Nordic World Ski Championships 1970

Nordic World Ski Championships 1970
	Men's	Ladies
winner
Cross-country skiing 5 km	---	Galina Kulakova
Cross-country skiing 10 km	---	Alevtina Oljunina
Cross-country skiing 15 km	Lars-Göran Åslund	---
Cross-country skiing 30 km	Vyacheslav Vedenin	---
Cross-country skiing 50 km	Kalevi Oikarainen	---
Cross-country relay	Soviet Union - 4 × 10 km	Soviet Union - 3 × 5 km
Ski jumping normal hill	Gari Napalkov	---
Ski jumping large hill	Gari Napalkov	---
Nordic combination	Ladislav Rygl
← Grenoble 1968 Sapporo 1972 →

The 28th Nordic World Ski Championships took place from February 14 to 22, 1970 in Štrbské Pleso in Czechoslovakia , for the second time since 1935.

The award to the then Vysoké Tatry took place at the 26th FIS Congress in May 1967 in Beirut . According to the official bulletin Vysoké Tatry received 41 votes, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 21, Banff 9 and Falun one vote (although the Swedes withdrew their application before the vote and postponed it to 1974).

On Saturday, February 14th, the Swiss FIS President Marc Hodler opened the World Championships in front of around 50,000 spectators. He gave his speech in six languages, most recently even in Slovak, which earned him minutes of applause. The President of the Czechoslovak Republic, Ludvík Svoboda, took part in the ceremony. When the teams marched in, Walter Demel carried the West German flag.

In the medal table, the Soviet Union was far ahead of all other nations. This was mainly due to the dominance of the Soviet women in cross-country skiing disciplines, who had been superior in recent years. Particularly outstanding was the double victory of the Soviet ski jumper Gari Napalkow , who repeated what Bjørn Wirkola had achieved as the first jumper ever at the 1966 World Cup . Otherwise, the medals table again showed a few nations beyond the Scandinavians and Soviet athletes. The Norwegians were very disappointing, they had to be content with one silver and two bronze medals.

Cross-country men

• Detailed results

15 km

space	athlete	Time [min]
1	Lars-Göran Åslund	47: 04.71
2	Odd Martinsen	47: 38.19
3	Fyodor Simashov	47: 49.00
4th	Gert-Dietmar Klause	47: 50.36
5	Pål Tyldum	48: 01.67
6th	Valery Tarakanov	48: 11.75
7th	Walter Demel	48: 14.64
8th	Jan Halvarsson	48: 14.91
9	Harald Grønningen	48: 21.31
10	Gerhard Grimmer	48: 21.31
...
19th	Axel Lesser	48: 55.08
21st	Albert Giger	49: 02.11
33	Gerd Hessler	50: 34.52
34	Heinrich Wallner	50: 38.06
40	Gerhard Gehring	51: 02.45
44	Edgar Eckert	51: 19.53
48	Ernst Pühringer	51: 59.59
52	Sepp Horntrich	52: 47.71
66	Werner Vogel	54: 12.66

World champion 1966 : Gjermund Eggen / Olympic champion 1968 : Harald Grønningen  

Date : February 17, 1970

The winner Lars-Göran Åslund completed the route at an average speed of 19.14 km / h. He had to cope with a route, the profile of which had a height difference of 117 meters, a maximum gradient of 32 meters and a general gradient of 553 meters.

30 km

space	athlete	Time [h]
1	Vyacheslav Vedenin	1: 39: 48.01
2	Gerhard Grimmer	1: 40: 25.58
3	Odd Martinsen	1: 41: 04.42
4th	Pål Tyldum	1: 41: 11.10
5	Gert-Dietmar Klause	1: 41: 32.99
6th	Lars-Göran Åslund	1: 41: 46.98
7th	Magne Myrmo	1: 42: 11.83
8th	Jan Halvarsson	1: 42: 14-16
9	Ingvar Sandström	1: 42: 21.87
10	Fyodor Simashov	1: 42: 37.82
...
16	Axel Lesser	1: 44: 12.26
19th	Walter Demel	1: 45: 47.33
20th	Gerd Hessler	1: 45: 47.38
28	Andreas Janc	1: 47: 05.41
32	Ludwig Reiser	1: 47: 35.32
39	Heinrich Wallner	1: 49: 22.60
42	Hartmut Döpp	1: 50: 05.23
46	Ernst Pühringer	1: 51: 31.36
49	Hansjörg color maker	1: 52: 28.96

1966 World Champion : Eero Mäntyranta / 1968 Olympic Champion : Franco Nones  

Date : February 15, 1970

50 km

space	athlete	Time [h]
1	Kalevi Oikarainen	2: 49: 34.70
2	Vyacheslav Vedenin	2: 50: 04.82
3	Gerhard Grimmer	2: 50: 12.88
4th	Fyodor Simashov	2: 51: 52.44
5	Lars-Göran Åslund	2: 52: 13.66
6th	Walter Demel	2: 53: 00.62
7th	Jan Halvarsson	2: 53: 36.79
8th	Hannu Taipale	2: 53: 39.46
9	Alois Kälin	2: 53: 43.10
10	Karel Sacky	2: 54: 34.99
...
26th	Gerhard Gehring	3: 01: 36.31
28	Axel Lesser	3: 02: 12.81
34	Andreas Janc	3: 06: 46.01
44	Hartmut Döpp	3: 13: 40.51
45	Max Ruppaner	3: 13: 58.83
47	Josef Hauser	3: 15: 43.67
48	Hansjörg color maker	3: 16: 43.71

World champion 1966 : Gjermund Eggen / Olympic champion 1968 : Ole Ellefsæter  

Date : February 22, 1970

Gert-Dietmar Klause did not finish the race due to a cold.

4 × 10 km relay

space	country	athlete	Time [h]
1	Soviet Union	Vladimir Voronkov Valery Tarakanov Fyodor Simashov Vyacheslav Vedenin	2: 06: 36.47
2	GDR	Gerd Heßler Axel Lesser Gerhard Grimmer Gert-Dietmar Klause	2: 06: 50.59
3	Sweden	Ove Lestander Jan Halvarsson Ingvar Sandström Lars-Göran Åslund	2: 06: 56.80
4th	Norway	Odd Martinsen Harald Grønningen Pål Tyldum Erling Steineide	2: 08: 16.07
5	Switzerland	Werner Geeser Albert Giger Alois Kälin Edi Hauser	2: 09: 58.59
6th	Italy	Franco Nones Roberto Primus Gianfranco Stella Ulrich Kostner	2: 10: 10.70
...	...	...	...
9	BR Germany	Gerhard Gehring Ludwig Reiser Edgar Eckert Walter Demel	2: 11: 58.50
13	Austria	Heinrich Wallner Hansjörg color maker Ernst Pühringer Andreas Janc	2: 16: 35.19

World Champion 1966 : Norway ( Odd Martinsen , Harald Grønningen , Ole Ellefsæter , Gjermund Eggen ) Olympic Champion 1968 : Norway ( Odd Martinsen , Pål Tyldum , Harald Grønningen , Ole Ellefsæter )  
 

Date : February 19, 1970

At the first handover, Norway was one second ahead of the Soviet Union, after 20 km the Soviet Union was already in the lead (ahead of Sweden, Norway and the GDR). In the third section there was a sensational advance by Grimmer, who was the first to hand over to Klause. Wedenin was only able to overtake Klause in the final phase.
For the Austrian relay, starting runner Wallner was in 9th place at the first change, Farbmacher and Pühringer fell back to 13th place, last runner Janc was able to move up one place, although he was hindered by undisciplined spectators.
There were 15 seasons at the start.

Cross-country women

• Detailed results

5 km

space	sportswoman	Time [min]
1	Galina Kulakova	18: 07.89
2	Galina Pilushenko	18: 27.91
3	Nina Feodorova	18: 28.51
4th	Marjatta Kajosmaa	18: 34.37
5	Michaela Endler	18: 43.00
6th	Senja Pusula	18: 52.46
7th	Renate Fischer	18: 54.28
8th	Helena Takalo	18: 59.66
9	Berit Mørdre Lammedal	19: 02.01
10	Inger Aufles	19: 04.61
11	Anna Unger	19: 12.98
...
15th	Gabriele Haupt	19: 21.22
20th	Monika Mrklas	19: 35.40
24	Karin Scheidel	19: 40.08
31	Ingrid Rothfuss	20: 07.75

World champion 1966 : Alewtina Koltschina / Olympic champion 1968 : Toini Gustafsson  

Date : February 16, 1970

50 athletes took part in the race.

10 km

space	sportswoman	Time [min]
1	Alevtina Oljunina	36: 19.00
2	Marjatta Kajosmaa	36: 40.05
3	Galina Kulakova	37: 06.04
4th	Helena Šikolová	37: 12.32
5	Renate Fischer	37: 12.99
6th	Galina Pilushenko	37: 16.37
7th	Helena Takalo	37: 17.56
8th	Ingrid Mägar	37: 23.73
9	Marjatta Muttilainen	37: 25.29
10	Senja Pusula	37: 39.16
11	Michaela Endler	37: 39.39
...
19th	Gabriele Haupt	38: 22.37
20th	Monika Mrklas	38: 29.86
21st	Anna Unger	38: 31.23
25th	Karin Scheidel	38: 56.63
35	Ingrid Rothfuss	40: 44.89

World champion 1966 : Klawdija Bojarskich / Olympic champion 1968 : Toini Gustafsson  

Date : February 18, 1970

3 × 5 km relay

space	country	Sportswomen	Time [min]
1	Soviet Union	Nina Feodorova Galina Kulakova Alewtina Oljunina	54: 32.18
2	GDR	Gabriele Haupt Renate Fischer Anna Unger	55: 09.65
3	Finland	Senja Pusula Helena Takalo Marjatta Kajosmaa	55: 33.76
4th	Norway	Inger Aufles Aslaug Dahl Berit Mørdre Lammedal	56: 28.87
5	Czechoslovakia	Milena Cillerová Helena Šikolová Milena Chlumová	56: 45.95
6th	BR Germany	Monika Mrklas Ingrid Rothfuss Michaela Endler	57: 16.02

World champions 1966 : Soviet Union ( Klawdija Bojarskich , Rita Atschkina , Alewtina Koltschina ) Olympic champions 1968 : Norway ( Inger Aufles , Babben Enger , Berit Mørdre )  
 

Date : February 20, 1970

Finland had taken the lead for the time being, but the second Finn was too weak. Sweden came in 7th, there was no sign of their former strength.

Ski jumping men

• Detailed results

Normal hill K90

space	athlete	Widths [m]	Points
01	Gari Napalkov	78.5 / 84.0	240.6
02	Yukio Kasaya	81.5 / 79.0	237.7
03	Lars Grini	81.0 / 81.5	234.6
04th	Rudolf Höhnl	81.5 / 79.0	233.4
05	Karl-Erik Johansson	81.0 / 79.0	232.4
06th	Vladimir Belousov	81.5 / 73.5	231.8
07th	Seiji Aochi	81.0 / 79.0	231.6
08th	Jiří Raška	78.5 / 78.5	230.9
09	Ingolf Mork	82.0 / 76.5	230.2
10	Sepp Zehnder	79.5 / 80.0	229.8
...
16	Hans Schmid	80.0 / 77.0	218.3
17th	Ernst Kroell	80.5 / 75.0	216.4
18th	Jürgen Dommerich	78.5 / 75.0	216.2
20th	Rainer Schmidt	77.0 / 76.0	214.9
27	Heini Ihle	80.5 / 76.0	212.5
28	Walter Steiner	78.0 / 75.0	212.4
29	Sepp Lichtenegger	75.5 / 77.0	211.5
30th	Horst Queck	80.5 / 81.0	211.0
31	Bernd Willomitzer	74.5 / 78.0	210.6
37	Reinhold Bachler	77.5 / 74.0	209.0
42	Günther Göllner	75.0 / 75.0	202.6
45	Max Golser	73.0 / 72.0	200.3
49	Richard Pfiffner	72.5 / 73.5	194.7
50	Sepp Schwinghammer	72.0 / 75.5	194.1
54	Alfred Grosche	77.0 / 71.0	192.4

World champion 1966 : Bjørn Wirkola / Olympic champion 1968 : Jiří Raška  

Date : February 14, 1970

The jumping was carried out on the MS 1970 B. The decision was attended by over 50,000 spectators.

Defending champion Wirkola only came in 13th.

Large hill K120

space	athlete	Widths [m]	Points
1	Gari Napalkov	91.0 / 109.5	226.0
2	Jiří Raška	91.0 / 99.0	212.3
3	Stanisław Gąsienica Daniel	92.0 / 100.5	211.8
4th	Ernst Kroell	95.0 / 99.5	209.6
5	Tauno Käyhkö	93.5 / 101.0	209.6
6th	Takashi Fujisawa	89.5 / 99.0	207.7
7th	Jo Inge Bjørnebye	91.0 / 100.0	209.6
8th	Karel Kodejška	93.0 / 95.0	207.7
9	Reinhold Bachler	93.5 / 98.0	205.1
10	Hans Schmid	93.0 / 102.0	203.3
...
14th	Sepp Zehnder	90.5 / 99.0	203.1
17th	Horst Queck	91.0 / 97.0	201.0
19th	Jürgen Dommerich	91.0 / 10.0	200.2
23	Walter Steiner	88.0 / 99.5	199.3
24	Heinz Schmidt	82.5 / 104.0	198.9
28	Rainer Schmidt	84.0 / 98.5	191.8
29	Heini Ihle	85.5 / 99.0	190.1
36	Max Golser	87.0 / 93.5	184.0
40	Sepp Lichtenegger	93.0 / 91.0	177.3
46	Richard Pfiffner	81.0 / 93.5	168.1
50	Günther Göllner	86.0 / 82.0	160.5
56	Alfred Grosche	72.0 / 93.5	149.5
64	Sepp Schwinghammer	68.5 / 81.0	115.6

World champion 1966 : Bjørn Wirkola / Olympic champion 1968 : Vladimir Belousov  

Date : February 21, 1970

The jumping was carried out on the MS 1970 A.

Napalkow was only 13th with 91 m, after that he risked everything and set a new hill record with 109.5 m (previously Raška with 107.5 m). After the trial run, the URS trainer and also Ewald Roscher, the trainer of Switzerland, managed to shorten the approach due to the large distances, but the wind that was responsible for it suddenly subsided.

Nordic combined men

Detailed results

Individual (normal hill / 15 km)

space	athlete	Points
1	Ladislav Rygl	410.50
2	Nikolai Nogovitsyn	407.36
3	Vyacheslav Drjagin	407.02
4th	Rauno Miettinen	402.40
5	Ezio Damolin	400.44
6th	Karl-Heinz Luck	393.68
7th	Yuri Kozulin	389.40
8th	Yūji Katsuro	386.12
9	Libor Foltman	383.20
10	Erkki Kilpinen	378.76
11	Franz Keller	378.16
...
15th	Lothar Düring	354.94
21st	Günther Deckert	344.64
24	Günther Naumann	336.46
26th	Edi Lengg	333.32
28	Ulli Öhlböck	322.54
33	Walter Sailer	301.82
34	Hans Hartleb	297.40
37	Siegfried Empl	271.02

World champion 1966 : Georg Thoma / Olympic champion 1968 : Franz Keller  

Date : February 15 and 16, 1970

The victory of the 23-year-old student Ladislav Rygl was seen as a big surprise. Franz Keller , fifth after the jump, suffered from severe breathing difficulties in cross-country skiing and ended up only in eleventh place.
After the jump, Kozulin (USSR) led Katsuro and Nogowizyn; of the Austrians, Sailer was on rank 35, Öhlböck on 37 and Empl on 41; Rygl won cross-country skiing in 50: 29.75 ahead of Nogowizyn in 51: 10.18 and Miettinen in 51: 17.78; the Austrians: 15th place Öhlböck (53: 19.55); 27. Sailer, 35th Empl

Medal table

Nations
final after 10 competitions

space	nation
01	Soviet Union	7th	3	4th	14th
02	Finland	1	1	1	3
03	Czechoslovakia	1	1	0	2
04th	Sweden	1	0	1	2
05	GDR	0	3	1	4th
06th	Norway	0	1	2	3
07th	Japan	0	1	0	1
08th	Poland	0	0	1	1

Men
final score after 7 competitions

space	athlete
01	Vyacheslav Vedenin	2	1	0	3
02	Gari Napalkov	2	0	0	2
03	Lars-Göran Åslund	1	0	1	2
	Fyodor Simashov	1	0	1	2
05	Ladislav Rygl	1	0	0	1
	Kalevi Oikarainen	1	0	0	1
	Valery Tarakanov	1	0	0	1
	Vladimir Voronkov	1	0	0	1
09	Gerhard Grimmer	0	2	1	3
010	Odd Martinsen	0	1	1	2
011	Yukio Kasaya	0	1	0	1
	Nikolai Nogovitsyn	0	1	0	1
	Jiří Raška	0	1	0	1
	Gerd Hessler	0	1	0	1
	Axel Lesser	0	1	0	1
	Gert-Dietmar Klause	0	1	0	1
017th	Lars Grini	0	0	1	1
	Vyacheslav Drjagin	0	0	1	1
	Daniel-Stanislaw Gasienica	0	0	1	1
	Ove Lestander	0	0	1	1
	Jan Halvarsson	0	0	1	1
	Ingvar Sandström	0	0	1	1

Women
final after 3 competitions

space	sportswoman
01	Galina Kulakova	2	0	1	3
02	Alevtina Oljunina	2	0	0	2
03	Nina Feodorova	1	0	1	2
04th	Marjatta Kajosmaa	0	1	1	2
05	Galina Pilushenko	0	1	0	1
	Gabriele Haupt	0	1	0	1
	Renate Fischer	0	1	0	1
	Anna Unger	0	1	0	1
09	Senja Pusula	0	0	1	1
	Helena Takalo	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 1970  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 28th Nordic World Ski Championships 1970 in Vysoké Tatry, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on May 12, 2017
• The top three winners at the Olympic Winter Games & World Ski Championships , pages 38/39 on deutscherskiverband.de (PDF), accessed on May 12, 2017
• 1970 Nordic World Ski Championships fromhaltenraum.com, accessed on May 12, 2017
• Vyacheslav Vedenin Men's 50km at World Championship Nordic Ski 1970 Vysoke Tatry , video about 50 km cross-country skiing at the 1970 World Cup in Štrbské Pleso, published on September 26, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on May 12, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Kitzbühel without World Cup" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 21, 1967, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ “Beirut in the focus of the ski world” in “ski - Official Organ of the German Ski Association” (Unionverlag Stuttgart), Volume 20, Issue No. 1 of October 4, 1967, page 35
3. ^ "Ski boss opened in Slovak". In »Sunday VIEW« of February 15, 1970, page 8; POS .: Column 1
4. ↑ ^{a b} Napalkow World Champion on the normal hill , in: Passauer Neue Presse from Monday, February 16, 1970.
5. ↑ Austrians without a chance - result box . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 18, 1970, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ↑ Swede Aslund world ski champion km 15 , in: PNP from Wednesday, February 18 1970th
7. ^ First medal for Sweden , in: Neues Deutschland from Wednesday, February 18, 1970, page 5.
8. ↑ Men's 30 km cross-country skiing - result box . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1970, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
9. ↑ Vedenin rolled up the field from behind , in: PNP of Monday, February 16, 1970.
10. ↑ Klaus Ullrich, Horst Schiefelbein: Great Grimmer Vice World Champion , in: ND from Monday, February 16, 1970, page 7.
11. ↑ Men's 50 km cross-country skiing - result box . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 24, 1970, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
12. ^ Walter Demel sixth in the ski marathon , in: PNP from Monday, February 23, 1970.
13. ↑ Grimmer confirmed his world class , in: Berliner Zeitung of Monday, February 23, 1970.
14. ↑ Relay victory for the Soviet Union - result box . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 20, 1970, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
15. ↑ ^{a b} USSR in the ski relay before the GDR , in: PNP from Friday, February 20, 1970.
16. ^ "This time Kröll best Austrian" - second line: "... relay victory for the Soviet Union" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 20, 1970, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
17. ↑ Women's 5 km cross-country skiing - result box . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1970, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
18. ^ ^{A b} Klaus Ullrich, Horst Schiefelbein: Drei Sovietische Frauen und Ladislav Rygl , in: ND from Tuesday, February 17, 1970, page 5.
19. ^ Third world championship title for the USSR , in: PNP of Tuesday, February 17, 1970.
20. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies 10k on fis-ski.com
21. ^ Fourth gold medal for the Soviet Union , in: PNP of Thursday, February 19, 1970.
22. ↑ Soviet cross-country skiing success again: Alewtina Oljunina , in: ND from Thursday, February 19, 1970, page 5.
23. ↑ FIS World Championships - Ladies Team on fis-ski.com
24. ^ «Raska twice at 102 meters» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 21, 1970, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
25. ↑ Stars Raska and Wirkola disappointed - result box . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 15, 1970, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
26. ↑ Result of normal hill in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl, accessed on January 29, 2020 (Polish).
27. ↑ "'King of the Skies' is called Napalkow". In »Sunday VIEW« of February 15, 1970, page 8
28. ↑ Kröll just missed a medal - result box . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 22, 1970, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
29. ↑ Result of the large hill in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl, accessed on January 29, 2020 (Polish).
30. ↑ "Iron Gari risked everything" and "Shortened run-up was bad for the Swiss". In »Sunday VIEW« of February 22, 1970, page 9
31. ↑ Rygl stopped the Russian winning streak - result box . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1970, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
32. ↑ Rygl (CSSR) successor to German , in: PNP of Tuesday, February 17, 1970.