# 2001–02 Four Hills Tournament

The 50th edition of the annual Four Hills Tournament marked the first time an athlete won all four events of the tournament. In the past, fifteen times a ski jumper won three out of four events, but never the 'Grand Slam'. Sven Hannawald's feat would not be repeated until 2017-18 by Kamil Stoch.

## Format

At each of the four events, a qualification round was held. The 50 best jumpers qualified for the competition. The fifteen athletes leading the World Cup at the time qualified automatically. In case of an omitted qualification or a result that would normally result in elimination, they would instead qualify as 50th.
Unlike the procedure at normal World Cup events, the 50 qualified athletes were paired up for the first round of the final event, with the winner proceeding to the second round. The rounds start with the duel between #26 and #25 from the qualification round, followed by #27 vs #24, up to #50 vs #1. The five best duel losers, so-called 'Lucky Losers' also proceed.
For the tournament ranking, the total points earned from each jump are added together. The World Cup points collected during the four events are disregarded in this ranking.

## Pre-Tournament World Cup Standings

At the time of the tournament, nine out of twenty-eight World Cup events were already held. Title holder Adam Małysz had won six of them, a fourth place being his worst finish of the season so far. Thus, he went into the tournament as favourite.
The standings were as follows:
| Rank | Name | Points |
| 01. | Adam Małysz | 810 |
| 02. | Sven Hannawald | 399 |
| 03. | Stephan Hocke | 356 |
| 04. | Martin Höllwarth | 317 |
| 05. | Matti Hautamäki | 311 |
| 06. | Martin Schmitt | 297 |
| 07. | Andreas Widhölzl | 278 |
| 08. | Kazuyoshi Funaki | 268 |
| 09. | Andreas Goldberger | 265 |
| 10. | Risto Jussilainen | 259 |

## Participating nations and athletes

The number of jumpers a nation was allowed to nominate was dependent on previous results. At each event, a 'national group' of ten jumpers from the host country was added.
The defending champion was Adam Małysz. Six other competitors had also previously won the Four Hills tournament: Toni Nieminen in 1991-92, Andreas Goldberger in 1992-93 and 1994–95, Primož Peterka in 1996-97, Kazuyoshi Funaki in 1997-98, Janne Ahonen in 1998-99 and Andreas Widhölzl in 1999-00.
The following athletes were nominated:
| Nation | Starting Spots | Number of Athletes | Athletes |
| Germany | 8+10 | 18 | Sven Hannawald, Stephan Hocke, Martin Schmitt, Christof Duffner, Alexander Herr, Michael Uhrmann, Georg Spaeth, Dirk Else National Group: Frank Löffler, Jörg Ritzerfeld, Hansjörg Jäkle, Kai Bracht, Michael Neumayer, Roland Audenrieth, Maximilian Mechler, Michael Möllinger, Stefan Pieper, Leif Frey |
| Austria | 8+10 | 18 | Martin Höllwarth, Andreas Widhölzl, Andreas Goldberger, Martin Koch, Stefan Horngacher, Wolfgang Loitzl, Manuel Fettner, Stefan Thurnbichler (Garmisch-Partenkirchen onward) National Group: Markus Eigentler, Christian Nagiller, Reinhard Schwarzenberger, Stefan Kaiser, Bernhard Metzler, Bastian Kaltenböck, Andreas Kofler, Thomas Hörl, Gerhard Hofer, Balthasar Schneider |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | Georgi Zharkov |
| Czech Republic | 4 | 6 | Jakub Janda, Michal Doležal, Jaroslav Sakala (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Jakub Jiroutek (until Garmisch-Partenkirchen), Jan Matura (Innsbruck onward), Jiří Parma (Innsbruck onward) |
| Estonia | 2 | 2 | Jaan Jüris, Jouko Hein |
| Finland | 8 | 8 | Matti Hautamäki, Risto Jussilainen, Veli-Matti Lindström, Jussi Hautamäki, Toni Nieminen, Tami Kiuru, Janne Ahonen, Janne Ylijärvi |
| France | 3 | 3 | Nicolas Dessum, Emmanuel Chedal, Rémi Santiago |
| Georgia | 1 | 1 | Kakhaber Tsakadze |
| Italy | 1 | 1 | Roberto Cecon |
| Japan | 8 | 8 | Kazuyoshi Funaki, Noriaki Kasai, Hideharu Miyahira, Masahiko Harada, Kazuya Yoshioka, Hiroki Yamada, Yasuhiro Shibata (Bischofshofen only), Teppei Takano (Bischofshofen only) |
| Kazakhstan | 4 | 4 | Stanislav Filimonov, Pawel Gaiduk, Maxim Polunin, Alexander Korobov (Innsbruck onward) |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1 | Dmitry Chvykov |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1 | Ingemar Mayr |
| Norway | 5 | 5 | Roar Ljøkelsøy, Tommy Ingebrigtsen, Anders Bardal, Olav Magne Dønnem, Henning Stensrud |
| Poland | 5 | 5 | Adam Małysz, Robert Mateja, Tomasz Pochwała, Tomisław Tajner, Wojciech Skupień |
| Russia | 4 | 5 | Valery Kobelev, Ildar Fatchullin, Anton Kalinitschenko, Alexander Belov |
| Slovakia | 3 | 3 | Martin Mesík, Dušan Oršula, Jan Zelencik (Oberstorf only) |
| Slovenia | 6 | 6 | Peter Žonta, Damjan Fras, Primož Peterka, Igor Medved, Robert Kranjec, Blaž Vrhovnik (Innsbruck onward) |
| South Korea | 4 | 4 | Kim Hyun-ki, Kang Chil-ku, Choi Yong-jik, Choi Heung-chul (all until Innsbruck) |
| Sweden | 2 | 2 | Kristoffer Jåfs, Johan Munters |
| Switzerland | 4 | 4 | Simon Ammann, Andreas Küttel, Sylvain Freiholz, Marco Steinauer (until Innsbruck) |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1 | Glynn Pedersen |
| United States | 2 | 2 | Alan Alborn, Clint Jones |

## Results
### Oberstorf

Schattenbergschanze, Oberstorf 29-30 December 2001
Qualification winner: Andreas Widhölzl
| Rank | Name | Points |
| 1 | Sven Hannawald | 260.2 |
| 2 | Martin Höllwarth | 252.2 |
| 3 | Simon Ammann | 248.7 |
| 4 | Matti Hautamäki | 248.1 |
| 5 | Adam Małysz | 245.1 |
| 6 | Andreas Widhölzl | 239.7 |
| 7 | Risto Jussilainen | 239.3 |
| 8 | Ildar Fatchullin | 237.3 |
| 9 | Georg Spaeth | 232.7 |
| 10 | Andreas Goldberger | 232.4 |

### Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Große Olympiaschanze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 31 December 2001 - 1 January 2002
Qualification winner: Andreas Widhölzl
| Rank | Name | Points |
| 1 | Sven Hannawald | 264.5 |
| 2 | Andreas Widhölzl | 262.8 |
| 3 | Adam Małysz | 259.7 |
| 4 | Hiroki Yamada | 259.1 |
| 5 | Simon Ammann | 253.9 |
| 6 | Matti Hautamäki | 252.0 |
| 7 | Martin Höllwarth | 245.3 |
| 8 | Martin Schmitt | 243.3 |
| 8 | Valery Kobelev | 243.3 |
| 10 | Martin Koch | 241.5 |

### Innsbruck

Bergiselschanze, Innsbruck 03-4 January 2002
With a comfortable lead from the first half of the tournament already to his name, Sven Hannawald won by over 20 points in Innsbruck, all but securing him the title. In the event's first round, Hannawald beat his direct duel opponent Martin Höllwarth by eight meters - Höllwarth's jump was still the second best of the entire round.
Qualification winner: Martin Höllwarth
| Rank | Name | Points |
| 1 | Sven Hannawald | 270.0 |
| 2 | Adam Małysz | 247.0 |
| 3 | Martin Höllwarth | 244.1 |
| 4 | Matti Hautamäki | 240.5 |
| 5 | Martin Schmitt | 238.3 |
| 6 | Andreas Widhölzl | 237.9 |
| 7 | Valery Kobelev | 234.9 |
| 8 | Robert Kranjec | 234.0 |
| 9 | Stephan Hocke | 228.3 |
| 10 | Hideharu Miyahira | 227.9 |

### Bischofshofen

Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Bischofshofen 05-6 January 2002
With Hannawald's large lead after three events, the only hope for his rivals was a failure to proceed to the event's final round. Instead, the German yet again displayed the event's best jump in the first round and did not only secure tournament victory, but became the first athlete in the 50 years of Four Hills history to win all four events.
Qualification winner: Matti Hautamäki
| Rank | Name | Points |
| 1 | Sven Hannawald | 282.9 |
| 2 | Matti Hautamäki | 280.4 |
| 3 | Martin Höllwarth | 274.2 |
| 4 | Robert Kranjec | 266.8 |
| 5 | Martin Schmitt | 256.6 |
| 6 | Alan Alborn | 256.2 |
| 7 | Roberto Cecon | 247.8 |
| 8 | Peter Žonta | 247.6 |
| 9 | Adam Małysz | 241.0 |
| 10 | Andreas Goldberger | 240.9 |

## Final ranking

| Rank | Name | Oberstorf | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Innsbruck | Bischofshofen | Points |
| 1 | Sven Hannawald | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1077.6 |
| 2 | Matti Hautamäki | 4th | 6th | 4th | 2nd | 1021.0 |
| 3 | Martin Höllwarth | 2nd | 7th | 3rd | 3rd | 1015.8 |
| 4 | Adam Małysz | 5th | 3rd | 2nd | 9th | 992.8 |
| 5 | Andreas Widhölzl | 6th | 2nd | 6th | 12th | 980.4 |
| 6 | Simon Ammann | 3rd | 5th | 11th | 15th | 961.4 |
| 7 | Martin Schmitt | 19th | 8th | 5th | 5th | 957.5 |
| 8 | Risto Jussilainen | 7th | 20th | 15th | 13th | 923.6 |
| 9 | Andreas Goldberger | 10th | 22nd | 17th | 10th | 918.5 |
| 10 | Stephan Hocke | 21st | 11th | 9th | 17th | 914.8 |