GDR ski championships 1970
The 22nd GDR ski championships took place from February 5th to 8th, 1970 in Brotterode , Thuringia . 162 athletes started in nine decisions in the Nordic ski disciplines cross-country skiing , ski jumping and Nordic combined , two of which were team competitions. The championships were considered a dress rehearsal for the Nordic World Ski Championships, which began a week later in Štrbské Pleso in Czechoslovakia . On January 11, 1970, the champion of the men's 50 km in Neuhausen was chosen.
Cross-country skiing
Men
15 km
Gerhard Grimmer was able to book his tenth championship title over the short distance with the men. In an almost relaxed manner, he dominated the race, which took place under good external conditions, and relegated Gert-Dietmar Klause to silver with a lead of over a minute. For the man from Klingenthal, the race went much better this time than over the 30 km, despite a fall and great exertion.
Date: Saturday February 7, 1970
| space | athlete | team | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gerhard Grimmer | ASK forward Oberhof | 46:30 |
| 2 | Gert-Dietmar Klause | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 47:42 |
| 3 | Axel Lesser | ASK forward Oberhof | 48:01 |
| 4th | Gerd Hessler | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 48:57 |
| 5 | Steffen Schulze | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 49:25 |
| 6th | Dieter Meinel | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 49:30 |
| 6th | Joachim Kretschmar | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 49:30 |
30 km
With temperatures around zero degrees, Gerhard Grimmer confirmed his good form and won the opening competition. After just ten kilometers, he had brought defending champion Gert-Dietmar Klause 50 seconds away. Klause, additionally handicapped by a fall, was unable to intervene in the race because of his smooth skis and only finished seventh. The performance of 20-year-old Wolfgang Scheler, who took a respectable fourth place in his first year in the men's category, only 11 seconds behind bronze, was rated positively.
Date: Thursday February 5, 1970
| space | athlete | team | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gerhard Grimmer | ASK forward Oberhof | 1:37:24 |
| 2 | Axel Lesser | ASK forward Oberhof | 1:38:36 |
| 3 | Gerd Hessler | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 1:40:34 |
| 4th | Wolfgang Scheler | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 1:40:45 |
| 5 | Rainer Gross | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 1:41:10 |
| 6th | Joachim Kretschmar | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 1:41:48 |
50 km
In the 34-strong field, Gerhard Grimmer left no doubt about his title ambitions right from the start. Halfway through the distance, he was around three quarters of a minute ahead of defending champion Gert-Dietmar Klause. Only Grimmer's club-mate Axel Lesser caused some tension, as he was only 15 seconds behind Grimmer after three quarters of the route.
Date: Sunday January 11, 1970
| space | athlete | team | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gerhard Grimmer | ASK forward Oberhof | 2:17:42 |
| 2 | Axel Lesser | ASK forward Oberhof | 2:18:29 |
| 3 | Gert-Dietmar Klause | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 2:20:46 |
| 4th | Eberhard Klessen | ASK forward Oberhof | 2:22:00 |
| 5 | Gerd Hessler | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 2:23:02 |
| 6th | Steffen Schulze | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 2:24:39 |
| 7th | Kowars | SC resin | 2:25:00 |
| 8th | Günter Stützner | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 2:25:26 |
| 9 | Rainer Gross | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 2:26:23 |
| 10 | wolf | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 2:26:52 |
4 × 10km relay
After five years without a win, ASK Oberhof managed to win the relay again. The Klingenthalers were still tied with the Oberhofers after the first change. But the Klingenthaler Steffen Schulze was the second runner against the favored Axel Lesser and lost over a minute and a half. Gerhard Grimmer in third position then made the decision. He increased the lead on the Klingenthaler Meinel to over five minutes and was able to send goalkeeper Wolfgang Hössrich to the final lap with a calm mind. With Gert-Dietmar Klause he had the strongest Klingenthaler as opponent, but Klause could not melt away from the lead for more than two minutes. The relay win was the 4th championship title for Gerhard Grimmer in 1970. Two silver medals and one bronze medal at the World Cup were to follow.
Date: Sunday February 8, 1970
| space | team | athlete | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASK forward Oberhof |
Eberhard Klessen Axel Lesser Gerhard Grimmer Wolfgang Hössrich |
2:35:44 |
| 2 | SC Dynamo Klingenthal I |
Gerd Heßler Steffen Schulze Dieter Meinel Gert-Dietmar Klause |
2:39:16 |
| 3 | SC Dynamo Klingenthal II |
Rainer Groß Wolf Lehmann Günter Stützner |
2:40:14 |
| 4th | SC resin | 2:43:27 | |
| 5 | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 2:44:33 | |
| 6th | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 2:45:44 |
Women
5 km
The race over the sprint route for women impressed with a close result. Co-favorite Anni Unger started half a minute ahead of defending champion Renate Fischer. At the finish, Karin Scheidel initially made people sit up and take notice with a good time, which, however, was undercut shortly after by Anni Unger by almost 3 seconds. Shortly afterwards Renate Fischer crossed the finish line, who was able to take eight seconds off Unger and thus defended her championship title over 5 km. In the end, the gap between 1st and 5th place was no more than half a minute. This gave the coaches hope for a strong World Cup relay. And this optimism was rewarded with relay silver in Štrbské Pleso.
Date: Saturday February 7, 1970
| space | athlete | team | Time (h) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Renate Fischer | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 19:10 | |
| 2 | Anna Unger | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 19:18 | |
| 3 | Karin Scheidel | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 19:21 | |
| 4th | Gabriele Haupt | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 19:25 | |
| 5 | Christel Thiel | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 19:42 | |
| 6th | Anita Lehmann | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 20:03 |
10 km
In the first women's competition, the defending champion prevailed in a duel with Renate Fischer.
Date: Thursday February 5, 1970
| space | athlete | team | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anna Unger | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 40:05 |
| 2 | Renate Fischer | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 40:29 |
| 3 | Karin Scheidel | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 40:54 |
| 4th | Gabriele Haupt | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 41:03 |
| 5 | Christel Thiel | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 41:31 |
| 6th | Margitta Rösch | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 42:29 |
3x5 km relay
The four-year dominance of the Oberwiesenthal relay was also broken for women. However, adverse circumstances also favored the success. Renate Fischer broke a ski and as a result she ran with different waxed boards. For the first time since 1965, the Klingenthal squadron was able to win gold again.
Date: Sunday February 8, 1970
| space | team | athlete | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC Dynamo Klingenthal |
Gabriele Haupt Anna Unger Anita Lehmann |
1:13:34 |
| 2 | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal |
Christine Philipp Renate Fischer Margitta Rösch |
1:15:35 |
| 3 | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis |
Karin Scheidel Altermann Herzog |
1:17:28 |
| 4th | SC resin | 1:21:35 | |
| 5 | SC Dynamo Klingenthal II | 1:21:47 | |
| 6th | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis II | 1:24:32 |
Nordic combination
Already after jumping Lothar Düring was ahead. However, his lead of 4 points on defending champion Karl-Heinz Luck, which corresponded to a time of 20 seconds, was not exactly lush, so the experts predicted Luck as the new title holder. But after half the distance he had made up a full 4 seconds on Düring. In the end, Johanngeorgenstadt from Düring won his second championship title with a 34-second lead in his last competition season.
Date: Ski jumping Thursday, February 5, 1970; 15 km Saturday, February 6, 1970
| space | athlete | team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lothar Düring | SG Dynamo Johanngeorgenstadt | 403.5 |
| 2 | Karl-Heinz Luck | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 393.7 |
| 3 | Bernd Zimmermann | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 387.7 |
| 4th | Christoph Beyer | SG Dynamo Johanngeorgenstadt | 366.6 |
| 5 | Joachim Gross | SG Dynamo Johanngeorgenstadt | 366.4 |
| 6th | Ulrich Wehling | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 366.0 |
Ski jumping
Normal hill
Also in the competition on the normal hill, which took place on the Oberhofer Thüringenschanze, large hill master Horst Queck could not be defeated by the remaining 49 participants. And this time the lead was even higher with 17 points. Last year's champion Jürgen Dommerich showed with second place that his surprising championship title from last year was not a flash in the pan.
Date: Saturday February 7, 1970
| space | athlete | team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horst Queck | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 234.3 |
| 2 | Jürgen Dommerich | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 217.3 |
| 3 | Christian Kiehl | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 216.2 |
| 4th | Rainer Schmidt | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 215.7 |
| 5 | Heinz Wosipiwo | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 212.9 |
| 6th | Thomas Weber | ASK forward Brotterode | 210.2 |
Large hill
The surprising Four Hills Tournament winner and defending champion Horst Queck already showed in the test run with 99m that he should be the measure of all things. In the end, the Zella-Mehliser won with a 9.5 point lead over 21-year-old Bernd Willomitzer from Oberwiesenthal, for whom the runner-up title was the greatest success to date.
Date: Friday February 6, 1970
| space | athlete | team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horst Queck | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 240.0 |
| 2 | Bernd Willomitzer | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 230.5 |
| 3 | Heinz Schmidt | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 225.5 |
| 4th | Jürgen Dommerich | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 224.0 |
| 5 | Thomas Weber | ASK forward Brotterode | 222.0 |
| 6th | Rainer Schmidt | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 221.5 |
| 7th | Bernd Eckstein | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 211.5 |
| 8th | Christian Kiehl | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 209.0 |
| 9 | Reinhard Trute | ASK forward Brotterode | 208.0 |
| 10 | Heinz Wosipiwo | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 206.0 |
Medal table
Only Gerhard Grimmer, who won all four championship titles in cross-country skiing, secured the supremacy of the ASK Oberhof. The SC Motor Zella-Mehlis with double champion Horst Queck benefited above all from the performances of the jumpers and combiners.
| Medal table (after all 10 competitions) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| space | team | gold | silver | bronze | total |
| 1 | ASK forward Oberhof | 4th | 2 | 1 | 7th |
| 2 | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 2 | 3 | 4th | 9 |
| 3 | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 2 | 2 | 4th | 8th |
| 4th | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | SG Dynamo Johanngeorgenstadt | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
World Cup line-up
Following the championships, the team for the Nordic World Ski Championships was announced. The biggest surprises came with the combiners, where two youngsters, Hans Hartleb and Günther Deckert, were nominated. The GDR team won 4 medals, three times silver and one bronze, all in cross-country skiing. The jumpers giving cause for hope, however, disappointed.
Special jumping
- Horst Queck (SC Motor Zella-Mehlis)
- Rainer Schmidt (SC Motor Zella-Mehlis)
- Heinz Schmidt (SC Motor Zella-Mehlis)
- Jürgen Dommerich (SC Motor Zella-Mehlis)
- Christian Kiehl (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal)
- Bernd Willomitzer (SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal)
- Heinz Wosipiwo (SC Dynamo Klingenthal)
Nordic combination
- Lothar Düring (SG Dynamo Johanngeorgenstadt)
- Günter Deckert (SC Dynamo Klingenthal)
- Hans Hartleb (SC Motor Zella-Mehlis)
- Karl-Heinz Luck (SC Motor Zella-Mehlis)
Cross-country skiing
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Women
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ND of January 12, 1970 p. 7
- ↑ a b c ND of February 8, 1970. p. 7
- ↑ a b ND of February 6, 1970 p. 5
- ↑ a b c ND of February 9, 1970 p. 7
- ^ ND of February 6, 1970, p. 8.
- ↑ a b ND of February 7, 1970, p. 8.
literature
- Manfred Seifert, Roland Singer, Hans-Jürgen Zeume: Great love for skiing . Sportverlag, Berlin 1979, pp. 210-211