Biography

At the 25th annual Four Hills Tournament, Jochen Danneberg became the third ski jumper after Helmut Recknagel and Bjørn Wirkola to defend his title. Crucial was a clear victory at the New Year's event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. For the first time in ten years, there were four different winners at the single events.

Four Hills Tournament
Venues	Schattenbergschanze, Bergiselschanze, Große Olympiaschanze, Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze
Location	West Germany, Austria
Dates	30 December 1976 (1976-12-30) – 6 January 1977 (1977-01-06)
Competitors	74 from 14 nations
Medalists
Jochen Danneberg   Walter Steiner   Henry Glaß
← 1975–76 1977–78 →

Participating nations and athletes

Nation	Number of Athletes	Athletes
West Germany	8	Alfred Grosche, Dirk Kramer, Peter Leitner, Frank Rombach, Manfred Runge, Sepp Schwinghammer, Rudi Tusch
Austria	13	Reinhold Bachler, Edi Federer, Rupert Gürtler, Walter Habersatter jr., Toni Innauer, Alois Lipburger, Hans Millonig, Alfred Pungg, Willi Pürstl, Karl Schnabl, Klaus Tuchscherer, Hans Wallner, Rudolf Wanner
Czechoslovakia	6	Jaroslav Balcar, Zdeněk Janouch, František Novák, Josef Samek, Leoš Škoda, Ján Tánczos
East Germany	8	Matthias Buse, Jochen Danneberg, Harald Duschek, Henry Glaß, Thomas Meisinger, Jürgen Thomas, Martin Weber, Falko Weißpflog
Finland	4	P. Hyvävinen, Pentti Kokkonen, Tapio Räisänen, Jouko Törmänen
Italy	3	Leo De Crignis, Lido Tomasi, Ivano Wegher
Japan	3	Takao Itō, Yūji Kawamura, Manabu Ono
Norway	4	Per Bergerud, Bjarne Næs, Roger Ruud, Johan Sætre
Poland	3	Stanisław Bobak, Henryk Tajner, Janusz Waluś
Soviet Union	5	Aleksey Borovitin, Yury Ivanov, Aleksandr Karapuzov, Leonid Komarov, Sergey Saychik
Sweden	3	Odd Brandsegg, Lennart Elimä, Seppo Reijonen
Switzerland	6	Robert Mösching, Hans Schmid, Walter Steiner, Hansjörg Sumi, Jean Luc Ungricht, Ernst von Grünigen
United States	4	Jim Denney, Jim Maki, Chris McNeill, Ron Steele
Yugoslavia	4	Jože Demšar, Branko Dolhar, Janez Loštrek, Bogdan Norčič

Results

Oberstdorf

Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf
30 December 1976^[1]

Rank	Name	Points
1	Toni Innauer	255.6
2	Jochen Danneberg	253.7
3	Walter Steiner	252.3
4	Harald Duschek	248.2
5	Henry Glaß	239.4
6	Alois Lipburger	236.6
7	Jouko Törmänen	235.3
8	František Novák	232.5
9	Reinhold Bachler	230.9
10	Johan Sætre	229.8

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1 January 1977^[2]

Rank	Name	Points
1	Jochen Danneberg	235.2
2	Toni Innauer	222.3
3	Harald Duschek	220.1
4	Henry Glaß	219.3
5	Johan Sætre	213.5
6	Walter Steiner	212.7
7	Alois Lipburger	211.9
8	Alfred Pungg	209.4
9	Jürgen Thomas	208.6
10	Martin Weber	208.3

Innsbruck

Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck
4 January 1977^[3]

Rank	Name	Points
1	Henry Glaß	233.6
2	Walter Steiner	226.3
3	Toni Innauer	217.3
4	Karl Schnabl	216.4
5	Reinhold Bachler	216.1
6	Jochen Danneberg	213.9
7	Yury Ivanov	213.5
8	Alfred Pungg	210.4
9	Ján Tánczos	207.9
10	Thomas Meisinger	203.5

Bischofshofen

Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen
6 January 1977^[4]

After three events, the leading four were close together. Toni Innauer, leader Danneberg's closest rival, only placed 19th and fell back in the overall ranking. In spite of his win, Walter Steiner did not close the gap to Danneberg.

Rank	Name	Points
1	Walter Steiner	220.4
2	Karl Schnabl	217.0
3	Jochen Danneberg	215.7
4	Thomas Meisinger	211.6
5	Klaus Tuchscherer	207.5
6	Harald Duschek	204.4
7	Per Bergerud	200.2
8	Henry Glaß	200.1
9	Martin Weber	198.1
10	Hans Millonig	196.1

Final ranking

Rank	Name	Oberstdorf	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Innsbruck	Bischofshofen	Points
1	Jochen Danneberg	2nd	1st	6th	3rd	918.5
2	Walter Steiner	3rd	6th	2nd	1st	911.7
3	Henry Glaß	5th	4th	1st	8th	892.4
4	Toni Innauer	1st	2nd	3rd	19th	876.0
5	Harald Duschek	4th	3rd	11th	6th	875.8
6	Thomas Meisinger	12th	11th	10th	4th	845.7
7	Karl Schnabl	29th	21st	4th	2nd	844.7
8	Reinhold Bachler	9th	14th	5th	25th	828.8
9	Alfred Pungg	16th	8th	8th	14th	827.1
10	Martin Weber	21st	10th	17th	9th	818.7

References

External links

• FIS website
• Four Hills Tournament web site