German Nordic Ski Championships 1957

40th German Nordic Ski Championships
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Cross-country skiing (short distance)	Siegfried Weiss	Rita Czech-Blasel
Cross-country skiing (long distance)	Siegfried Weiss	-
Cross-country skiing (relay)	Black Forest I Bavaria I	Swabia Ute Röder Julie Lang Steffi Köhrer
Ski jumping	Max Bolkart	-
Nordic combination	Sepp Schiffner	-
Individual competitions	4th	1
Team competitions	1	1
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Logo of the German Ski Association

The German Nordic Ski Championships 1957 were held from February 20 to 24, 1957 in Altenau , Lower Saxony . The ski jumping runs were held on the Große-Altenau-Schanze , which was modernized in the run-up to the championships, so that the elevation of the discharge tower moved the critical point from 65 to 70 meters. The championships were originally planned for February 6th to 10th, but the German Ski Association postponed the event for a fortnight due to the unfavorable snow conditions. 170 athletes, including all previous year's champions, registered for the seven competitions.

Program and schedule

date	Time	event	gender
Wed., February 20	09:30	30 km of cross-country skiing	Men
Thursday, February 21	10:00	10 km of cross-country skiing	Women
Fri., February 22	09:30	3 × 5 km relay race	Women
	14:00	Combination jump	Men
Sat., February 23	09:00	15 km of cross-country skiing	Men
		Combination cross-country skiing	Men
Sun, February 24th	08:00	4 × 10 km relay race	Men
	13:30	Special jumping	Men

Cross-country skiing

Women

10 km

space	Surname	place	Time (hrs)
1	Rita Czech-Blasl	Freiburg	0:34:51
2	Julie Lang	Weilheim	0:36:08
3	Steffi Koehrer	Degenfeld	0:36:37
4th	Ute Röder	Stuttgart	0:37:48
5	Erika Fahrner	Swabia	0:40:42

Date: Thursday February 21, 1957

After she had already won the women's cross-country skiing competition for the Kurikkala Cup a week earlier in St. Imier, Switzerland , the favored Rita Czech-Blasl successfully defended her championship title. Czech-Blasl mastered the 10 kilometers for the first time in less than forty minutes, which the winner attributed to the "easy" route.

Other sources give a running distance of 5 kilometers for women’s cross-country skiing. The Passauer Neue Presse , however, speaks several times of 10 kilometers.

3 × 5 km

space	Association	Names	Time (hrs)
1	Swabia	Ute Röder Julie Lang Steffi Köhrer	1:08:39
2	Black Forest	Annelise Ketterer Rita Czech-Blasl Gertrud Maier	1:09:51
3	Hesse		1:19:58
4th	resin		1: 21.10
5	Bavaria		1: 25.37

Date: Friday February 22, 1957

The Swabian women's relay was able to defend its title, with Rita Czech-Blasl from the Black Forest having the fastest individual time.

Men

30 km

space	Surname	place	Time (hrs)
1	Siegfried Weiss	Brend	1:57:14
2	Helmut Hagg	Immenstadt	2:01:32
3	Oskar Burgbacher	Brend	2:01:42
4th	Xaver Hindelang	Nesselwang	2:03:34
5	Heavy	Schonach	2: 04.16
6th	Wilhelm Schmidt	Braunlage	2:04:40

Date: Wednesday February 20, 1957

Siegfried Weiß won the first competition of the German Nordic Ski Championships in 1957 in cross-country skiing over 30 kilometers, relegating last year's winner Helmut Hagg to second place, four minutes behind. While the participants found an easy route through forest and raised bogs, they were particularly troubled by the onset of snowfall, which forced some athletes to wax their skis during the competition.

15 km

space	Surname	place	Time (hrs)
1	Siegfried Weiss	Brend	0:48:35
2	Josef Schiffner	Frankfurt am Main	0:48:51
3	Helmut Hagg	Immenstadt	0:49:09
4th	Rudi Kopp	Reit im Winkl	0:49:11
5	Toni Haug	Subjugation	0:49:23
6th	Oskar Burgbacher	Brend	0:49:27

Date: Saturday February 23, 1957

With the fastest 15 km cross-country skiing time in the history of the German Ski Championships, Siegfried Weiß also won the second individual title in Altenau . White set himself apart from his greatest opponent Josef Schiffner , especially in the long uphill stretches and in the final sprint, which he started 200 meters from the finish. In the winner's interview, Weiß blamed his Finnish coach Osmo Hillebrand for his success.

4 × 10 km

space	Association	Names	Time (hrs)
1	Black Forest I	Sepp Maier Oskar Burgbacher Schwer Siegfried White	2: 56.03
	Bavaria I	Toni Haug Sepp Achatz Rudi Kopp Helmut Hagg	2: 56.03
3	Black Forest III		3: 01.58
4th	Bavaria II		3: 02.04
5	Black Forest II		3: 02.24
6th	Bavaria III		3: 03.59

Date: Sunday February 24, 1957

The 4 × 10 kilometer relay race ended with a dead race between the Black Forest and Bavaria, so that two winners were chosen. The start and finish point of the trail was in the Torfhaus district , the highest settlement in Lower Saxony. Although the Bavarian final runner Helmut Hagg started the race with a lead of 2 seconds, he could not maintain this against the most outstanding athlete of the championships Siegfried Weiß . The race was not only dominated at the top by the teams of the Bavarian and Black Forest associations, but also in the following places.

Nordic combination

Single 15 km

space	Surname	place	Jump points	Running points	total
1	Josef Schiffner	Frankfurt am Main	215.5	240.0	255.5
2	Eberhard Plenk	Ruhpolding	197.5	231.3	428.8
3	Helmut Böck	Nesselwang	197.5	231.1	428.6
4th	Heinz Hauser	Reit im Winkl	197.0	229.0	426.0
5	A. Schmidt	Frankfurt am Main	189.0	212.1	401.1
6th	Karl Lindner	Willingen	162.0	228.0	390.0
7th	Siegfried Hitz	Hinterzarten	157.5	221.8	379.3

Date: Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd February 1957

The Nordic Combined Championships were split over two days, so that the jumping run was held on Friday and the cross-country skiing on Saturday. The former Austrian champion Josef Schiffner first won the combined jump, where he jumped 64 and 67 meters with a short run. The Bavarian representatives Eberhard Plenk and Helmut Böck shared second place . Ultimately, Schiffner was the winner of the "Golden Ski" by a large margin. For the 26-year-old from Frankfurt, the win was already the third major success of the season after winning the international ski races in Le Brassus and the FIS week in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

Ski jumping

Large hill

space	Surname	place	Width 1	Width 2	Points
1	Max Bolkart	Oberstdorf	69.5 m	69.0 m	223.0
2	Helmut Bleier	Bischofsgrün	70.0 m	68.5 m	221.5
3	Toni Brutscher	Oberstdorf	65.0 m	65.5 m	216.0
4th	Sepp Kleisl	Partenkirchen	66.5 m	65.0 m	215.0
5	Josef Schiffner	Frankfurt am Main	64.5 m	66.0 m	210.5
6th	Ewald Roscher	Baden-Baden
7th	Edi Heilingbrunner	Gmund
8th	Heinrich Zapf	Bischofsgrün
9	Sepp Hohenleitner	Partenkirchen

Date: Sunday February 24, 1957

The special jump was the conclusion and highlight of the ski championships. Around 20,000 spectators were offered an exciting competition on the converted K-70 hill on Mühlenberg, in which the favorite and Olympic fourth-placed Max Bolkart was able to prevail. The longest jump of the day was achieved by Helmut Bleier , who set a new hill record with his 70 meters.

swell

• German "Nordic" postponed , Passauer Neue Presse , issue No. 28 of February 4, 1957
• Golden ski in Altenau controversial for the 40th time from Wednesday , PNP , issue No. 41 from February 19, 1957
• Black Forests triumphed in 30 km cross-country skiing , PNP , issue no.43 from February 21, 1957
• Again Rita Czech-Blasl , PNP , issue No. 44 from February 22, 1957
• Swabian women's relay won , PNP , issue no.45 from February 23 and 24, 1957
• Ex-Austrian Sepp Schiffner won the "Golden Ski" , PNP , issue no. 46 from February 25, 1957
• Bolkart again German champion in jumping , PNP , issue no.46 from February 25, 1957

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ski jumping hill archive: Schultal, Altenau. Retrieved April 18, 2019 (German). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Die Große Altenau-Schanze , SC Altenau, accessed on April 18, 2019 (German).
3. ^ Cross-country skiing - German championships (women) , sport-komplett.de, accessed on April 18, 2019 (German).