1971–72 Four Hills Tournament
For the 20th edition of the Four Hills Tournament, the FIS deviated from the traditional order of events and started the tour in Innsbruck. The overall winner was Norwegian Ingolf Mork. In the previous year, Mork won three out of four events while only placing second overall.
Before the tournament started, the Japanese team already announced that they would only participate in the first three events before returning to Japan in order to prepare for the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo five weeks later. This decision ended up taking the tournee victory from Yukio Kasaya, who won all three events he participated in, and had a lead of 50.4 points to Mork. He would have been the first non-European tour winner. The preparation paid off: The Japanese took all three medals at the Olympic Normal hill event, Kasaya winning Gold.
Participating nations and athletes
A Bulgarian jumper competed for the first time. The Japanese team did not sign up for the final event in Bischofshofen.| Nation | Number of Athletes | Athletes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Klaus Boll, Peter Dubb, Günther Göllner, Alfred Grosche, Franz Keller, Walter Lampe, Ralph Pöhland, Sepp Schwinghammer, Alfred Winkler, Ernst Wursthorn, Bernd Zapf | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Reinhold Bachler, Max Golser, Ernst Kröll, Hans Millonig, Franz Salhofer, Karl Schnabl, Walter Schwabl, Rudolf Wanner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |1971CANResultsInnsbruckBergiselschanze, Innsbruck29 December 1971 Yukio Kasaya, who was in dominating form in the winter of 1971/72, became the first Non-European to win an event at the Four Hills Tournament. The Czechoslovak and Norwegian teams disappointed with modest results for several tournament favourites, among them title holder Jiří Raška, Ingolf Mork and three-time competition winner Bjørn Wirkola.
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