There’ll be plenty of drama at the ski jumping event in Oberstdorf on 29 and 30 December – the first competition in the 60th Four Hills Tournament – because contestants will be staking their
claim to overall victory right from the off.
As has happened before in the Ski Jumping World Cup, and not only in the two previous years, whoever wins this first round of the Four Hills Tournament in the Allgäu has gone on to win the most coveted title in ski jumping. This winter, organisers are again expecting over 30,000 spectators from around the globe to attend the opening event and turn Oberstdorf’s Erdinger Arena into a cauldron of noise.
After the season‘s second ski jumping competition in Germany, the New Year’s Ski Jumping in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on 31 December and 1 January, it will then be clear who will travel to Innsbruck in the number 1 spot before the medals are decided in Bischofshofen. Will Switzerland‘s Simon Amann post his first tournament win, or will victory fall to Germany’s Severin Freund?
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Tags: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Oberstdorf