1972–73 Four Hills Tournament

Four Hills Tournament
Venues	Schattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
Location	West Germany, Austria
Dates	30 December 1972 (1972-12-30) – 6 January 1973 (1973-01-06)
Competitors	97 from 17 nations
Medalists
Rainer Schmidt   Hans-Georg Aschenbach   Sergei Botschkov

Participating nations and athletes

Nation	Number of Athletes	Athletes
West Germany	7	Alfred Grosche, Heini Ihle, Sepp Schwinghammer, Rudi Tusch, Albert Wursthorn, Ernst Wursthorn, Bernd Zapf
Austria	7	Reinhold Bachler, Willi Pürstl, Franz Salhofer, Karl Schnabl, Walter Schwabl, Hans Wallner, Rudolf Wanner
Bulgaria	4	Georgi Guedurov, Georgi Lasev, Ivan Sandov, Ivan Scharkov
Canada	7	Kim Fripp, Richard Grady, Richard Graves, Paul Martin, Tom Reaper, Lyle Speers, Peter Wilson
Czechoslovakia	8	Ladislav Divila, Bohumil Doležal, Rudolf Höhnl, Zbynek Hubac, Karel Kodejška, Jaromír Liďák, Leoš Škoda, Jaroslav Slama
East Germany	8	Hans-Georg Aschenbach, Jochen Danneberg, Bernd Eckstein, Henry Glaß, Dietrich Kampf, Rainer Schmidt, Manfred Wolf, Heinz Wosipiwo
Finland	4	Tauno Käyhkö, Esko Rautionaho, Juhani Ruotsalainen, Kari Ylianttila
France	3	Jacques Gaillard, Philippe Jacoberger, Gilbert Poirot
Italy	3	Ermes Bontempelli, Mario Ceccon, Leo De Crignis
Japan	6	Masakatsu Asari, Hiroshi Itagaki, Koji Kakuta, Yukio Kasaya, Takafumi Kawabata, Hisayoshi Sawada
Norway	6	Odd Grette, Knut Kongsgård, Frithjof Prydz, Nils-Per Skarseth, Kai Solbustad, Bent Tomtum
Poland	7	Stanisław Bobak, Wojciech Fortuna, Stanisław Gąsienica Daniel, Czesław Janik, Slawomir Kardas, Tadeusz Pawlusiak, Józef Tajner
Soviet Union	6	Sergei Botschkov, Wladimir Galuschin, Yury Kalinin, Menschikow, Vladimir Smirnov, Vladimir Terichev
Sweden	4	Christer Karlsson, Eilerth Mähler, Andreas Lundquist, Rolf Nordgren
Switzerland	6	Eric Aubert, Fredy Guinard, Hans Schmid, Walter Steiner, Ernst von Grünigen, Josef Zehnder
United States	6	Mike Devecka, Chris McNeill, Ron Neal, Ron Steele, Dave Tomten, Jeff Wright
Yugoslavia	6	Janez Loštrek, Marjan Mesec, Bogdan Norčič, Marian Prelovšek, Danilo Pudgar, Peter Štefančič

Results

Oberstdorf

Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
30 December 1972

Rank	Name	Points
1	Rainer Schmidt	237.0
2	Hans-Georg Aschenbach	233.5
3	Henry Glaß	226.2
4	Hans Schmid	220.3
5	Manfred Wolf	215.5
6	Rudolf Höhnl	215.0
7	Dietrich Kampf	210.7
8	Reinhold Bachler	208.7
9	Esko Rautionaho	208.4
10	Alfred Grosche	205.4

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1 January 1973

Rank	Name	Points
1	Rainer Schmidt	229.1
2	Dietrich Kampf	222.4
3	Jaromír Liďák	217.3
4	Manfred Wolf	216.8
5	Jochen Danneberg	215.0
6	Henry Glaß	214.6
7	Walter Steiner	214.5
8	Sergei Botschkov	212.7
9	Hiroshi Itagaki	209.5
10	Wojciech Fortuna	208.4

Innsbruck

Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
3 January 1973

Rank	Name	Points
1	Sergei Botschkov	231.9
2	Rainer Schmidt	228.9
3	Hans-Georg Aschenbach	224.4
4	Walter Steiner	221.5
5	Hans Schmid	216.7
6	Yukio Kasaya	214.8
7	Tauno Käyhkö	212.1
8	Manfred Wolf	210.6
	Tadeusz Pawlusiak	210.6
10	Hiroshi Itagaki	209.6

Bischofshofen

Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
6 January 1973

Rank	Name	Points
1	Rudolf Höhnl	234.6
2	Sergei Botschkov	233.4
3	Hans-Georg Aschenbach	231.8
4	Jaromír Liďák	231.2
5	Hiroshi Itagaki	230.7
6	Jochen Danneberg	229.8
7	Karel Kodejška	225.1
8	Walter Steiner	224.3
9	Manfred Wolf	223.2
10	Reinhold Bachler	222.7

Final ranking

Rank	Name	Innsbruck	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Oberstdorf	Bischofshofen	Points
1	Rainer Schmidt	1st	1st	2nd	12th	913.9
2	Hans-Georg Aschenbach	2nd	11th	3rd	3rd	897.5
3	Sergei Botschkov	17th	8th	1st	2nd	874.2
4	Hans Schmid	4th	12th	5th	11th	867.2
5	Manfred Wolf	5th	4th	8th	9th	866.1
6	Rudolf Höhnl	6th	16th	12th	1st	858.9
7	Walter Steiner	19th	7th	4th	8th	855.8
8	Henry Glaß	3rd	6th	22nd	21st	846.1
9	Hiroshi Itagaki	20th	9th	10th	5th	844.8
10	Jochen Danneberg	21st	5th	13th	6th	841.4

External links

• FIS website
• Four Hills Tournament web site