GDR ski championships 1964

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The 16th GDR ski championships took place from February 19 to 23, 1964 in Oberhof , Thuringia . In eight decisions in the Nordic ski disciplines cross-country skiing , ski jumping and Nordic combined , two of which were team competitions, athletes competed. The ski marathon was not held.

prehistory

The choice of Oberhof as the venue was no accident. Fifteen years earlier, the first winter sports championships in the then Soviet occupation zone had taken place at the same location. Furthermore, a new ski jumping hill in Oberhof's Kanzlersgrund was inaugurated as part of the championships in the presence of Walter Ulbricht. It was the first large new ski jumping hill in the GDR that allowed jumps over 100 meters for the first time. In this way, the GDR also adapted to the trend of holding ski jumping competitions from normal and large hills. This dichotomy was first practiced at a major event at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, which were held two weeks before .

Cross-country skiing

Men

30 km

As in the previous year, Olympic starter Helmut Weidlich won the opening competition for men. Behind him, however, the tableau showed some surprises. Another Olympian, Enno Röder, was only able to place himself in sixth place. If the runner-up title was not the big surprise for Kurt Albrecht after the achievements of the previous year, the bronze medal for the Zella-Mehliser was not expected. However, he was already two and a half minutes behind the winner, which was also viewed critically by the experts.

Date: Thursday February 20, 1964

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Helmut Weidlich SC Dynamo Klingenthal 1:44:17
2 Kurt Albrecht ASK forward Oberhof 1:44:59
3 Achim Langenhan SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 1:46:51
4th Dieter Ritter SG Dynamo Zinnwald 1:47:51
5 Gerhard Lorenz SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 1:48:16
6th Enno Roeder SC Dynamo Klingenthal 1:48:47

15 km

Helmut Weidlich also won the second individual run. However, he beat his club mate and previous year's champion Enno Röder by just five seconds.

Date: Saturday February 22nd, 1964

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Helmut Weidlich SC Dynamo Klingenthal 50:27
2 Enno Roeder SC Dynamo Klingenthal 50:32
3 Kurt Albrecht ASK forward Oberhof 51:04
4th Dieter Ritter SG Dynamo Zinnwald 51:13
5 Uloth SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 52:01
6th Heinz Seidel SC Dynamo Klingenthal 52:14
7th Holler SC Dynamo Klingenthal 52:17
8th Gerhard Grimmer ASK forward Oberhof 52:18
9 Rudolf Dannhauer ASK forward Oberhof 52:41
10 Jürgen Beer ASK forward Oberhof 52:44

4 × 10 km relay

In the men's relay competition, there was the expected victory of the favorites for the Klingenthal team. The season around double champion Helmut Weidlich was too strong for the first Oberhof set to endanger it. In the end, the silver relay was three minutes behind. Nevertheless, this medal was remarkable as it was the first championship medal for Gerhard Grimmer, who was still 20 at the time.

Date: Sunday February 23, 1964

space team athlete Time (h)
1 SC Dynamo Klingenthal I Siegfried Horler
Heinz Seidel
Enno Röder
Helmut Weidlich
2:23:54
2 ASK forward Oberhof I Rudolf Dannhauer
Gerhard Grimmer
Jürgen Beer
Kurt Albrecht
2:26:54
3 ASK forward Oberhof II Fraustein
Bechmann
Haase
Kretzschmann
2:28:46
4th SC Dynamo Klingenthal III 2:29:51
5 SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 2:30:20
6th SG Dynamo Zinnwald 2:31:02

Women

5 km

Christine Nestler, who has already been described by the press as the "Eternal Second", celebrated her championship title over the short distance for women. And this turned out to be very close. She was only one second faster than last year's champion Renate Dannhauer.

Date: Saturday February 22nd, 1964

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Christine Nestler SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 19:19
2 Renate Dannhauer SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 19:20
3 Elfriede Spiegelhauer SC Dynamo Klingenthal 19:35
4th Renate Koehler SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 20:02
5 Gudrun Zschögner SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 20:06
6th Karin Horn SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 20:19
6th Anni Körner SC Dynamo Klingenthal 20:19

10 km

The first women's competition came as a surprise. The 29-year-old Olympian Elfriede Spiegelhauer celebrated her first individual title. She relegated her much younger competitors Nestler and Dannhauer to their places, and in the end she was only 7 seconds ahead of Christine Nestler.

Date: Sunday February 21, 1965

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Elfriede Spiegelhauer SC Dynamo Klingenthal 37:29
2 Christine Nestler SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 37:36
3 Renate Dannhauer SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 38:05
4th Gudrun Zschögner SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 38:23
5 Gabriele Nobis SC Dynamo Klingenthal 38:35
5 Luise Preiss SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 39:07

3x5 km relay

The women's relay competition was a lot more exciting than the men's. After two runners, SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal was still leading with 21 seconds ahead of the first season of SC Motor Zella-Mehlis. After the last change it came to a duel between Oberwiesenthalerin Christine Nestler and Zella-Mehliserin Renate Dannhauer. And the Thuringian, somewhat surprisingly, took 40 seconds from her rival and thus won the only cross-country title for the Thuringian clubs.

Date: Sunday February 23, 1964

space team athlete Time (h)
1 SC Motor Zella-Mehlis I Luise Preiss
Gudrun Zschögner
Renate Dannhauer
1:00:33
2 SC Tractor Oberwiesenthal I Renate Koehler
Karin Horn
Christine Nestler
1:00:52
3 SC Dynamo Klingenthal I Gabriele Nobis
Anni Körner
Elfriede Spiegelhauer
1:01:42
4th SC Motor Zella-Mehlis III 1:04:43
5 Youth selection I 1:06:46

Nordic combination

Already after the ski jump, after long years of dominance in Klingenthal, the Oberwiesenthal Olympic participant Roland Weißpflog was ahead of last year's champion Rainer Dietel. Third place was surprisingly Lothar Düring from Johanngeorgenstadt, ahead of the multiple GDR champion Günter Flauger. And Weisspflog also won cross-country skiing, so no one could dispute his victory. As Rainer Dietel only achieved the ninth-best run time and was one and a half minutes slower than Lothar Düring, the Johanngeorgenstadt-born man was able to celebrate the runner-up title somewhat surprisingly.

Date: Ski jumping Thursday, February 20, 1964; 15 km Friday, February 21, 1965

space athlete team Points
1 Roland Weißpflog SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 485.60
2 Lothar Düring SG Dynamo Johanngeorgenstadt 471.88
3 Rainer Dietel SC Dynamo Klingenthal 457.60
4th Günter Flauger SC Dynamo Klingenthal 448.14
5 Joachim Winterlich SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 443.90
6th Günter Meinel SC Dynamo Klingenthal 428.80
7th Maatz SC Dynamo Klingenthal 427.80
8th Schönherr SC Dynamo Klingenthal 424.67
9 Günter Münzner SG Dynamo Johanngeorgenstadt 424.52
10 Jürgen Meinel SC Dynamo Klingenthal 424.10

Ski jumping

The jumping competition was held over two days. On the first day of the jump three rounds were completed, whereby the worst jump was canceled in the result. The 100 m mark was reached or skipped no less than 29 times. After this first day of jumping, Veit Kühren led in front of club mate Karl-Heinz Munk and the army athlete Kurt Schramm. In front of 40,000 spectators, the ski jumping hill was consecrated on the following Sunday under the eyes of Walter Ulbricht and three more runs were completed. Again Veit Kühr won the day's classification, although he sprained an ankle after the second jump, which he could not stand because of his distance. So Kühr was able to celebrate the championship title again after 1961. Dieter Bokeloh, who missed the day's victory by 1.3 points, moved up from fifth to bronze thanks to this performance. Karl-Heinz Munk was able to secure the runner-up title with a fourth place. Because Munks fled from the GDR in December 1965 , his runner-up title was no longer mentioned in later GDR publications.

Date: Friday February 21 and Sunday February 23, 1964

space athlete team Points
1 Veit Kühr SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 457.2
2 Karl-Heinz Munk SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 447.9
3 Dieter Bokeloh ASK forward Brotterode 441.55
4th Kurt Schramm ASK forward Brotterode 438.5
5 Dieter Neuendorf ASK forward Brotterode 434.2
6th Peter Lesser SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 425.9
7th Helmut Recknagel SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 422.4
8th Alfred Lesser SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 419.0
9 Manfred Queck SG Dynamo Johanngeorgenstadt 409.8
10 Manfred Lesch SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 403.4

Medal table

The SC Dynamo Klingenthaler became the most successful sports club, mainly because of the strong cross-country skiers who won all three titles to be awarded.

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ND of February 18, 1964 p. 8
  2. a b c ND of February 21, 1964 p. 8
  3. a b BZ of February 23, 1964 p. 4
  4. a b c BZ of February 24, 1964 p. 3
  5. a b Berliner Zeitung of February 22, 1964 p. 4

literature

  • Manfred Seifert, Roland Singer, Hans-Jürgen Zeume: Great love for skiing . Sportverlag, Berlin 1979, pp. 205-206