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FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1962

FIS edition of the Nordic World Ski Championships 1962

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FIS edition of the Nordic World Ski Championships 1962

Field	Value
name	FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1962
host_city	Zakopane
country	Poland
events	10
opening
closing
previous	1958
next	1966

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1962 took place from February 18 to 25, 1962 in Zakopane, Poland. Zakopane became the second city to host the world championships three times (1929, 1939, and 1962), joining Lahti, Finland (1926, 1938, and 1958). The women's 5 km and the individual normal hill ski jumping events made their debuts at these championships.

Men's cross-country

15 km

February 20, 1962

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Assar Rönnlund	55:22.8
Silver	Harald Grønningen	55:52.4
Bronze	Einar Østby	55:54.8

30 km

February 18, 1962

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Eero Mäntyranta	1:52:39.4
Silver	Janne Stefansson	1:52:49.1
Bronze	Giulio de Florian	1:53:13.3

50 km

February 24, 1962

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Sixten Jernberg	3:03:48.5
Silver	Assar Rönnlund	3:05:39.1
Bronze	Kalevi Hämäläinen	3:05:42.8

4 × 10 km relay

February 22, 1962

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	(Lars Olsson, Sture Grahn, Sixten Jernberg, Assar Rönnlund)	2:24:38.8
Silver	(Väinö Huhtala, Kalevi Laurila, Pentti Pesonen, Eero Mäntyranta)	2:25:24.3
Bronze	URS (Ivan Utrobin, Pavel Kolchin, Aleksey Kuznetsov, Gennady Vaganov)	2:26:14.3

Women's cross-country

5 km

February 19, 1962

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Alevtina Kolchina	19:28.6
Silver	Lyubov Baranova	20:15.9
Bronze	Maria Gusakova	20:27.5

10 km

February 21, 1962

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Alevtina Kolchina	39:48.2
Silver	Maria Gusakova	40:59.9
Bronze	Radia Eroshina	41:17.1

3 × 5 km relay

February 23, 1962

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	URS (Lyubov Baranova, Mariya Gusakova, Alevtina Kolchina)	58:08.9
Silver	(Barbro Martinsson, Britt Strandberg, Toini Gustafsson)	59:27.9
Bronze	(Siiri Rantanen, Eeva Ruoppa, Mirja Lehtonen)	1:01:33.0

Men's Nordic combined

Individual

February 19/20, 1962

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Arne Larsen	454.33
Silver	Dmitry Kochkin	448.77
Bronze	Ole Henrik Fagerås	442.25

Men's ski jumping

Individual normal hill

February 21, 1962

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Toralf Engan
Silver	Antoni Łaciak
Bronze	Helmut Recknagel

Individual large hill

February 25, 1962

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Helmut Recknagel
Silver	Nikolay Kamenskiy
Bronze	Niilo Halonen

Medal table

References

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