Germany at the 1960 Winter Olympics

The all-German team consisting of sportsmen and women from the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic in the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 in Squaw Valley with a delegation of 74 athletes (56 men and 18 women ) participated and won second place in the medals table. The ski jumper Helmut Recknagel was selected as flag bearer for the opening ceremony. To the starting places in the all-German team found qualification fighting took place between the East and West German athletes. These were usually highly competitive. Ultimately participated 31 athletes from 10 GDR clubs and athletes from 43 clubs in the FRG.

Participants by sport

Biathlon

In the Olympic debut of the Biathlon poor shooting results prevented better rankings of German athletes who all came from Oberhof. The launching also in the long run Cuno Werner came to 20 km at number nine, with eight shooting error prevented an even better result. Herbert Kirchner got the number 1 to be solved and thus was the first ever Olympic biathlete takeoff.

Gentlemen:

  • Cuno Werner (ASK forward Oberhof ) Single (20 km): 9th place
  • Herbert Kirchner ( ASK forward Oberhof ) Single (20 km): 13th Place
  • Horst Nickel ( ASK forward Oberhof ) Single (20 km): 17th Place
  • Kurt Hinze (ASK forward Oberhof ) Single (20 km): 20th Place

Hockey

In the pre-Olympic qualification within Germany in December 1959, the FRG representative was able to prevail. In the first leg in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, West German players won 5-2. In the return match in the hockey hotbed white water the GDR representative went in the 2nd period with a 3-2 lead at first, but lost at the end with 3:5 This represented the FRG - choice Germany in Squaw Valley. The team qualified for the final round and finished second in the final bill under nine participating teams in sixth place.

  • Paul Ambros (EV Füssen)
  • George Eberl ( EC Bad Tolz )
  • Michael Hobelsberger (SC Riessersee )
  • Markus Egen (EV Füssen)
  • Ernst Eggerbauer (EV Füssen)
  • Sepp Reif
  • Otto Snow Berger
  • Hans Rampf ( EC Bad Tolz )
  • Siegfried Schubert ( EV Füssen)
  • Hans Huber (SC Riessersee )
  • Ernst Trautwein (EV Füssen)
  • Leonhard Waitl
  • Horst Franz Schuldes (SC Riessersee )
  • Kurt Sepp
  • Ulli Jansen ( Krefeld )
  • Ernst maid of wine (EV Füssen)
  • Xaver nonsense (EV Füssen)

Figure skating

The reigning European champions Kilius / Baeumler have won silver in pairs figure skating. The Olympic champion of 1964, Manfred Schnelldorfer, came with his Olympic debut at the men at number eight. In the domestic elimination fights failed to qualify from GDR side only Bodo Bockenauer from Berlin for the Olympics.

Women:

  • Barbara Martin ( Hamburg) 14th Place
  • Ursel Barkey (Cologne) 18th Place
  • Manfred Schnelldorfer (ERC Munich) 8th Place
  • Tilo Gutzeit ( Dusseldorf ) 11th Place
  • Bodo Bockenauer (SC Dynamo Berlin) 12th Place

Couples:

  • Marika Kilius / Hans -Jürgen Baumler (SC Riessersee )
  • Margret Göbl / Franz Ningel ( Bad Nauheim / Frankfurt) 11th Place
  • Rita Blumenberg / Werner Mensching (Nuremberg) 13th Place

Speed ​​Skating

With the Olympic debut in Speed ​​Skating ladies from Berlin Helga Haase made ​​for a bang. International previously entered not large in appearance, they improved in their race to just pre-established Olympic record over 500 meters even a tenth of a second and won gold. This was the first Olympic gold medal in the Winter Games for GDR athletes. About 1000 meters Haase claimed in the Soviet medal favorite infield and won silver again, just two tenths of a second behind gold. Helga Haase thus became the most successful German athlete at the Games. Your success is the higher estimate, because her husband and coach was denied entry into the U.S. and Helga Haase thus had to walk without support. Your teammates, all also came from East Germany, occupied no front seats. In the men's only the Berlin Kuhnert succeeded about 1500 meters a remarkable ninth place. Of the seven starters were five men from the GDR.

Women:

  • Helga Haase (SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m: 1000 m: 1500 m: 8th Place
  • Natasha Liebknecht (SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m: 20th Place 1000 m: 17th Place
  • Sigrit Behrenz (TSC Berlin) 500 m: 18th Place 1000 m: 18th Place
  • Inge Görmer (SC Dynamo Berlin) 1500 m: 16th Place 3000 m: 13th Place
  • Gisela Toews (SC bismuth Karl- Marx-Stadt ) 1500 m: 22 Place 3000 m: 17th Place

Gentlemen

  • Helmut Kuhnert (SC Dynamo Berlin) 500 m; 20th Place 1500 m: 9th place 10,000 m: 13th Place
  • Herbert Söllner ( Munich EV) 500 m: 20th Place
  • Günther Tilch (SC Turbine Erfurt) 500 m: 20th Place 1500 m: 38th place
  • Manfred Schüler (SC Unit Berlin ) 500 m: 24th Place 1500 m: 18th Place
  • Harald North ( SC bismuth Karl- Marx-Stadt ) 1500 m: 31 Place
  • Josef Biebl ( Munich EV) 5000 m: 32nd
  • Heinz tungsten ( SC bismuth Karl- Marx-Stadt ) 5000 m: 36th place 10,000 m: 29th place

Alpine Skiing

The pure West German women's team were able to celebrate an Olympic victory in the downhill and a bronze medal in the slalom. Hans Peter Lanig won silver in the downhill, slalom bronze Luggi Leitner failed in just a tenth of a second. The only East German Eberhard Riedel starter was used in his first Winter Olympic Games only in the downhill. There he achieved a respectable 16th place among 60 starters.

  • Heidi Biebl (SC Oberstaufen ) Departure: Giant Slalom: 37th place Slalom: 21 Place
  • Barbi Henneberger (TAK Munich) Departure: 11th Place Giant Slalom: 15th Place Slalom:
  • Anneliese Meggl ( Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) Departure: 6th place Giant Slalom: 5th place Slalom: 13th Place
  • Sonja Sperl (SV Bavarian Eisenstein ) Departure: 7th place Giant Slalom: 9th place Slalom: 8th Place
  • Eberhard Riedel ( SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) Departure: 16th Place
  • Hans Peter Lanig ( Hindelang ) departure; Giant Slalom; 13th Place slalom; 7th place
  • Luggi Leitner ( SC Kleinwalsertal ) departure; 11th Place Giant Slalom; 18th Place slalom; 4th place
  • Willy Bogner ( MSV Munich) departure; 9th place Giant Slalom; excreted Slalom: excreted
  • Fritz Wagner Berger ( ESV Traunstein ) Giant Slalom; 15th Place
  • Sepp Behr ( Sonthofen ) slalom; 10th Place

Nordic skiing

Cross-country skiing

From the 14-member cross-country skiing team of nine athletes from East, five from West Germany came. In the individual decisions could only Rita Czech - Blasl make about 10 kilometers attention with twelfth place. She was so on this route second best Mitteleuropäerin. In the season decisions, the ladies came in fifth place, the men finished ninth.

Women:

  • Rita Czech - Blasl (SC Freiburg) 10 km: 12th Place 3 x 5 km relay: 5th place
  • Renate Dannhauer - Borges ( SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) 10 km: 16th Place 3 x 5 km relay: 5th place
  • Sundays Hilde House Shield (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) 10 km: 18th Place 3 x 5 km relay: 5th place
  • Christa Göhler (SC tractor Oberwiesenthal ) 10 km: excreted

Gentlemen:

  • Cuno Werner (ASK forward Oberhof ) 15 km: 24th Place 4 × 10 km relay: 9th place
  • Enno Röder (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) 15 km: 32nd 4 × 10 km relay: 9th place
  • Werner Haase (ASK forward Oberhof ) 15 km: 38th place 4 × 10 km relay: 9th place
  • Helmut Weidlich (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) 30 km: 21 Place 4 × 10 km relay: 7th place
  • Josef Maier ( SC St. Peter ) 30 km: 26th place
  • Rudolf Dannhauer (ASK forward Oberhof ) 30 km: 29th place 50 km: 23 Place
  • Siegfried Hug ( SC Hinterzarten ) 30 km: 33rd
  • Siegfried and White ( SC Brend ) 15 km: 42nd 50 km: 24th Place
  • Helmut Hagg ( Immenstadt ) 50 km: 20th Place 4 × 10 km relay: 9th place
  • Egon Fleischmann ( ASK forward Oberhof ) 50 km: 28th place

Ski Jumping

The compilation of ski jumping team clenched skispringerische top class and political explosiveness together. At the Four Hills Tournament 1959/1960 the East German team was denied entry into the Federal Republic of Germany to the two-time tour winner Helmut Recknagel. In his absence, the FRG representative Max Bolkart won the tour. The newly crowned Tour winner and his rival Recknagel traveled now as teammates to Squaw Valley. When single jump on the normal hill Recknagel won each with longest jump in both rounds of gold. Bolkart came at number six. Recknagel was the first Springer outside Scandinavia, the Olympic champion.

  • Veit Kührt (SC Motor Zella- Mehlis ) Normal hill; 12th Place
  • Helmut Recknagel (SC Motor Zella- Mehlis ) Normal hill;
  • Werner Lesser (ASK forward Oberhof ) Normal hill; 21 Place
  • Max Bolkart (SC Oberstdorf) Normal hill; 6th place

Nordic Combined

The Hinterzarten Georg Thoma, acting German master, but not yet come into manifestation international hit, somewhat surprisingly the favorites from Norway and Finland. Thoma won the jumping and could defend with the fourth- fastest run time the first place. Thomas teammates Klingenthal fell after some strong jumps back in the running decision.

  • Georg Thoma (SC Hinterzarten ) Single ( normal hill 70 m/15 km):
  • Günter Flauger (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) Single ( normal hill 70 m/15 km): 13th Place
  • Rainer Dietel (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) Single ( normal hill 70 m/15 km): 17th Place
  • Martin grains (SC Dynamo Klingenthal) Single ( normal hill 70 m/15 km): 20th Place
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