Nordic World Ski Championships 1962

Nordic World Ski Championships 1962
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Cross-country skiing 5 km	---	Alevtina Kolchina
Cross-country skiing 10 km	---	Alevtina Kolchina
Cross-country skiing 15 km	Assar Rönnlund	---
Cross-country skiing 30 km	Eero Mäntyranta	---
Cross-country skiing 50 km	Sixten Jernberg	---
Cross-country relay	Sweden - 4 × 10 km	Soviet Union - 3 × 5 km
Ski jumping normal hill	Toralf Engan	---
Ski jumping large hill	Helmut Recknagel	---
Nordic combination	Arne Larsen
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The 24th Nordic World Ski Championships took place in Zakopane from February 18th to 25th, 1962 . The Polish winter was therefore the third time host of Nordic World Ski Championships. For the first time in the program were the 5 km cross-country skiing for women and ski jumping on the large hill.

As with the Alpine World Ski Championships in Chamonix , which had started a week earlier , the officials feared whether their event would be recognized as a world championship before the all-clear on February 15, thanks to the decisions of the FIS Executive Committee at its meetings in Chamonix and Zakopane.

Those responsible were confronted with other hardships, however, because heavy snowfalls and gusts of wind led to cancellations and fundamental changes to the program - practically no competition could be held on the scheduled date. For example, the men's 30 km cross-country skiing event took place on February 18, while jumping from the normal hill had to be canceled on that day.

Opening, previews and "Zakopane is sinking in the snow"

The opening took place on February 17th, and despite the heavy snowfall of 18 hours without a break, the 40,000-seat ski stadium below the ski jumping hill filled up, and there were still thousands in front of the stadium who had not been admitted. The ceremony lasted an hour and a half.

Around 380 athletes from 20 associations and two German teams took part in the competitions. The previews saw the Scandinavian dominance in the cross-country skiing untouched, although there were no precise indications for a comparison of performance because there was only - and this relatively early in the season in Falun - a trial of strength in individual disciplines and especially the northerners remained true to their tradition were to hardly appear internationally in years with title fights in order not to disturb their form structure.

Snow storms swept across the country like never before in the last 15 to 20 years. Visitors to the world championships had on the weekend of 17./18. February only reached its destination by train - albeit with a delay - while hundreds of cars had broken down on the route between Kraków (Kraków) and Zakopane (150 km). Journalists from the Czechoslovak Republic, who normally could make the way across the Tatras in under an hour, had been on the road for a full eight hours on February 17th to fight their way through a distance of 60 km in their car. The teams from Italy, Switzerland and the Federal Republic of Germany, who were traveling by plane, had to spend the night on February 13th because of the bad weather conditions in Warsaw in Munich; The planned start date on February 13th did not last for the time being either; Only after 11 a.m. did the machine start with 44 competitors, three journalists and nine crew members.

The Polish postal administration had issued a special stamp on the occasion of the world championships. This could be purchased from February 16, one day before the opening. In Warsaw, dozens of philatelists lined up at several issuing points shortly after midnight so as not to be late.

As with the Olympic Games, only four participants per country were allowed in the individual disciplines.

Cross-country men

• Detailed results

15 km

space	athlete	Time [min]
1	Assar Rönnlund	55: 22.8
2	Harald Grønningen	55: 52.2
3	Einar Østby	55: 54.8
4th	Magnar Lundemo	55: 56.1
5	Eero Mäntyranta	56: 24.4
6th	Janne Stefansson	56: 48.9
7th	Giulio Deflorian	56: 58.8
8th	Lars Olsson	57: 10.2
...	...	...
34	Andreas Janc	60: 53.8
42	Franz Vetter
43	Anton Kogler
43	Hermann Lackner

Date: February 20, 1962

Other important placements and best of their countries:
9th Gennadi Waganow (URS) 57: 20.2
10th Pawel Koltschin (URS) 57: 30.8
12th Giuseppe Steiner (ITA) 58: 08.9
14th Marcello de Dorigo ( ITA) 58: 10.9
18. Józef Good-Misiaga (POL) 58: 57.1
21. Jean Mermel (FRA) 59: 01,6
26 H Weidl (GDR) 1: 00: 21.1
27 T Matsuhashi (JAP) 1: 00: 43.8
28. Konrad Hirschler (SUI) 1: 00: 48.8
36. Alphonse Baume (SUI) 1: 01: 59.1
41. Erwino Hari (SUI) 1:02, 21.8
49. Paul Bebi (SUI) 1: 08: 52.0

This race was held in the morning with brightening weather and a light drizzle of snow in front of 10,000 spectators, the temperatures were just below freezing point. All of this made it difficult to prepare the skis, although a ski that was “too fast” (on which the runners sometimes slipped backwards) was still better than a blunt one that the Swiss had caught applying wax. Rönnlund had rewrote in time. The race came to a head in the last few kilometers between the Norwegians and Sweden's Rönnlund. Several top runners were not at the start: Jernberg, Hakulinen and Hallgeir Brenden were omitted from the respective team leaders .

Rönnlund had caught up with Mäntyranta, who started one minute before him, about 4 km from the finish and raced with him to the finish line. Grønningen was the last to go on the trail (with No. 73), it was stopped after 5 km with the best intermediate time (12 seconds before Rönnlund) and after 10 km it was reported in second place (10 seconds behind Rönnlund), but remained despite a brilliant one Finish almost half a minute behind the Swede. The great team performance was not expected from the Norwegians, Rönnlund ran better than before in the 30 km, when he seemed somehow inhibited on the last lap. The Finns (with only Mäntyranta in the top ten) did not succeed in the race they wanted.

30 km

space	athlete	Time [h]
1	Eero Mäntyranta	1: 52: 39.4
2	Janne Stefansson	1: 52: 49.1
3	Giulio Deflorian	1: 53: 13.3
4th	Harald Grønningen	1: 53: 32.9
5	Einar Østby	1: 53: 38.3
6th	Assar Rönnlund	1: 53: 41.4
7th	Ivan Utrobin	1: 54: 09.4
8th	Kalevi Hämäläinen	1: 54: 15.7

Date: February 18, 1962

64 starters; Difference in altitude 250 m - 8,000 to 10,000 spectators

Because of the heavy snowfall, the 30 km course had to be changed shortly before the start of the race.
The race was carried out on a 10 km route to be completed three times, the first loop of the original course. Press spokesman Stephan Rzeszot informed the audience in several languages ​​over the loudspeaker.
There were toughest conditions with uninterrupted, heavy snowfall, and the gusty wind threw up snow clouds as high as a house. The difficulty of the race is also documented in the best time over an hour and 50 minutes.
At about half past six in the morning, a six-man track team had set out and fought their way through floor-to-ceiling drifts, and if this group had brought out the "double track" again, it had been a fruitless undertaking; Snowfall and wind soon covered the trail again.
Already with start no. 2 the prominent Janne Stefansson tackled the course; He was obviously not rated as strong by his team leaders and was therefore delegated to the weakest of the four groups. The Swede was actually a kind of “spur man”; When the precipitation subsided a little and the field had spread out over the course, Stefansson was able to show what he was made of, and with a great finish he even came within 10 seconds of the world champion.
Rönnlund, who acted as the coming “King of the Skis”, and Sixten Jernberg , too, were unable to assert themselves on the strenuous route. Both Finns Kalevi Hämäläinen and Arto Tiainen as well as Jernberg complained of stomach problems, which also explained their relapse, whereas the Norwegians were openly happy because they had not expected the top places from Einar Østby and Harald Grønningen without further ado.
With the 1.57 m tall and 58 kg heavy Giulio Deflorian (born January 13, 1936) there was the first Central European to penetrate the decades-long Scandinavian phalanx on the pedestal (which had previously only been blown up by Soviet athletes) and receive a medal could secure. The Swedish trainer Bengt Nilsson had systematically built up the Azzuri cross-country skiing guild; its strengths had already been shown in Les Brassus both individually and in terms of breadth. For Deflorian as a lightweight, the soft track might have been an advantage, but he had a harder time on the descents and in the fight against the gusts of wind.
Winner Mäntyranta was convincing as an excellent stylist and technician who easily and playfully mastered the sharp climbs; on the plains he increased the pace, changed the cadence at the beginning of the ascent and after a few steps went into his fascinating, expansive gliding rhythm. He was undoubtedly informed about the status of the race, because right at the beginning of the final lap he turned it up, because Deflorian had come ominously close to him. The Finn literally flew over the last kilometer. It was found that the best Italians were able to compete with the northerners in athletic and technical terms, but their body control, the sense of balance and the quick, powerful and yet hardly any effort revealing gliding on a ski - that could only be acquired with extensive training.
As far as the Olympic Games and World Championships are concerned, the Swiss team held up better than it has for a long time. A 13th place over 50 km through Adolf Freiburghaus was the last great result in an individual discipline in 1939 (also in Zakopane).
It was also noticeable that two Nordic teams had a connection network set up criss-cross in the competition area of ​​the 30 km run, whereby not only radio stations were set up, but lines for telephone connections were also laid. This radical exploitation of technical possibilities was known to observers as early as 1952 at the Olympic Games in Oslo .

Other important placements and best of their countries:
9th Artio Tiainen (FIN) 1:54:38
10th Sixten Jernberg (SWE) 1:54:41
12th Gennadi Waganow (URS) 1:56:01
14th Giuseppe Steiner (Josef Steiner) (ITA) 1:57:02
17th Franco Manfroi (ITA) 1:58:22
18th Alphonse Baume (SUI) 1:59:52
19th Veikko Hakulinen (FIN) 2:00:14
20th Jean Mermel (FRA) 2:00:17
21st Eugenio Mayer (Eugen Mayer) (ITA) 2:00:17
22nd Walter Demel (FRG) 2:00:58
23rd Hans Amann (SUI) 2:01:09
24th. R. Furtak (POL) 2:01:51
25. Konrad Hischier (SUI) 2:02:05
35. Hermann Mayr (AUT)
36. A. Rauhanen (CAN)
41. Paul Bebi (SUI) 2:06:10
54. E. Demers (USA) 2:13:41
(Note: “Sport Zürich” only led the “Top 3” tenths of a second when it published its results.)

50 km

space	athlete	Time [h]
1	Sixten Jernberg	3: 03: 48.5
2	Assar Rönnlund	3: 05: 39.1
3	Kalevi Hämäläinen	3: 05: 42.8
4th	Arto Tiainen	3: 05: 43.5
5	Harald Grønningen	3: 05: 58.3
6th	Janne Stefansson	3: 06: 12.0
7th	Rolf Rämgård	3: 09: 02.2
8th	Giuseppe Steiner	3: 09: 10.4

Date: February 24, 1962

In the 50 km cross-country skiing, which was probably planned as the final, which took place on Saturday, February 24th, the Swedish ski king Jernberg proved, according to press reports, that "his star is not yet sinking", even though he was in the 30 km race had not yet convinced. After he had secured victory for the “Tre Konor Team” in the relay, the 33-year-old also dictated the “marathon” and answered an intermediate sprint after 35 km from Kalevi Hämäläinen - the Finn came up to 1:04 minutes - again with an increase in speed. Disappointingly, the best of the Soviet team only came in 10th.

In the early morning of February 24th, 45 competitors set off for the marathon in the Krokiew Stadium, which was quite cold (air temperature −9 ° C; snow −6.8 ° C) and ideal conditions (despite snowfall the previous night) they passed after 15, 25 and 40 km. There was an altitude difference of 1,420 m along the route, with the longest gradient being 140 m. After ten kilometers, Jernberg (No. 24), Stefansson, Hämäläinen, Rönnlund, Rämgård and Arto Tiainen were less than half a minute apart. Halfway through the distance, Jernberg was stopped in 1:30:29, giving him a lead of 2:10 on Stefensson, 2:36 on Rönnlund, 2:45 on Tiainen, 3:03 on Hämäläinen, 3:30 on Grønningen, 3:46 on Hakulinen, 3:51 on Rämgård, 3:56 on Steiner and 4:45 on di Bona. On the last run through the stadium after 38 to 40 km, the first six runners were within six minutes: Jernberg finished the last ten kilometers with 2:26:00 and thus 1:04 distance from Hämäläinen. This was followed by Rönnlund (+ 1:19), Stefansson (+ 1:36), Tiainen (+ 1:45), Grønningen (+ 1:58), Rämgård (+ 3:03), Steiner (+ 3:18), Hakulinen (+ 3:45) and Stensheim (+ 4:14). The two Finns did not look as fresh as the Swedes. The first runner reached the finish shortly after 12 noon - and Jernberg soon followed, so it was clear early on that he was the overwhelming winner - and all the photographers pounced on him. Meanwhile, another “big guy” of the past few years, Hakulinen, had also crossed the finish line, but he wasn't given any attention.
It had been an extremely fast race - and with the exception of Jernberg, who won by a clear margin, the rest of the leaders were close together; even experts could not remember that there had ever been such a rapid battle with such narrow time differences over this long distance. The eighth Giuseppe Steiner had been able to keep up for a long time, he only lost some ground in the last third.
With the Swiss, Erwino Hari had been banned from starting because of fever, Baume was not used because of three races already contested. The other two had a bit of difficulty with the ascent due to a less than optimal wax choice. Bebi placed himself according to his possibilities, Amann had spent a little too much and had to give up.
Other important places:
9th Veikko Hakulinen (FIN) 3: 09: 35.31.1
10th Gennadi Waganow (URS) 3: 09: 49.2
14th Alfredo di Bona (ITA) 3: 16: 09.7
17th Ladislav Hrubý (ČSR) 3: 18: 36.7
18th Tadeusz Jankowsky (POL) 3: 19: 26.2
19th Marcello di Dorigo (ITA) 3: 20: 18.5
34th Paul Bebi (SUI) 3:32 : 31.1
Task: Hans Amann (SUI) after a little more than 30 km

4 × 10 km relay

space	country	athlete	Time [h]
1	Sweden	Lars Olsson Sture Grahn Sixten Jernberg Assar Rönnlund	2: 24: 38.8
2	Finland	Väinö Huhtala Kalevi Laurila Pentti Pesonen Eero Mäntyranta	2: 25: 24.4
3	Soviet Union	Ivan Utrobin Pawel Kolchin Alexei Kuznetsov Gennady Waganov	2: 26: 14.3
4th	Norway	Magnar Lundemo Hallgeir Brenden Einar Østby Harald Grønningen	2: 26: 45.9
5	Italy	Giuseppe Steiner Gianfranco Stella Marcello de Dorigo Giulio Deflorian	2: 28: 15.0
6th	France	Felix Mathieu René Secretant Victor Arbez Jean Mermel	2: 34: 03.0
7th	Poland	Józef Rysula Kazimierz Zelek Andrzej Mateja Józef Gut-Misiaga	2: 34: 32.0
8th	Switzerland	Konrad Hischier Erwin Hari Alois Kälin Alphonse Baume	2: 36: 18.5
9	BR Germany	Walter Demel Edi Lengg Rudolf Maier Sepp Maier	2: 36: 36.3
...	...	...	...
13	German Democratic Republic	Helmut Weidlich Klaus Kretzschmann Heinz Seidel Enno Röder	2: 38: 39.7
14th	Austria	Hermann Mayr Anton Kogler Franz Vetter Andreas Janc	2: 41: 09.5

Date: February 22nd, 1962

17 teams started the race from 9 a.m. After 10 km Sweden led in 37: 28.6 ahead of Finland (37: 34.5), Italy (37: 36.4), the Soviet Union (37: 37.2), Norway (38: 00.8), Poland ( 38: 45.7), FRG (38: 48.1), France (39: 35.9) and Switzerland (39: 55.0). After 20 km, only four teams were eligible for victory. Behind Sweden (1: 13: 29.9) were Finland (+ 0.2 sec.), Soviet Union (+ 23.0 sec.), Norway (+ 1: 05.3) and Italy (+ 1: 11.8 ) classified; the Federal Republic was eighth (+ 5: 10.1), Switzerland tenth (+ 5: 22.2). Jernberg then gave his team a reassuring lead with a great performance, the order of medals was fixed. Sweden had 1: 48: 44.5, Finland 1: 50: 20.9 and the Soviet Union 1: 50.21.3. Next up were Norway (1: 50: 35.8), Italy (1: 51: 29.9); Switzerland was eighth (1: 57: 28.4) and the Federal Republic of Germany tenth (1: 58: 17.0). Finland was never endangered over the next two seasons. In the final ranking, the Federal Republic of Germany came in 9th place in 2: 37: 25.4, Japan in 10th place in 2: 38.45.3; the ČSR, Romania and the GDR followed. In the Austrians Mayr had passed in fifteenth in 42: 54.6, Janc as the final runner was able to overtake the Hungarians Futo. The USA and Yugoslavia brought up the rear.
Eero Mäntyranta achieved the fastest individual time in 35:03.
The other placements:
10th Japan 2: 38.45.3; 11. ČSR 2: 37: 25.4; 12. Romania 2: 38: 58.5; 15. Hungary 2: 43: 55.1; 16. USA 2:45:37.6; 17. Yugoslavia 2: 47: 07.5

Cross-country women

• Detailed results

5 km

space	sportswoman	Time [min]
1	Alevtina Kolchina	19: 28.6
2	Lyubov Kozyreva	20: 15.9
3	Maria Gussakowa	20: 27.5
4th	Siiri Rantanen	20: 45.9
5	Mirja Lehtonen	20: 55.7
6th	Evdokiya Mekschilo	21: 14.5
7th	Toini Gustafsson	21: 17.8
8th	Barbro Martinsson	21: 18.0

Date: February 19, 1962

Among the 37 starters who tackled the new 5 km test that was added to the program on the morning of February 19, there were four from the Federal Republic of Germany and one from Austria, otherwise there were none from western countries, only northern women (however had not reported Norway) and representatives of Eastern European associations. Only five runners were able to cope with the difficulties due to their physical condition and technical training, while for the rest it was more of a torture, especially on a short but sharp incline.

10 km

space	sportswoman	Time [min]
1	Alevtina Kolchina	39: 48.2
2	Maria Gussakowa	40: 59.9
3	Radja Yeroshina	41: 17.1
4th	Lyubov Baranova	41: 26.0
5	Mirja Lehtonen	41: 53.2
6th	Barbro Martinsson	42: 28.4
7th	Siiri Rantanen	42: 28.9
8th	Toini Gustafsson	42: 34.8

Date: February 21, 1962

Further classifications:
9th Toini Pöysti (FIN) 42: 52.2
10th Eeva Ruoppa (FIN) 43: 01.7
30th Heidi Ludwig (AUT)

As with the 5 km distance (and again 37 starters), the visual impression remained the same, the effects of the efforts were even more noticeable here. It was snowing heavily again, so that only 2,000 visitors had come along the trail. Winner Kolchina was already in the lead halfway through the race.

3 × 5 km relay

space	country	athlete	Time [h]
1	Soviet Union	Lyubov Baranowa Maria Gussakowa Alewtina Kolchina	0: 58: 08.9
2	Sweden	Barbro Martinsson Britt Strandberg Toini Gustafsson	0: 59: 27.9
3	Finland	Siiri Rantanen Eeva Ruoppa Mirja Lehtonen	1: 01: 33.0
4th	Poland	Weronika Stempak Józefa Czerniawska Stefania Biegun	1: 02: 37.5
5	GDR	Renate Dannhauer Christa Herklotz Sonnhilde Kallus	1: 02: 41.1
6th	Czechoslovakia	Vlasta Srnková Jarmila Skodová Eva Paulusová	1: 05: 02.4
7th	Hungary	Katalin Hellner Janosne Gangli Éva Balázs	1: 09: 35.0

Date: February 23, 1962
Around 30,000 viewers had come, the FRG and Bulgaria had withdrawn their squadrons. This time the sun showed itself in Zakopane. The Soviet starting runner had not yet managed to significantly distance the Swedish rival (18 seconds), but after the second replacement the lead was already 54 seconds. Surprisingly, Finland was never able to intervene in the top fight, Rantanen handed over with 2:23 behind after the first part. The best individual performance was offered by Kolchina in 18: 52.7. The other peak times were achieved by Lehtonen (19: 11.3), Gustaffson (19: 17.8), Strandberg (19: 30.9) and Ruoppa (19: 52.4).

Ski jumping men

• Detailed results

Normal hill

space	athlete	Widths [m]	Points
1	Toralf Engan	68.0 / 67.0 / 70.5	223.6
2	Antoni Łaciak	68.5 / 64.5 / 71.5	222.5
3	Helmut Recknagel	65.5 / 67.0 / 71.5	219.8
4th	Hemmo Silvennoinen		218.9
5	Koba Zakadze		218.8
6th	Veit Kühr		217.8
...	...	...	...
10	Willy Egger	67.0 / 66.5 / 64.5	212.8
15th	Otto Leodolter		206.1

Date: February 21, 1962

The other placements and distances:
4th Silvennoinen 64.5 / 69.0 / 69.0
5th Zakadse 65.5 / 65.0 / 71.5
6th Kört 64.0 / 69.0 / 69.5
7. Gustaw Bujok (POL) 214.1 (64.5 / 67.5 / 71.0)
8. Nikolai Kamenski (URS) 213.9 (65.0 / 68.5 / 66.0)
9. Nikolai Shamow (URS ) 213.1 (65.5 / 66.0 / 69.5)
11th Kurt Schramm (GDR) 212.4 (65.5 / 67.5 / 69.5)
12th Eino Kirjonen (FIN) 209.4 (61.5 / 65.5 / 68.5)
13th Torgeir Brandtzæg (NOR) 206.7 (61.5 / 68.0 / 65.5)
14th Bruno De Zordo (ITA) 207.4 (61, 0 / 67.0 / 65.5)
15. Leodolter (63.0 / 64.5 / 65.5)
16. William Erickson (USA) 202.8 (63.0 / 66.0 / 67.5)
17 . Ueli Scheidegger (SUI) 201.8 (66.5 / 65.0 / 64.0)
19. Dino de Zordo 200.8 (64.5 / 62.0 / 66.5) ( ITA)
20. Rudolf Doubek (ČSR) 200.4 (64.5 / 64.5 / 59.0)
21. Takashi Matsui (JAP) 200.1 (62.5 / 62.5 / 66.5)
25. Ludvik Zajc (YUG) 198 , 9 (64.5 / 64.5 / 64.0)
28. Nilo Zandanel (ITA) 197.5 (63.5 / 62.5 / 57.5)
29. Willi Wirth (GDR) 195.3 (61 , 5 / 64.0 / 62.0)
30. Max Bolkart (FRG) 195.0 (58.0 / 67.0 / 71.0)
32. ex aequo Naoki Shimura (JAP) (65.0 / 65, 5 / 61.0) & Lars-Åke Bergseije (SWE) (61.0 / 64.5 / 64.5 ) 194.3
34. Veiko Kankkonen (FIN) 194.2 (67.0 / 67.0 / 67.0)
35. Piotr Wala (POL) 192.1 (68.5 / 64.5 / 70.5)
39. Giacomo Aimoni (ITA) 190.8 (60.0 / 62.0 / 65.0)
41. Kjell Sjöberg (SWE) 190.0 (59.5 / 62.5 / 62.0)
42. Claude Jean -Prost (FRA) 189.1 (63.0 / 59.0 / 62.5)
43. Helmut Kurz (FRG) 188.4 (61.0 / 62.0 / 62.5)
44. Heini Ihle (FRG ) 188.3 (58.5 / 66.5 (66.0)
45. Peter Müller (AUT) 186.2 (59.5 / 60.5 / 63.0)
51. Gérard Gravelle (CAN) 179.5 (56 , 0 / 60.5 / 56.0)
52. Endre Kiss (HUN) 179.3 (60.0 / 60.5 / 56.0)
54. Toni Cecchinato (SUI) 177.2 (60.5 / 59 , 5 / 63.0)
57. Gerd Niederhammer (AUT) 169.2 (55.0 / 58.5 / 57.0)
59. ex aequo Alois Haberstock (FRG) (61.0 / 62.0 / 56, 0) & John Balfanz (USA) (61.5 / 60.0 / 65.5) 164.5
62nd and last: László Gellér (HUN) 146.7 (51.5 / 53.0 / 53.5)

On the day of this special event, which should have taken place on February 18th and on the normal hill (the middle hill on which the combined event had already been held), there was a storm and (again) persistent snowfall. At the start at 12 noon, 8,000 to 10,000 visitors showed up.

Even the beginning with the No. 1, the German Haberstock, had been postponed by half an hour, because there was only a view of 200 meters. Immediately after the first six jumpers, due to the extremely difficult conditions, there was a break for an hour, although it could have been continued after half an hour. The competition was restarted at 1.40 p.m. At this point in time the blowing snow started again with all the violence, but the wind had subsided. In the end, the jumping was pulled through despite the precarious external conditions. Two men were sent over the hill every minute, for which the time constraint was also responsible, because up until now there had not been any training on the 100 m hill. The almost five-meter-long transition to the run-off zone was a source of danger, because the fresh snow there acted like a brake. Many jumpers fell forward, but the judges were not sure, even if they fell far in the run, whether they were to be assessed as "fallen", which was evident from the clearly different grades.

The success of Toralf Engan , little known in Central Europe, was expected by experts. He became a convincing winner and was in the lead after the first run. The athletes performed three jumps, of which the two best were rated. Of the other Scandinavians, only Silvennoinen was able to place in the top ten. Otherwise this title meeting had clearly shifted in favor of the other nations. The Swedish champion Kjell Sjöberg couldn't find his way around the short take-off table. Antoni Łaciak and Helmut Recknagel (he received the highest mark of 106.6 points for his 71 m) only secured their medals in the last jump, as the top field achieved enormous improvements in this third round (with an extended run-up). Many jumpers forced the distance at the expense of style, which was not taken so strictly by the judges. So Łaciak got off a little too well in the posture grades. The jumpers of the Federal Republic of Germany experienced a disappointment, because Max Bolkart failed the first flight completely. He crashed at 71 meters and finished 30th as the best of his team. Kankkonen suffered two falls from the Finns. The Austrians didn't get far either, especially for Leodolter, the Krokiew-Schanze was not at all - despite the nice aviation he stayed behind in terms of distance. After the first round, Egger was in 8th place, Leodolter in 15th place.

Large hill

space	athlete	Widths [m]	Points
1	Helmut Recknagel	97.5 / 103.0 / 98.5	241.4
2	Nikolai Kamensky	91.0 / 97.0 / 97.0	226.4
3	Niilo halons	97.5, / 94.0 / 93.5	224.5
4th	Toralf Engan	92.5, / 95.0 / 100.0	223.5
5	Peter Lesser	90.5 overturned / 95.0 / 100.0	223.3
6th	Antoni Łaciak	96.5 / 94.0 / 94.5	222.3
7th	Willy Egger	94.0 / 96.5 / 84.5 overturned	218.6
8th	Piotr Wala	94.5 / 94.0 / 94.5	217.8
9	Max Bolkart	91.0 / 96.5, / 91.5	216.0
10	Veikko Kankkonen	91.5, / 95.0 / 91.5	215.3
...	...	...	...
16	Otto Leodolter	92.0 / 91.5 / 89.5	211.2
17th	Peter Müller	89.5 / 94.5 / 90.5	209.8

Date: February 25, 1962

The other placements and distances (or additions):
5th Lesser 223.3 (90.5 fallen / 95.0 / 102.0)
7. Egger 218.6 (94.0 / 96.5 / 84.5 fallen )
11. Wolfgang Happle (FRG) 214.6 (94.0 / 94.0 / 97.5)
12. Veit Kühren (GDR) 214.4 (94.5 / 97.0 / did not start the 3rd jump)
13. Koba Zakadze (URS) 214.0 (93.0 / 92.0 / 90.5)
14. Nikolai Shamow (URS) 213.7 (90.0 / 93.5 / 89.0)
15. Kurt Schramm (FRG) 212.3 (90.5 / 94.5 / 94.5)
18. Shigeyuki Wakasa (JAP) 208.0 (90.5 / 89.5 / 84.5)
20. Miroslav Martinák (ČSR) 206 , 2 (89/92 / 80.5)
22. Ueli Scheidegger (SUI) 203.9 (94.5 / 90.0 / 90.5)
24. Lars-Åke Bergseije (SWE) 202.8 (90.0 / 91.5 / 85.5)
27. Dino De Zordo (ITA) 201.4 (87.5 / 91.5 / 90.5)
31. Nilo Zandanel (ITA) 197.6 (81.0 / 88, 0 / 91.5)
32. John Balfanz (USA) 196.9 (87.0 / 89.5 / 87.0)
33. Helmut Kurz (FRG) 196.8 (86.5 / 87.5 / 86, 0)
34. Torgeir Brandtzæg (NOR) 196.7 (87.5 / 91.0 / 85.0)
35. Miro Oman (YUG) 196.5 (78.5 / 89.5 / 90.5)
39. Bruno De Zordo (ITA) 194.3 (90.0 / 79.0 / 85.5)
41. Heini Ihle (FRG) 192.9 (88.5 / 89.0 / 90.5)
43. Giacomo Aimoni ( ITA) 190, 3 (85.5 / 86.5 / 89.5)
44. ex aequo Walter Habersatter (AUT) (83.0 / 85.5 / 86.5) & Kjell Sjöberg (SWE) (80.0 / 80.0 / 84.0) 189.3
49. Toni Cecchinato (SUI) 187.3 (85.5 / 84.0 / 80.0)
50. Frank Gartrell (CAN) 183.7 (82.5 / 91.0 / 87, 0)
51. Claude Jean-Prost (FRA) 181.3 (84.5 / 84.0 / 81.0)
57. Endre Kiss (HUN) 169.8 (83.0 / 79.0 / 77.5)
59th and last: László Csávás (HUN) 157.3 (73.0 / 75.0 / 76.0)

As on the normal hill, the two best of three jumps were included in the ranking. 100,000 spectators saw 63 jumpers from 18 countries and a superior Recknagel victory. There was a class difference between him and the rest of the field. Experts saw a reason in his training methods; u. a. he trained on plastic mats in the summer.

The training sessions finally started on February 23rd. Lesser and Schamow with 88 m each, Kühren and Bolkart with 87 m each and Engan and Recknagel with 86 m each achieved the greatest distances, on the second day Engan (95 m) and Recknagel (94 m) dominated, and Happle also jumped 94 m once . Egger and Leodolter came from the Austrians to 92 and 90 m respectively. But there had also been the opinion that the jumpers were being carried too high, and there had been two serious accidents. While the Canadian Gravelle broke three ribs, a young Polish ski jumper suffered a (non-fatal) broken neck. But already the first jumps in the first round showed that the jumpers were not in any danger, there were only a few falls. Even Heini Ihle, who had warped a little in the air, got up as if nothing had happened.

There had been a cold snap with night temperatures of −20 ° C. The northerners suffered another defeat, because they brought only two jumpers into the "top ten". Recknagel as third from bottom with No. 55 was able to push Halons (No. 33) just off the top. Łaciak, Wala, Egger, Zakadse and Happle were to be found in the other places. The Swiss Scheidegger started quite well with 10th place. The first two stayed ahead even after round two, but Halonen had not made a good jump, so that Kamenski led for a long time, who had caught up with a completed 97 m jump. Behind Egger were Łaciak, Wala, Bolkart (who had now caught himself, but was unable to bring about any further improvement), Zakadze and Schamow. The relatively many unsafe landings in this passage were also due to the deterioration in visibility (cloud cover). Recknagel, however, had set a new hill record with 103 m (previously Schamow with 100 m from 1960). The Thuringian went into the third series with a big lead, touching the 100 m mark. Because the critical point had been skipped considerably (around 14%), this third run had to be tackled with an approach that was four meters shorter. Two jumpers managed to reach the 100 m, u. between Peter Lesser on 102 m, and in the last of the 189 jumps it was the 70 m world champion Engan who reached the 100 m point, which brought him fourth place. Willy Egger had been traded as a “secret favorite”, but he did not find a well-rounded performance, when he landed in the last jump (85.5 m) he was dismissed from behind, so that he had to make do with 7th place. Bolkart caught himself in the second round, but was unable to bring about any further improvement. Leodolter was eighth after the first round (94 m), but he kept falling back. In contrast, Peter Müller's performance was surprisingly good. Habersatter, the senior of the ÖSV quartet, jumped safely, but his distances were not competitive.

There was still an embarrassment at the medal handover, because the judges had initially placed fifth-placed Peter Lesser on rank 3, whereupon he was also presented with the bronze medal. Only then did it emerge that Niilo Halonen deserved this rank, but in the meantime Lesser had already left with the GDR team; so Halonen had to be put off for the time being. This lapse, which upset the minds, did not fit into the picture, which had given the Polish organizers good marks for their extraordinary efforts to ensure that the event was carried out properly.

Nordic combined men

Detailed results

Individual (normal hill / 15 km)

space	athlete	Points
1	Arne Larsen	454.33
2	Dmitri Kochkin	448.77
3	Ole Henrik Fagerås	442.25
4th	Tormod Knutsen	424.65
5	Mikhail Prjahin	423.97
6th	Willi Köstinger	421.05
7th	Lars Dahlqvist	414.05
8th	Pekka Ristola	414.03
...	...	...
26th	Franz Scherübl
27	Leopold Kohl
31	Waldemar Heigenhauser

Date: February 19-20, 1962

From 11 a.m. on February 19, the competition started with the three-jump event (the worst was deleted), although it continued to snow - as it had done in the last five days. In addition, the wind only slackened a little temporarily, which is why there were frequent interruptions. Numerous falls and the average moderate performance were due to the action of the wind. Around a dozen of the 37 starters showed that despite the irregular wind, attempts around and beyond the critical point (65 m) were quite possible on the rather blunt track. The too short take-off table was criticized, so that a disproportionate number of competitors left the edge too late. Olympic champion Georg Thoma had bad luck , who - already fell on the first jump - suffered bruised ribs and a concussion and was admitted to the hospital after another fall in the second round (the jury had shortened because the critical point was skipped by more than 8%) had to become. The reasons for these falls were more of a psychological nature, because the Black Forest rider made no secret of the fact that he could not cope with this hill. The second participant in the German team, Sepp Schiffner, also fell in the first two jumps and had to be taken to the hospital. While the Thoma fall had far more harmless consequences and he was released almost immediately, Schiffner had to stay longer.

After this jump, the Japanese Tosuke Eto led with the grade 245.2 (69.0 / 63.0 / 60.5 m) ahead of Arne Larsen (242.0; 71.0 / 62.5 / 62.0) and Dmitri Kochkin (240.5; 66.0 / 63.5 / 64.5). Eto had recently relocated to Lahti , from which he had benefited greatly, and he was perfectly safe on all three jumps. The Swiss Kälin, on the other hand, only finished second from last, he had just avoided falls twice and only had a total of 138.3 points. It was noticeable to him that he lacked regular training on 80 m hills.

Further placed:
4th Rainer Dietel (GDR) (238.3; 73.0 / 63.5 / 61.0)
5th Wilhelm Köstinger (AUT) (230.0; 65.0 / 60.0 / 63.5 )
6. Tormod Knutsen (NOR) (224.9)
7. Pentti Tiitta (FIN) (224.3)
8. Renso Nigawara (JAP) (224.1)
9. Klaus Goldhahn (GDR) (209.2)
13 Edi Lengg (FRG) (199.0)
16. Enzo Perin (ITA) (193.7)
18. Waldemar Heigenhauser (AUT) (193.0)
22. Ole Henrik Fagerås (NOR) (187.2)
23. Lars Dahlqvist (SWE) (185.2)
24. Franz Scherübl (AUT) (185.1)
35. Alois Kälin (SUI) (138.3; 55.5 / 48.0 / 49.0)

Cross-country skiing: Immediately after the last runner of the 15-km special decision, the combined athletes started their 15-km cross-country skiing, which Thoma could no longer compete for. After six days of uninterrupted snowfall, the sun came through the thick cloud cover for the first time, and with little wind there were good external conditions. Alois Kälin recorded the fastest time. Köstinger was "only" 20th here in 1: 05: 25.6, which meant that he only lost one place and was surprisingly the best Central European.

Kälin ran 58: 18.7 ahead of Fagerås (59: 23.2), Dahlquvist (1: 01: 14.3) and the ČSR runner Stefan Oleksak (1: 01: 41.5). Other ranks: 5) Mario Bacher (ITA) 1: 01: 50.9; 6) Mikhail Priskschin (URS) 1: 02, 23.0; 7) Arne Larsen (NOR) 1: 03: 15.7; 8) Eduard Lengg (FRG) 1: 03: 16.4; 9) Enzo Perrin (ITA) 1: 03: 18.6; 10) Kochkin (URS) 1: 03: 39.5; 16) Rolf Schönherr (GDR) 1: 04: 46.3; 17) Axel Zehrlaut (FRG) 1: 04: 55.0

Medal table

Nations
final after 10 competitions

space	nation
01	Soviet Union	3	4th	3	10
02	Sweden	3	3	0	6th
03	Norway	2	1	2	5
04th	Finland	1	1	3	5
05	GDR	1	0	1	2
06th	Poland	0	1	0	1
07th	Italy	0	0	1	1

Men
final score after 7 competitions

space	athlete
01	Assar Rönnlund	2	1	0	3
02	Sixten Jernberg	2	0	0	2
03	Eero Mäntyranta	1	1	0	2
04th	Helmut Recknagel	1	0	1	2
05	Arne Larsen	1	0	0	1
	Toralf Engan	1	0	0	1
	Lars Olsson	1	0	0	1
	ture Grahn	1	0	0	1
09	Janne Stefansson	0	1	0	1
	Dmitri Kochkin	0	1	0	1
	Harald Grønningen	0	1	0	1
	Antoni Łaciak	0	1	0	1
	Nikolai Kamensky	0	1	0	1
	Väinö Huhtala	0	1	0	1
	Kalevi Laurila	0	1	0	1
	Pentti people	0	1	0	1
017th	Giulio Deflorian	0	0	1	1
	Einar Østby	0	0	1	1
	Ole Henrik Fagerås	0	0	1	1
	Kalevi Hämäläinen	0	0	1	1
	Niilo halons	0	0	1	1
	Ivan Utrobin	0	0	1	1
	Pavel Kolchin	0	0	1	1
	Alexei Kuznetsov	0	0	1	1
	Gennady Vaganov	0	0	1	1

Women
final after 3 competitions

space	sportswoman
01	Alevtina Kolchina	3	0	0	3
02	Maria Gussakowa	1	1	1	3
03	Lyubov Baranova	1	0	0	1
04th	Lyubov Kozyreva	0	1	0	1
	Barbro Martinsson	0	1	0	1
	Britt Strandberg	0	1	0	1
	Toini Gustafsson	0	1	0	1
08th	Radja Yeroshina	0	0	1	1
	Siiri Rantanen	0	0	1	1
	Eeva Ruoppa	0	0	1	1
	Mirja Lehtonen	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

• 24th Nordic World Ski Championships 1962 in Zakopane, Poland from ifosta.de, accessed on May 10, 2017
• The top three winners at the Olympic Winter Games & World Ski Championships , pages 34/35 on deutscherskiverband.de (PDF), accessed on May 10, 2017
• The hands on the trouser seam , Zeit Online, February 23, 1962 at zeit.de, accessed on May 10, 2017
• Skiing World Championship 1962 Zakopane (POL) on todor66.com, accessed March 14, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zakopane is still worried . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 15, 1962, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ The Chamonix winners are world champions . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 16, 1962, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ “Opening ceremony in the snowstorm in front of 50,000” in “Sport Zürich” No. 21 of February 19, 1962, page 7
4. ^ "The world elite of cross-country skiers and jumpers in Poland", "Sport Zurich", No. 20 of February 16, 1962, page 4.
5. ^ "A city is sinking in the snow" in "Sport Zürich" No. 22 of February 21, 1962, page 3, from column 3, below.
6. ^ "The Swiss" Nordic "blocked in Munich" in "Sport Zurich" No. 19 of February 14, 1962, page 3, column 2, below
7. ↑ Source: "People's newspaper Kärnten"
8. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men 15k on fis-ski.com
9. ↑ “Sweden's new 'ski king' Rönnlund 15 km world champion” in “Sport Zürich” No. 22 of February 21, 1962, page 1
10. ↑ “15 km without ski kings” in “Kurier Wien” of February 21, 1962, page 9
11. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men 30k on fis-ski.com
12. ↑ Last paragraph in the article "The special jump run postponed again" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 20, 1962, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
13. ↑ «G. Deflorian after 20 km only 6 seconds behind the future world champion Mäntyranta ”in“ Sport Zürich ”No. 21 from February 19, 1962, page 6
14. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men 50k on fis-ski.com
15. ^ A Swedish double success in the ski marathon . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 25, 1962, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
16. ^ "Sixten Jernberg won over 50 km clearly" in "Sport Zurich" No. 24 of February 26, 1962, pages 2 and 3
17. ↑ «Sweden's“ ski king ”Jernberg won the“ ski marathon ”” in “Kleine Zeitung Graz”, No. 46 of February 25, 1962, page 16
18. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men's Team on fis-ski.com
19. ^ "Sweden World Champion in the 4 × 10 km relay race" in "Sport Zurich" No. 23 of February 23, 1962, page 1
20. ^ "Zakopane: Sweden won cross-country skiing relay" in "Kleine Zeitung Graz" No. 44 from February 23, 1962, page 12
21. ↑ Sweden led from start to finish . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 23, 1962, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
22. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies 5k on fis-ski.com
23. ^ "Women's cross-country skiing - a matter of the north and east" in "Sport Zürich" No. 22 of February 21, 1962, page 3, column 3
24. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies 10k on fis-ski.com
25. ^ "Russian national championship over 10 km" in "Sport Zurich" No. 23 of February 23, 1962, page 2, column 4
26. ↑ «2. Title for Koltschina "in the" Kurier Wien "of February 22, 1962, page 9, columns 4 and 5, middle
27. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies Team on fis-ski.com
28. ^ "Zakopane: Gold for the USSR, silver for Sweden" in "Kleine Zeitung Graz" No. 45 of February 24, 1962, page 15
29. ^ "The women's relay race" in "Sport Zürich" No. 24 of February 26, 1962, page 3; from column 1, below
30. ↑ Russia won the women's relay . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 24, 1962, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
31. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men Ski Jumping Normal Hill on fis-ski.com
32. ^ "A Norwegian beats the world elite" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 22, 1962, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
33. ^ "Norwegian success through Engan at the small Bakken" in "Sport Zurich" No. 23 of February 23, 1962, page 2
34. ^ "Bradl:" Almost irregular conditions "" in the "Kurier Wien" of February 22, 1962, page 9
35. ^ "Norwegians won the 1st ski jumping in Zakopane" in "Kleine Zeitung Graz", No. 43 of February 22, 1962, page 13
36. ↑ A Norwegian beats the world's elite . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 22, 1962, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
37. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men Ski-Jumping Large Hill on fis-ski.com
38. ↑ Today jumping on the big hill . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 25, 1962, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
39. ↑ Over 100,000 in the 'big' jumping on the final day in Zakopane. In: Sport Zürich No. 24 of February 26, 1962, pages 1 and 2
40. ↑ Finally training the jumpers. In: Kleine Zeitung Graz No. 45 of February 24, 1962, page 15.
41. ↑ Engan and Recknagel dominated. In Kleine Zeitung Graz No. 46 of February 25, 1962, page 16, column 1.
42. ↑ No ski jumper has won so well . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 27, 1962, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
43. ^ "Recknagel superior world champion" in "Kurier Wien" of February 26, 1962, page 13, column 1.
44. ↑ FIS World Championships - Nordic Combined on fis-ski.com
45. ↑ »The special jump run postponed again« . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 20, 1962, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
46. ^ "Georg Thoma fell twice in combined jumping" in "Sport Zürich" No. 22 of February 21, 1962, page 3
47. ↑ “Kälin's Great Victory on the Track” in “Sport Zurich” No. 22 of February 21, 1962, page 2, column 1
48. ^ "Zakopane: Larsen (Norw.) Combination Winner" in "Kleine Zeitung Graz" No. 42 of February 21, 1962, page 14
49. ↑ «Zakopane: Austrians deliver the sensation. Köstinger as sixth best Central European »in« Kurier Wien »on February 21, 1962, page 9
50. ↑ Best Central European: Köstinger . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 21, 1962, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).