1968 Winter Olympics / speed skating

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Speed ​​skating at the
1968 Winter Olympics
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information
venue FranceFrance Grenoble
Competition venue Anneau de vitesse
Nations 19th
Athletes 129 (86 Mars symbol (male), 43 Venus symbol (female))
date 9-17 February 1968
decisions 8th
Innsbruck 1964

At the X Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble in 1968 , eight speed skating competitions took place. The venue was the Anneau de vitesse in Parc Paul-Mistral. The uncovered facility had a capacity of 2,500 spectators. The external conditions played a decisive role: The soot and dust emitted by the city's numerous industrial plants were deposited on the ice, so that those runners who were able to start shortly after the ice had been wiped off had an advantage.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space country gold silver bronze total
1 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 3 3 3 9
2 NorwayNorway Norway 1 3 - 4th
3 FinlandFinland Finland 1 1 - 2
Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 1 1 - 2
5 SwedenSweden Sweden 1 - 1 2
6th Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 1 - - 1
7th United StatesUnited States United States - 4th 1 5

Medalist

Men
competitor gold silver bronze
500 m Germany BRBR Germany Erhard Keller NorwayNorway Magne Thomassen Richard McDermott
United StatesUnited States
-
1500 m NetherlandsNetherlands Kees Verkerk NetherlandsNetherlands Ard Schenk Ivar Eriksen
NorwayNorway
-
5000 m NorwayNorway Fred Anton Maier NetherlandsNetherlands Kees Verkerk NetherlandsNetherlands Peter Nottet
10,000 m SwedenSweden Johnny Höglin NorwayNorway Fred Anton Maier SwedenSweden Örjan Sandler
Women
competitor gold silver bronze
500 m Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Lyudmila Titova United StatesUnited States Jennifer Fish Dianne Holum Mary Meyers
United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
-
1000 m NetherlandsNetherlands Carolina Geijssen Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Lyudmila Titova United StatesUnited States Dianne Holum
1500 m FinlandFinland Kaija Mustonen NetherlandsNetherlands Carolina Geijssen NetherlandsNetherlands Christina Kaiser
3000 m NetherlandsNetherlands Johanna Schut FinlandFinland Kaija Mustonen NetherlandsNetherlands Christina Kaiser

Results men

500 m

Olympic champion 1964 : Richard McDermott (USA).

space country athlete Time (s)
1 Germany BRBR Germany FRG Erhard Keller 40.3
2 NorwayNorway NOR Magne Thomassen 40.5
United StatesUnited States United States Richard McDermott
4th Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Yevgeny Grishin 40.6
5 NorwayNorway NOR Arne Herjuaune 40.7
United StatesUnited States United States Neil Blatchford
United StatesUnited States United States John Wurster
8th FinlandFinland FIN Seppo Hänninen 40.8
SwedenSweden SWE Håkan Holmgren
JapanJapan JPN Keiichi Suzuki
11 Germany BRBR Germany FRG Herbert Höfl 41.0
19th Germany BRBR Germany FRG Gerhard Zimmermann 41.5
26th AustriaAustria AUT Otmar Braunecker 42.1
31 Germany BRBR Germany FRG Günter Traub 42.5
43 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Ruedi Uster 43.6
44 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Hansruedi Widmer 43.7

Date: February 14, 10:00 a.m.
48 participants from 17 countries, 46 of them in the ranking.

The 23-year-old dentistry student Erhard Keller from Munich was the first German to win the Olympic 500 m speed skating. Keller held the world record with 39.2 s. His run was associated with serious difficulties, because in the pairing with Bob Boucher there were three false starts, then the Canadian was carried out to Keller's side before the lane change and threatened to fall. It turned out that on the deep and difficult track no fast times were possible at all. Only in the last heat ran McDermott, who pushed Grischin out of the medal ranks. The highly esteemed Japanese Keiichi Suzuki also had no chance. The Austrians had expected Otmar Braunecker to set a new national record. However, he stayed above the record of 41.9 s achieved here in Grenoble just a few days ago, although with his 41.2 he was faster than the Dutch class runner Kees Verkerk (33rd in 42.6).

1500 m

Olympic champion 1964 : Ants Antson (URS).

space country athlete Time (min)
1 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Kees Verkerk 2: 03.4 ( OR )
2 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Ard Schenk 2: 05.0
NorwayNorway NOR Ivar Eriksen
4th NorwayNorway NOR Magne Thomassen 2: 05.1
5 NorwayNorway NOR Bjørn Tveter 2: 05.2
SwedenSweden SWE Johnny Höglin
7th NorwayNorway NOR Svein-Erik Stiansen 2: 05.5
8th Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union UrS Eduard Matusewitsch 2: 06.1
9 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Peter Nottet 2: 06.3
10 SwedenSweden SWE Örjan Sandler 2: 07.0
15th Germany BRBR Germany FRG Günter Traub 2: 07.7
22nd Germany BRBR Germany FRG Jürgen Traub 2: 10.2
39 AustriaAustria AUT Otmar Braunecker 2: 14.4
40 AustriaAustria AUT Hermann Strutz 2: 14.8
44 AustriaAustria AUT Erich Korbel 2: 15.7
47 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Hansruedi Widmer 2: 16.1
48 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Franz Krienbühl 2: 16.3

Date: February 16, 9:00 a.m.
53 participants from 18 countries, all in the ranking.

There were unfavorable external conditions, but good ice cream. The competition was decided after just six pairs. Verkerk ran against the Austrian Hermann Strutz. There were still some strong runners at the start, some of whom had faster intermediate times, but were not able to cope with the last hundred meters Verkerk. World record holder Magne Thomassen (2: 02.5) missed the bronze medal by a tenth of a second. While the Dutchman clearly won (despite an injury handicap when he fell on his racing bike in the summer), the other runners up to 7th place were only separated by half a second.
The Austrians performed as expected, with Otmar Braunecker having to bear the handicap of being the last runner in the field to run alone, but he was still the best in his country, which was seen as a sensation, because Strutz had been the clear number one.

5000 m

Olympic champion 1964 : Knut Johannesen (NOR) (career ended).

space country athlete Time (min)
1 NorwayNorway NOR Fred Anton Maier 7: 22.4 ( WR )
2 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Kees Verkerk 7: 23.2
3 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Peter Nottet 7: 25.5
4th NorwayNorway NOR Per Guttormsen 7: 27.8
5 SwedenSweden SWE Johnny Höglin 7: 32.7
6th SwedenSweden SWE Örjan Sandler 7: 32.8
7th SwedenSweden SWE Jonny Nilsson 7: 32.9
8th NetherlandsNetherlands NED Jan Bols 7: 33.1
9 FinlandFinland FIN Kimmo Koskinen 7: 35.9
10 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Valery Lavrushkin 7: 37.9
13 Germany BRBR Germany FRG Günter Traub 7: 40.4
16 AustriaAustria AUT Hermann Strutz 7: 53.3
20th Germany BRBR Germany FRG Jürgen Traub 7: 55.3
34 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Franz Krienbühl 8: 08.9
35 SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI Ruedi Uster 8: 12.2
37 AustriaAustria AUT Erich Korbel 8: 20.8

Date: February 15, 9:00 a.m.
38 participants from 17 countries, all in the ranking.

Maier undercut his own world record over 5000 meters by 3.8 seconds. The other two medal winners also stayed below the old record. In addition, seven other participants beat the Olympic record set in 1964 by the Norwegian Knut Johannesen .
The race was initially scheduled for 2.30 p.m., but it was held in the morning and took place under favorable external conditions. For the time being, a new world record had already run in the order Verkerk and Nottet, Verkerk's time was almost unmatched. But Maier, whose marching table was set at about 7:20, had a lead of 3 seconds. In the end he could no longer keep the target, 500 m from the finish he was still 1.3 s ahead and he still managed to get 0.8 seconds to the finish. Of the two Austrians, Strutz only used this competition as sharp training for the 10,000 m run.

10,000 m

Olympic champion 1964 : Jonny Nilsson (SWE).

space country athlete Time (min)
1 SwedenSweden SWE Johnny Höglin 15: 23.6 ( OR )
2 NorwayNorway NOR Fred Anton Maier 15: 23.9
3 SwedenSweden SWE Örjan Sandler 15: 31.8
4th NorwayNorway NOR Per Guttormsen 15: 32.6
5 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Kees Verkerk 15: 33.9
6th SwedenSweden SWE Jonny Nilsson 15: 39.6
7th NorwayNorway NOR Magne Thomassen 15: 44.9
8th NetherlandsNetherlands NED Peter Nottet 15: 54.7
9 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Valery Lavrushkin 15: 54.8
10 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Stanislaw Seljanin 15: 56.4
11 Germany BRBR Germany FRG Günter Traub 16: 01.3
17th AustriaAustria AUT Hermann Strutz 16: 24.9
18th Germany BRBR Germany FRG Jürgen Traub 16: 33.8

Date: February 17th, 8:00 am
28 participants from 13 countries, all in the ranking.

Höglin's victory came as a surprise, he had never run under 16 minutes before. Maier's time had long been considered the best time. Höglin adjusted his marching table to the best time of Fred Anton Maier, put in laps with 35 seconds and after a great finish and with the last of his strength pushed himself to the finish, stayed 3.3 seconds. below the previous world record. After Höglin, Sandler and Guttorsem started - and it was still thought that Jonny Nilsson could overturn the classification as Olympic champion in 1964, but it was only enough for 6th place.
Hermann Strutz remained somewhat below expectations, because his training was entirely geared towards the long distance been.

Results women

500 m

Olympic champion 1964 : Lidija Skoblikowa (URS).

space country sportswoman Time (s)
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Lyudmila Titova 46.1
2 United StatesUnited States United States Mary Meyers 46.3
United StatesUnited States United States Dianne Holum
United StatesUnited States United States Jennifer Fish
5 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Elisabeth van den Brom 46.6
6th FinlandFinland FIN Kaija Mustonen 46.7
NorwayNorway NOR Sigrid Sundby
8th NorwayNorway NOR Kirsti Biermann 46.8
9 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Irina Yegorova 46.9
Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Tatiana Sidorova
12 Germany BRBR Germany FRG Evi Sappl 47.4
16 Germany Democratic Republic 1968GDR GDR Ruth Schleiermacher 47.8
21st Germany BRBR Germany FRG Hildegard Sellhuber 48.4

Date: February 9, 10:00 a.m.

28 runners from 11 countries took part.

The race was carried out in warm weather and soft ice.
The winner Titowa had only five days ago in Davos improved the world record by two tenths to 44.5 and clearly won the Olympic speed skating competition. Mary Meyers' best time lasted for a long time. Sidorova, one of the big favorites, did not have the necessary strength towards the end and ran for only 46.9 s. Halfway through the field, the ice was reprocessed, and immediately afterwards Titowa ran, who improved tremendously and took the lead in a rhythmic style. Dianne Holum, who came up against the Dutch Christina Kaiser (known as Stien Kaiser), ran slower towards the end, so it was "only" 46.3 s.

1000 m

Olympic champion 1964 : Lidija Skoblikowa (URS).

space country sportswoman Time (min)
1 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Carolina Geijssen 1: 32.6 ( OR )
2 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Lyudmila Titova 1: 32.9
3 United StatesUnited States United States Dianne Holum 1: 33.4
4th FinlandFinland FIN Kaija Mustonen 1: 33.6
5 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Irina Yegorova 1: 34.4
6th NorwayNorway NOR Sigrid Sundby 1: 34.5
7th United StatesUnited States United States Jeanne Ashworth 1: 34.7
8th FinlandFinland FIN Kaija-Liisa Keskivitikka 1: 34.8
9 NorwayNorway NOR Kirsti Biermann 1: 35.0
10 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Christina Kaiser 1: 35.2
12 Germany Democratic Republic 1968GDR GDR Ruth Schleiermacher 1: 35.6
16 Germany BRBR Germany FRG Hildegard Sellhuber 1: 37.2
17th Germany BRBR Germany FRG Evi Sappl 1: 37.4

Date: February 11th, 10:00 a.m.
29 participants from 12 countries, all rated.

Titowa, who won the 500m two days ago, seemed to have won her second gold. Geijssen was only at the start in one of the last heats and after 400 m was still behind the Soviet runner.

1500 m

Olympic champion 1964 : Lidija Skoblikowa (URS).

space country sportswoman Time (min)
1 FinlandFinland FIN Kaija Mustonen 2: 22.4 ( OR )
2 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Carolina Geijssen 2: 22.7
3 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Christina Kaiser 2: 24.5
4th NorwayNorway NOR Sigrid Sundby 2: 25.2
5 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Lāsma Kauniste 2: 25.4
6th FinlandFinland FIN Kaija-Liisa Keskivitikka 2: 25.8
7th Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Lyudmila Titova 2: 26.8
8th Germany Democratic Republic 1968GDR GDR Ruth Schleiermacher 2: 27.1
9 SwedenSweden SWE Christina Scherling 2: 27.5
Germany BRBR Germany FRG Hildegard Sellhuber
30th Germany BRBR Germany FRG Paula Dufter 2: 45.2

Date: February 10, 11 a.m.
30 participants from 12 countries, all in the ranking.

There was warm weather and good ice conditions.
Titowa started, her 2: 26.8 were not bad, but were only enough for rank 7. Skoblikova was no longer as dynamic as before, looked burned out, her 2: 27.6 only brought her eleventh place. Mustonen ran against Dianne Holum, but she couldn't keep up. In contrast, the Finn accelerated her pace and set a new Olympic record.

3000 m

Olympic champion 1964 : Lidija Skoblikowa (URS).

space country sportswoman Time (min)
1 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Johanna Schut 4: 56.2 ( OR )
2 FinlandFinland FIN Kaija Mustonen 5: 01.0 min
3 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Christina Kaiser 5: 01.3
4th FinlandFinland FIN Kaija-Liisa Keskivitikka 5: 03.9
5 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Wilhelmina Burgmeijer 5: 05.1
6th Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Lidija Skoblikova 5: 08.0
7th SwedenSweden SWE Christina Scherling 5: 09.8
8th Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Anna Alexandrovna Paulina 5: 12.5
9 NorwayNorway NOR Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl 5: 13.3
10 United StatesUnited States United States Jeanne Ashworth 5: 14.0
19th Germany BRBR Germany FRG Paula Dufter 5: 27.0

Date: February 12, 9:30 a.m.
26 participants from 12 countries, all in the ranking.

In unfavorable conditions - warm weather and rain - Schut ran a splendid race, glided calmly over the track and then started a wonderful sprint. She stayed below the ominous five-minute limit, but she couldn't reach the world record set by her compatriot Stien Kaiser (4: 54.6). (Please see footnote on the 1,000-meter run.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. «Cellar winner despite difficulties» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 15, 1968, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ "After silver, now gold for Cees Verkeerk" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 17, 1968, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ^ "Verkerk: Gold with an injured leg"; »Kronen-Zeitung Wien« from February 17, 1968
  4. ^ «Maier won with a world record» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 16, 1968, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ^ "Höglin surprisingly Olympic champion" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 18, 1968, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ^ "Kronen-Zeitung Wien" of February 18, 1968
  7. ^ "Titova in front of three American women" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 10, 1968, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  8. ^ "Twice gold for Dutch women" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 13, 1968, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  9. ^ «Mustonen won over 1500 meters» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 11, 1968, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).