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2004–05 Four Hills Tournament

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Four Hills Tournament
at the 2004-05 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
VenuesSchattenbergschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Bergiselschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
LocationGermany, Austria
Dates28 December 2004 (2004-12-28) – 6 January 2005 (2005-01-06)
Competitors93 from 20 nations
Medalists
gold medal 
silver medal 
bronze medal 
Finishing almost 50 points ahead of runners-up Martin Höllwarth, the third out of Janne Ahonen's five Four Hills victories was the most distinct.

The 53rd edition of the annual Four Hills Tournament was held in the traditional venues: Oberstorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany, and Innsbruck and Bischofshofen in Austria.

The Four Hills tournament counts as part of the World Cup season. Before the competition in Oberstorf, eight out of twenty-eight events were already held. Janne Ahonen had won seven of them, and placed second in the only one he did not. This early-season dominance of the Finnish athlete, who had already won the Four Hills tournament twice before, made him the favourite for the title, and Ahonen did not disappoint. He won the first three events, though he failed to become the second ski jumper after Sven Hannawald to win all four events of the tournament when runners-up Martin Höllwarth snatched the victory at the final event in Bischofshofen.

Format

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At each of the four events, a qualification round would be held. The 50 best jumpers would qualify for the competition. The fifteen athletes leading the World Cup at the time would qualify automatically. In case of an omitted qualification or a result that would normally result in elimination, they would instead qualify as 50th.

Unlike the procedure at normal World Cup events, the 50 qualified athletes would be paired up for the first round of the final event, with the winner qualifying for the second round. The rounds start with the duel between #26 and #25 from the qualification round, followed by #27 vs #24, up to #50 vs #1. The five best duel losers, so-called 'Lucky Losers' also qualify for the second round.

For the tournament ranking, the total points earned from each jump are added together. The World Cup points collected during the four events are disregarded in this ranking.

World Cup Standings

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The standings at the time of the tournament, after seven out of twenty-two events, were as follows:[1]

Rank Name Points
01. Finland Janne Ahonen 780
02. Czech Republic Jakub Janda 448
03. Austria Martin Höllwarth 397
04. Norway Roar Ljøkelsøy 379
05. Austria Thomas Morgenstern 328
06. Finland Matti Hautamäki 323
07. Austria Andreas Widhölzl 298
08. Poland Adam Małysz 277
09. Japan Noriaki Kasai 228
10. Germany Alexander Herr 218

Participating nations and athletes

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The number of athletes a nation was allowed to nominate was dependent on previous results. In addition, a "national group" from the host nation is added to each event.

The defending champion was Sigurd Pettersen. Six other competitors had also previously won the Four Hills tournament: Andreas Goldberger in 1992-93 and 1994–95, Janne Ahonen in 1998-99 and 2002–03, Primož Peterka in 1996-97, Kazuyoshi Funaki in 1997-98, Andreas Widhölzl in 1999-00 and Adam Małysz in 2000-01.

The following athletes were nominated:

Nation Starting Spots Number of Athletes Athletes
 Germany 8 + 8 16 Alexander Herr, Georg Spaeth, Michael Uhrmann, Jörg Ritzerfeld, Michael Neumayer, Stephan Hocke, Maximilian Mechler, Martin Schmitt
National Group: Andreas Wank, Christian Bruder, Ferdinand Bader, Stefan Pieper, Kai Bracht, Julian Musiol, Mark Krauspenhaar, Hans Petrat
 Austria 8 + 8 16 Martin Höllwarth, Thomas Morgenstern, Andreas Widhölzl, Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Goldberger, Florian Liegl, Andreas Kofler, Balthasar Schneiderbr />National Group: Stefan Kaiser, Reinhard Schwarzenberger, Martin Koch, Roland Müller, Mathias Hafele, Stefan Thurnbichler, Manuel Fettner, Christian Nagiller
 Belarus 2 2 Maksim Anisimov, Petr Chaadaev
 China 2 3 Tian Zhandong, Li Yang (Oberstorf and Innsbruck only), Wang Jianxun (Bischofshofen only)
 Czech Republic 4 5 Jakub Janda, Jan Mazoch, Jan Matura, Michal Doležal (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Antonin Hajek (Innsbruck onward)
 Estonia 2 2 Jaan Jüris, Jens Salumäe
 Finland 5 5 Janne Ahonen, Matti Hautamäki, Tami Kiuru, Veli-Matti Lindström, Risto Jussilainen
 France 3 3 David Lazzaroni, Emmanuel Chedal (Garmisch-Partenkirchen onward), Nicolas Dessum (Garmisch-Partenkirchen onward)
 Japan 6 6 Noriaki Kasai, Daiki Itō, Hideharu Miyahira, Kazuyoshi Funaki, Akira Higashi, Kazuya Yoshioka
 Kazakhstan 2 2 Asan Tahtahunov, Radik Zhaparov
 Netherlands 1 1 Boy van Baarle (Innsbruck onward)
 Norway 8 8 Roar Ljøkelsøy, Lars Bystøl, Bjørn Einar Romøren, Henning Stensrud, Sigurd Pettersen, Tommy Ingebrigtsen, Daniel Forfang, Morten Solem
 Poland 3 4 Adam Małysz, Robert Mateja, Krystian Długopolski (until Innsbruck), Stefan Hula (Bischofshofen only)
 Russia 2 3 Dimitry Vassiliev, Ildar Fatchullin (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Dimitry Ipatov (Innsbruck onward)
 Slovakia 1 1 Martin Mesík
 Slovenia 5 6 Jernej Damjan, Rok Benkovič, Peter Žonta, Primož Peterka, Robert Kranjec (until Innsbruck), Bine Zupan (only Bischofshofen)
 South Korea 2 2 Kang Chil-ku (Innsbruck onward), Kim Hyun-ki (Innsbruck onward)
 Sweden 2 2 Johan Erikson, Isak Grimholm (Innsbruck onward)
 Switzerland 4 4 Simon Ammann, Michael Möllinger, Andreas Küttel, Marco Steinauer (Oberstorf only)
 United States 2 2 Clint Jones, Alan Alborn

Results

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Oberstorf

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Germany Schattenbergschanze, Oberstorf
28-29 December 2004

Defending champion Sigurd Pettersen was not among the fifteen pre-qualified jumpers, and only placed 63rd in the qualification round. Thus, he failed to qualify.

In the final event, Roar Ljøkelsøy's jump over 140.0 meters catapulted him from 18th place after the first round onto 2nd place overall.

Qualification winner: Finland Janne Ahonen

Rank Name Points
1 Finland Janne Ahonen 268.4
2 Norway Roar Ljøkelsøy 258.8
3 Poland Adam Małysz 253.8
4 Japan Daiki Itō 247.5
5 Austria Martin Höllwarth 245.7
6 Finland Matti Hautamäki 244.7
7 Slovenia Jernej Damjan 243.1
8 Germany Michael Uhrmann 242.7
9 Czech Republic Jakub Janda 242.0
10 Russia Dmitri Vassiliev 239.9

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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Germany Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
31 December 2004 - 1 January 2005

Qualification winner: Finland Janne Ahonen

Rank Name Points
1 Finland Janne Ahonen 260.1
2 Austria Thomas Morgenstern 254.1
3 Germany Georg Spaeth 247.2
4 Austria Martin Höllwarth 243.0
5 Germany Michael Uhrmann 236.6
6 Czech Republic Jakub Janda 233.1
7 Norway Roar Ljøkelsøy 232.6
Poland Adam Małysz 232.6
9 Austria Andreas Widhölzl 229.5
10 Japan Daiki Itō 228.1

Innsbruck

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Austria Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
02-3 January 2005

Qualification winner: Finland Janne Ahonen

Rank Name Points
1 Finland Janne Ahonen 243.8
2 Poland Adam Małysz 236.8
3 Czech Republic Jakub Janda 232.5
4 Austria Thomas Morgenstern 229.0
5 Austria Martin Höllwarth 228.5
6 Austria Andreas Widhölzl 227.3
7 Germany Martin Schmitt 223.7
8 Germany Michael Uhrmann 220.3
9 Japan Akira Higashi 219.9
10 Norway Tommy Ingebrigtsen 218.5

Bischofshofen

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Austria Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
05-6 January 2005

Qualification winner: Austria Martin Höllwarth

Rank Name Points
1 Austria Martin Höllwarth 277.0
2 Finland Janne Ahonen 271.0
3 Japan Daiki Itō 269.5
4 Czech Republic Jakub Janda 265.2
5 Austria Thomas Morgenstern 263.9
6 Norway Roar Ljøkelsøy 262.7
7 Poland Adam Małysz 262.1
8 Germany Georg Spaeth 256.3
9 Norway Sigurd Pettersen 252.1
10 Japan Noriaki Kasai 245.9

Final ranking

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Rank Name Oberstorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Points
1 Finland Janne Ahonen 1st 1st 1st 2nd 1043.3
2 Austria Martin Höllwarth 5th 4th 5th 1st 994.2
3 Austria Thomas Morgenstern 11th 2nd 4th 5th 985.8
4 Poland Adam Małysz 3rd 7th 2nd 7th 985.3
5 Czech Republic Jakub Janda 9th 6th 3rd 4th 972.8
6 Norway Roar Ljøkelsøy 2nd 7th 13th 6th 969.7
7 Japan Daiki Itō 4th 10th 11th 3rd 962.7
8 Germany Michael Uhrmann 8th 5th 8th 13th 939.0
9 Germany Georg Spaeth 21st 3rd 17th 8th 928.5
10 Finland Matti Hautamäki 6th 11th 19th 12th 922.2

After failing to qualify in Oberstorf, the defending Four Hills champion, Sigurd Pettersen, ultimately ranked 22nd overall (678.1 points).

References

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  1. ^ ""e.on ruhrgas" FIS World Cup Ski-Jumping 2004/2005 World Cup Standings" (PDF). FIS. 2004.
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