Helmut Böck

Helmut Böck
nation	Germany
birthday	February 14, 1931
place of birth	Nesselwang ,  German Empire
Career
discipline	Nordic combined ski jumping cross-country skiing
society	Nesselwang ski club
status	resigned

Helmut Böck (born February 14, 1931 in Nesselwang ) is a former German Nordic and cross-country skiing athlete. He was a member of the Nordic national ski team and participant in the Winter Olympics in the 1950s.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , he took part in the 18 km cross-country and combined competitions, but did not finish. On the opening day of the games (February 15) he was the flag bearer when the German team moved into the Bislett Stadium . In 1955 he became German Champion in Nordic Combined. At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo , he reached 19th place in the Nordic Combined .

His association is the ski club where he lives in Nesselwang im Allgäu, founded in 1910, one of the oldest German ski clubs, of which he was temporarily and honorary chairman. Helmut Böck also coordinated the construction work for the trend sports and biathlon center in Nesselwang-Wank, which opened in 2007 .

His father Ludwig Böck (1902–1960), participant in the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz (7th place in the Nordic Combined), became a professional ski instructor, built a sports home named after him on Nesselwang's local mountain Alpspitz in 1933 , and in 1935 the first ski school in Nesselwang , after the Second World War for its guests the first drag lift on the summit slope of the Alpspitz and thus laid essential foundations for the development of the mountain as a ski area and for the image of Nesselwang as a “ski stronghold”.

Web links

• Helmut Böck in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Helmut Böck in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )