Cuno Werner

Cuno Werner
Association	German Democratic Republic
birthday	May 10, 1925
date of death	September 8, 2004
Career
society	Tractor Goldlauter-Heidersbach ASK Vorwärts Oberhof
Medal table
GDR championship 2 × 0 × 0 × DM championship 0 × 1 × 0 ×
GDR championships gold 1958 singles gold 1959 singles  German championships silver 1953 Freudenstadt singles
World Cup balance

Cuno Werner , also Kuno Werner , (born May 10, 1925 , † September 8, 2004 ) was a German cross-country skier , Nordic combined athlete and biathlete . Werner won 19 national championship titles in various disciplines and took part in two Olympic Winter Games.

During his active time, Cuno Werner initially worked for Tractor Goldlauter-Heidersbach and later for ASK Vorwärts Oberhof . In the first two decades after the Second World War Werner was probably the most successful East German cross-country skier. He was able to become GDR champion 16 times. He won the 15-kilometer route four times in a row in 1952 and from 1955 to 1958. He was second in 1953 behind Herbert Leonhardt , third in 1959. He celebrated his first championship over 30 kilometers in 1949, more followed in 1955, 1956 and 1958 to 1960. He was runner-up in 1962 behind Heinz Seidel . Werner finished the 50-kilometer route victorious from 1955 to 1957 and 1961, in 1959 he finished second behind Enno Röder . He won the season title in 1958 with Alfred Recknagel , Egon Fleischmann and Werner Mohring , in 1959 with Adolf Jankowski , Werner Haase and Rudolf Dannhauer . Between 1960 and 1962 Werner and his team from Vorwärts Oberhof had to admit defeat to the SC Dynamo Klingenthal team and were each runner-up. In 1952 he was champion in the individual Nordic combined competition. Towards the end of the 1950s, the sports soldier also began biathlon. In 1958 and 1959 Werner won the 20 km title. It was also the first title to be awarded to biathletes at national championships on German soil.

Werner also started internationally and achieved significant results. At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo , he was used over 15 kilometers, where he reached 27th place, as well as together with Siegfried Weiß , Rudi Kopp and Hermann Möchel in the relay with which he was tenth. In the elimination competitions for the Olympic Winter Games 1960 Werner could not shine at first, but eventually qualified for the Games in Squaw Valley . There he not only competed in cross-country skiing, but also in biathlon. He ran over 15 kilometers in cross-country skiing to 24th place, with the relay to which Helmut Hagg , Werner Haase and Enno Röder also belonged, he came ninth. In the biathlon, he competed in singles and finished ninth, becoming the best German.

Web links

Commons : Cuno Werner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cuno Werner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary by Jan Knapp in Contributions to Sports History Issue 19 p. 90
2. ↑ Dispute over the tenth man in the Olympic occupation of the Nordic ski competitions ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )