European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 7,1989 the stars and stripes Page 25 american wins ski jump for first time Ever Bischof Hofen Austria a . Ski jumper Mike Holland won the fourth event in the four Hill ski jumping tournament Friday becoming the first Ameri can to win any event in the Competition s 37 year history. The 27-year-old one time world record Holder had jumps of 111 and 107 meters respectively for a score of 218.5. However it was Finland s Risto Laakkonen who won the Overall tournament although he did not win a single event. With 841 Points he was ahead of Jens Weiss jog of East Germany and Finland s superstar three time olympic Gold medallist Matti Nykanen who held 838.5 Points each. Second placed in Friday s event Ari Pekka Nikkola of Finland had the longest jump Overall with 112.50 in the second heat and a total of 217.50. Sweden s rising Star Jan by Loev who won the third event at Innsbruck earlier this week came in third in Friday s fourth and final event with jumps of 108 and 111.5 for a score of 215. West Germany s Dieter Thoma who followed Weissflog in the tournament standings with 837 Points in fourth place came in fifth in the Bischof Hofen jumping after Norway s Jon Inge Joe rum who took fourth with 214.5 after jumps of 106 and 108 meters. Thoma who continued to Lead the world cup standings soared 103 and 111 meters for a score of 214. Sixth was Norway s Ole Gunar Fidje Stoel with 213.5 after jumps of 104 and 109. With his historic win Friday giving him an 802.5 Point aggregate and thus 8th place in the Overall tournament standings Holland was propelled to 11th place in the Overall world cup standings with 43 Points. I like this particular jump Holland said. Now i Mike Holland soars through air to give . First Ever four Hills ski jumping win at Bischof Hofen. Jump much More  to Kupev was second in the Overall standings with 130 Points trailing Thoma by Only one Point. He was followed by Laakkonen with 110 and Nykanen with 106. Holland a Vermont native has been on the . Team for seven years and in March 1985 briefly held a world record later broken by Nykanen after jumping 186 meters. His Victory Friday however was the two time olympian s Best showing in world cup Competition. In 1985, he made third place in a world cup Competition in Lahti Finland for a 10th Overall ranking that season. After a frustrating season last year Holland consid ered retiring but decided to come Back after All Start ing the season Well with a 13th place finish at Kander Steg Switzerland and 9th at Frenstad Czecho Slovakia. Stock shocks Field in downhill race lax Switzerland a Veteran skier Leonard Stock upset the favourites in a world cup downhill Friday to win his first race since the 1980 Winter olympics leading an austrian triple sweep on an icy challenging Hill. Stock 30, finished the 3,285-meter 10,840-foot fats has course in a time of 1 minute 51.19 seconds for his first world cup Triumph in 13 seasons on the circuit. Peter Wirnsberger an austrian old timer who has not won a world cup race since 1986, placed second with 1 51.67, nearly half a second slower than Stock. Helmut Hoe Flehner Victor in two of the season s previous three downhills finished third in 1 51.81 to shut the pow Erful Swiss Down Hillers out of the podium for the first time this Winter. It was the first time since 1969 that the austrians monopolized the top three places in a downhill. Stock s Best world cup placings to Date included three second place finishes in downhills in 1986. He won the downhill Gold medal at the 1980 Winter olympics in Lake Placid. Stock and Witsberger went Down the 937-meter 3,092-foot drop after the first group of 15 starters. They faced Light Snow fall on a hard rutted course that had a Tricky jump in the Middle and several turns. Stock who started 23rd, had the Best intermediate time. Hoe Flehner had prob lems on the lower part of the course where Wirnsberger gained heavily. Pirmin Zurbriggen the olympic Down Hill Champion and Overall world cup win Ner of the last two seasons failed to repeat his blistering training performances. Start ing second he finished in 10th place 1.40 seconds behind Stock. But the Swiss conserved virtually All of his 30-Point Lead in the Overall season standings Over Luxembourg s Marc Gira Radelli who finished ninth Here. Hoe Flehner further expanded his Lead in the downhill specially standings Rais ing his total to 69 Points. Italy s Michael Mair who moved to Switzerland from Snow lacking Garmisch Parten Kirchen West Germany finished fourth in Friday s race. William Besse a 20-year-old in his second world cup sea son was the top Swiss with a sixth place finish. Schneider gets seventh win Schwarzenber Austria a Vreni Schneider scored her third giant slalom Victory Friday and her seventh win this season in the women s world cup leaving the Young Swiss skier confident she is Able to do  win every race now the 24-year old skier jubilate. I am Able to do everything. Schneider cruised to Victory nearly a full second 0.99 before Austria s Ulrike Maier scoring an aggregate time of2 22.24. The favorite for the  Alpine skiing championships at Vail colo., on Jan. 29-feb. 12, took Italy in stride Friday admitting she was slightly under the weather still suffering from a bought of the flu. She shrugged off the sleet and fog that limited visibility on the 46-Gate course austrian Leonard Stock demonstrates form in first world cup Triumph in 13 years. During the first heat in which she clocked the fastest time 1 09.53. One just has to adjust to the weather she said. Schneider s teammate Maria Walliser who came in third in 2 23.85, praised her As simply the world s Best skier at the  Schneider who also lies Way ahead inthe Overall world cup standings with 182 Points is a two time olympic , Schneider was careful not to give any prognosis perhaps recalling he spill last year at a downhill in Aspen colo., when she Tore ligaments in her left  la see she said. Tomorrow is an other  refused to give up Hope of beating her Swiss competitor. With two eve runs even Vreni can be Defeated she said. Schneider has won seven of the events so far this season chalking up three slalom wins at alte Markt Cou Mayeur and Maibor and three giant slalom at Les menu res Val Soldana and Schwarzen Berg. She also took the combined at Alten Markt. Her dominating position is reflected in her world cup standings where also in the giant slalom she holds 75 Points ahead of Yugoslavia s Mateja Svet with 42. Svet came in fourth in Friday s race with an aggregate time of 2 24.11, followed by Canada s Karen Percy with 2 24.11. Both women made Surprise moves to the top five from Low starting positions. American Tamara Mckinney who finished third in Maibor and had a second Start position at Schwarzenber fell half Way Down in the first heat dropping from fifth to eighth place in the Overall stand Ings