Olympic Winter Games 1964 / Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing with the IX. Winter Olympics
information
venue	Innsbruck / Seefeld in Tyrol
Competition venue	Bergiselschanze / Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze , Olympiaregion Seefeld
Nations	24
Athletes	231 (35 women and 196 men)
date	18.-28. February 1964
decisions	10
← Squaw Valley 1960 Grenoble 1968 →

With the IX. At the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , ten competitions were held in Nordic skiing . This was also the 25th Nordic World Ski Championships . In addition to Olympic medals, world championship medals were also awarded. The only exception was the Nordic Combined, in which there were only Olympic medals. The venues were the Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze in Seefeld in Tirol (including the ski stadium belonging to it) and the Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck.

For the first time two competitions in ski jumping were on the program, one as before on a smaller so-called normal hill and one on a large hill. Furthermore, the jumpers completed three jumps, of which the best two were included in the rating. For women, a third discipline was added: 5 km cross-country skiing.

The Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR started as an all-German team for the last time at the Olympic Winter Games . This team was the only one that could win a medal next to the Scandinavian countries and the Soviet Union with a third place. The dominance of the Northerners and the Soviet Union, already known from previous World Championships and the Olympic Winter Games, could also be found here in Innsbruck.

Balance sheet

GDR postage stamp for the winter games

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Finland	3	3	2	8th
2	Soviet Union	3	2	4th	9
3	Norway	2	3	2	7th
4th	Sweden	2	2	1	5
5	Germany	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Cross-country men

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
15 km	Eero Mäntyranta	Harald Grønningen	Sixten Jernberg
30 km	Eero Mäntyranta	Harald Grønningen	Igor Vorontschikhin
50 km	Sixten Jernberg	Assar Rönnlund	Arto Tiainen
4 × 10 km relay	Karl-Åke Asph , Sixten Jernberg , Assar Rönnlund , Janne Stefansson	Väinö Huhtala , Kalevi Laurila , Eero Mäntyranta , Arto Tiainen	Pavel Kolchin , Ivan Utrobin , Gennady Vaganov , Igor Vorontschichin

Cross-country women

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
5 km	Klavdiya Boyarskich	Mirja Lehtonen	Alevtina Kolchina
10 km	Klavdiya Boyarskich	Evdokiya Mekschilo	Maria Gussakova
3 × 5 km relay	Klavdija Boyarskich , Alewtina Kolchina , Evdokija Mekschilo	Toini Gustafsson , Barbro Martinsson , Britt Strandberg	Mirja Lehtonen , Toini Pöysti , Senja Pusula

Ski jumping

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Normal hill	Veikko Kankkonen	Toralf Engan	Torgeir Brandtzæg
Large hill	Toralf Engan	Veikko Kankkonen	Torgeir Brandtzæg

Nordic combination

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
singles	Tormod Knutsen	Nikolai Kisselev	Georg Thoma

preview

Sport Zürich looked at a preview in its January 29, 1964 issue. With regard to the cross-country skiing competitions, a strengthened Norwegian team was expected, whereupon the relay victory against Sweden and Finland in December 1963 suggested. There was a question mark over the performance of the Soviet participants who had disappointed two years ago at the World Championships in Zakopane . The cross-country ski trails in Seefeld not only required fitness, but also speed and soupiness. As a matter of fact, little is known about the shape of their aces Giulio Deflorian and Marcello de Dorigo , who had been in the north to prepare for the Italians , but ended up in bad places in the tests with Norway and Sweden. It is difficult to believe that the 1963 sensation will repeat itself. In any case, apart from the Scandinavians, Soviets and Italians, none of the others would stand a chance.

An open fight can be expected in the Nordic Combined, Olympic champion Georg Thoma showed unexpectedly great uncertainties on the hill this winter. The chances of the Swiss champion Alois Kälin have never been as good as this time. World champion Arne Larsen has improved a lot in jumping. It was also written to prepare for a sensation by Bjørn Wirkola . Toralf Engan , Veikko Kankkonen , Helmut Recknagel and Dieter Neuendorf , Antoni Łaciak and Józef Przybyła were given the best chances for the Seelos hill . There were a number of medal aspirants for the large hill: Kankkonen, Engan, Nilo Halonen , Torgeir Brandtzæg , Torbjørn Yggeseth , Max Bolkart , Recknagel and the many Soviet jumpers ( Alexander Iwannikow , Nikolai Schamow and Nikolai Kamenski ), plus the two daredevils Neuendorf and Przybył .

Cross-country men

15 km

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	FIN	Eero Mäntyranta	50: 54.1
2	NOR	Harald Grønningen	51: 34.8
3	SWE	Sixten Jernberg	51: 42.2
4th	FIN	Väinö Huhtala	51: 45.4
5	SWE	Janne Stefansson	51: 46.4
6th	URS	Pavel Kolchin	51: 52.0
7th	URS	Igor Vorontschikhin	51: 53.9
8th	NOR	Magnar Lundemo	51: 55.2
9	FIN	Kalevi Laurila	51: 59.8
10	ITA	Franco Nones	52: 18.0
22nd	EUA	Walter Demel	54: 37.0
24	EUA	Enno Roeder	54: 52.8
29	SUI	Hans Ammann	55: 44.9
31	SUI	Hans-Sigfrid Oberer	55: 47.9
32	SUI	Franz Kälin	55: 50.3
36	EUA	Helmut Weidlich	56: 04.6
40	SUI	Konrad Hischier	56: 42.3
44	EUA	Karl Buhl	57: 10.2
48	AUT	Hermann Lackner	58: 04.0
52	AUT	Hubert scrap	59: 01.7
53	AUT	Anton Kogler	59: 10.6
59	AUT	Günther Rieger	61: 07.3

Date: February 2, 1964, 9:30 a.m.
Difference in altitude: 192 m; Maximum ascent: 68 m; Total ascent: 492 m
71 participants from 21 countries, 69 of them in the rating.

30 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	FIN	Eero Mäntyranta	1: 30: 50.7
2	NOR	Harald Grønningen	1: 32: 02.3
3	URS	Igor Vorontschikhin	1: 32: 15.8
4th	SWE	Janne Stefansson	1: 32: 34.8
5	SWE	Sixten Jernberg	1: 32: 39.6
6th	FIN	Kalevi Laurila	1: 32: 41.4
7th	SWE	Assar Rönnlund	1: 32: 39.6
8th	NOR	Einar Østby	1: 32: 41.4
9	SWE	Torsten Samuelsson	1: 33: 07.8
10	EUA	Walter Demel	1: 33: 10.2
27	SUI	Konrad Hischier	1: 39; 43.6
28	SUI	Hans Ammann	1: 39: 55.7
29	EUA	Heinz Seidel	1: 40: 01.0
31	AUT	Andreas Janc	1: 40: 23.3
32	EUA	Rudolf Dannhauer	1: 40: 35.7
34	EUA	Alfons Dorner	1: 41: 09.5
36	AUT	Hansjörg color maker	1: 41: 37.1
39	SUI	Georges Dubois	1: 42: 26.8
43	SUI	Alphonse Baume	1: 42: 41.8

Date: January 30, 1964, 8:30 a.m.
Difference in altitude: 245 m; Maximum ascent: 72 m; Total ascent: 964 m
69 participants from 23 countries, 66 of them in the rating.

The course consisted of the 10 km women's route and then a 20 km loop. At the finish it was −13.5 ° C at the start of the race, the weather was completely clear, the snow was very hard and good. The start intervals were 30 seconds. Mäntyranta started last and had the entire field in front of him. His compatriot Laurila set the pace ahead of him (third after 10 km, second after 20 km), fulfilled this ungrateful tactical task and dropped back to 6th place. Grønningen, known as a slow starter, was initially seventh, then fourth and still overtook Vorontschichin, who had advanced from 5th to 3rd. Sixten Jernberg ran surprisingly strong despite a retinal disease, but the German master Walter Demel was to be regarded as a real sensation, who finished 10th as the best Central European with only about one and a half minutes behind. The South Korean Yong-Ok ran a kilometer further with a broken ski; He was offered a replacement ski by the race management, which he initially refused with a polite bow, but after much back and forth he accepted the offer.

50 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	SWE	Sixten Jernberg	2: 43: 52.6
2	SWE	Assar Rönnlund	2: 44: 58.2
3	FIN	Arto Tiainen	2: 45: 30.4
4th	SWE	Janne Stefansson	2: 45: 36.6
5	NOR	Sverre Stensheim	2: 45: 47.2
6th	NOR	Harald Grønningen	2: 47: 03.6
7th	NOR	Einar Østby	2: 47: 20.6
8th	NOR	Ole Ellefsæter	2: 47: 45.8
9	FIN	Eero Mäntyranta	2: 47: 47.1
10	SWE	Melcher Risberg	2: 48: 03.0
20th	SUI	Alois Kälin	2: 56: 30.5
21st	AUT	Andreas Janc	2: 58: 43.8
24	EUA	Siegfried Weiss	3: 00: 43.0
26th	SUI	Alphonse Baume	3: 03: 49.1
29	SUI	Franz Kälin	3: 06: 09.3
30th	EUA	Herbert Loewe	3: 06: 52.2
31	SUI	Georges Dubois	3: 07: 21.8
33	AUT	Hermann Mayr	3: 08: 48.6

Sixten Jernberg during the 50 km race

Date: February 4, 1964, 8:30 a.m.
Difference in altitude: 196 m; Maximum ascent: 98 m; Total ascent: 1597 m
41 participants from 15 countries, 30 of them in the rating.

Due to the low night temperatures, the route was very fast. The snow conditions were good, the snow was hard and grainy, there was powder snow in the shadows. Tiainen already had a great time with car number 1. The Finn Kalevi Hämäläinen , who started No. 35, led up to 37.5 kilometers , at last 20 seconds ahead of Jernberg, but the reigning world champions (No. 41) and Rönnlund (No. 18) relentlessly caught up; in the end, Hämäläinen was 16th. Jernberg celebrated the victory one day before his 35th birthday.

4 × 10 km relay

space	Country / athlete	time
1	Sweden Karl-Åke Asph Sixten Jernberg Janne Stefansson Assar Rönnlund	2: 18: 34.6 h 35: 14.2 min 35: 00.0 min 34: 16.8 min 34: 03.6 min
2	Finland Väinö Huhtala Arto Tiainen Kalevi Laurila Eero Mäntyranta	2:18: 42.4 h 34: 52.8 min 35: 37.6 min 34: 01.4 min 34: 10.6 min
3	Soviet Union Ivan Utrobin Gennady Vaganov Igor Vorontschichin Pavel Kolchin	2:18: 46.9 h 34: 58.7 min 34: 42.8 min 34: 18.0 min 34: 47.4 min
4th	Norway Magnar Lundemo Erling Steineide Einar Østby Harald Grønningen	2:19 : 11.9 h 35: 04.8 min 34: 48.3 min 34: 19.8 min 34: 59.0 min
5	Italy Giuseppe Steiner Marcello De Dorigo Giulio Deflorian Franco Nones	2:21: 16.8 h 35: 36.2 min 34: 28.2 min 35: 57.5 min 35: 14.9 min
6th	France Victor Arbez Felix Mathieu Roger Pires Paul Roland	2: 26: 31.4 h 36: 30.1 min 36: 08.9 min 35: 46.6 min 38: 05.8 min
7th	Germany Heinz Seidel Helmut Weidlich Enno Röder Walter Demel	2: 26: 34.4 h 38: 00.6 min 36: 49.4 min 36: 43.3 min 35: 01.1 min
8th	Poland Józef Gut-Misiaga Tadeusz Jankowski Edward Budny Józef Rysula	2: 27: 27.0 h 37: 46.4 min 37: 06.3 min 36: 25.6 min 36: 08.7 min
9	Switzerland Konrad Hischier Alois Kälin Franz Kälin Hans-Sigfrid Oberer	2: 31: 52.8 h 37: 32.7 min 37: 05.1 min 38: 18.3 min 38: 56.7 min
10	Japan Hidezo Takahashi Kazuo Sato Tatsuo Kitamura Chogoro Yahata	2:32: 05.5 h 38: 02.0 min 37: 18.4 min 37: 18.1 min 39: 27.0 min
11	Austria Günther Rieger Hansjörg color maker Anton Kogler Andreas Janc	2: 34: 48.9 h 39: 05.8 min 39: 11.0 min 38: 47.0 min 37: 45.1 min

Date: February 8, 1964, 9:00 a.m.
Difference in altitude: 140 m; Maximum ascent: 43 m; Total ascent: 354 m
15 relays at the start, all in the ranking.

Cross-country women

5 km

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	URS	Klavdiya Boyarskich	17: 50.2
2	FIN	Mirja Lehtonen	17: 52.9
3	URS	Alevtina Kolchina	18: 08.4
4th	URS	Evdokiya Mekschilo	18: 16.7
5	FIN	Toini Poysti	18: 25.3
6th	SWE	Toini Gustafsson	18: 25.7
7th	SWE	Barbro Martinsson	18: 26.4
8th	FIN	Eeva Ruoppa	18: 29.8
9	FIN	Senja Pusula	18: 45.7
10	URS	Rita Achkina	18: 51.1
12	EUA	Rita Czech-Blasel	19: 09.1
15th	EUA	Renate Dannhauer	19: 17.0
17th	EUA	Christine Nestler	19: 21.4
19th	EUA	Elfriede Uhlig	19: 52.3
20th	AUT	Heiderun Ludwig	20: 11.3

Date: February 4, 1964, 9:00 a.m.
Difference in altitude: 64 m; Maximum ascent: 39 m; Total ascent: 150 m
32 participants from 11 countries, all in the rating.

The favorites were the runners from the Soviet Union, but they could not take the top ranks en bloc. The predictions regarding Sweden and Finland as the biggest adversaries came true: Lehtonen was just behind Boyarskich at half distance, but the teacher from Siberia had enough reserves to keep the Finn at a distance in the finish.

10 km

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	URS	Klavdiya Boyarskich	40: 24.3
2	URS	Evdokiya Mekschilo	40: 26.6
3	URS	Maria Gussakova	40: 46.6
4th	SWE	Britt Strandberg	40: 54.0
5	FIN	Toini Poysti	41: 17.4
6th	FIN	Senja Pusula	41: 17.8
7th	URS	Alevtina Kolchina	41: 26.2
8th	SWE	Toini Gustafsson	41: 41.1
9	FIN	Eeva Ruoppa	41: 58.1
10	FIN	Mirja Lehtonen	42: 06.9
13	EUA	Christine Nestler	43: 38.2
14th	EUA	Renate Dannhauer	43: 52.7
15th	EUA	Rita Czech-Blasel	44: 07.8
16	EUA	Elfriede Uhlig	44: 08.8
25th	AUT	Heiderun Ludwig	47: 27.6

Date: February 1, 1964, 9:30 a.m.
Difference in altitude: 103 m; Maximum ascent: 37 m; Total ascent: 256 m
35 participants from 12 countries, all in the rating.

3 × 5 km

space	Country / athletes	time
1	Soviet Union Alewtina Kolchina Evdokija Mekschilo Klavdija Boyarskich	0:59:20.2 h 21:17.9 min 19:08.5 min 18:53.8 min
2	Sweden Barbro Martinsson Britt Strandberg Toini Gustafsson	1: 01: 27.0 h 21: 53.9 min 19: 51.3 min 19: 41.8 min
3	Finland Senja Pusula Toini Pöysti Mirja Lehtonen	1: 02: 45.1 h 23: 45.9 min 19: 39.8 min 19: 19.4 min
4th	Germany Christine Nestler Rita Czech-Blasel Renate Dannhauer	1: 04: 29.9 h 22: 34.1 min 21: 00.8 min 20: 55.0 min
5	Bulgaria Rosa Dimowa Nadeschda Wassilewa Krastana Stoewa	1:06:40.4 h 24:41.4 min 21:27.1 min 20:31.9 min
6th	Czechoslovakia Jarmila Škodová Eva Břízová Eva Paulusová	1:08:42.8 h 24:48.3 min 21:44.1 min 22:10.4 min
7th	Poland Teresa Trzebunia Czesława Stopka Stefania Biegun	1:08: 55.4 h 25: 53.4 min 22: 15.6 min 20: 46.4 min
8th	Hungary Eva Balázs Maria Tarnai Ferencne Hemrik	1:10: 16.3 h 24: 24.8 min 22: 59.4 min 22: 52.1 min

Date: February 7, 1964, 9:30 a.m.
Difference in altitude: 64 m; Maximum ascent: 39 m; Total ascent: 150 m
8 relays at the start, all in the ranking.

Although 15 cm of fresh snow had fallen overnight, the cross-country ski trail was quick and in good condition in the morning when the weather was nice. The Soviet Union, which had been defeated both by Finland in 1956 and by Sweden in 1960, was the logical favorite due to the previous individual competitions and took the lead after 500 m, which it did not give up and even extended to more than two minutes; every runner ran the best time on her section. A strange thing happened to the Finnish start runner Pusula, who ran such a weak time that she was distanced from her competitor Kolchina by two and a half minutes. She had become snow-blind in the blazing sun and stumbled through the second half of the route. But Pöysti was able to regain third place on the second leg. Hard battles for position took place behind the medal relay, with Bulgaria still able to move up to 5th place.

Ski jumping

Normal hill

space	country	athlete	Widths (m)	Points
1	FIN	Veikko Kankkonen	77.0 / 80.0 / 79.0	229.8
2	NOR	Toralf Engan	79.0 / 78.5 / 79.0	226.3
3	NOR	Torgeir Brandtzæg	73.0 / 79.0 / 78.0	222.9
4th	TCH	Josef Matouš	80.5 / 77.0 / 76.5	218.2
5	EUA	Dieter Neuendorf	78.5 / 77.0 / 75.0	214.7
6th	EUA	Helmut Recknagel	75.5 / 77.0 / 75.5	210.4
7th	SWE	Kurt Elimae	76.0 / 75.0 / 75.0	208.9
8th	NOR	Hans Olav Sørensen	76.0 / 73.5 / 74.5	208.6
9	EUA	Karl-Heinz Munk	77.0 / 75.0 / 74.0	207.0
10	United States	John Balfanz	74.0 / 74.5 / 74.5	206.5
11	AUT	Sepp Lichtenegger	74.5 / 75.0 / 75.0	205.4
13	AUT	Baldur Preiml	75.0 / 76.0 / 73.5	204.6
25th	SUI	Heribert Schmid	76.5 / 71.5 / 74.0	200.1
28	AUT	Otto Leodolter	72.0 / 74.0 / 72.0	196.8
37	EUA	Max Bolkart	69.5 / 72.5 / 70.0	191.5
44	AUT	Willi Egger	71.5 / 71.0 / 71.5	187.4
48	SUI	Ueli Scheidegger	72.0 / 68.5 / 64.0	176.4
51	SUI	Sepp Zehnder	69.0 / 66.0 / 83.6	171.7

Date: January 31, 1964, 1:00 p.m.
Site: Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze
53 participants from 15 countries, all in the ranking.

The competition, which was held in bitter cold with alternating sunshine and light snowfall, was extremely exciting, because the winner was not certain until the last jumper, Veikko Kankkonen. The Finn had failed his first jump and only came in 29th. Despite a shortened run-up, the hill record of 76.5 m held by Georg Thoma from the previous year was improved four times, with Josef Matouš ultimately setting the new record with 80.5 m and thus taking the lead. In the second run, the run-up was shortened again because the critical point had already been skipped more than the permitted 10%. The hill record almost fell again, because Kankkonen reached 80.0 m and moved up to 4th place. The new first was Engan ahead of Matouš and Neuendorf. The third round suffered a bit from the rising wind, which hit some jumpers more than others. Engan proved his consistency with 79.0 m and seemed to be the sure winner, but Kankkonen with the same distance and style outperformed him thanks to the 3.60 higher score in the second round. Brandtzæg also improved and achieved a distance that brought him the bronze medal. The Persian imperial couple was among the 30,000 spectators.

Large hill

space	country	athlete	Widths (m)	Points
1	NOR	Toralf Engan	93.5 / 90.5 / 73.0	230.7
2	FIN	Veikko Kankkonen	95.5 / 90.5 / 88.0	228.9
3	NOR	Torgeir Brandtzæg	92.0 / 90.0 / 87.0	227.2
4th	EUA	Dieter Bokeloh	92.0 / 83.0 / 83.5	214.6
5	SWE	Kjell Sjöberg	90.0 / 82.0 / 85.0	214.4
6th	URS	Alexander Ivannikov	90.0 / 81.5 / 83.5	213.3
7th	EUA	Helmut Recknagel	89.0 / 86.5 / 78.0	212.8
8th	EUA	Dieter Neuendorf	92.5 / 84.5 / 83.0	212.6
9	POLE	Józef Przybyła	92.0 / 87.5 / 74.5	211.3
10	TCH	Dalibor Motejlek	90.5 / 84.5 / 80.0	208.8
12	AUT	Willi Egger	86.5 / 87.0 / 80.5	206.0
17th	AUT	Otto Leodolter	87.0 / 85.0 / 73.5	204.0
18th	AUT	Baldur Preiml	84.5 / 87.0 / 78.0	203.2
21st	EUA	Karl-Heinz Munk	91.5 / 87.0 / 80.0	200.6
43	AUT	Sepp Lichtenegger	77.5 / 87.0 / 68.0	179.9
46	SUI	Heribert Schmid	78.0 / 78.5 / 64.0	175.0
48	SUI	Sepp Zehnder	80.0 / 73.0 / 68.0	172.3
51	SUI	Ueli Scheidegger	73.0 / 70.0 / 65.0	154.3

The medalists from left: Engan, Kankkonen, Brandtzæg

Date: February 9, 1964, 1:00 p.m.
Course: Bergiselschanze
52 participants from 15 countries, all in the ranking.

As before in Seefeld, the same athletes took the medal decision here. There was a somewhat questionable rating for silver medalist Kankkonen, in which the judges obviously disagreed as to whether his second jump was considered “fallen”. Kankonnen had been light with his hands in the snow. The Canadian Dokka therefore gave the 9, the judges 2, 4 and 5 gave 17, 18.5 and 18 - and the third, the Finn Koskivuori, found a compromise with the 15. In the first round, Kankonnen set the hill record of Poland's Józef Przybyła with 93.5 meters.

Nordic combination

space	country	sportswoman	Points jumping	Points running	points total
1	NOR	Tormod Knutsen	238.9	230.38	469.28
2	URS	Nikolai Kisselev	233.0	220.04	453.04
3	EUA	Georg Thoma	241.1	211.78	452.88
4th	URS	Nikolai Gusakov	223.4	225.96	449.36
5	NOR	Arne Larsen	198.3	232.33	430.63
6th	NOR	Arne Barhaugen	191.3	234.33	425.63
7th	URS	Vyacheslav Drjagin	216.2	206.55	422.75
8th	ITA	Ezio Damolin	198.1	221.44	419.54
9	EUA	Rainer Dietel	223.8	193.34	417.14
10	AUT	Willi Köstinger	225.5	188.18	413.68
12	SUI	Alois Kälin	159.9	253.33	413.23
16	EUA	Roland Weißpflog	232.4	169.30	401.70
17th	EUA	Horst Möhwald	189.2	206.98	396.18
19th	AUT	Waldemar Heigenhauser	210.4	168.32	378.72
28	AUT	Leopold Kohl	181.6	160.26	341.86
29	AUT	Franz Scherübl	169.6	169.00	338.60

Date: February 2, 2:05 p.m. (ski jumping) / February 3, 1:05 p.m. (cross-country skiing)
32 participants from 11 countries, 31 of them in the ranking.

The competitors were hampered by a strong easterly wind when jumping. The hill was in the shade, so the inrun was hard. On the other hand, the landing was already exposed to the sun and was soft. Georg Thoma took the lead right after the first round, he and Knutsen jumped the most evenly. Strong gusts of wind repeatedly caused interruptions. If a jumper was hit by a gust of wind, an "emergency landing" was inevitable. There were also a relatively large number of falls, but they were generally mild. Weißpflog delivered a surprise. Köstinger held up quite well, while Heigenhauser did not have his best day and fell from 7th to 11th. While running, Thoma should only have lost around 11 seconds on Knutsen and around 40 seconds on Kisseljow to repeat his Squaw Valley gold medal. But the Black Forest (like many other combiners) had waxed too smooth, came off the track several times and fell three times.

literature

• Cross-country skiing at the Olympic Winter Games: List of Olympic champions in cross-country skiing. Edited by the Bucher Group, General Books Verlag, 2010, 188 pages.

Web links

• Cross-country skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ski jumping at the Olympic Winter Games 1964 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Nordic combined at the Olympic Winter Games 1964 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the Olympic Winter Games 1964 (PDF; 21.1 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Hunter Mäntyranta won gold in the 30-km ski marathon". In: Kronen-Zeitung, January 31, 1964, p. 18.
2. ↑ "World Champion Maentyranta also Olympic Champion". In: Kleine Zeitung Graz, January 31, 1964, p. 11.
3. ^ "Jernberg: Most beautiful birthday present": In: Kleine Zeitung Graz, February 6, 1964, p. 14.
4. ^ «Among the compatriots'“ Heja ”: Jernberg won the ski marathon». In: Kronen-Zeitung, February 6, 1964, p. 19.
5. ↑ «Russian woman won 5 km cross-country skiing for women». In: Kleine Zeitung Graz, February 6, 1964, p. 16.
6. ^ "Women's relay: 1st USSR, 2nd Sweden". In: Kleine Zeitung Graz, February 8, 1964, p. 14.
7. ^ "USSR squadron under an hour". In: Kurier Wien, February 8, 1964, p. 9.
8. ↑ «First Russian victory in the women's relay race». In: Sport Zürich, February 8, 1964, p. 6.
9. ↑ «Kankkonen the sensation of the day». In: Kurier Wien, February 1, 1964.
10. ↑ «The last jump decided for Kankkonen». In: Kleine Zeitung Graz, February 1, 1964, p. 13.
11. ^ "A folk festival on the Isel mountain" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 11, 1964, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
12. ↑ «Thoma jumps last». In: Kurier Wien, February 1, 1964, p. 8.
13. ^ "Olympic champion Thoma dethroned". In: Kurier Wien, February 3, 1964, p. 10.
14. ↑ "This time Knutsen took Thoma revenge". In: Kleine Zeitung Graz, February 4, 1964, p. 16.