Nordic Tournament

The Nordic Tournament was a series of ski jumping competitions, which took place from 1997 to 2010 year in March as part of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup.

History

The Nordic Tournament was held from 1997 to 2010 and was the Northern European equivalent of the Four Hills Tournament. In the first years in which the tournament was called in the German language as a North Country Tour, found the jumping on annually changing jumps held in Falun, Lahti, Kuopio and Trondheim. Only the Holmenkollen in Oslo was tournament except 2009 venue at each Nordic. 1999 and 2001 the tournament was even played on only three, in 2003 only two jumps.

Since 2004 has been dispensed with the rotation of the hills and only used Lahti, Kuopio, the new inclusion in the program Lillehammer and Oslo as venues. Due to the reconstruction of the Holmenkollen in Oslo no jumping could take place in 2009 there. Instead, a ski flying in Vikersund was discharged. Because of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo, the Nordic Tournament accounted for first time this season. Subsequently, the series was discontinued due to the exit of the sponsor.

Venues and jumps

Expiration

Since 2004, the competition included the last four contests of the Ski Jumping World Cup of ski jumps; the conclusion of the World Cup season is traditionally the ski flying in Planica Slovenia. The two singles competitions of the Nordic Tournament took place in Finland and Norway. These were:

The opening event in Lahti was part of the Finnish Skifestspiele ( Salpausselän kisat ) in Lahti instead. In the second competition on the traditional Puijo hill in Kuopio, a competition followed on the Olympic hill of 1994 in Lillehammer. The closure was the most prestigious individual event the entire Ski Jumping World Cup at the Holmenkollen ski jump, the birthplace of ski jumping.

The overall winner was calculated as in the Four Hills Tournament from the added scores of the four competitions. The overall winner received 25,000 euros; a total of 50,000 euros in prize money was awarded.

List of Winners

With three overall victories Adam Malysz is the most successful ski jumpers of competition; Matti Hautamäki 2005 won the first Springer all four singles competitions, in 2010 Simon Ammann also managed to quadruple victory. Also Małysz 2003 could decide all jumping tournaments in itself, but was the Nordic Tournament this year only three jumping. The closest decision there was in 2009 when Gregor Schlierenzauer won only 0.6 points ahead of Harri Olli.

1 due to strong winds planned for Lillehammer jumping was moved to Oslo 2 due to strong winds planned for jumping Lahti was moved to Kuopio