1960 Winter Olympics / Ice Hockey

	Olympic ice hockey tournament 1960
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	Winner: Soviet Union

The Olympic ice hockey tournament of the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , USA is considered the 27th ice hockey world championship and the 38th European championship . The games took place from February 19 to 28, 1960. Nine teams took part in this tournament. It was initially played in three preliminary round groups; the two first placed reached the final round, the remaining teams played in a double round for places 7–9. For the first time, Australia and Japan took part in an Olympic ice hockey tournament. As four years ago, an internal German qualification had to be played out to represent Germany .

The USA team - silver medalists at the last two Olympic Games - were able to use their home advantage and became Olympic champions for the first time in their history and world champions for the second time since 1933 . The highly favored teams from Canada and the Soviet Union completed the medal ranks.

Previews

"Sport-Zürich" gave a preview of the Olympic ice hockey tournament in its issue no. 21 of February 19, 1960 on pages 9 and 10:

Japan, with its premiere at the World Championships in 1957, is participating in the Olympics for the first time - and for the first time ever on international soil, Australia is represented, "of whose ice hockey outside the fifth continent nobody knew anything with the exception of the IIHF treasurer, who regularly receives membership fees ".

So far, world championships have never taken place on the American continent, only the Olympic Games 1932, this with only four teams (from Europe these were Germany and Poland), brought an exception. And now - like Germany and Poland in 1932 - Olympic teams from other continents (Japan, Germany, Sweden, USSR, ČSR) had to complete so-called "financing matches", with US universities being the friendly arrangers of the same.

The international federation had first drawn the tournament in a form, according to which all nine teams had to play against each other, but the Olympic organizers put in a categorical veto, so that three groups were formed, whereby the last one was eliminated and this one " Consolation tournament "should contest.

The prognosis that Japan and Australia were "cannon fodder" came true. It was unclear whether Finland or (after the internal German duel called for by the GDR, which - similar to 1956 - did not want to assign any players for an all-German team) the FRG would be eliminated, but in the final round the remaining team would again be for rank 6 don't get around.

The German team was given a good chance of being better than the Finns. It would be the youngest team in years, only Markus Egen is still there, who would now say goodbye. There have been impressive results recently (victories over the ČSR youth team, which had won three games in Switzerland, plus after arriving in the USA a 6-8 against Green Bay Bobcoats, 6-4 against a Minnesota selection and 6: 6 v Colorado College). The Finnish team was only taken at the last moment - and shortly before leaving, they scored a total of 1:19 in two games against Sweden. It was now up to Suomi to justify his posting.

With regard to the award of medals, practically all of the remaining five teams would be considered contenders. An alphabetical list started with Canada, which is represented (again) by the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen , which should be viewed as a bad omen, because they forfeited the obligatory Olympic victory four years ago, not without their own fault due to unsportsmanlike attitude and lifestyle . There were now many problems in the run-up to the appointment of a competitive team, taking into account the amateur rules, coach Bill Durman had resigned. The team was only complete in February, but the new coach Bobby Bauer skillfully achieved a good unit in seven build-up matches. Nevertheless, there is no comparison with the other tournament participants, the victory against a Moscow selection is difficult to count because there was only one player from the Soviet Olympic team.

Sweden had to prove that one can play good games in a row and that not every strong match is followed by a weak one. Last year's disappointment at the World Championships in Prague had to be mitigated by the fact that the center strikers Sven Johansson (known as "Tumba" Johansson) and Nils Nilsson were out due to injuries, but they were back this time. The "Tre Kronor" team was the last to arrive in Squaw Valley, and at its first match you will be able to look at the Canadians' cards at the same time.

Although the fastest players at the World Cup in the previous year were seen in the Czechoslovak team, every year they wrote confidently about their chances and every year a disappointment was experienced, because since the title in 1949 it had never fully met expectations. After rank 5 at the 1956 Olympics, there was the same "revolution" in the Czechoslovakia as in Canada after its third place, the bronze from last year did not fulfill the hopes, either, consolation was only the final 5-3 victory over Canada. They remained true to the principle of recruiting the majority of the team from the respective team that had become champions - this was again HC Kometa Brno ("Red Star Brno"), whose coach Eduard Farda also acts as national coach. After arriving in the states there were several development games (with defeats), so that the impression would be that the ČSR team had not yet revealed all the cards, even less played them. Perhaps there is a lack of tough combat and absolute security in the conclusion, where something is missing at the expense of precision.

Defending champion Soviet Union did everything they could to prepare for this tournament. Opponents of different playing styles were invited or visited, and a B-team dubbed the "Moscow selection" was sent to Canada, in which Yuri Baulin was also a player from the Olympic squad. Goalkeeper Nikolai Putschkow suffered an injury in a match against Denver, so that his use in the preliminary round was not expected. Veteran Ivan Tregubov , a cool defender with a good overview, will no longer be used. Coach Anatoli Tarasov has rejuvenated the team a lot and it seems to have succeeded well, she makes a closed impression, and in terms of fitness, she is above the other European teams. The storm line Loktew-Alexandrow-Almetow is a showpiece of elegance and power, although the trio is very young. Nevertheless, the chances should not be greater because Canada is not allowed to use some of its players who are brilliant at World Cup tournaments here, because the "home advantage" of the maple leaves should also be effective.

The USA team had rarely been prepared and trained over a long week. There are nine players who were in Prague last year - and a new coach in Jack Riley . The Yankees would be characterized by their starting speed and would add power and extraordinary shooting power. In any case, the USA would have their strongest players on the team, as the vacation difficulties that Europe trips had always been prepared to do disappeared. In addition, the otherwise imposed restriction of temperament could be omitted, because it could let off steam more in front of its own audience. It was questionable to what extent the European referees would be able to teach the amateur rules to the professional audience. Please also see an article according to the following reference:

With the exception of those of the USSR against the USA and Canada (February 27 and 28), which were scheduled to start at 1.30 p.m., which was generally scheduled to begin at 1.30 p.m. due to the direct TV broadcasts, the matches did not take place until 4 p.m. This was a result of the complaints from the players about the bad ice conditions in the afternoon when the California sun put the ice surface under water. The IIHF agreed to the organizers that there would be no ice hockey matches on the opening day.

Switzerland was also represented at the tournament with referee Karl Hauser from Bern, who was allowed to whistle his fourth Olympic Games.

The fight for gold

Probably the most emotional match, also known as the anticipated final, was the clash between the two North American teams on February 25th. The result was a surprise, but not a real sensation, as the USA had indicated during the course of the tournament that they could be considered for victory. For Canada, the first goals conceded also meant the first defeat. The USA started with a violent offensive and they succeeded in the majority (Conelly in the penalty box) through Bob Cleary (12:14). In the second period Canada pressed for the equalizer, but Johnson, who had intercepted an opposing pass, scored the 2-0 (34:00). In the final sprint after Conelly's follow-up goal (53:37), the maple leaves repeatedly failed because of McCartan's brilliant parades. The match was directed by Karl Hauser (SUI) and Richard Wagner (Germany) - besides Conelly there were the following exclusions: 1st third: Benoît, Williams; 2nd third: again Benoît; Third third: Paavola. Despite this victory, the USA were far from over, they couldn't afford to fail in the remaining two matches either.

In the match against the Soviets, again with the referee team Hauser / Wagner, both teams were fairly evenly strong, the US goalkeeper McCartan was a plus for his team, which could prove that they not only defend a result like against Canada, but is also strong at catching up. The USA's 1-0 (Bill Cleary, 4:04) was followed by the 2-1 for the opponent (Alexandrow, 5:03; Bytschkow, 9:37) Equalization in the middle third (Bill Christian, 31:01), winning goal five minutes before the end (Bill Christian, 54:59) in the last 17 seconds the Russians without goalkeeper Putschkow.

At first the USA seemed to be the tournament winner, because Sweden led 4-1 against Canada, took the lead again through Lundvall (52:55) 5: 4, but was run down and behaved tactically bad from the middle third.

So everything stayed open. In the battle for gold on the final day, the Yankees, assuming a Canadian victory over the USSR, were not allowed to lose because the goal difference spoke clearly for their geographical neighbor. And in the final game against the ČSR, the nerves actually went on strike for the time being. The ČSR played cheerfully for the time being and led after two thirds, but then they ran out of strength - and thanks to six goals in the final third, the ČSR was really worn down, they came up with a negative goal difference.

The goal scorers were: Olson 4:19, McVey 9:52, R. Christian 13:33, 45:59, 52:04, 57:26, Bob Cleary 47:40, 51:56, Bill Cleary 52:43 and Vlach 0:08, 26:58, Bubník 11:30, Vaněk 14:40 - Penalties (2 minutes each): Paavola 9:16, Johnson 30:36, Kirrane 39:25, McVey 47:53 or Tikal 1: 11, Kasper 9:51, Černý 30:26.

In the ultimate final match of the tournament, again arbitrated by Hauser / Wagner, the Canadians were practically concerned with their last loan from their relatives at home, who did not easily forgive them for the defeat against the USA, which they felt as a severe "defeat". This encounter seemed to be clear for Canada with a 4-0 lead, but the Soviets fought their way back with three goals within four and a half minutes.

The top scorer was Roger Christian (7 hits) ahead of his teammates Bob and Bill Clarey as well as Wenjamin Alexandrow and Lars Eric Lundvall (6 hits each).

The statistics of the penalties show Maurice Benoît with 14 minutes (7x2) in front of three actors with 12 minutes, u. between Paul Ambros (6x2) and Roger Christian and Roger Christian (both 10 + 2), with 5x2 minutes Leonhard Waltl came in 5th place in this ranking. As a team, Germany was the most punished team with 50 minutes (25x2), followed by Canada with 48 minutes (19x2, 1x10) and the ČSR with 38 minutes (19x2), while Sweden received the least penalties with 24 minutes (12x2).

The Swiss referee Karl Hauser, who resigned after these games after twelve major tournaments, was of the opinion that the Soviet team had decreased in strength because the Bobrow-Shuvalov-Babitsch line could not yet be replaced. The Canadians excelled a lot by complaining and quickly fell apart because they did not form a team, but consisted of individual players. The USA had shown a lot of sense for a combination game for an overseas team, they made their playfulness and good camaraderie particularly strong. The ČSR had died beautifully, had shown a fateful weakness in the end, with the Swedes the fluctuations were too enormous. The German team must be rebuilt. The other three faced too difficult a task. Switzerland would not have had anything to order here due to the current attitude of its players. The mentality would have to change and idealism would have to return.

German domestic qualification

December 9, 1959 8:00 p.m.

Federal Republic of Germany Siegfried Schubert (5th) Ernst Trautwein (12th) Kurt Sepp (30th) Horst Schuldes (47th) Kurt Sepp (49th)

5: 2 (2: 1, 1: 1, 2: 0) game report

GDR Wolfgang Blümel (5th) Dieter Kratzsch (29th)

Garmisch-Partenkirchen spectators: 10,000

In the Neue Zeit the goal scorers are given as follows: Schubert (2), Schuldes, Rampf (49th) and Trautwein. In addition, the goals in the 12th and 30th minutes are attributed to Trautwein. The last goal in New Germany is attributed to Ambros.
According to an agreement, there would not have been a second elimination game if a team with more than 4 goals difference had won the first game.

December 12, 1959 5:00 p.m.

GDR Hans Frenzel (2nd) Manfred Buder (36th) Joachim Ziesche (40th)

3: 5 (1: 2, 2: 0, 0: 3)

BR Germany Kurt Sepp (3rd) Leonhard Waitl (10th) Paul Ambros (45th) Ernst Trautwein (56th) Ernst Trautwein (58th)

Weißwasser spectators: 8,000

The German national team thus represented Germany at the Olympic ice hockey tournament.

Main tournament

Preliminary round

Group A

February 19, 1960	Squaw Valley	Canada	-	Sweden		5: 2 (2: 1.1: 1.2: 0)
February 20, 1960	Squaw Valley	Canada	-	Japan		19: 1 (5: 0.7: 1.7: 0)
February 21, 1960	Squaw Valley	Sweden	-	Japan		19: 0 (8: 0.5: 0.6: 0)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Canada	2	2	0	0	24: 03	+21	4-0
2	Sweden	2	1	0	1	21: 05	+16	2: 2
3	Japan	2	0	0	2	01:38	-37	0: 4

Group B

February 19, 1960	Squaw Valley	USSR	-	Germany		8: 0 (3: 0.3: 0.2: 0)
February 20, 1960	Squaw Valley	USSR	-	Finland		8: 4 (2: 1.4: 0.2: 3)
February 21, 1960	Squaw Valley	Germany	-	Finland		4: 1 (1: 0.2: 0.1: 1)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	USSR	2	2	0	0	16: 04	+12	4-0
2	Germany	2	1	0	1	04: 09	- 05th	2: 2
3	Finland	2	0	0	2	05:12	- 07th	0: 4

Group C

February 19, 1960	Squaw Valley	United States	-	Czechoslovakia		7: 5 (2: 1.1: 3.4: 1)
February 20, 1960	Squaw Valley	Czechoslovakia	-	Australia		18: 1 (7: 1.3: 0.8: 0)
February 21, 1960	Squaw Valley	United States	-	Australia		12: 1 (6: 0.3: 0.3: 1)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	United States	2	2	0	0	19: 06	+13	4-0
2	Czechoslovakia	2	1	0	1	23: 08	+15	2: 2
3	Australia	2	0	0	2	02:30	-28	0: 4

Placement round for places 7–9

February 22, 1960	Squaw Valley	Finland	-	Australia		14: 1 (8: 1.4: 0.2: 0)
February 23, 1960	Squaw Valley	Finland	-	Japan		6: 6 (2: 1.3: 2.1: 3)
February 24, 1960	Squaw Valley	Japan	-	Australia		13: 2 (3: 0.4: 0.6: 2)
February 25, 1960	Squaw Valley	Finland	-	Australia		19: 2 (6: 1.5: 1.8: 0)
February 26, 1960	Squaw Valley	Finland	-	Japan		11: 2 (2: 1.6: 0.3: 1)
February 27, 1960	Squaw Valley	Japan	-	Australia		11: 3 (6: 0.2: 1.3: 2)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	Finland	4th	3	1	0	50:11	+39	7: 1
2	Japan	4th	2	1	1	32:22	+10	5: 3
3	Australia	4th	0	0	4th	08:57	-49	0: 8

Final round for places 1–6

February 22, 1960	Squaw Valley	United States	-	Sweden		6: 3 (4: 0.1: 2.1: 1)
February 22, 1960	Squaw Valley	USSR	-	Czechoslovakia		8: 5 (3: 2.2: 1.3: 2)
February 22, 1960	Squaw Valley	Canada	-	Germany		12: 0 (6: 0.1: 0.5: 0)
February 24, 1960	Squaw Valley	United States	-	Germany		9: 1 (2: 0.3: 1.4: 0)
February 24, 1960	Squaw Valley	USSR	-	Sweden		2: 2 (0: 0.0: 0.2: 2)
February 24, 1960	Squaw Valley	Canada	-	Czechoslovakia		4: 0 (3: 0.1: 0.0: 0)
February 25, 1960	Squaw Valley	USSR	-	Germany		7: 1 (0: 1.4: 0.3: 0)
February 25, 1960	Squaw Valley	United States	-	Canada		2: 1 (1: 0.1: 0.0: 1)
February 25, 1960	Squaw Valley	Czechoslovakia	-	Sweden		3: 1 (3: 0.0: 1.0: 0)
February 27, 1960	Squaw Valley	Czechoslovakia	-	Germany		9: 1 (3: 1.4: 0.2: 0)
February 27, 1960	Squaw Valley	United States	-	USSR		3: 2 (1: 2.1: 0.1: 0)
February 27, 1960	Squaw Valley	Canada	-	Sweden		6: 5 (1: 4.1: 0.4: 1)
February 28, 1960	Squaw Valley	Sweden	-	Germany		8: 2 (2: 0.2: 2.4: 0)
February 28, 1960	Squaw Valley	United States	-	Czechoslovakia		9: 4 (3: 3.0: 1.6: 0)
February 28, 1960	Squaw Valley	Canada	-	USSR		8: 5 (3: 0.1: 3.4: 2)

Closing table

Pl	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff	Pt.
1	United States	5	5	0	0	29:11	+18	10-0
2	Canada	5	4th	0	1	31:12	+19	8: 2
3	USSR	5	2	1	2	24:19	+5	5: 5
4th	Czechoslovakia	5	2	0	3	21:23	-2	4: 6
5	Sweden	5	1	1	3	19:19	0	3: 7
6th	Germany	5	0	0	5	5:45	-40	0:10

Final placement and squad of the teams

placement	team	player
	United States	Roger Christian , Bill Christian , Bill Cleary , Bob Cleary , Gene Grazia , Paul Johnson , Jack Kirrane , John Mayasich , Jack McCartan , Bob McVey , Dick Meredith , Rodney Paavola , Larry Palmer , Weldon Olson , Edwyn Owen , Dick Rodenheiser , Tommy Williams Trainer: Jack Riley
	Canada	Maurice Benoît , Bob Attersley , James Connelly , Jack Douglas , Fred Etcher , Robert Forhan , Don Head , Harold Hurley , Ken Laufman , Floyd Martin , Robert McKnight , Cliff Pennington , Donald Rope , Bobby Rousseau , George Samolenko , Harry Sinden , Darryl Sly Trainer: Bobby Bauer
	USSR	Veniamin Alexandrov , Alexander Almetow , Yuri Baulin , Mikhail Bychkov , Vladimir Grebennikow , Yevgeny Groschew , Viktor Yakushev , Yevgeny Jorkin , Nikolai Karpov , Alfred Kutschewski , Konstantin Loktew , Stanislav Petukhov , Viktor Prjaschnikow , Nikolai Puchkov , Genrich Sidorenkow , Nikolai Sologubow , Yuri Zizinow Coach: Anatoly Tarasov , Vladimir Yegorov
4th	Czechoslovakia	Vlastimil Bubník , Josef Cerny , Bronislav Danda , Vladimír Dvořáček , Jozef Golonka , Karel Gut , Jaroslav Jiřík , January Kasper , František Maslan , vladimír nadrchal , Václav Pantůček , Rudolf Potsch , Ján Starší , Frantisek Tikal , František Vaněk , Miroslav Vlach , Jaroslav Volf
5.	Sweden	Anders Andersson , Lars Björn , Gert Blomé , Sigurd Bröms , Einar Granath , Sven Johansson , Bengt Lindqvist , Lars-Eric Lundvall , Nils Nilsson (ice hockey player) , Bert-Ola Nordlander , Carl-Göran Öberg , Ronald Pettersson , Ulf Sterner , Roland Stoltz , Hans Svedberg , Kjell Svensson , Sune Wretling
6th	Germany	Paul Ambros , Georg Eberl , Markus Egen , Ernst Eggerbauer , Michael Hobelsberger , Hans Huber , Ulli Jansen , Hans Rampf , Sepp Reif , Otto Schneitberger , Siegfried Schubert , Horst Schuldes , Kurt Sepp , Ernst Trautwein , Xaver Unsinn , Leonhard Waitl
7th	Finland	Yrjö Hakala , Raimo Kilpiö , Erkki Koiso , Juhani Lahtinen , Matti Lampainen , Esko Luostarinen , Esko Niemi , Pertti Nieminen , Kalevi Numminen , Heino sweatshirt , Kalevi Rassa , Teppo Rastio , Jorma Salmi , Jouni Seistamo , Voitto Soini , Seppo Vainio , Juhani Wahlsten
8th.	Japan	Shikashi Akazawa , Shinichi Honma , Toshiei Honma , Hidenori Inatsu , Atsuo Irie , Yuji Iwaoka , Takashi Kakihara , Yoshihiro Miyazaki , Masao Murano , Isao Ono , Akiyoshi Segawa , Shigeru Shimada , Kunito Takagi , Mamoru Takashima , Masami Tanabu , Shoichi Tomita , Toshihiko Yamada
9.	Australia	Robert Reid , Noel McLoughlin , Basil Hansen , Ken Wellman , John Nicholas , Vic Ekberg , Russell Jones , Ivo Vesely , John Thomas , Clive Hitch , Noel Derrick , Dave Cunningham , Peter Parrott , Ben Acton , Ken Pawsey , Ron Amess , Steve Tikal

Olympic Champion 1956 : USSR / World Champion 1959 : Canada The final placement of the Olympic ice hockey tournament is also the final placement of the 27th ice hockey world championship. Ice hockey world champion 1960 USA

To determine the final placement of the 38th European Championship, the table of the Olympic ice hockey tournament was adjusted for the non-European teams.

Ice hockey European champion 1960 USSR

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Columns 3 and 4, middle: "Will it be another Canadian failure? In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 4, 1960, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ^ "Ice hockey at night after all;" Sport Zürich "No. 21 of February 19, 1960, page 10, column 3
3. ↑ "Switzerland also there;" Sport Zurich No. 21 of February 19, 1960, page 10, column 3
4. Jump up ↑ Canada defeated - the great ice hockey stick "; Sport-Zurich" No. 25 of February 27, 1960; 2. Sheet to No. 25
5. ^ Silver for Canada - bronze for Russia in the ice hockey tournament "and ke. Interviewed referee Hauser"; Sport-Zurich "No. 27 of March 2, 1960; page 4
6. ↑ Günter Awolin: Olympia excretion is repeated. In: New Time . Archives of the Berlin State Library, December 11, 1959, accessed on March 29, 2013 . 
7. ^ Klaus Ullrich: Second elimination game in ice hockey forced. In: New Time . Archives of the Berlin State Library, December 12, 1959, accessed on March 29, 2013 . 
8. ↑ In other sources, so here 7,000 or here 10,000 viewers are named.