1958–59 Four Hills Tournament

The seventh edition of the annual Four Hills Tournament in Germany and Austria saw Helmut Recknagel of East Germany win three out of four events and become the first ski jumper to defend his title as Four Hills champion. He also set the record for most consecutive hill victories at Four Hills tournaments (five). It was equalized by Sven Hannawald in 2002 and by Kamil Stoch in 2018.

Four Hills Tournament
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Bergiselschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationGermany, Austria
Dates28 December 1958 (1958-12-28) – 6 January 1959 (1959-01-06)
Competitors60 from 8 nations
Medalists
gold medal 
silver medal 
bronze medal 
← 1957-58
1959-60 →

Participating nations and athletes

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Nation Number of Athletes Athletes
  Germany 19 Hermann Anwander, Helmut Bleier, Arthur Bodenmüller, Max Bolkart, Franz Fischer, Wolfgang Happle, Otto Herz, Toni Hörterer, Sepp Kleisl, Helmut Kurz, Hans Leppert, Helmut Reicherts, Ewald Roscher, Konrad Simerl, Georg Thoma, Helmut Wegscheider, Hias Winkler, Hubert Witting, Heinrich Zapf
  Austria 14 Alfred Brunner, Willi Egger, Walter Habersatter, Waldemar Heigenhauser, Ferdi Kerber, Ernst Kröll, Lois Leodolter, Otto Leodolter, Horst Moser, Peter Müller, Alwin Plank, Theo Schett, Fredi Schirmer, Walter Steinegger, Ferdl Wallner
  Czechoslovakia 2 Miroslav Martinák, Emil Ulrych
  Finland 3 Veikko Kankkonen, Eino Kirjonen, Pekka Tirkkonen
  East Germany 9 Adolf Baldauf, Manfred Brunner, Hugo Fuchs, Harry Glaß, Werner Lesser, Manfred Matthey, Harald Pfeffer, Helmut Recknagel, Willi Wirth
  Italy 3 Dino De Zordo, Luigi Pennaccio, Nilo Zandanell
  Norway 3 Arne Hoel, Kjell Kopstad, Anders Woldseth
  Soviet Union 7 Rudolf Bykov, Nikolay Kamenskiy, Jaroslav Mazánek, Yuri Samsonov, Vitaly Sannikov, Nikolai Schamov, Koba Zakadze

Results

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Oberstdorf

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  Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
28 December 1958[1]

Rank Name Points
1   Helmut Recknagel 226.5
2   Eino Kirjonen 222.0
3   Nikolai Schamov 221.0
4   Anders Woldseth 219.5
5   Otto Leodolter 218.0
6   Pekka Tirkkonen 217.5
7   Nikolay Kamenskiy 216.5
8   Harry Glaß 215.0
9   Arne Hoel 214.0
10   Willi Egger 212.5

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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  Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1 January 1959[2]

Rank Name Points
1   Helmut Recknagel 225.7
2   Koba Zakadze 223.0
3   Nikolai Schamov 216.5
4   Yuri Samsonov 215.7
5   Veikko Kankkonen 215.3
6   Kjell Kopstad 213.7
7   Nikolay Kamenskiy 213.1
8   Arne Hoel 212.2
9   Eino Kirjonen 212.1
10   Walter Habersatter 211.8

Innsbruck

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  Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
4 January 1959[3]

The third place in Innsbruck was the only podium in Anders Woldseth's career before his untimely death later that same year.

Rank Name Points
1   Helmut Recknagel 230.0
2   Veikko Kankkonen 222.5
3   Anders Woldseth 219.5
4   Harry Glaß 217.0
5   Walter Habersatter 214.5
6   Arne Hoel 214.0
7   Nikolai Schamov 212.5
8   Willi Egger 212.0
  Pekka Tirkkonen 212.0
10   Otto Leodolter 211.5
  Yuri Samsonov 211.5

Bischofshofen

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  Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
6 January 1959[4]

After three victories, Helmut Recknagel went into the Bischofshofen event with a comfortable 32.2-point lead. He only finished 15th, but still beat his closest pursuer Schamov, who placed 22nd.

With a home victory, Austrian athlete Walter Habersatter interrupted Recknagel's winning streak and snatched silver in the overall ranking.

Max Bolkart's eighth place was the only Top Ten appearance of a (West) German athlete during this tournament.

Rank Name Points
1   Walter Habersatter 222.5
2   Eino Kirjonen 220.2
3   Nikolay Kamenskiy 218.6
4   Anders Woldseth 215.0
5   Harry Glaß 214.5
6   Walter Steinegger 211.7
7   Yuri Samsonov 210.4
8   Max Bolkart 210.3
9   Arne Hoel 210.2
10   Rudolf Bykov 206.9

Final ranking

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Rank Name Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Points
1   Helmut Recknagel 1st 1st 1st 15th 883.2
2   Walter Habersatter 11th 10th 5th 1st 860.8
3   Arne Hoel 9th 8th 6th 9th 850.4
4   Nikolai Schamov 3rd 3rd 7th 22nd 839.7
5   Nikolay Kamenskiy 7th 7th 31st 3rd 838.2
6   Otto Leodolter 5th 15th 10th 13th 837.6
7   Anders Woldseth 4th 34th 3rd 4th 835.2
8   Yuri Samsonov 21st 4th 10th 7th 835.1
9   Rudolf Bykov 12th 11th 15th 10th 833.9
10   Harry Glaß 8th 31st 4th 5th 831.0

References

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  1. ^ "Oberstdorf (GER)". FIS.
  2. ^ "Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER)". FIS.
  3. ^ "Innsbruck (AUT)". FIS.
  4. ^ "Bischofshofen (AUT)". FIS.
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