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About Helmut Recknagel
Helmut Recknagel - ski jumper; biography; photo wallpapers: Helmut Recknagel, born: 20 March 1937; Birthplace: Steinbach-Hallenberg (Germany); Nationality: Germany; Sport: Skiing
ATTENDANCE AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES
- Squaw Valley 1960
- Innsbruck 1964
AWARDS
- Olympic medals:
- Gold: 1
Other results:
- World Championships
- Gold : 1 (62)
- Bronze : 2 (58, 62)
- First Non-Scandinavian Ski Jump Champion
Helmut Recknagel recorded the longest jump of each of the two rounds in the 1960 ski jumping contest and won the gold medal by 4.6 points. An East German, he was the first non-Scandinavian to earn an Olympic ski jumping title. In 1964, a second jumping event was added and Recknagel entered both. He place sixth on the normal hill and seventh on the large hill.
He earned a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in ski jumping and also won the Holmenkollen ski festival ski jumping competition twice (1957 and 1960). At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, he won three medals: a bronze in 1958 and two medals in 1962, a gold in the individual large hill and a bronze in the individual normal hill. For his ski jumping efforts, Recknagel was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1960 (Shared with Sixten Jernberg, Sverre Stensheim, and Tormod Knutsen). He was the first German to win the Holmenkollen medal....