnl11th15th6th9th847.8
9East Germany Bernd Eckstein8th27th16th8th834.8
10West Germany Sepp Schwinghammer10th26th10th11th831.6

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