The keystone of the Tourne [Presentation Innsbruck]

Innsbruck is the third leg of Vierschanzentournee to the fifty-eighth time on sixty-two editions. The only exceptions are the fifth (1956-1957), the tenth (1961-1962) and the eleventh'' (1962-1963) when it was the third round, in addition to the twentieth (1971-1972) where, instead, was the inaugural event''.

Thursday 2 January 2014 8 minutes reading time

He competes on Bergiselschanze, plant with the richest history and tormented by far among the four of Vierschanzentournee. The first ski jump on Bergiselstadium the hill overlooking the southern part of Tyrol's capital, was built at the beginning of the'' 30'' in anticipation of the World Cup 1933 to the end of which, however, the'' system fell into disuse. In 1941, during a youth tournament youth football team players Villingen SV and SV Innsbruck visitatorono the trampoline now dilapidated. A collapse caused four deaths and many injuries, so it was decided to raze what was left of the structure. The trampoline was rebuilt at the end of World War II still following the project in 1930, but again shot down to be completely rebuilt in 1961 in the Olympic Games of 1964, then manifestazone also hosted in 1976. '' The last total renovation took place in 2003. It should also be noted as the Bergiselschanze both the trampoline to have hosted the fewest races counting towards the Vierschanzentournee. In fact, in January 2008, the'' event was canceled (and recovered in Bischofshofen) because of prohibitive weather conditions. On 30 occasions (50.0%) who has prevailed in Tirol was then awarded to the successful TournÃ¨e, while in 48 cases (80.0%) cases, the final victory went to an athlete stood on the podium. This means that Innsbruck is the stage where the winner has the highest success rate in the overall standings of the Tour. So far, 48 different jumpers representing 13 different countries (including Czechoslovakia, East Germany, West Germany, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union) have obtained at least one success in Innsbruck. The Norwegian BjÃ¸rn Wirkola (1967, 1969, 1970), the Finn Matti NykÃ¤nen (1983, 1985, 1988), the'' Austrian Andreas Goldberger (1993, 1994, 1996) and the Japanese Kazuyoshi Funaki (1995, 1997 , 1998) have won three victories apiece. Five athletes have managed to impose itself on 2 consecutive occasions, but no one has ever managed to achieve a three-row statements. 6 men are able to repeat a success. These are the Finns Jari Puikkonen, Ari-Pekka Nikkola and Janne Ahonen;'' s Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer, the German Helmut Recknagel and Norwegian For Bergerud. L'' Austria and Finland are the countries with the most wins (13), followed by Norway, West Germany and Japan. It should be noted as the Austrians have paired the Finns only recently thanks to the five successive victories won in the last five years. The following are the details of the victories of every nation. 13 - FINLAND (3 NykÃ¤nen, 2 Ahonen, Nikkola, Puikkonen; 1 Kannkkonen, KÃ¤rkkinen, Kokkonen, P., Nieminen T.) 13 - AUSTRIA (3 Goldberger; 2 Schlierenzauer; 1 Bradl, Egger, Kofler, Loitzl, Morgenstern, Neuper, Schnabl, WidhÃ¶lzl) 11 - NORWAY (3 Wirkola; 2 Bergerud, BjÃ¸rnstad, BrandtzÃ¦g BystÃ¸l, Engan, Jacobsen, Ruste) 9 - EAST GERMANY (2 Recknagel, Aschenbach, Danneberg, Deckert, GlaÃŸ Harry GlaÃŸ Henry, Neuendorf, WeiÃŸflog) 5 - JAPAN (3 Funaki; Kasai, Kasaya) 4 - SOVIET UNION (Botschkov, Napalkov, Schamov, Zakadze) 1 - CZECHOSLOVAKIA (Hubac) 1 - GERMANY ( Hannawald) 1 - WEST GERMANY (Bolkart) 1 - POLAND (Malysz) 1 - SLOVENIA (Zonta) 1 - SWEDEN (BoklÃ¶v) 1 - YUGOSLAVIA (Ulaga) Although the races are dispustate 60, 62 are accredited successes. This is because there are two ex aequo. In 1956 they won Zakazde and Harry GlaÃŸ, while in 1982 the same happened with Bergerud and Deckert. 6 occasions in the same country has managed to achieve two goals by placing two athletes in the top two positions. In 2 cases, it was monopolized the entire podium: In 1971 Czechoslovakia. Zbynek Hubac preceded Jiri Raska and Rudolf HÃ¶hnl.Nel 1975 by Austria'' with Karl Schnabl before Edi Federer and Hans Wallner. L'' Austria holds the record for consecutive wins. The strip, however, is still open and currently has arrived at 5. So far 115 different jumpers representing 16 different countries (including Czechoslovakia, East Germany, West Germany, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia) have risen at least once on the podium. The German Jens WeiÃŸflog leads the ranking for individual podiums, having won no less than 9, however, hounded by the Finnish Janne Ahonen 8. L'' Austria is the country that has filed more placings in the top three, winning 37 podiums. In place of'' honor Finland (33), followed by Norway (23), East Germany (22), Japan (11) Soviet Union (10), Germany (8), West Germany (8), Poland (7 ), Czechoslovakia (6), Switzerland (6), Czech Republic (3), Slovenia (2), Sweden (2) Canada (1) Yugoslavia (1). Active athletes with at least one success on the bulletin board are Bergiselschanze 7 (Ahonen, Jacobsen, Kasai, Kofler, Loitzl, Morgenstern, Schlierenzauer). 8 others have climbed on the podium at least once (Ammann, Bardal, Hilde, Janda, RÃ¸mÃ¸ren, Schmitt, Stoch Takeuchi).

Francesco Paone

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