Erich Recknagel

Erich Recknagel
nation	Germany
birthday	December 3, 1904
place of birth	Oberschönau ,  German Empire
date of death	16th August 1973
Place of death	Ohrdruf ,  GDR
Career
discipline	Nordic combined ski jumping
society	WSV Oberschönau
Medal table
National medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
German championships gold 1930 Normal hill

Erich Recknagel (born December 3, 1904 in Oberschönau , † August 16, 1973 in Ohrdruf ) was a German ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete .

Recknagel, who started for the WSV Oberschönau , achieved 11th place in ski jumping at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . In the first round he achieved a new Olympic best with 62 m. A year later he set the new hill record with the same distance on what was then the largest German hill, the Hans-Heinz-Schanze in Johanngeorgenstadt . In 1930 Recknagel became German champion.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1931 , Recknagel started in combination and jumping. In both competitions, however, he could not win a medal, in jumping he fell badly.

Erich Recknagel was one of the first skiers to train in summer with rollers under his skis.

Web links

• Erich Recknagel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Winter sports from the beginnings to 1945 (PDF; 115 kB) In: Thüringen - Blätter zur Landeskunde . www.thueringen.de. Archived from the original on April 12, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 3, 2009.