Squaw Valley February 1960, VIII Olympic Winter Games. Ski jumping 90m: eventual winner Helmut RECKNAGEL of Germany in action. Credit: IOC Olympic Museum Collections/RüBELT LotharBorn: 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.
