Nordic Skiing63. Vierschanzentournee
Innsbruck sar & agrave; the third leg of Vierschanzentournee for the fifty-ninth time on sixty-& eacute; editions. The only exceptions are the fifth (1956-1957), the tenth (1961-1962) and the 'Eleventh (1962-1963) when it was the second event; in addition to the twentieth (1971-1972) where he was instead the 'inaugural event.
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It competes on Bergiselschanze, facility with history & more ugrave; rich Great events, but at the same time tormented between the four of Vierschanzentournee.
The first ski jump on Bergisel, a hill overlooking the southern part of the capital of Tyrol, was built tains the early '30s in anticipation of the 1933 World Cup at the end of which, for & ograve ;, the' system fell into disuse.
In 1941, during a youth soccer tournament. team players SV and SV Villingen Innsbruck visited the trampoline now dilapidated. A collapse caus & ograve; 4 dead and several injured, so he decided to raze us & ograve; remained of the structure.
The trampoline was rebuilt at the end of World War II still following the project in 1930, but again shot down for being completely rebuilt in 1961 in the Olympic Games of 1964, manifestazone then also hosted in 1976. The 'latest total renovation dates back to 2003 . & nbsp;
Finally it should be noted as the Bergiselschanze is the springboard to have hosted the fewest races counting towards the Vierschanzentournee. In fact, in January 2008 the 'event was canceled (and recovered in Bischofshofen) due to prohibitive weather conditions.
In 30 occasions (49.2%) who & egrave; imposed in Tyrol & egrave; then won success in Tourn & egrave; and, while in 48 cases (78.7%) cases the final victory & egrave; went to an athlete on the podium. This means that Innsbruck & egrave; the stage where the winner has the pi & ugrave; high success rate in the general classification of Tourn & eacute; e.
So far 49 different jumpers representing 13 different countries (including the dead Czechoslovakia, East Germany, West Germany, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union) received at least one success in Innsbruck.
The Norwegian Bj & oslash; rn Wirkola (1967, 1969, 1970), the Finn Matti Nyk & auml; nen (1983, 1985, 1988), the 'Austrian Andreas Goldberger (1993, 1994, 1996) and the Japanese Kazuyoshi Funaki (1995, 1997 , 1998) have won three wins apiece. & nbsp;
Five athletes have been able to establish itself for two consecutive times, but nobody & egrave; never managed to make a three-row statements.
6 men are able to repeat a success. They are the Finns Jari Puikkonen, Ari-Pekka Nikkola and Janne Ahonen; dell''austriaco Gregor Schlierenzauer; German Helmut Recknagel and Norwegian Per Bergerud.
After being reached dall''Austria in 2013, Finland & egrave; back to being the nation pi & ugrave; winner ever on Bergiselschanze thanks all''inaspettato and lucky triumph Anssi Koivuranta last year. & nbsp;
Below are listed in detail the victories of every nation.
14 - FINLAND (3 Nyk & auml; nen; 2 Ahonen, Nikkola, Puikkonen; 1 Kannkkonen, K & auml; rkkinen, Kokkonen P., Nieminen T., Koivuranta) 13 - AUSTRIA (3 Goldberger; 2 Schlierenzauer; 1 Bradl, Egger, Kofler, Loitzl, Morgenstern, Neuper, Schnabl, widh & ouml; LZL) 11 - NORWAY (3 Wirkola; 2 Bergerud; Bj & oslash; rnstad, Brandtz & aelig; g, Byst & oslash; l, Engan, Jacobsen, Ruste) 9 - GERMANY EST (2 Recknagel; Aschenbach, Danneberg, Deckert, Gla & szlig; Harry, Gla & szlig; Henry, Neuendorf, Wei & szlig; flog) 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 (Bokl & ouml; v) 1 - YUGOSLAVIA (Ulaga)
Although the races are dispustate 61, 63 are accredited successes. This is because & eacute; There are two ex aequo. In 1956 with Koba Zakazde and Harry Gla & szlig ;, while in 1982 the same happened with Per Bergerud and Manfred Deckert. & Nbsp;
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In six occasions the same nation & egrave; managed to achieve two goals by placing two athletes in the first two positions. In 2 cases & egrave; been monopolized l & rsquo; entire podium: On January 3, 1971 she managed & Igrave; Czechoslovakia. Zbynek Hubac preceded Jiri Raska and Rudolf H & ouml; hnl.Il January 3, 1975, instead it was the turn dell''Austria with Karl Schnabl front Edi Federer and Hans Wallner.
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L '' Austria holds the record for consecutive wins, however, recently (2009 Loitzl, 2010 Schlierenzauer, Morgenstern 2011, 2012 Kofler, Schlierenzauer 2013). & Nbsp;
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So far 116 different jumpers representing 16 different countries (including the dead Czechoslovakia, East Germany, West Germany, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia), have risen at least once on the podium.
The German Jens Wei & szlig; flog leads the ranking for individual podiums, having won as many as 9, followed by the Finnish Janne Ahonen with 8.
The 'Austria & egrave; the nation to have filed more & ugrave; placings in the top three, having won 37 podiums. In place of 'honor Finland (34), followed by Norway (23); East Germany (22); Japan (11); Soviet Union (10); Germany, West Germany and Poland (8); Switzerland (7); Czechoslovakia (6); Czech Republic (3); Slovenia and Sweden (2); Canada and Yugoslavia (1). & Nbsp;
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Athletes in business & agrave; with at least one success on the bulletin board on Bergiselschanze are 7
2 - Janne Ahonen [FIN] (2003, 2005) 2 - SCHLIERENZAUER Gregor [AUT] (2010, 2013) 1 - KASAI Noriaki [JPN] (1999) 1 - Anders JACOBSEN [NOR] (2007) 1 - LOITZL Wolfgang [AUT ] (2009) 1 - KOFLER Andreas [AUT] (2012) 1 - Anssi Koivuranta [FIN] (2014)
Other 6 have risen at least once on the podium (Simon Ammann, Anders Bardal, Tom Hilde, Jakub Janda, Kamil Stoch and Taku Takeuchi).
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The official record of the trampoline & egrave; held by German Sven Hannawald, landed at 134.5 meters (half past four over the 'Hs) on January 4, 2002.
However it should be remembered as the '11 September 2004, during qualifying for a race of Summer Grand Prix, the Pole Adam Malysz will be pushed up to 136 meters.
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