GDR ski championships 1987
The 39th GDR Ski Championships took place from March 7th to 15th, 1987 in Klingenthal , Saxony . In eleven decisions, seven individual and four team competitions, the Nordic ski disciplines cross-country skiing , ski jumping and Nordic combined , 185 participants entered. The long duration of the event was due to the international sports calendar, which for the first time led to a separation between the jumping and running competitions, between which Tuesday was the rest day. Some top cross-country skiers were still present at the Swedish Ski Games in Falun on the first weekend of the event . This dichotomy did not meet with unanimous enthusiasm in the press either. The long distance championships over 20 km for women and 50 km for men were held on March 20, 1987 in Masserberg .
Cross-country skiing
Men
15 km
Uwe Bellmann from Oberwiesenthal was able to make the second race decision of the men victorious. He kept his long-term rival Holger Bauroth at a distance of over half a minute.
Date: Saturday March 14, 1987
| space | athlete | team | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uwe Bellmann | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 39: 07.4 |
| 2 | Holger Bauroth | ASK forward Oberhof | 39: 41.5 |
| 3 | Jens Lautner | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 40: 08.3 |
30 km
The men's first running decision was won by Uwe Bellmann, who had just returned from Falun, Sweden. Defending champion Holger Bauroth was more than two minutes behind only on bronze.
Date: Thursday March 12, 1987
| space | athlete | team | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uwe Bellmann | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 1: 22: 41.05 |
| 2 | Uwe Leipold | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 1: 23:16.00 |
| 3 | Holger Bauroth | ASK forward Oberhof | 1: 24: 51.06 |
3 × 10km relay
The last decision for the men this time was only held with three instead of the usual four starters per team. Here, too, the Saxons from Fichtelberg around Uwe Bellmann prevailed confidently against the Oberhof team. Bellmann won his third championship title.
Date: Sunday March 15, 1987
| space | team | athlete | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal |
Jens Lautner Steinert Uwe Bellmann |
1: 21: 16.0 |
| 2 | ASK forward Oberhof | Dannhauer King Holger Bauroth |
1: 21: 58.2 |
| 3 | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | Pawliczek Lutz Liebig Schröder |
1: 22: 08.9 |
Women
5 km
The women’s first run decision was won by Kerstin Moring from Oberhof. However, there was also a lack of well-known competition such as last year's champion Simone Opitz who had fallen ill and Gaby Nestler, who started the World Cup .
Date: Thursday March 12, 1987
| space | athlete | team | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kerstin Moring | ASK forward Oberhof | 14: 52.07 |
| 2 | Annette Malter | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 15:06:04 |
| 3 | Noack | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 15: 17.03 |
10 km
After the 5 km Kerstin Moring was able to win the 10 km. World Cup starter Simone Greiner-Petter took silver.
Date: Saturday March 14, 1987
| space | athlete | team | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kerstin Moring | ASK forward Oberhof | 29: 48.4 |
| 2 | Simone Greiner-Petter | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 30: 03.3 |
| 3 | Annette Malter | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 30: 32.7 |
4x5 km relay
A third gold medal was denied to Kerstin Moring. The season of SC Motor Zella-Mehlis was too strong, with Simone Greiner-Petter and Susanne Kuhfittig, two members of the Oberstdorf national team. With a lead of over a minute, they relegated the relay from Oberwiesenthal to second place. The ASK Oberhof relay won bronze.
Date: Sunday March 15, 1987
| space | team | athlete | Time (h) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis |
Simone Greiner-Petter Susann Kuhfittig Annette Malter |
45: 31.1 |
| 2 | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | Meier Herrmann Noack |
46: 39.9 |
| 3 | ASK forward Oberhof | Stahnke Kerstin Moring Renner |
47: 39.20 |
Nordic combination
singles
The Nordic combined athletes opened the second part of the championships with their jumping competition from the large Aschbergschanze. Then favorite Heiko Hunger, who had already won 3 medals in the special jumpers, was in the lead. With a lead of 1:36 minutes over Bernd Blechschmidt from Oberwiesenthal, Hunger started the trail. However, Blechschmidt caught up halfway through the race and passed. In the end he crossed the finish line with a lead of over a minute and was able to celebrate his first championship title.
Date: Ski jumping Wednesday, March 11, 1987; 15 km Thursday, March 12, 1987
| space | athlete | team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bernd Blechschmidt | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 417.43 |
| 2 | Heiko Hunger | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 407.35 |
| 3 | Thomas Abratis | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 391.98 |
team
In the team decision of the combined athletes, Heiko Hunger from Klingenthal won his third gold medal. After jumping and running 3 by 10 kilometers, he and his teammates Thomas Abratis and Uwe Dotzauer had a lead of no less than nine minutes. The Oberwiesenthaler team around the individual winner Bernd Blechschmidt lined up behind the Oberhof army athletes in third place.
| space | team | athlete | Backlog (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC Dynamo Klingenthal |
Heiko Hunger Thomas Abratis Uwe Dotzauer |
|
| 2 | ASK forward Oberhof | Hüther Schmidt Jakob |
9:09 |
| 3 | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal |
Sven Leonhardt Wagler Bernd Blechschmidt |
9:59 |
Ski jumping
Single normal hill
The first competition of the championships was won by Manfred Deckert from Klingenthal with jumps of 73.5 and 71.5 m on the Mühleitener Vogtlandschanze. Klaus Ostwald, who was second after the first round, slipped out of the medal ranks. After a rather unsatisfactory world championship without a medal, Jens Weißflog did not get along in Vogtland either and only finished third.
Date: Saturday March 7, 1987
| space | athlete | team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manfred Deckert | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 225.5 |
| 2 | Ingo Lesser | ASK forward Oberhof | 213.2 |
| 3 | Jens Weißflog | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 206.3 |
| 4th | Klaus Ostwald | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 204.6 |
| 5 | Ulf Findeisen | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 204.2 |
Normal hill team
In the team competition on the normal hill, the men from SV Dynamo Klingenthal made the triumph perfect. The third gold jump also went to Vogtland. Even before the team from Fichtelberg, ASK Oberhof was able to take silver with its relatively young team. A total of 7 teams were at the start.
Date: Monday March 9, 1987
| space | team | athlete | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC Dynamo Klingenthal |
René Kummerlöw Heiko Hunger Klaus Ostwald Manfred Deckert |
607.0 |
| 2 | ASK forward Oberhof | Baranski Petzold Frank Sauerbrey Ingo Lesser |
587.2 |
| 3 | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | Rölz Grundig Jens Weißflog Ulf Findeisen |
575.5 |
Large hill
Also in the second jumping competition, this time on the Aschbergschanze , a Klingenthal athlete was ahead. This time Heiko Hunger, who was actually a Nordic combined, won ahead of his club mate Klaus Ostwald. Jens Weißflog only came fourth. Not a single jumper from Thuringia landed in the top five.
Date: Sunday March 8, 1987
| space | athlete | team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heiko Hunger | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 232.5 |
| 2 | Klaus Ostwald | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 227.2 |
| 3 | Ulf Findeisen | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 226.8 |
| 4th | Jens Weißflog | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 224.9 |
| 5 | Manfred Deckert | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 221.1 |
Medal table
Thanks to the three-time champions Uwe Bellmann (Oberwiesenthal) and Heiko Hunger (Klingenthal), the two Saxon centers of excellence were ahead. Only with one more silver medal could the Vogtlanders win the medal in front of their home crowd.
| Medal table (after all 11 competitions) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| space | team | gold | silver | bronze | total |
| 1 | SC Dynamo Klingenthal | 4th | 2 | 2 | 8th |
| 2 | SC tractor Oberwiesenthal | 4th | 1 | 6th | 11 |
| 3 | ASK Oberhof | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 |
| 4th | SC Motor Zella-Mehlis | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |