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1962–63 Four Hills Tournament

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Four Hills Tournament
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationGermany, Austria
Dates28 December 1962 (1962-12-28) – 6 January 1963 (1963-01-06)
Competitors77 from 14 nations
Medalists
gold medal 
silver medal 
bronze medal 
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At the 11th annual Four Hills Tournament, the strong Norwegian team saw three of its tournament debutants within the Top 5. Toralf Engan dominated the tour with three clear victories and became the second Norwegian to win the tour after Olaf Bjørnstad 10 years earlier.

Participating nations and athletes

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With the exception of Wolfgang Schüller, the athletes from the German Democratic Republic did not compete at the two events in Germany for political reasons.

Nation Number of Athletes Athletes
 Germany 11 Max Bolkart, Günther Göllner, Alois Haberstock, Wolfgang Happle, Heini Ihle, Helmut Kurz, Bernd Moderegger, Sepp Schiffner, Georg Thoma, Helmut Wegscheider, Hias Winkler
 Austria 17 Willi Egger, Fritz Gamweger, Max Golser, Walter Habersatter, Waldemar Heigenhauser, Ernst Kopp, Willi Köstinger, Sepp Lichtenegger, Horst Moser, Peter Müller, Georg Niederhammer, Baldur Preiml, Helmut Rauter, Herbert Schiffner, Willi Schuster, Rudi Schweinberger, Walter Steinegger
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 4 Josef Matouš, Dalibor Motejlek, Jiří Raška, Wladimir Tajner
 East Germany 7 Dieter Bockeloh, Veit Kührt, Peter Lesser, Helmut Recknagel, Johannes Riedel, Kurt Schramm, Wolfgang Schüller
 Finland 3 Niilo Halonen, Juhani Kärkinen, Pekka Yli-Niemi
 Hungary 4 László Csávás, János Horváth, Endre Kiss, Tamás Sudár
 Italy 3 Giacomo Aimoni, Agosto De Zordo, Bruno De Zordo
 Norway 4 Torgeir Brandtzæg, Jan Petter Devor, Toralf Engan, Torbjørn Yggeseth
 Poland 5 Gustaw Bujok, Andrzej Kocyan, Antoni Łaciak, Jan Pezda, Andrzej Sztolf
Soviet Union Soviet Union 4 Aleksandr Ivannikov, Nikolay Kamenskiy, Nikolai Schamov, Koba Zakadze
 Sweden 3 Bengt Eriksson, Olle Martinsson, Rolf Strandberg
 Switzerland 3 Toni Cecchinato, Ueli Scheidegger, Heribert Schmid
 United States 5 John Balfanz, John Bower, Roger Dion, Paul Johnson, Ralph Semb
 Yugoslavia 4 Božo Jemc, Andrej Nahtigal, Miro Oman, Ludvik Zajc

Results

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Oberstdorf

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Germany Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
28 December 1962[1]

Rank Name Points
1 Norway Toralf Engan 214.2
2 Germany Max Bolkart 199.3
3 Norway Torbjørn Yggeseth 194.8
4 Germany Heini Ihle 193.6
5 Austria Willi Egger 191.6
6 Germany Georg Thoma 185.3
7 United States John Balfanz 182.7
8 Norway Torgeir Brandtzæg 182.3
9 Finland Niilo Halonen 181.3
10 Austria Sepp Lichtenegger 180.5
Finland Juhani Kärkinen 180.5

Innsbruck

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Austria Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
30 December 1962[2]

Rank Name Points
1 Norway Toralf Engan 231.2
2 East Germany Helmut Recknagel 215.7
3 Germany Georg Thoma 215.3
4 Norway Torgeir Brandtzæg 214.9
5 East Germany Kurt Schramm 212.1
6 United States John Balfanz 211.1
7 Norway Torbjørn Yggeseth 210.1
8 Germany Max Bolkart 208.8
9 Germany Heini Ihle 206.8
10 Soviet Union Aleksandr Ivannikov 205.4

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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Germany Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1 January 1963[3]

Rank Name Points
1 Norway Toralf Engan 229.9
2 Germany Georg Thoma 217.3
3 Germany Max Bolkart 216.9
4 Finland Niilo Halonen 211.4
5 United States John Balfanz 209.9
6 Norway Torbjørn Yggeseth 209.8
7 Finland Pekka Yli-Niemi 207.4
8 Poland Antoni Łaciak 206.5
9 Czechoslovakia Dalibor Motejlek 204.4
10 Norway Torgeir Brandtzæg 204.0

Bischofshofen

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Austria Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
6 January 1963[4]

After three clear victories, there was little chance for Engan's opponents to catch up to him in the overall ranking.

Within ten years, Engan was the fourth athlete to compete in Bischofshofen after having won all three previous events. Like all of his predecessors in that regard, he did not manage to secure a fourth victory.

John Balfanz became the first non-European to finish on a podium at a Four Hills event.

Rank Name Points
1 Norway Torbjørn Yggeseth 205.0
2 Norway Torgeir Brandtzæg 199.5
3 United States John Balfanz 197.5
4 Norway Toralf Engan 195.4
5 Germany Max Bolkart 191.8
6 Austria Baldur Preiml 188.4
7 Austria Willi Egger 186.8
8 Italy Giacomo Aimoni 186.6
9 Austria Max Golser 185.6
10 Germany Helmut Kurz 184.6

Final ranking

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Rank Name Oberstdorf Innsbruck Garmisch-Partenkirchen Bischofshofen Points
1 Norway Toralf Engan 1st 1st 1st 4th 870.7
2 Norway Torbjørn Yggeseth 3rd 7th 6th 1st 819.7
3 Germany Max Bolkart 2nd 8th 3rd 5th 816.8
4 United States John Balfanz 7th 6th 5th 3rd 801.2
5 Norway Torgeir Brandtzæg 8th 4th 10th 2nd 800.7
6 Germany Georg Thoma 6th 3rd 2nd 15th 797.3
7 Poland Antoni Łaciak 13th 19th 8th 13th 759.9
8 Austria Willi Egger 5th 23rd 19th 7th 758.4
9 Finland Pekka Yli-Niemi 25th 12th 7th 26th 747.0
10 Czechoslovakia Josef Matouš 15th 20th 12th 18th 742.3

References

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