GDR ski championships 1978

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The 30th GDR ski championships took place from February 4th to 7th, 1978 in Schmiedefeld , Thuringia . In nine decisions of the Nordic ski disciplines cross-country skiing , ski jumping and Nordic combined , 170 participants entered. The cross-country skiing competitions in the then so-called marathon distances over 20 km for women and 50 km for men had already taken place on December 23, 1977 in the Saxon Zinnwald , but were rated as GDR championships.

Cross-country skiing

Men

15 km

After Gert-Dietmar Klause finished 6th in the 30 km decision, this time he won half the distance. He relegated his club mate Alf-Gerd Deckert to second place. With Hartmut Freyer from Oberwiesenthal and the third Klingenthaler Jürgen Wolf, only Saxon cross-country skiers came in on the first 4 places.

Date: Monday February 6, 1978

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Gert-Dietmar Klause SC Dynamo Klingenthal 45: 11.31
2 Alf-Gerd Deckert SC Dynamo Klingenthal 45: 15.78
3 Hartmut Freyer SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 45: 29.06
4th Jürgen Wolf SC Dynamo Klingenthal 45: 30.78
5 Peter Anders ASK Oberhof 45: 38.33
6th Arnd Krause ASK Oberhof 45: 01.68

30 km

After Hartmut Freyer from Oberwiesenthal had already won the 50 km shortly before Christmas, he also won the second long distance. Co-favorite Gert-Dietmar Klause had just overcome a slight flu infection and came in 6th place.

Date: Saturday February 4, 1978

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Hartmut Freyer SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 1:24:07
2 Jürgen Wolf SC Dynamo Klingenthal 1:24:34
3 Arnd Krause ASK Oberhof 1:24:49
4th Alf-Gerd Deckert SC Dynamo Klingenthal 1:25:13
5 Peter Anders ASK Oberhof 1:25:44
6th Gert-Dietmar Klause SC Dynamo Klingenthal 1:26:23

50 km

At the 30th GDR Ski Marathon Championships, which were also held as a single event, an Oberwiesenthal athlete won for the first time in 22 years. Hartmut Freyer won the end with a sovereign lead of 49 seconds.

Date: December 23, 1977

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Hartmut Freyer SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 2:52:05
2 Jürgen Wolf SC Dynamo Klingenthal 2:52:54
3 Gerd Hessler SC Dynamo Klingenthal 2:58:46
4th Gert-Dietmar Klause SC Dynamo Klingenthal 2:59:08

4 × 10km relay

In the season decision, the favored season of SC Dynamo Klingenthal around Gert-Dietmar Klause was able to assert itself sovereignly, despite a mishap. Final runner Klause was called too late to change and Jürgen Wolf had to wait 35 seconds for his replacement. Nevertheless, the season won by two and a half minutes.

Date: Tuesday February 7, 1978

space team athlete Time (h)
1 SC Dynamo Klingenthal Gerd Heßler
Alf-Gerd Deckert
Jürgen Wolf
Gert-Dietmar Klause 		1: 53: 34.06
2 ASK Oberhof Arnd Krause
Peter Anders
Recknagel
Karl-Heinz Wolf 		1: 56: 03.07
3 SC Motor Zella-Mehlis Holger Bauroth
Grüber
Kautz
Schlott 		1: 56: 16.97

Women

5 km

If their triumph over the 10 km distance already made people sit up and take notice, the victory in the sprint was a big surprise. In the presence of top athletes like Barbara Petzold, who were still missing over 10 km, Christel Meinel was able to win her second GDR championship title. Behind her came the junior world champion Birgit Schreiber from Oberwiesenthal. The decision about the bronze medal was dramatic. In the final sprint, last year's champion Veronika Schmidt had the better end for herself with 63 hundredths ahead of Sigrun Filbrich-Krause.

Date: Monday February 6, 1978

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Christel Meinel SC Dynamo Klingenthal 19: 25.73
2 Birgit Schreiber SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 19: 35.88
3 Veronika Schmidt SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 19: 42.85
4th Sigrun Krause ASK Oberhof 19: 43.48
5 Marlies Rostock SC Dynamo Klingenthal 19: 52.65
6th Monika Hessler SC Dynamo Klingenthal 19: 54.84
7th Marion Büchner SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 20: 17.49
8th Barbara Petzold SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 20: 26.85

10 km

In a starting field of only 21 athletes, Klingenthaler Christel Meinel was able to prevail. Top runners like Barbara Petzold , Veronika Schmidt or Ute Nestler stayed away from the competition on medical advice because of severe colds. Nevertheless, Sigrun Filbrich-Krause was considered the favorite, but she had to be beaten by the only 20-year-old Christel Meinel.

Date: Saturday February 4, 1978

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Christel Meinel SC Dynamo Klingenthal 39:46
2 Sigrun Filbrich-Krause ASK Oberhof 40:03
3 Marlies Rostock SC Dynamo Klingenthal 40:17
4th Monika Hessler SC Dynamo Klingenthal 40:22
5 Marion Büchner SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 41:22
6th Schramm SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 41:37

20 km

Unlike with the men, the marathon decision was by no means so clear-cut. In the end Barbara Petzold from Oberwiesenthal won the eagerly awaited duel against Monika Debertshäuser-Heßler with a 9 second lead. Elvira Pechmann won her first championship medal ever.

Date: December 23, 1978

space athlete team Time (h)
1 Barbara Petzold SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 1:08:29
2 Monika Hessler SC Dynamo Klingenthal 1:08:38
3 Elvira Pechmann SC Dynamo Klingenthal 1:09:08

4x5 km relay

Thanks to Christel Meinel's individual performances, SC Dynamo Klingenthal hoped to win again in the relay for the first time since 1971. And Meinel was again the fastest of all athletes. Nevertheless, the team from SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal around Barbara Petzold saved a lead of 1.5 seconds across the finish line in the final sprint thanks to their final runner Ute Nestler.

Date: Tuesday February 7, 1978

space team athlete Time (h)
1 SC tractor Oberwiesenthal Bellmann
Birgit Schreiber
Barbara Petzold
Ute Nestler 		1: 20: 12.81
2 SC Dynamo Klingenthal Marlies Rostock
Christel Meinel
Sigrun Opitz
Martina Scharf 		1: 20: 14.09
3 SC Motor Zella-Mehlis Schramm
Marion Büchner
Sylvia Thesenvitz
Veronika Schmidt 		1: 21: 23.29

Nordic combination

In the starting field of 14 combiners, Ulrich Wehling was once again able to prevail. However, the junior world champion from 1977, Gunter Schmieder, who started for SC Dynamo Klingenthal and the double Olympic champion, did not make it easy. With three times the best distance, Schmieder went into cross-country skiing with a 22-second lead after jumping. And after 10 km Wehling had only made up for 7 seconds on Schmieder. In the last 2 km, however, Wehling still ran out of time that he was ultimately able to win the championship with a 2.5 point lead. The 1976 Olympic bronze medalist from Innsbruck , Konrad Winkler, was still lagging behind his form and took a disappointing 4th place. A few days later, however, he was to become world champion .

Date: Ski jumping Saturday, February 4, 1978; 15 km Sunday 5th February 1978

space athlete team Points
1 Ulrich Wehling SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 441.100
2 Gunter Schmieder SC Dynamo Klingenthal 438.635
3 Werner Leipold SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 416,535
4th Konrad Winkler SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 409,382
5 Andreas Langer SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 401.784
5 Carpenter SC Dynamo Klingenthal 397.107

Ski jumping

Normal hill

The last competition of the championships was dominated by the SC Motor Zella-Mehlis team, which was able to place a total of 4 jumpers in the top six. Last year's champion and renewed title holder Harald Duschk also benefited from Jochen Danneberg's fall in the second round. Matthias Buse secured the bronze medal by a wafer-thin 0.9 points ahead of his club-mate Henry Glaß. Large hill winner Weißpflog had nothing to do with the decision.

Date: Tuesday February 7, 1978

space athlete team Points
1 Harald showerk SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 250.8
2 Bernd Eckstein SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 248.4
3 Matthias Buse SC Dynamo Klingenthal 240.9
4th Henry Glass SC Dynamo Klingenthal 240.0
5 Axel Zitzmann SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 233.1
6th J. Eckstein SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 230.1

Large hill

Falko Weißpflog, who started for SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal, was able to secure the GDR championship title on the Oberhof Rennsteigschanze among 34 starters. However, both jumps differ fundamentally. Martin Weber , who initially came second, jumped 19 meters shorter in the second round and only came in 7th. Matthias Buse saved himself on bronze after jumping 13.5 meters shorter in the second round as the leader with the best distance of 114 meters for the day. Thus, two jumps of 110 meters each were enough for Weißpflog's championship title. Jochen Danneberg came in second thanks to an increase in performance.

Date: Sunday February 5, 1978

space athlete team Points
1 Falko Weißpflog SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 250.0
2 Jochen Danneberg ASK Oberhof 245.4
3 Matthias Buse SC Dynamo Klingenthal 244.3
4th Henry Glass SC Dynamo Klingenthal 239.8
5 Bernd Eckstein SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 237.2
6th Harald showerk SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 234.5

Medal table

Within the 4 winter sports centers, the two Saxon clubs clearly retained the upper hand. They won two thirds of all medals. The SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal celebrated victories in all Nordic ski disciplines. The ASK Oberhof fell short of its expectations, but also had other winter sports focuses such as BOB, racing sleds and biathlon.

Medal table (after all 11 competitions)
space team gold silver bronze total
1 SC tractor Oberwiesenthal 6th 1 1 8th
2 SC Dynamo Klingenthal 4th 6th 5 15th
3 SC Motor Zella-Mehlis 1 1 4th 6th
4th ASK Oberhof 0 3 1 4th

World Cup line-up

Following the championships, the team for the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti was announced. The GDR team won 7 medals, three gold, three silver and two bronze medals.

Special jumping

Nordic combination

Cross-country skiing

Men

Women

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ND from 4/5. February 1978, p. 5.
  2. ↑ a b c ND of December 24, 1977, p. 4.
  3. ↑ a b ND of February 7, 1978, p. 5.
  4. ↑ a b c d ND of February 6, 1978, p. 7.
  5. ↑ a b c ND of February 8, 1978, p. 8.
  6. ^ ND of February 8, 1978 p. 5

literature

  • Manfred Seifert, Roland Singer, Hans-Jürgen Zeume: Great love for skiing . Sportverlag, Berlin 1979, DNB 820718742 , p. 199.