Nordic World Ski Championships 1958

Nordic World Ski Championships 1958
winner
Cross-country skiing 15 km men	Veikko Hakulinen
Cross-country skiing 30 km men	Kalevi Hämäläinen
Cross-country skiing 50 km	Sixten Jernberg
4 × 10 km cross-country relay	Sweden
Cross-country skiing 10 km women	Alevtina Kolchina
3 × 5 km cross-country relay	Soviet Union
Ski jumping normal hill	Juhani Kärkinen
Nordic combination	Paavo Korhonen
Competitions
Venues	Lahti
Individual competitions	5 (men) / 1 (women)
Team competitions	1 (men) / 1 (women)
← Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956	Squaw Valley 1960 →

The 22 Nordic World Ski Championships were held in the period from 4 to 9 March 1958 in the Finnish town of Lahti held for the third time after 1926 and 1938. According to the FIS was registered a new visitor record with 200,000 viewers.

Surcharge to Lahti

Lahti was nominated on June 2, 1955 during the 20th FIS Congress in Montreux . Opposing candidates were Banff in Canada and Squaw Valley in the US state of California.

Opening and first organizational matters

President Kekkonen opens the world championships

At 7 p.m. local time (= 6 p.m. CET ) on March 1st (Saturday), almost 800 competitors from 19 countries paraded in the large ski stadium in front of the Finnish President Urho Kekkonen and around 60,000 spectators.
Argentina was missing because its only athlete did not arrive in time, so that only the white flag with the blue vertical stripes was carried in by a boy scout. In his address, President Kokkonen stated that skiing is part of everyday life in the Nordic countries and that it ranks very high among sports. Finland, which is currently celebrating the golden anniversary of its ski association, is very happy that it has been given the honor of organizing these world championships. Then a fanfare sounded, the headlights turned on the main flagpole, on which Finland's white flag with the blue circle was raised. FIS President Marc Hodler offered another welcome .
After the opening ceremony, a show jumping took place on the Salpausselkä ski jump, which overshadowed the stadium.

Moving into the quarters, drawing lots

Even before the opening, there had been a draw for the men's 15 km cross-country and the women's 10 km run. By the morning of March 1st, all teams, with the exception of Finland and the USSR, had moved into the large industrial school in Lahti.
Before that, practically all of the teams had been to the Pajulahti training center, 20 km from Lahti; the USSR crew had refused to move to headquarters and stayed in Pajulahti. The Finns had separate quarters in Lahti.

Program changes

The 30 km cross-country skiing started on March 2nd, the Nordic combined on March 2nd and 3rd. March.

Margin notes

• Again, more than four starters were allowed per nation, this time six (four years ago there were eight); This regulation meant that, especially in the men's cross-country competitions, the majority of the first 24 classifieds were "reserved" for starters from Scandinavia and the Soviet Union.
• With only one silver and one bronze medal, Norway achieved a very modest yield for its claims, although not even the top ten were reached in several competitions.
• The Swiss ski jumpers had an uneventful journey behind them. On Friday afternoon, February 28, they had to wait a long time in Zurich-Kloten for the plane to take off and landed in Stockholm after midnight . On March 1, the overflight to Helsinki took place , from where the tour group arrived in Lahti by bus in the evening. But some suitcases and all jump skis were lost. But this baggage came to light after all.
• Most of the cross-country skiers enjoyed the Finnish food with milk and oatmeal for breakfast. Only the Swiss kept asking for green salad and stuffing tons of fruit salad into them. The menu of the Soviet and also the ČSR runners consisted of chicken dishes.
• On March 4th, apart from the hustle and bustle of the world championship, there was also a “side world championship”, a 5 km run for sports journalists, photo reporters, newsreels and cameramen. In the classes up to 35 (Seniors I) and up to 45 years (Seniors II) there were Finnish victories, with Peter Wiede from the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” finishing fourth in Seniors I; Paul Piguet from the "Tribune de Lausanne" saved the honor of the Central Europeans with his victory in front of four Scandinavians in the class over 45 years. 43 representatives of the news industry took part in these "Championships", including 20 foreigners (ie non-Scandinavians).

Closing ceremony

On Sunday evening, March 9th, there was a short celebration in the presence of President Kekkonen, who was still an active cross-country skier himself. FIS President Marc Hodler stated that Finland had not only won four world championship titles, but also the respect and approval of the participating countries and foreign guests for the impeccable organization and the large audience. The President of the Finnish Ski Association, Akseli Kaskala , said that the Finnish people were happy about the achievements of their own , but also had great respect for the achievements of foreign skiers. Then the world championship fanfare was played and the flags of the participating countries were drawn under the sound of it.

Cross-country men

• Detailed results

15 km

space	athlete	Time [min]
1	Veikko Hakulinen	48: 58.3
2	Pavel Kolchin	49: 11.8
3	Anatoly Schelyukhin	49: 29.4
4th	Sixten Jernberg	49: 39.6
5	Håkon Brusveen	49: 50.3
6th	Fyodor Terentiev	49: 53.7
7th	Arvo Viitanen	49: 53.8
8th	Per-Erik Larsson	49: 58.5
9	Nikolai Anikin	50: 05.1
10	Kalevi Hämäläinen	50: 15.1
...	...	...
16	Jean Mermet	50: 22.8
19th	Giuseppe Steiner	51: 29.5
20th	Jean Mermet	50: 22.8
19th	Marcello de Dorigo	51: 37.2
23	Kuno Werner	51: 58.1
28	Fritz Kocher	52: 28.0
31	Tadeusz Kwapień	52: 49.9
33	Alphonse Baume	52: 54.7
34	Benoît Carrara	53: 06.0
35	Giulio Deflorian	53: 12.2
36	Takashi Matsuhashi	52: 22.3
38	Marcel Huguenin	53: 35.9
39	Adolf Jankowski	53: 42.0
40	Lorenz Possa	53: 47.8
41	Werner Moring	53: 49.6
43	Wilhelm Schmidt	54: 00.4
44	Ilya Matouš	54: 00.6
45	Ottavio Compagnoni	54: 02.1
46	Helmut Hagg	54: 05.2
47	Oskar Burgbacher	54: 08.3
48	Rudolf Dannhauer	54: 11.1
52	Michel Rey	54: 21.7
53	Mack Miller	54: 22.7
55	Enno Roeder	54: 23.1
56	Rudi Kopp	54: 25.8
62	Werner Zwingli	55: 33.7
63	Elmer Ypyä	55: 39.0
64	Zdravko Hlebanja	55: 48.6
67 (last)	Jorge Gonzales Carrasca	70: 14.3

Date: March 4, 1958

World Champion 1956 : Hallgeir Brenden 

At the draw, Hakulinen (as one of the last starters) had drawn number 66 and thus Kolchin was right in front of him. Brenden had 47, Jernberg 55; The 1st was the Italian Antonio Schelenatti (final rank 42; 53: 52.5) ​​ahead of the Swiss Alphonse Baume. The numbers of the other Swiss: 21 Marcel Huguenin, 25 Werner Zwingli, 35 Fritz Kocher, 46 Michel Rey, 59 Lorenz Possa.
It started at 3 p.m. local time. The external conditions were unfavorable with 12 ° below zero and sharp winds in which the runners could feel every breath. On the positive side, there were no wax problems. The trail was initially icy, up to 5.5 kilometers wavy, then it went down steeply and one kilometer later there was the «Tiritismaa slope», which was already noticeable in the 30 km with its 60 meters, whereupon it went steeply down again. This section resulted in a considerable loss of time for some participants. From the eighth kilometer to the finish, the cross-country ski trail gradually sank from 120 to 100 m above sea level in undulating terrain.
Hakulinen was judged to be “too old” for the “Sprint” because of his 33 years of age. He was more likely to win over 50 km after missing gold on his special route, the 30 km. With this victory, he was also awarded a place among the “superchampions in skiing history”, as his number of medals at the Olympics and World Championships was five gold and four silver. Hakulinen won the race in the «Tiritismaa». The fastest runner before the start was Kolchin, but the winner, who started just 30 seconds after him, always kept him in sight, which helped to achieve success. After 5 km Koltschin (15:10) was ahead of Scheljuchin (15:13) and Hakulinen (15:15), after 8 km Hakulinen (27:00) was ahead of Kolchin (27:05) and Jernberg (27:17). Scheljuchin (a better sprinter than climber) was able to outdo Jernberg in the final phase, but Hakulinen narrowed the gap to Kolchin meter by meter and even from the finish you could see that he was ultimately only 50 m behind the Soviet competitor. Hakulinen said afterwards that he was lucky to have had the starting number right behind Kolchin.
In terms of teams, however, the Soviet runners were the best this time, being the only country to put four athletes in the top ten, but Finland was able to get all of its six runners into the top 15. In contrast, the Norwegians were defeated, because after Brusveen there was a gap up to 21st place ( Harald Grønningen , 51: 38.6). Olympic champion Brenden came in 22nd (51: 56.8) - on the other hand, a Frenchman (Jean Mermet's 16th place meant being the best non-Scandinavian and non-Soviet runner) and two Italians were among the “Top 20”. The Swedes also did worse than expected.
Baume was the first to appear in the Swiss contest, having overtaken Schelenatti after just 5 km. It was another duel between him and the Zurich old master Kocher, but in contrast to the 30 km, Kocher was the better with 29th place. It was also gratifying that all six crossed the finish line and that there was no ski break like two days before. The ranks of the Swiss did not cause a sensation, but did not fall short of expectations.

30 km

space	athlete	Time [h]
1	Kalevi Hämäläinen	1: 40: 03.0
2	Pavel Kolchin	1: 40: 15.2
3	Sixten Jernberg	1: 40: 44.4
4th	Arvo Viitanen	1: 41: 28.1
5	Arto Tiainen	1: 41: 45.0
6th	Veikko Hakulinen	1: 41: 48.8
7th	Auvo Simonen	1: 42: 11.1
8th	Veikko Räsänen	1: 42: 24.4
...	...	...
10	Anatoly Schelyukhin	1: 42: 50.7
12	Fyodor Terentiev	1: 43: 43.8
13	Vladimir Cousin	1: 43: 54.8
15th	Per Olsen	1: 44: 20.0
19th	Hallgeir Brenden	1: 45: 46.0
21st	Martin Stokken	1: 46: 21.2
23	Jean Mermet	1: 48: 00.0
24	Antonin Teplý	1: 48: 29.0
25th	Giuseppe Steiner	1: 49: 03.9
27	Jaroslav Cardal	1: 49: 11.8
28	Alphonse Baume	1: 49: 55.4
29	Fritz Kocher	1: 49: 59.0
30th	Franco Vuerich	1:50:21,
32	Wilhelm Schmidt	1: 50: 33.0
33	Siegfried Weiss	1: 50: 43.1
34	Federico de Florian	1: 50: 50.5
35	Ryzsard Furtak	1: 51: 04.4
36	Antonio Schenatti	1: 51: 13.7
37	Arvo Aeyrentoe	1: 51: 17.9
39	Innosenzo Chatrian	1: 51: 38.0
41	Takashi Matsuhashi	1: 52: 15.7
42	Hermann Möchel	1: 52: 24.9
43	Benoît Carrara	1: 52: 27.2
44	Jean Jordan	1: 52: 56.5
45	Helmut Hagg	1: 53: 01.0
47	Toni Haug	1: 53: 10.3
48	Cammillo Zanolli	1: 53: 10.4
49	Rudi Kopp	1: 53: 17.3
50	Marcel Huguenin	1: 53: 27.2
51	Tauno Puikkinen	1: 53: 45.7
55	Adolf Jankowski	1: 57: 21.7
45	Helmut Hagg	1: 53: 01.0
56 (last)	Zrdravko Hlebanja	2: 03: 29.4

Date: March 2, 1958

World Champion 1956 : Veikko Hakulinen 

Start 9 a.m.; −6  ° C , sun; Except for occasional gusts of wind ideal weather.
The rather difficult trail favored neither climbers nor sprinters; it consisted of two loops of 20 km and 10 km. After a flat stretch of 8 km, the hardest part of the entire race came up to the 13th kilometer. The trail descended to the lowest point at 120 m above sea level at km 9.5 and quickly rose to the highest point at 180 m at the twelfth kilometer. The remainder of the first loop and the entire second loop were undulating and rather steeply undulating, but no such sudden effort as before was required.
62 started, 56 classified; retired u. a. Werner Zwingli and Erwino Hari (both SUI)
approx. 50,000 spectators
The award ceremony for this race was held by FIS President Marc Hodler half an hour before the start of the 15 km Nordic Combined run.

Intermediate times after 20 km: 1. Hämäläinen 1:06:31; 2. Kolchin 1:06:54; 3. Jernberg 1:07:11. - Koltschin was able to make up six seconds up to kilometer 25, but Tiainen ran the fastest here, jumped five places (from 11 to 6) and thus established the final order with six Finns in the top eight.
The victory of the 26-year-old lumberjack Hämäläinen was a surprise because Tiainen and Olympic champion Hakulinen were considered the strongest Finns in training. But what made Hämäläinen's victory downright sensational was his starting number 9, because his very dangerous competitors were only just arriving, he knew little about their interim times, while his own was known and everyone could follow them. Hämäläinen said afterwards that he had no choice but to keep pushing and that he could only hope to make it impossible for the competition to keep up his pace. What worried him most was Kolchin, who he knew was not far behind. The result was bearable for the USSR (all six in the top fourteen) and also for Sweden with at least Jernberg in the top ten, while Norway suffered a heavy defeat with 15th place as the best.
The best Central European was the French Mermet in 23rd place.
The Swiss were very unlucky, but still did well. Two of them, Werner Zwingli and Erwino Hari, broke their skis and had to give up the race before the eighth kilometer.

50 km

space	athlete	Time [h]
1	Sixten Jernberg	2: 56: 21.9
2	Veikko Hakulinen	2: 57: 39.7
3	Arvo Viitanen	2: 58: 49.5
4th	Arto Tiainen	2: 59: 39.2
5	Eero Kolehmainen	3: 01: 39.5
6th	Pavel Kolchin	3: 01: 53.4
7th	Kalevi Hämäläinen	3: 02: 49.4
8th	Anatoly Schelyukhin	3: 03: 21.1
9	Per-Erik Larsson	3: 04: 22.7
10	Fyodor Terentiev	3: 04: 51.3
...	...	...
18th	Giuseppe Steiner	3: 10: 22.8
19th	Federico de Florian	3: 11: 45.7
20th	Reidar Andreassen	3: 11: 45.7 - questionable
22nd	Helmut Hagg	3: 13: 02.0
23	Jaroslav Cardal	3: 13: 06.2
24	Ryszard Furtak	3: 13: 40.9
25th	Michel Rey	3: 14: 17.2
26th	Arvo Ayeranto	3: 14: 49.2
28	Mack Miller	3: 15: 17.8
32	Alphonse Baume	3: 20: 32.3
33	Werner Mohring	3: 20: 51.4
34	Jean Jordan	3: 23: 32.4
35	Kuno Werner	3: 23: 59.8
37 (last)	Takashi Matsuhashi	3: 29: 10.2

Date: March 8, 1958

World champion 1956 : Sixten Jernberg 

In front of 40,000 spectators at temperatures of −12 to −10 ° C and the lack of sharp wind this time, the 47 runners set out on the journey at intervals of 30 seconds. Eight entries, the French Jean Mermet and René Mandrillon , the Pole Tadeusz Kwapień , Adolf Jankowski and Rudolf Dannhauer (GDR), Hermann Möchel (FRG), Canolli (ITA) and Leo Massa (USA), were withdrawn.
The trail consisted of a 20 km loop to be covered twice, on which the main difficulties lay, and a relatively easy 10 km loop at the end. It started with a steep stretch from the stadium to the first kilometer. A descent was followed by another incline up to kilometer 3 and another descent. The first big chunk was the Munakukkula hill near Messilä, where the trail reached its highest point at 8.4 km at 200 m above sea level and descended steeply to the lowest point at 90 m above sea level at 9.3 km. On kilometers 15 and 16 this hill had to be taken again and then it went slightly downhill to the stadium.

With Jernberg, an athlete finally managed to defend his title, although he clearly won by over a minute. As a team, the Finns clearly dominated again. Only Auvo Simonen , who had run beyond his means for the first 30 km, had to retire after 44 km. This time, the defeated were the Soviet runners, while the renewed failure of the Norwegians came less surprising, the best of whom was in 20th place (behind two Italians!). Even the Swiss Michel Rey had the honor of leaving a Norwegian behind - and three gave up. Jean Mermet, the best Central European over 15 and 30 km, had not started, so that the Italians, who have been the best Central Europeans in all men's races so far, were also at the top this time in the individual classification. As a result of Fritz Kocher 's injury, the Swiss were only able to start with five participants, of which two tasks (Golay, Harri) had to be recorded before the 33 km checkpoint.
The race developed into an uninterrupted duel between Jernberg and Hakulinen, in which no one else could have a say. It was a repetition of the 50 km from Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956. Jernberg started faster, eased a little after 10 km, but regained the top halfway through, which he held to the finish. According to his statements, he found the 50 km from Cortina clearly more difficult; Lahti had a better cross-country ski run with "more manageable snow" and was not difficult in the facility. Since Hakulinen ran away behind him with the next starting number, he just had to prevent it from getting on his body. When he was able to conclude at kilometers 13 and 14 from the enthusiasm of the Finnish spectators, who were informed about the intermediate times, that Hakulinen had slightly better measurements, he had become "a little uncomfortable", but he had not given the Finn the opportunity to take him in to let his closeness come. After 25 km he caught up with Viitanen and used him as a pacemaker to the finish. In the end he had reserves and would have kept up the speed of the last 10 km for another 30 km.
Course of the race: While after 8 km Jernberg was in 28:30 ahead of Hakulinen (28:35) and Hämäläinen (28:42), after 15 km Hakulinen was 1: 10: 13.2 ahead of Jernberg (1:10:26) , 6), Hämäläinen (1: 11: 06,1). On the approach to the third passage of the Munakukkula hill, the warned Jernberg put in an intermediate sprint and converted the gap of 13 seconds into a lead of 27 seconds over 8 kilometers. Kolchin got into trouble, Terentiev came up strong. After 28 kilometers, the timing for Jernberg 1:39:43, Hakulinen 1:40:10, Hämäläinen 1:41:20, Tiainen 1:41:25, Simonen 1:41:30, Kolehmainen 1:41:57, Viitanen 1:42:11, Terentjew 1:42:27, Kolchin 1:42:27 and Scheljuchin 1:42:41. The Italian De Florian was 17th in 1:46:00, the best Swiss was Rey in 1:48:33 in 24. The two Norwegians Kvello and P Olsen and Burgbacher (FRG) had given up.
Simonen and Terentjew felt weak, and the Swiss also hit the end of the third ascent and the descent; Harri and Golay gave up, Rey and Jordan lost ranks. At the top, however, practically nothing changed. The fourth ascent gave Simonen the "knockout punch". Meanwhile, Jernberg doubled his lead over Hakulinen to more than a minute, strong in this phase were Viitanen, who advanced from rank 5 to 3, and Koltschin - from 9 to 7. The times measured at the 40th kilometer were: 1. Jernberg 2: 22: 12.3; 2. Hakulinen 2: 23: 19.3; 3. Viitanen 2: 24: 44.3; 4. Tiainen 2: 25: 29.6; 5. Hämäläinen 2: 25: 29.6 ..
In the first half of the last loop Jernberg was able to slightly increase his margin, the strongest sprinter was Koltschin, who made up a minute on Hämäläinen. With the Swiss, Jordan fell back more and more, Giuseppe Steiner advanced to the best Central European.

4 × 10 km relay

space	country	athlete	Time [h]
1	Sweden	Sixten Jernberg Lennart Larsson Sture Grahn Per-Erik Larsson	2: 18: 15.0
2	Soviet Union	Fyodor Terentjew Nikolai Anikin Anatoly Scheljuchin Pawel Kolchin	2: 18: 44.4
3	Finland	Kalevi Hämäläinen Arto Tiainen Arvo Viitanen Veikko Hakulinen	2: 19: 23.2
4th	Norway	Hallgeir Brenden Oddmund Jensen Martin Stokken Håkon Brusveen	2: 22: 46.2
5	Italy	Federico De Florian Ottavio Compagnoni Marcello De Dorigo Giuseppe Steiner	2: 23: 03.9
6th	France	Victor Arbez René Mandrillon Benoît Carrara Jean Mermet	2: 25: 46.3
7th	Switzerland	Alphonse Baume Lorenz Possa Michel Rey Fritz Kocher	2: 27: 23.2
8th	GDR	Werner Mohring Rudolf Dannhauer Adolf Jankowski Kuno Werner	2: 28: 33.9
9	Poland		2; 28: 42.4
10	BR Germany	Toni Haug Siegfried Weiss Wilhelm Schmidt Helmut Hagg	2: 30: 39.1
11	Czechoslovakia		2: 31: 16.8
12	United States		2: 34: 00.1

Date: March 6, 1958

World Champion 1956 : Soviet Union ( Fyodor Terentjew , Pawel Koltschin , Nikolai Anikin , Vladimir Kusin )  

12 squadrons that were released on a broad front at the same time; The trail was the same as for the 10 km individual run for women with a total of 50 m difference in altitude and the hardest part on the first 3 km, on which the highest point had to be reached - 10,000 spectators, light drifting snow
Sixten Jernberg was the towering man the competition, he was the first runner of his team to take the lead, improved to a fabulous finish and sent Lennart Larsson 18 seconds ahead of Terentjew on the second leg. Sweden did not give up the lead despite attempts by the Soviet team. Italy almost delivered a surprise, relegating Norway to fifth place; It was only in the last section that Norway succeeded in shaking off the Italians.
The best running times, which, however, cannot easily be compared, since increasing wind and snowfall made the conditions less favorable for the runners on the third and fourth sections: 1. Jernberg 34: 10.8 / 2. PE Larsson 34: 15.7 / 3. Kolchin 34: 24.9 / 4. Terentjew 34: 28.7 /… / 10. De Dorigo 34: 54.0 (better than the best Norwegian) / 12. Brusveen 35: 02.0 /… 23. Kocher 36: 34.3 (best Swiss)
Due to the performances in the 15 km individual race, the order should have been clearly Soviet Union-Finland-Sweden and one might have expected the Finns to be in first place, as they were with the exception of winners Hakulinen had stayed rather below the expected shape and relied on an increase in shape in the relay. One of Sweden's tactical moves was to use the strongest man, Jernberg, not as the final runner, but for the first 10 km. It was an idea born out of the defensive, a pure experiment by a team that had nothing to lose and everything to gain. Sigge Bergmann , who is recognized as a skier not only in Sweden but all over the world , who had already declared after the team competition in 1956 that the best man must run the start with a clear head, had this idea. The team leadership hoped for the psychological effect of the early Swedish leadership, and the “Tre Kronor” relay came to the aid of a weak performance against the opponents: With the Finns, 30 km world champion Hämäläinen started very slowly - on the much-mentioned climb only with the eighth best time and therefore more than a minute on Jernberg and 54.8 seconds on Terentjew. In the Soviet season, the second man, Anikin, failed, allowing Larsson to double the 18-second lead. Scheljuchin came within 20 seconds of the 30th kilometer and then Kolchin even managed to overtake Larsson with uninterrupted tracks, but he couldn't shake him off and the early effort left him no reserves for the final battle. Although the Finns were only 46 and 26 seconds behind at the last exchange, the gap widened again because goalkeeper Hakulinen did not go as well as he had hoped. Brenden started the fastest, but fell back to 4th place, whereas De Florian only developed on the second 5 km and improved from 9 to 5. The Italians did not unexpectedly cross the finish line in this position as well, with De Dorigo being the third best Time in his lap behind Viitanen and Scheljuchi, even advanced to 4th overall before Norway, but Brusveen was too strong for Steiner. In the last lap Poland was overtaken by the Swiss Kocher and Werner, GDR. However, it also had to be stated that there was a big gap behind the medal trio, as Norway had fallen back to the level of the best Central Europeans in this relay race. On the other hand, it could also be interpreted in such a way that the best Central Europeans were no longer so far removed from the top class. Italy was only 4:49 behind Gold, in 1956 it had been eight minutes. The Swiss roughly met the expectations placed in them.

Cross-country women

• Detailed results

10 km

space	sportswoman	Time [min]
1	Alevtina Kolchina	44: 49.0
2	Lyubov Kozyreva	45: 28.2
3	Siiri Rantanen	46: 02.8
4th	Radja Yeroshina	46: 21.8
5	Evdokia Smirnova	47: 01.5
6th	Maria Gussakowa	47: 01.9
7th	Toini Poysti	47: 02.5
8th	Evdokiya Mekschilo	47: 24.9
9	Eva Hög	47: 30.1
10	Marta Norberg	47: 53.7
11	Sonnhilde Callus	47: 55.7
12	Józefa Peksa-Konopka	48: 05.6
...	...	...
17th	Christa Göhler	48: 57.0
19th	Rita Czech-Blasel	49: 20.3
22nd	Sonja Edström	49: 55.6
23	Squeegee choice	49: 57.9
30th	Mara Rekar	53: 54.5
31 (last)	Renate Borges	54: 16.4

Date: March 5, 1958

1956 world champion : Lyubov Kosyrewa 

33 runners started, 31 crossed the finish line
The draw favored the already favored USSR women, of whom Kosyrewa received No. 25 and Yeroshina No. 26; Rantanen pulled the 24th. The public interest was rather moderate, the competition was also settled relatively quickly with the small number of starters.
The competition made too great demands on the participants, the inclines could only be climbed with great effort. There was soft and sticky snow after a sudden rise in temperature, and the waxing of the skis became a major problem. The bundles of brushwood distributed at many points on the trail to remove the skis were often used.
The fact that the number of spectators was limited was also due to the fact that a Soviet victory was practically certain and the speculation was only about which Soviet runner would win the gold medal. Kolchina beat the winner from Falun 1954 and current defending champion Kosyrewa by 20.2 seconds. As in Cortina d'Ampezzo, bronze went back to Scandinavia, namely to the veteran Rantanen, while Edström - Olympic third in 1956 - had a pitch-black day and only came in 22nd - this behind five Central Europeans and the last of the Swedish five-man representation. Not entirely unexpected, Sonnhilde Kallus turned out to be the best Central European; at the SDS races in Grindelwald she was the one who had beaten the Polish and Czechoslovak women, who were regarded as the fiercest competitor of the Scandinavians and Soviet runners. Once again there was a complete failure of Norway, whose best, squeegee choice, was twenty-third.
The quickest starts had the eventual winner and Jeroschina with 1:16, halfway there was Kosyrewa (23:19) ahead of Kolchina (23:22), but she soon had to give up her position, otherwise it changed to the first five No more ranks. All 31 athletes who arrived at the finish were extremely exhausted. Kosyrewa passed out at the finish, and the following Rantanen, who was also swimming in front of his eyes, almost fell over her.

3 × 5 km relay

space	country	sportswoman	Time [h]
1	Soviet Union	Radja Jeroschina Alewtina Kolchina Lyubov Kozyreva	0: 58: 32.4
2	Finland	Toini Pöysti Pirkka Korkee Siiri Rantanen	1: 00: 14.0
3	Sweden	Märta Norberg Irma Johansson Sonja Edström	1: 01: 58.5
4th	Poland	Maria Gąsienica Bukowa Stefania Biegun Józefa Czerniawska	1: 04: 27.3
5	Czechoslovakia	Libuše Patočková Anna Fialová Eva Benešová	1: 04: 18.3
6th	GDR	Christa Göhler Elfriede Spiegelhauer Sonnhilde Kallus	1: 05: 41.7
7th	Norway	Squeegee Wahl Gina Regland Ingrid Wigernæs	1: 06: 28.7

Date: March 7, 1958

World champions 1956 : FIN ( Sirkka Polkunen - career ended, Mirja Hietamies - career ended, Siiri Rantanen )

Due to the 10 km result, there had been no hope of success in the Scandinavian camp, and with a lead of 1: 41.6 seconds the Soviet Union, which had led from the start, was actually very clearly ahead in the end. The other places were also decided with clear intervals. Finland was as little endangered as Sweden, which had started poorly, but managed a solid lead over the Poles on the second and third legs. Sonja Edström, who had failed in the 10 km individual run, found her shape again and made the best impression after the Soviet runners and the Finn Rantanen. The times were the best in the first 5 km, which was influenced by wind and snow, because towards the end the external conditions were no longer so favorable.
The best individual times: 1 Jeroshina 19: 25,6; 2 Kolchina 19:29.9; 3. Kosyrewa 19:36, 9; 4. Poysti 19: 52.3; 5. rantanes 20: 09.9; 6. Korkee 20: 11.3: 7. Edström 20: 14.4
Stand after 5 km: 1. Soviet Union 19: 25.6; 2. Finland 19: 52.3; 3. ČSR 21: 14.9; 4. Sweden 21: 19.3
Stand after 10 km: 1. Soviet Union 38: 55.5; 2. Finland 40: 04.3; 3. Sweden 41: 44.1; 4. Poland 42: 09.1

Ski jumping men

Detailed results

Normal hill

space	athlete	Widths [m]	Points
1	Juhani Kärkinen	74.0 / 66.5	224.5
2	Ensio Hyytia	65.0 / 72.5	214.5
3	Helmut Recknagel	69.0 / 66.0	213.5
4th	Harry Glass	67.5 / 62.5	211.0
5	Asbjørn Osnes	68.5 / 64.5	209.5
6th	Antero Immons	69.5 / 59.5	208.0
7th	Bengt Eriksson	67.0 / 66.5	207.0
8th	Werner Lesser	65.0 / 64.5	206.0
9	Nikolai Kamensky	68.0 / 60.5	204.5
9	Kalevi Kärkinen	67.5 / 61.0	204.5
9	Nikolai Shamov	68.5 / 61.0	204.5
12	Otto Leodolter	67.5 / 62.0	204 0
13	Arne Hoel	69.0 / 58.0	203.0
14th	Walter Steinegger	66.5 / 64.0	201.0
16	James House	67.5 / 62.0	200.5
21st	Torbjørn Yggeseth	65.0 / 62.0	195.0
22nd	Wladyslaw Tajner	59.5 / 64.5	194.5
23	Max Bolkart	67.5 / 56.5	192.5
26th	Andreas Däscher	59.5 / 60.0	190.0
27	Georg Thoma	62.5 / 58.5	189.5
28	Jean Jacques Charland	62.5 / 57.5	189.5
30th	Sadao Kikuchi	58.0 / 60.5	188.5
31	Walter Habersatter	61.0 / 57.5	187.5
36	Willi Egger	59.0 / 61.5	184.0
36	Alois Leodolter	59.5 / 56.0	184.0
36	Enzo Perin	58.5 / 60.0	184.0
39	Jože Langus	58.0 / 58.0	183.5
40	Peter Müller	56.5 / 58.0	183.0
41	Helmut Bleier	61.5 / 58.5	182.5
46	Koba Zakadze	67.0 / 68.5	179.0
51	Hugo Fuchs	58.5 / 50.5	175.0
53	Manfred Brunner	66.5 / 64.5	174.0
59	Gilbert Meylan	56.5 / 43.5	148.0
61 (last)	Albert Kälin	55.0 / 52.5	135.0

Date: March 9, 1958

World champion 1956 : Antti Hyvärinen (convalescent after a hip fracture, he was therefore unable to contest the Finnish elimination competitions)  

The jury was composed of a “diplomatic” judge from each country of the “Big Five”, namely Erkki Hovi (FIN), Erich Recknagel (GDR), Michail Schemezew (URS), Ivar Lindström (SWE) and Sverre Bøsjø ( NOR). In general, she was quite strict, the grades were better than that of the Nordic combined, where there were big differences, this time the winner Kärkinen consistently received 18.5 P in the first jump.
The external conditions were good, the approach and landing tracks were perfectly prepared and at −6 ° C the snow had a consistently good consistency.
120,000 spectators!

The national result was the same as at the 1956 Olympics with gold and silver for Finland and bronze for the GDR. Finland's supremacy has recently been confirmed, although there is little prospect of contesting its regiment in the foreseeable future (at 22, Sieger Kärkinen is the oldest of the quartet). In terms of team performance, the GDR also followed, while Norway and Sweden were each represented only once in the "Top Ten". The Soviets disappointed - not for the first time at these world championships - there was only double ex-aequo rank 9, the next Soviet jumper only followed in 19th place. As expected, the best team in the "second class" was Austria. One would have thought the Austrians were even more confident, but they all seemed a bit nervous and couldn't get close to their training results. The positive surprise was the Americans with two places in the top twenty (16th and 19th place).
The Swiss Andreas Däscher was inhibited by his bandaged left forearm after his recent broken wrist, but it was surprising that he had no chance of making it into the top 20, neither in width nor in style. But the result of the other three Swiss was much more alarming, with Kälin suffering a fall. However, coach Fritz Tschannen did not expect any great deeds from Kälin, Perret and Meylan, but certainly more than this downgrading. In the whole competition there were only five under 50 m jumps out of 122, two of which the Swiss made, with Meylan showing the shortest with 43.5 m.
Juhani Kärkinen won his gold medal quite superior, his first jump was a real miracle; it was the only one standing over 70 m, and that at 74 m. That gave 114.5 points, Immonen in second received 108. So it was to be assumed that Kärkinen actually only needed to stand his second jump to win. After this first series the following places were to be found: 3rd place ex aequo Hoel, Recknagel and Glaß with 107.5; Rank 6 ex aequo Kalevi Kärkinen and Osnes. The Finn Eino Kirjonen, who was most highly rated alongside J. Kärkinen, buried his chances by falling in the second longest jump (73 m), Koba Cakadze had the same experience at 67 m; both had too strong an assist, which Kurjonen also let touch on the second jump. In both jumps, Max Bolkart also looked insecure.
The jury had the second round shortened, perhaps in consideration of the occasional unpleasant gusts of wind, one of which was involved in Kurjonen's fall. This shortening seemed to make it impossible to get over 70 m, but it was again a Finn who made it: Hyytiä reached 72.5 m (and thus an advance on silver); it was 4.5 m better than the second best cockadze in terms of distance. J. Kärkinen and Eriksson were third together with 66.5 m. With regard to bronze, the decision was made in the very last jump. Immonen, Hoel and Glaß had lost more of their length than one might have expected. The younger Kärkinen did not achieve the hoped-for increase. So everyone looked at Recknagel, the last jumper: He went resolutely to the distance, made 66 m, exceeded Glaß by 3.5 m. That was enough; with four 17.5 and one 17.0 he was able to more than compensate for the better style notes of Glaß (three 18.0, two 17.5). In doing so, he had fulfilled the expectations placed on him at the beginning of the season, which were later jeopardized by a training failure due to flu and his slow recovery. The competition was a clear victory for the Finnish style. Recknagel was the only one of the first ten who didn't jump with his hands tight, but he also practiced the strong template.
When J. Kärkinen had completed the second jump, his gold medal had been determined immediately, although the competition continued for some time. He himself said afterwards that, despite his lead, "he approached the second jump with a bad feeling in his stomach because he was afraid of the wind".
In any case, this wind was a little responsible for the fact that the World Championship degree was not as worthy as the end of the ski jumping competition in Cortina two years ago. This bakken in Lahti was much more exposed to the wind and left a little too much to chance and familiarity with the hill.

Nordic combined men

Detailed results

Individual (normal hill / 15 km)

space	athlete	Points (run / jump)
1	Paavo Korhonen	448,500 (208.5 / 240,000)
2	Sverre Stenersen	447.690 (221.0 / 226.689)
3	Gunder Gundersen	444.552 (210.0 / 234.552)
4th	Martti Maatela	444.155 (225.5 / 219.655)
5	Mikhail Prjachin	440.259 (209.5 / 230.759)
6th	Leonid Fyodorov	438.759 (216.0 / 222.759)
7th	Bengt Eriksson	438.069 (230.0 / 218.069)
8th	Nikolai Gusakov	435.889 (206.5 / 229.379)
9	Tormod Knutsen	435.879
10	Kauko Pusenius	434.759
11	Arne Barhaugen	434,310
12	Keijo Verto	433,602
13	Alois Leodolter	432.172
14th	Günter Flauger	430.397
15th	Viteslav Lahr	430,000
16	Georg Thoma	429.828
19th	Esko Jussila	432.724
21st	Martin Körner	422.741
22nd	Vlastimil Melich	422.397
24	Franciszek Gąsienica Groń	420.414
25th	Sepp Schiffner	419.724
26th	Enzo Perin	416,931
27	Yōsuke Etō	415,914
30th	André Reymond	408,000
32	Siegfried Boehme	405,534
35	Louis-Charles Golay	399.069 (167.0 / 232.069)
37 (last)	Alfred Vincelette	395,069

Date: 2/3 March 1958

World Champion 1956 : Sverre Stenersen 

The Austrian Alois Leodolter finished 7th in jumping and 20th in cross-country skiing, which brought him 13th place. Korhonen owes his victory to winning cross-country skiing.
Just like the award ceremony for the 30 km before the combined run was held, the due quarter of an hour before the 15 km special cross-country run was carried out by FIS President Marc Hodler.
The jumping competition at Salpausselkä-Bakken was held on the afternoon of March 2nd in three rounds, of which the two best scores came into the ranking. 38 gentlemen took part.
Martti Maatela won the day, with 69.5 meters in the third jump, with the highest distance of the day. In the Finnish situation, one would have preferred Korhonen or Jussila (ultimately 19th overall) in the leader position, because Maatela was considered to be quite uneven in cross-country skiing.
Result jumping: 1. Maatela; 2. Stenersen; 3. Eriksson; 4. Etō; 5. ex aequo Fyodorow & Verto; 7. leodolter; 32. Reymond, 38. Golay
Olympic champion Stenersen was somewhat disappointing, the team leaders had expected a “safety margin” from him for cross-country skiing, but the 3.5 point deficit meant a deficit of more than a minute. In the second round, GDR jumper Flauder could only be surpassed by Maatela (64.5 m / 103 points) with 65 m (grade 102).
The Scandinavian-Soviet predominance in jumping was not as pronounced as in the 30 km cross-country skiing, because the Japanese Etō (after two rounds even on rank 1 - 203 points compared to 200 for Maatela) was on rank 4, the Austrian Leodolter on seven .
The competition itself was in the sunshine, but 10 degrees below zero and a considerable headwind, no fun. The foreigners, who were not very familiar with the already difficult hill, were further disadvantaged by the gusts of wind, even though the jump was initially made with a shortened run-up that was only slightly extended from the second round. The Swiss were doing very badly: Reymond only finished 32nd, he lacked the length. Golay came off the take-off too early the first time, after a slight improvement in the second jump he missed the jump again on the third (so he only got the final rank). Both Swiss and the Germans Thoma and Schiffner complained about the wind.
Cross-country result: 1. Korhonen 51: 32.7; 2. Berntsen 51: 51.6; 3. Gundersen 52: 52.1; 4. Golay 53:28.1; 5. Barhaugen 53: 39.1; 6. Ristola 53: 43.1; 7. Prjachin 53: 47.2; 8. Schiffner 54: 02.2; 9. Knutsen 54: 06.9; 10. Melich 54: 13.3; ...; 12. Gusakov 54:36.1; 13. Stenersen 54: 46.1; 14. Flauger 55: 11.9; 15. Pusenius 55: 14.0; 16. Gąsienica Groń 55: 19.4; 17. Perin 55: 26.3; 18. Thoma 55: 42.0; 19. Fyodorov 55:42.7; 20. Leodolter 56: 06.6; 24. Reymond 56:23.1; 26 Maatela 56:27.7; 29. Eriksson 56: 51.3; 30. Grains 57: 03.3; 33. Jussila 57: 53.9; 34. Vincelette 58: 17.9; 37th and last Etō 1: 07: 05; 4 - not started due to injury after jumping: Kikuchi (JPN)
The external conditions of cross-country skiing were −12 ° C and biting wind; At 7 km the trail had a 300 m long ascent, at 8.5 km a 200 m long, but both not very steep, so that everyone could get along well in the field. The unpleasant weather left only 4,000 spectators in the stadium.
Korhonen won the run so well that he was able to beat Stenersen with 0.89 points. Like Hämäläinen's 30 km victory, this gold medal came as a surprise; Although he had been one of the favorites in the preliminary reports, after ranking 13 in the jumping, the Finns had assumed that Korhonen would have to be three minutes faster than Stenersen, as the statements from there also suggested that they would be one third or fourth place of Korhonen rather than Maatela's victory. This only landed in the lower table in the running competition. Sweden's Eriksson, who only finished 29th due to a foot injury, was unlucky. Etō was obviously overwhelmed on the 15 km, he was by far last. Another disappointment was the 1956 Olympic third-placed Pole Gąsienica Groń, who did not even come close to his form of Cortina in either jumping or running and finished 24th in the final ranking. Stenersen had already lost a few seconds in a fall right after the start and his mileage was generally weaker than expected (he was - just like Korhonen was in jumping before - running thirteenth). After that Korhonens, the Swiss Golay delivered the most noticeable performance, who rehabilitated himself after his disastrous jump result and finished fourth. Finland was also involved in this partial success, because Heikki Luoma, a Finn, was employed as an association trainer for the Swiss . Despite this effort, Golay did not get above rank 35 in the final account because of his huge backlog in jumping.
The Central Europeans had generally started a little too briskly, first and foremost the particularly disappointed Schiffner (with Gąsienica he had been considered the sharpest rival of the Scandinavians and Soviets), but both had to retreat at the first increase.

Medal table

Nations
final after 8 competitions

space	nation
01	Finland	4th	3	3	10
02	Soviet Union	2	4th	1	7th
03	Sweden	2	0	2	4th
04th	Norway	0	1	1	2
05	GDR	0	0	1	1

Men
final score after 6 competitions

space	athlete
01	Sixten Jernberg	2	0	1	3
02	Veikko Hakulinen	1	1	1	3
03	Kalevi Hämäläinen	1	0	1	2
04th	Paavo Korhonen	1	0	0	1
	Juhani Kärkinen	1	0	0	1
	Lennart Larsson	1	0	0	1
	Stubborn Grahn	1	0	0	1
	Per-Erik Larsson	1	0	0	1
09	Pavel Kolchin	0	3	0	3
010	Anatoly Schelyukhin	0	1	1	2
011	Sverre Stenersen	0	1	0	1
	Ensio Hyytia	0	1	0	1
	Fyodor Terentiev	0	1	0	1
	Nikolai Anikin	0	1	0	1
015th	Arvo Viitanen	0	0	2	2
016	Gunder Gundersen	0	0	1	1
	Helmut Recknagel	0	0	1	1
	[[#FN _ {{{1}}} | {{{1}}}]]	0	0	1	1

Women
final result after 2 competitions

space	sportswoman
01	Alevtina Kolchina	2	0	0	2
02	Lyubov Kozyreva	1	1	0	2
03	Radja Yeroshina	1	0	0	1
04th	Siiri Rantanen	0	1	1	2
05	Toini Poysti	0	1	0	1
	Pirkka cork	0	1	0	1
07th	Marta Norberg	0	0	1	1
	Irma Johansson	0	0	1	1
	Sonja Edström	0	0	1	1

literature

• Hermann Hansen, Knut Sveen: VM på ski '97. Alt om ski-VM 1925-1997. Adresseavisens Forlag, Trondheim 1996, ISBN 82-7164-044-5 .

Web links

Commons : FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1958  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 22nd Nordic World Ski Championships 1958 in Lahti, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on May 10, 2017.
• The top three winners at the Olympic Winter Games & World Ski Championships , p. 32/33 on deutscherskiverband.de (PDF), accessed on May 10, 2017.
• 1958 Lahti World Championship Nordic Ski , video excerpts from the 1958 World Ski Championships in Lahti with Finnish commentary on stagevu.com, accessed on May 10, 2017.
• MM-kisat Lahti 1958 [1] results, on lahdenmuseot.fi, accessed on March 9, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of World Championships in Lahti ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ The ski congress began. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 2, 1955, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ The World Ski Championships in Gastein. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 3, 1955, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ^ Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti. The opening. In: Sport Zurich. No. 26, March 3, 1958, pp. 3 and 4.
5. ↑ Incident flight of the Swiss jumpers to Lahti. In: Sport Zurich. No. 27, March 5, 1958, p. 6.
6. ↑ The interval tactic of the Finnish cross-country skiers. last paragraph In: Sport Zürich. No. 27, March 5, 1958, p. 6.
7. ↑ World Championship Cocktail - well mixed. In: Sport Zurich. No. 28, March 7, 1958, p. 2.
8. ↑ At the edge of the trail. In: Sport Zurich. No. 28, March 7, 1958, p. 2.
9. ↑ Conclusion. In: Sport Zurich. No. 29, March 10, 1958, p. 4.
10. ↑ The third triumph of the Finns . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 5, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
11. ↑ Finland's ski king Veikko Hakulinen over 15 km narrow winner ahead of two Russians. In: Sport Zurich. No. 28, March 7, 1958, p. 1.
12. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men 30k on fis-ski.com
13. ↑ Great triumph of the Finns in the 30m-km run. In: Sport Zurich. No. 26, March 3, 1958, p. 4.
14. ↑ Jernberg won the ski marathon . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 9, 1958, p. 36 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
15. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men's Team on fis-ski.com
16. ↑ Sweden beats Russia and Finland . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 7, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
17. ↑ Sweden surprise winner of the season before Russia and Finland. In: Sport Zurich. No. 29, March 10, 1958, pp. 2 and 3.
18. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies 10k on fis-ski.com
19. ↑ The runners collapsed at the finish . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 6, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
20. ↑ Alewtina Kolchina in the 10 km run for women. In: Sport Zurich. No. 28, March 7, 1958, p. 2.
21. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies 10k on fis-ski.com
22. ↑ A Russian victory in the women's relay . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 8, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
23. ↑ Superior Russian victory in the women's relay. In: Sport Zurich. No. 29, March 10, 1958, p. 3.
24. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men Ski Jumping on fis-ski.com
25. ^ The Finns J. Kärkinen and Hyytiä in front of the East German Recknagel in the special jump. In: Sport Zurich. No. 29, March 10, 1958, pp. 3 and 4.
26. ↑ Ski jumping was not a big final act of the World Cup. In: Sport Zurich. No. 29, March 10, 1958, p. 4.
27. ↑ A Finnish triumph at the end . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 11, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
28. ↑ Alois Leodolter best Central European . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 4, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
29. ^ Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti. For combined jumping. Unleashed Korhonen wins the cross-country skiing. In: Sport Zurich. No. 27, March 5, 1958, pp. 5 and 6.