Participants in the 62th edition of the Four Hills Tourne

I partecipanti alla 62esima edizione della Tournèe dei Quattro Trampolini
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Jump male - 62 Tourne 4 Trampolines

Participants in the 62th edition of the Four Hills Tourne

Saturday, December 28, with the qualifying jump in Oberstdorf, will open the sixty-second edition of the Four Tournèe Trampolinii.

Day after day, you are defining the framework of the athletes who will compete in the four stages in the program between Austria and Germany. In this regard, it should be noted that in the competitions of the host country house will deploy an additional group of six jumpers. Among the members, in addition to defending champion Gregor Schlierenzauer, the hunt for a historic third consecutive win (would equal the Norwegian Bjørn Wirkola), it should be noted the presence of quarantatreenne Japanese Takanobu Okabe, senior athlete to have won a race World Cup. The Austrian team will make less than Fettner Manuel and Martin Koch, while the technical staff will carry out a massive turnover confirming Finnish Janne Ahonen only among those who have assiduously competed in the World Cup in the first part of the season. In Japan there will be Reruhi Shimizu, as will Andreas Stjernen among Norwegians. The blue colors will be defended in German by David Bresadola stages and Roberto Dellasega, but in Austria are not excluded replacements. LIST OF SELECTED JUMPERS (constantly updated) AUSTRIA (7) - Diethart Thomas (1992), Michael Hayböck (1991), Andreas Kofler (1984), Stefan Kraft (1993), Wolfgang Loitzl (1980), Thomas Morgenstern (1986), Gregor Schlierenzauer (1990) FINLAND (4) - Janne Ahonen (1977), Anssi Koivuranta (1988), Jarkko Määttä (1994), Sami Niemi (1991) GERMANY (7) - Richard Freitag (1991), Sverin Freund (1988), Karl Geiger (1993), Marinus Karus (1991), Michael Neumayeur (1979), Andreas Wank (1988), Andreas Wellinger (1995) JAPAN (5) - Daiki Ito (1985), Noriaki Kasai (1972), Takanobu Okabe (1970), Taku Takeuchi (1987), Yuta Watase (1982) ITALY (2) - David Bresadola (1988), Roberto Dellasega (1990) NORWAY (6) - Anders Bardal (1982), Anders Fannemel (1991), Tom Hilde (1987), Ole Marius Ingvaldsen (1985), Anders Jacobsen (1985), Rune Velta (1989) Slovenia will be able to mask seven athletes, the Czech Republic and Poland are, Switzerland and Russia four, three in France, the other two nations.
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