# 1977–78 Four Hills Tournament

The 26th annual Four Hills Tournament was won by Finnish ski jumper Kari Ylianttila. In the final ranking, he led directly ahead of five East German athletes. Another one, defending champion Jochen Danneberg, was the overall leader after his victory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, but didn't compete at the events in Austria.

## Participating nations and athletes

| Nation | Number of Athletes | Athletes |
| West Germany | 7 | Hans-Jürgen Eschrich, Wolfgang Hahn, Peter Leitner, Frank Rombach, Christoph Schwarz, Hubert Schwarz, Peter Schwinghammer |
| Austria | 15 | Gebhard Aberer, Reinhold Bachler, Edi Federer, Alfred Groyer, Rupert Gürtler, Armin Kogler, Alois Lipburger, Hans Millonig, Hubert Neuper, Alfred Pungg, Willi Pürstl, Karl Schnabl, Klaus Tuchscherer, Hans Wallner, Rudolf Wanner |
| Bulgaria | 3 | Vladimir Breitchev, Petar Dimitrov, Bojan Stoikov |
| Czechoslovakia | 7 | Ivo Felix, Josef Hýsek, František Novák, Josef Rusko, Josef Samek, Leoš Škoda, Ján Tánczos |
| East Germany | 8 | Matthias Buse, Jochen Danneberg, Bernd Eckstein, Harald Duschek, Henry Glaß, Jürgen Thomas, Martin Weber, Falko Weißpflog |
| Finland | 4 | Tauno Käyhkö, Jari Puikkonen, Jouko Törmänen, Kari Ylianttila |
| France | 2 | Patric Dubiez, Eric Fourrier |
| Italy | 3 | Ermes De Crignis, Lido Tomasi, Ivano Wegher |
| Japan | 2 | Yūji Kawamura, Sakae Tsuruga |
| Norway | 6 | Per Bergerud, Stein Glømmi, Rune Hauge, Per Steinar Nordlien, Johan Sætre, Jens Unosen |
| Poland | 2 | Tadeusz Pawlusiak, Józef Tajner |
| Soviet Union | 7 | Aleksey Borovitin, Vladimir Bubjonov, Vladimir Chernyaev, Yury Ivanov, Aleksandr Karapuzov, Valery Savin, Sergey Saychik |
| Switzerland | 7 | Oliver Favre, Georges Jaquier, Robert Mösching, Harald Reichenbach, Mario Rinaldi, Walter Steiner, Hansjörg Sumi |
| United States | 5 | Jeff Davis, Jeff Denney, Jim Denney, John Denney, Kip Sundgaard |
| Yugoslavia | 5 | Zdravko Bogataj, Andrej Kaizer, Marko Mlakar, Bogdan Norčič, Ivo Zupan |

## Results
### Oberstdorf

Schattenbergschanze, Oberstdorf 30 December 1977
| Rank | Name | Points |
| 1 | Matthias Buse | 118.2 |
| 2 | Martin Weber | 110.1 |
| 3 | Kari Ylianttila | 109.3 |
| 4 | Bernd Eckstein | 105.7 |
| 5 | Peter Leitner | 105.1 |
| 6 | Jochen Danneberg | 104.7 |
| 7 | Walter Steiner | 101.3 |
| 8 | Henry Glaß | 94.8 |
| 9 | Sakae Tsuruga | 92.3 |
| 10 | Per Bergerud | 91.9 |

### Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1 January 1978
| Rank | Name | Points |
| 1 | Jochen Danneberg | 235.6 |
| 2 | Kari Ylianttila | 222.2 |
| 3 | Henry Glaß | 219.6 |
| 4 | Falko Weißpflog | 218.3 |
| 5 | Leoš Škoda | 213.0 |
| 6 | Matthias Buse | 212.0 |
| 7 | Bernd Eckstein | 209.0 |
| 8 | Peter Leitner | 208.6 |
| 9 | Walter Steiner | 207.5 |
| 10 | Jürgen Thomas | 204.8 |

### Innsbruck

Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck 4 January 1978
| Rank | Name | Points |
| 1 | Per Bergerud | 247.1 |
| 2 | Kari Ylianttila | 239.1 |
| 3 | Jouko Törmänen | 231.2 |
| 4 | Falko Weißpflog | 229.2 |
| 5 | Klaus Tuchscherer | 227.3 |
| 6 | Matthias Buse | 223.3 |
| 7 | Jari Puikkonen | 219.0 |
| 8 | Martin Weber | 218.5 |
| 9 | Bernd Eckstein | 207.9 |
| 10 | Henry Glaß | 203.5 |

### Bischofshofen

Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen 6 January 1978
| Rank | Name | Points |
| 1 | Kari Ylianttila | 242.3 |
| 2 | Walter Steiner | 229.0 |
| 3 | Henry Glaß | 227.9 |
| 4 | Martin Weber | 227.5 |
| 5 | Falko Weißpflog | 221.1 |
| 6 | Bernd Eckstein | 220.8 |
| 7 | Matthias Buse | 219.7 |
| 8 | Per Bergerud | 218.9 |
| 9 | Harald Duschek | 217.2 |
| 10 | Jouko Törmänen | 209.7 |

## Final ranking

| Rank | Name | Oberstdorf | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Innsbruck | Bischofshofen | Points |
| 1 | Kari Ylianttila | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 812.9 |
| 2 | Matthias Buse | 1st | 6th | 6th | 7th | 773.2 |
| 3 | Martin Weber | 2nd | 11th | 8th | 4th | 760.4 |
| 4 | Henry Glaß | 8th | 3rd | 10th | 3rd | 760.2 |
| 5 | Falko Weißpflog | 14th | 4th | 4th | 5th | 757.4 |
| 6 | Bernd Eckstein | 4th | 7th | 9th | 6th | 753.6 |
| 7 | Per Bergerud | 10th | 22nd | 1st | 8th | 749.7 |
| 8 | Walter Steiner | 7th | 9th | 24th | 2nd | 734.4 |
| 9 | Jouko Törmänen | 16th | 15th | 3rd | 10th | 727.8 |
| 10 | Harald Duschek | 11th | 18th | 11th | 9th | 718.8 |