FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1962

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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1962 took place February 18-27, 1962 in Zakopane, Poland. Zakopane became the second city to host the world championships three times (1929, 1939), joining Lahti, Finland (1926, 1938, and 1958). Women's 5 km and the ski jumping individual normal hill made their event debuts at these championships.

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[edit] Men's cross country

[edit] 15 km

February 23, 1962

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Sweden Assar Rönnlund, Sweden
Silver Flag of Norway Harald Grønningen, Norway
Bronze Flag of Norway Einar Østby, Norway

[edit] 30 km

February 18, 1962

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Finland Eero Mäntyranta, Finland
Silver Flag of Sweden Janne Stefansson, Sweden
Bronze Flag of Italy Giulio de Florian, Italy

[edit] 50 km

February 27, 1962

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of Sweden Sixten Jernberg, Sweden
Silver Flag of Sweden Assar Rönnlund, Sweden
Bronze Flag of Finland Kalevi Hämäläinen, Finland

[edit] 4 × 10 km relay

February 24, 1962

Medal Team Time
Gold Flag of Sweden Sweden (Lars Olsson, Sture Grahn, Sixten Jernberg, Assar Rönnlund)
Silver Flag of Finland Finland (Väinö Huhtala, Kalevi Laurila, Pentti Pesonen, Eero Mäntyranta)
Bronze Flag of the Soviet Union USSR (Ivan Utrobin, Pavel Kolchin, Aleksey Kuznetsov, Gennady Vaganov)

[edit] Women's cross country

[edit] 5 km

February 20, 1962

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of the Soviet Union Alevtina Kolchina, USSR
Silver Flag of the Soviet Union Lyubov Baranova, USSR
Bronze Flag of the Soviet Union Maria Gusakova, USSR

[edit] 10 km

February 22, 1962

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Flag of the Soviet Union Alevtina Kolchina, USSR
Silver Flag of the Soviet Union Maria Gusakova, USSR
Bronze Flag of the Soviet Union Radia Eroshina, USSR

[edit] 3 × 5 km relay

February 24, 1962

Medal Team Time
Gold Flag of the Soviet Union USSR (Lyubov Baranova, Mariya Gusakova, Alevtina Kolchina)
Silver Flag of Sweden Sweden (Barbro Martinsson, Britt Strandberg, Toini Gustafsson)
Bronze Flag of Finland Finland (Siiri Rantanen, Eeva Ruoppa, Mirja Lehtonen)

[edit] Men's Nordic combined

[edit] Individual

February 18, 1962

Medal Athlete Points
Gold Flag of Norway Arne Larsen, Norway
Silver Flag of the Soviet Union Dmitry Kochkin, USSR
Bronze Flag of Norway Ole Henrik Fagerås, Norway

[edit] Men's ski jumping

[edit] Individual normal hill

February 18, 1962

Medal Athlete Points
Gold Flag of Norway Toralf Engan, Norway
Silver Flag of Poland Antoni Laciak, Poland
Bronze Flag of the German Democratic Republic Helmut Recknagel, East Germany

[edit] Individual large hill

February 18, 1962

Medal Athlete Points
Gold Flag of the German Democratic Republic Helmut Recknagel, East Germany
Silver Flag of the Soviet Union Nikolay Kamenskiy, Soviet Union
Bronze Flag of Finland Niilo Halonen, Finland

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Flag of the Soviet Union Soviet Union 3 4 3 10
2 Flag of Sweden Sweden 3 3 0 6
3 Flag of Norway Norway 2 1 2 5
4 Flag of Finland Finland 1 1 3 5
5 Flag of the German Democratic Republic East Germany 1 0 1 2
6 Flag of Poland Poland 0 1 0 1
7 Flag of Italy Italy 0 0 1 1

[edit] References