GDR ski championships 1958

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The 10th GDR ski championships took place from February 21 to 23, 1958 in Altenberg , Saxony . In six decisions of the Nordic ski disciplines cross-country skiing , ski jumping and Nordic combined , two of which were team competitions, athletes competed. The men's 30-km cross-country ski run was held on February 2, 1958 in Schmiedefeld , Thuringia , and the men's 50-km cross-country ski run was held in Oberwiesenthal on March 29, 1958 . The championships in Altenberg were the last major competition before the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti , Finland , which took place in early March.

Cross-country skiing

Men

15 km

Kuno Werner, who was already decorated with championship laurels from the 30 km run, was able to win gold over the short distance and thus defend his championship title. However, he became a serious competitor in Röder in Klingenthal, who was only 18 seconds short of gold. A whole armada of Oberhof army athletes lined up behind Röder. The best combiner for which this competition was used as a run was Günter Flauger.

Date: Friday February 21, 1958

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Kuno Werner ASK forward Oberhof 57:58
2 Enno Roeder SC Dynamo Klingenthal 58:15
3 Werner Moring ASK forward Oberhof 58:23
4th Egon Fleischmann ASK forward Oberhof 59:32
5 Alfred Recknagel ASK forward Oberhof 59:53
6th Rudolf Dannhauer ASK forward Oberhof 1:01:03
7th Günter Flauger SC Dynamo Klingenthal 1:01:11
8th Adolf Jankowski ASK forward Oberhof 1:01:13
9 Helmut Forkel SG Dynamo Zinnwald 1:01:22

30 km

As part of an event that also included jumping from the Walter-Ulbricht-Schanze in the Vessertal in the afternoon, 39 cross-country skiers determined the first cross-country skiing champion in 1958 over the distance of 30 kilometers. Defending champion Kuno Werner was able to make the competition victorious again.

Date: Sunday February 2, 1958

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Kuno Werner ASK forward Oberhof 1:48:28
2 Enno Roeder SC Dynamo Klingenthal 1:49:32
3 Werner Moring ASK forward Oberhof 1:50:24

50 km

In rainy weather, the last championship race started at the Oberwiesenthaler Sachsenbaude. Olympian Erich Lindenlaub had the greatest reserves of strength and was able to secure the championship title with a two-minute lead.

Date: Saturday March 29, 1958

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Erich Lindenlaub SC Dynamo Klingenthal 3:16:30
2 Werner Moring ASK forward Oberhof 3:18:30
3 Alfred Recknagel ASK forward Oberhof 3:22:23
4th Heinz Seidel SC Dynamo Klingenthal 3:25:41
5 Siegfried Forker SG Dynamo Zinnwald 3:27:13

4 × 10 km relay

After the overwhelming team unity in the only individual decision, the relay victory of the first Oberhof representative was logical. The Oberhof cross-country skiers were so dominant that even their second representation was even faster than the first Klingenthal team.

Date: Sunday February 23, 1958

space team athlete Time (h)
1 ASK forward Oberhof I Alfred Recknagel
Egon Fleischmann
Werner Moring
Kuno Werner 		2:31:02
2 ASK forward Oberhof II Werner Haase
Adolf Jankowski
Böttner
Rudolf Dannhauer		 2:32:12
3 SC Dynamo Klingenthal I Erich Lindenlaub
Heinz Seidel
Helmut Weidlich
Enno Röder 		2:33:12

Women

10 km

For the fourth time in a row, Sonnhilde Kallus was able to win the women's individual course, and in a sovereign manner. Runner-up was Christa Köhler, who last competed at championships for her local BSG. After the winter season she moved to SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal.

Date: Friday February 21, 1958

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Sonnhilde Callus SC Dynamo Klingenthal 44:02
2 Christa Göhler BSG tractor Nassau 45:46
3 Renate Borges SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 46:32
4th Elfriede Spiegelhauer SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 46:58
5 Gerda Kaden SC Dynamo Klingenthal 48:16

3 × 5 km relay

Sonnhilde Kallus became double champion with the relay. In the relay teams from Zella-Mehlis and Oberwiesenthal, one strong runner was not enough to run for the title.

Date: Sunday February 23, 1958

space team athlete Time (h)
1 SC Dynamo Klingenthal I Margot Drechsel
Gerda Kaden
Sonnhilde Callus 		1:05:55
2 SC Motor Zella-Mehlis Marlies Liebau
Luise Thomas
Elfriede Spiegelhauer 		1:06:45
3 SC tractor Oberwiesenthal Eva chair
Scherber
Renate Borges 		1:07:27

Nordic combination

After cross-country skiing, last year's junior champion Günter Flauger led the surprisingly strong Horst Bätz from BSG tractor Steinheid and last year's champion Siegfried Böhme. The jumping, which experience has shown to be the stronger sub-discipline of the combined athletes in those years, was held the day after in front of 5000 spectators on the Schanze des Friedens on Geisingberg . In view of a blunt run-out, the competition was characterized by many falls, Günter Flauger fell on the first jump. With his third jump with the daily best distance of 68.5 m, he made the event even more exciting. In the end, he was 0.6 points short of the title, Siegfried Böhme was able to repeat his success.

Date: cross-country skiing 15 km, Friday, February 21, 1958; Ski jumping on Saturday, February 22, 1958

space athlete team Points
1 Siegfried Boehme SC Dynamo Klingenthal 441.5
2 Günter Flauger SC Dynamo Klingenthal 440.9
3 Martin Körner SC Dynamo Klingenthal 432.9
4th Rolf Schönherr SC Dynamo Klingenthal 423.2
5 Manfred Meinhold SC Dynamo Klingenthal 415.4

Ski jumping

40,000 spectators flocked to the Geisingberg on the last day of the competition, mainly to see the top trio Helmut Recknagel, Harry Glaß and Werner Lesser. At the beginning of the year, the GDR jumpers had already made people sit up and take notice when Helmut Recknagel was the first GDR representative to win the Four Hills Tournament . Werner Lesser was fourth on the tour. In the championship, however, the three-time GDR champion Harry Glaß prevailed with the largest daily distance and the stylistically cleanest jumps. Recknagel noticed the three-week training failure due to flu, he never hit the jump in any of his attempts. Werner Lesser won bronze.

Date: Sunday February 23, 1958

space athlete team Points
1 Harry Glass SC Dynamo Klingenthal 230.5
2 Helmut Recknagel SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 225.5
3 Werner Lesser SG Dynamo Brotterode 223.5
4th Manfred Brunner SC Dynamo Klingenthal 220.0
5 Harald Pfeffer SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 216.0
6th Hugo Fuchs SG Dynamo Brotterode 214.0

Medal table

The title holders came from only two centers of excellence - Klingenthal and Oberhof. The last time a championship medal went to BSG Traktor Nassau.

Medal table (after all 8 competitions)
space team gold silver bronze total
1 SC Dynamo Klingenthal 5 3 2 10
2 ASK forward Oberhof 3 2 3 8th
3 SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 0 2 0 2
4th BSG tractor Nassau 0 1 0 1
5 SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 0 0 2 2
6th SG Dynamo Brotterode 0 0 1 1

World Cup line-up

The World Cup line-up was announced even before the GDR championships. The ski jumper Manfred Brunner moved up for the injured Adolf Baldauf . Renate Borges was nominated instead of Margot Drechsel for cross-country skiing women with a view to goal-oriented development up to the 1960 Winter Olympics .

Special jumping
Nordic combination
Cross-country skiing

Men

Women

literature

  • Manfred Seifert, Roland Singer, Hans-Jürgen Zeume: Great love for skiing . Sportverlag, Berlin 1979, p. 204

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Neue Zeit from February 23, 1958 p. 5
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of February 4, 1958, p. 5
  3. ↑ ND of March 30, 1958, p. 8
  4. ↑ a b c d BZ of February 25, 1958 p. 4
  5. ^ BZ of February 18, 1958, p. 4