German Nordic Ski Championships 1961

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44th German Nordic Ski Championships

Nordic combined pictogram.svg
Men's Ladies
winner
Cross-country skiing
(15 km / 5 km) 		Sepp MaierSepp Maier Sepp Maier Rita Czech-BlaselRita Czech-Blasel Rita Czech-Blasel
Cross-country skiing
(30 km) 		Sepp MaierSepp Maier Sepp Maier -
Cross-country skiing
(50 km) 		Sepp MaierSepp Maier Sepp Maier -
Cross-country skiing
(association relay) 		Black ForestBlack Forest Black Forest I
Rudolf Maier
Siegfried White
Helmut Eschle
Sepp Maier
 Black ForestBlack Forest Black Forest
Monika Duffner
Marika Weiß
Rita Czech-Blasel
Cross-country skiing
(club relay) 		WSV Reit im WinklWSV Reit im Winkl WSV Reit im Winkl
Xaver Kraus
Wilhelm Schmidt
Edi Lengg
Rudi Kopp
 -
Ski jumping Georg ThomaGeorg Thoma Georg Thoma -
Nordic combination Georg ThomaGeorg Thoma Georg Thoma -
Competitions
Venues 2 1
Individual competitions 5 1
Team competitions 2 1
← 1960
1962 →
Logo of the German Ski Association

The 44th German Nordic Ski Championships took place from February 9 to 12, 1961 in Winterberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, at the foot of the Kahler Asten . The ski jumping runs were held on the St. Georg Schanze on Herrloh , the critical point of which was 64 meters. The cross-country runs were carried out on the trails near Winterberg.

In addition, on February 25 and 26, 1961, in the Kniebis region , which at that time still belonged to Baiersbronn , the championships in 50 km cross-country skiing and in the club relay took place. Except for the title in the club relay, representatives of the Black Forest were able to win all competitions.

Program and schedule

date Time event gender
Thursday, February 9th 09:00 30 km of cross-country skiing Men
13:30 5 km of cross-country skiing Women
14:30 10 km of cross-country skiing Juniors
Fri. February 10 10:00 3 × 5 km relay race Women
13:30 Combination jump Men
Sat., February 11th 09:00 15 km of cross-country skiing Men
Combination cross-country skiing Men
14:00 Qualification special jumping Men
Sun, February 12th 13:30 4 × 10 km relay race Men
Special jumping Men
Saturday, February 25th 09:00 4 × 10 km relay race Men
Sun, February 26th 09:00 50 km of cross-country skiing Men

Cross-country skiing

Women

5 km

space Surname place Time (hrs)
01 Rita Czech-Blasl Freiburg 0:24:27
02 Monika Friedrichs Siedlinghausen 0:24:57
03 Margit Scherer Isny 0:25:00
04th Heide Schlegl Urach 0:26:36

Date: Thursday February 9, 1961

The women's cross-country race was only held over five kilometers for the first time in 1961, but this did not prevent serial champion Rita Czech-Blasl from defending her title.

Association relay

Date: Friday February 10, 1961

The women's relay of the Black Forest Ski Association won the championship title over 3 × 5 kilometers with a lead of more than two minutes.

Men

15 km

space athlete society Time (hrs)
01 Sepp Maier SC St. Peter 0:44:49
02 Rudi Maier SC St. Peter 0:45:03
03 Helmut Gerlach WSV Braunlage 0:45:37
04th Walter Demel SC Zwiesel 0:45:46
05 Sepp Achatz SC Zwiesel 0:46:00
06th Günter Obermaier SLV Bernau 0:46:02
07th Helmut Eschle SC Schönwald 0:46:07
08th Siegfried Hug SC Hinterzarten 0:46:20
09 Rudi Fuchs WSV Braunlage 0:46:21
10 Albert Schäfer SK Willingen 0:46:23

Date: Saturday February 11, 1961

The 15 km cross-country skiing was carried out under unfavorable conditions. The trail was equipped with “difficulties worthy of the championship”, but was measured at least one kilometer too short. In addition, the route was heavily iced over by frost during the night. Sepp Maier , who had been by far the best German cross-country skier for the entire winter, was best able to deal with these conditions . As the third of six Maier boys, this time he faced his younger brother Rudi Maier as the strongest competitor. The outsider Helmut Gerlach landed a surprise victory as third.

30 km

space athlete society Time (hrs)
01 Sepp Maier SC St. Peter 1:52:39
02 Walter Demel SC Zwiesel 1:53:03
03 Rudolf Fuchs WSV Braunlage 1:53:45
04th Rudolf Maier SC St. Peter 1:54:53
05 Sepp Achatz SC Zwiesel 1:56:23
06th Rudi Kopp WSV Reit im Winkl 1:56:50
07th Albert Schäfer SK Willingen 1:56:55
08th Josef Winkler Spaichingen 1:56:58
09 Siegfried Weiss SZ Brend 1:57:13
10 Peter White SZ Brend 1:57:22

Date: Thursday February 9, 1961

At the start of the Nordic ski championships, the 30 km cross-country skiing was held, which took place in pouring rain and thaw. The winner was the 24-year-old farmer Sepp Maier from SC St. Peter . The surprise of the competition was the 25-year-old sergeant Walter Demel , who was still in the lead after the first 15 kilometers and finally came second.

50 km

space athlete society Time (hrs)
01 Sepp Maier SC St. Peter 3:14:40
02 Rudi Maier SC St. Peter 3:18:15
03 Siegfried Weiss SZ Brend 3:20:48
04th Helmut Eschle SC Schönwald 3:22:10
05 Siegfried Hitz SC Hinterzarten 3:25:28
06th Rudi Kopp WSV Reit im Winkl 3:25:31
07th Gerson Flaig SC Schonach 3:27:10
08th Siegfried Hug SC Hinterzarten 3:28:39
09 Benedikt Kürner SC St. Peter 3:28:56
10 Hermann Möchel SC Mannheim 3:29:48

Date: Sunday February 26, 1961

Two weeks after the remaining competitions of the Nordic Ski Championships in 1961, the delegation of the Black Forest Ski Association was again unbeatable. So Sepp Maier was not only able to win the third individual title of the year, but the following four places were also occupied by Black Forests. The 67 athletes found a very varied route in the Kniebis area with changing snow conditions .

Association relay

Date: Sunday February 12, 1961

In the associations’s 4 × 10 kilometer relay race, 22 teams started. With rain and snow showers, the spectators saw an exciting fight between the Black Forest and Bavaria . Rudi Maier from the Black Forest (39:19 min) was able to run a narrow seven seconds ahead of Bavarian Edi Lengg (39:26 min) as the starting runner , but the experienced Siegfried Weiß (37:47 min) lost almost a minute on Horst Möhwald (36:43 min), so that the Bavarian Ski Association was half in the lead. In the third lap, Helmut Eschle (37:23 min) surpassed himself and was able to overtake Sepp Achatz (38:26 min) 50 meters from the finish. The most outstanding athlete of the winter, Sepp Maier (37:08 min), was finally able to extend the Black Forest lead and take victory.

Club relay

Date: Saturday February 25, 1961

The clubs' 4 × 10-kilometer relay race was held for the first time in the Kniebis area in 1961 . The first club champion was the Bavarian WSV Reit im Winkl with 36 seconds ahead of SC St. Peter . Xaver Kraus (34:10 min), Willi Schmidt (33:19 min), Edi Lengg (33:29 min) and Rudi Kopp (34:03 min) started for the WSV , while at SC St. Peter the The Fritz Maier brothers (34:45 min), Arnold Maier (34:43 min), Rudi Maier (34:26 min) and Sepp Maier (31:43 min) started. The SC Hinterzarten was August Hitz (34:19 min), Franz Thoma (33:32 min), Siegfried Hitz (33:43 min) and Siegfried Hug represented (34:25 min).

Nordic combination

Single (K 64/15 km)

space Surname society Jump points Total points
01 Georg Thoma SC Hinterzarten 226.5 458.1
02 Josef Schiffner SC Taunus Frankfurt 206.9 442.5
03 Edi Lengg WSV Reit im Winkl 189.0 436.5
04th Axel Zerlaut WSV Isny 204.2 436.3
05 Bernd Drexl Bayrischzell 421.0
06th Josef Zeller SC Ruhpolding 414.4
07th Artur Bodenmüller WSV Isny 397.3
08th Horst Möhwald SC Spitzingsee 392.7
09 Heinrich Schertl Warmensteinach 389.9
10 Mark Finkbeiner SV Baiersbronn 387.7

Date: Friday 10th and Saturday 11th February 1961

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 Olympic champion Georg Thoma (67 meters - hill record, 64 m) laid the foundation stone for winning the Golden Ski while jumping, because with 20 points ahead of the former German and Austrian champion Josef Schiffner (56 m, 59 m) he could a running time almost five minutes longer than its strongest rival Schiffner. In fact, in sleet and strong wind, Thoma only lost 57 seconds in the 15 km cross-country skiing on Schiffner, so that the Black Forest man became German champion in Nordic combined for the fourth time. The Bavarian champion Edi Lengg ran the best time of all combiners and moved up one place before the Swabian champion Axel Zerlaut and came third.

Ski jumping

Large hill

space Surname place Width 1 Width 2 Points
01 Georg Thoma Hinterzarten 63.0 m 61.0 m 222.0
02 Edi Heilingbrunner Gmund 61.5 m 57.0 m 213.0
Wolfgang Happle Neustadt 59.0 m 60.5 m 213.0
Helmut Reichertz Braunlage 59.0 m 59.5 m 213.0
05 Wolfgang Schüller Schonach 60.5 m 62.0 m 212.5
Helmut Wegscheider hammer 60.0 m 58.5 m 212.5
07th Hubert Witting Partenkirchen 59.0 m 59.0 m 210.5
08th Georg Weichert Braunlage 57.5 m 59.0 m 210.0
09 Axel Zerlaut Isny 58.0 m 56.5 m 205.5
10 Sepp Schiffner Frankfurt / Main 55.5 m 57.0 m 205.0

Date: Sunday February 12, 1961

Georg Thoma was also able to win the German championship title by a large margin in ski jumping . Although 53 athletes started, the competition was rather weak due to the absence of some top athletes like Max Bolkart . Nevertheless, the approximately 4,000 spectators got to see a rarity when three jumpers shared second place with Edi Heilingbrunner , Wolfgang Happle and Helmut Reichertz . In addition, attention was directed to seventeen-year-old Wolfgang Schüller , who had come from the GDR to Schonach in the Black Forest a year earlier and who finally came in fifth. The Partenkirchen Helmut Kurz missed his chances of a top place when he could not stand his jump on 58.5 meters in the second round.

swell

  • Nordic Ski Championships in the Hochsauerland , Passauer Neue Presse , issue no.32 from February 8, 1961
  • Zwieseler Demel German 30 km runner-up , PNP , issue no.34 from February 10, 1961
  • Black Forest women's relay won , PNP , issue No. 35 from February 11 and 12, 1961
  • Hardly to beat Thoma , PNP , issue no.35 from February 11th and 12th, 1961
  • Georg Thoma again combination winner , PNP , issue no.36 from February 13, 1961
  • Fourth golden ski for the Olympic champion , PNP , issue No. 36 from February 13, 1961
  • Black Forest victory in the 4 × 10 km relay , PNP , issue no.36 from February 13, 1961
  • Thoma also champion in special jumping , PNP , issue no.36 from February 13, 1961
  • The last German ski titles are awarded , PNP , issue 45 of February 23, 1961
  • Sepp Maier also German champion over 50 km , PNP , issue no.48 from February 27, 1961