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Helmut Recknagel
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| Medal record | |||
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| Men's Ski jumping | |||
Competitor for  East Germany |
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 1960 Squaw Valley | Individual large hill | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1962 Zakopane | Individual large hill | |
| Bronze | 1958 Lahti | Individual large hill | |
| Bronze | 1962 Zakopane | Individual normal hill | |
Helmut Recknagel (born March 27, 1937) is a former East German ski jumper who was active in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Recknagel was born in Steinbach-Hallenberg, Thuringia.
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.
- FIS Profile
- Holmenkollen medalists - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)
- Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)
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| 1924: Jacob Tullin Thams * 1928: Alf Andersen * 1932: Birger Ruud * 1936: Birger Ruud * 1948: Petter Hugsted * 1952: Arnfinn Bergmann * 1956: Antti Hyvärinen * 1960: Helmut Recknagel * 1964: Toralf Engan * 1968: Vladimir Belussov * 1972: Wojciech Fortuna * 1976: Karl Schnabl * 1980: Jouko Törmänen * 1984: Matti Nykänen * 1988: Matti Nykänen * 1992: Toni Nieminen * 1994: Jens Weissflog * 1998: Kazuyoshi Funaki * 2002: Simon Ammann * 2006: Thomas Morgenstern |
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| 1925: Willen Dick * 1926: Jacob Tullin Thams * 1927: Tore Edman * 1929: Sigmund Ruud * 1930: Gunnar Andersen * 1931: Birger Ruud * 1933: Marcel Reymond * 1934: Kristian Johansson * 1935: Birger Ruud * 1937: Birger Ruud * 1938: Asbjørn Ruud * 1939: Josef Bradl * 1950: Hans Bjørnstad * 1954: Matti Pietikäinen * 1958: Juhani Kärkinen * 1962: Helmut Recknagel * 1966: Bjørn Wirkola * 1970: Gariy Napalkov * 1974: Hans-Georg Aschenbach * 1978: Tapio Räisänen * 1982 Matti Nykänen * 1985 Per Bergerud * 1987: Andreas Felder * 1989: Jari Puikkonen * 1991: Franci Petek * 1993: Espen Bredesen * 1995: Tommy Ingebrigtsen * 1997: Masahiko Harada * 1999: Martin Schmitt * 2001: Martin Schmitt * 2003: Adam Małysz * 2005: Janne Ahonen * 2007: Simon Ammann |
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| Preceded by Täve Schur |
East German Sportsman of the Year 1962 |
Succeeded by Klaus Ampler |
Preceded by Gunder Gundersen |
Holmenkollen medal with Sixten Jernberg, Sverre Stensheim and Tormod Knutsen 1960 |
Succeeded by Harald Grønningen |