The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1962 took place February 18–25, 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.
Host city | Zakopane |
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Country | Poland |
Events | 10 |
Opening | 18 February 1962 |
Closing | 25 February 1962 |
Men's cross-country edit
15 km edit
February 20, 1962
Medal | Athlete | Time |
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Gold | Assar Rönnlund (SWE) | 55:22.8 |
Silver | Harald Grønningen (NOR) | 55:52.4 |
Bronze | Einar Østby (NOR) | 55:54.8 |
30 km edit
February 18, 1962
Medal | Athlete | Time |
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Gold | Eero Mäntyranta (FIN) | 1:52:39.4 |
Silver | Janne Stefansson (SWE) | 1:52:49.1 |
Bronze | Giulio de Florian (ITA) | 1:53:13.3 |
50 km edit
February 24, 1962
Medal | Athlete | Time |
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Gold | Sixten Jernberg (SWE) | 3:03:48.5 |
Silver | Assar Rönnlund (SWE) | 3:05:39.1 |
Bronze | Kalevi Hämäläinen (FIN) | 3:05:42.8 |
4 × 10 km relay edit
February 22, 1962
Medal | Team | Time |
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Gold | Sweden (Lars Olsson, Sture Grahn, Sixten Jernberg, Assar Rönnlund) | 2:24:38.8 |
Silver | Finland (Väinö Huhtala, Kalevi Laurila, Pentti Pesonen, Eero Mäntyranta) | 2:25:24.3 |
Bronze | Soviet Union (Ivan Utrobin, Pavel Kolchin, Aleksey Kuznetsov, Gennady Vaganov) | 2:26:14.3 |
Women's cross-country edit
5 km edit
February 19, 1962
Medal | Athlete | Time |
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Gold | Alevtina Kolchina (URS) | 19:28.6 |
Silver | Lyubov Baranova (URS) | 20:15.9 |
Bronze | Maria Gusakova (URS) | 20:27.5 |
10 km edit
February 21, 1962
Medal | Athlete | Time |
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Gold | Alevtina Kolchina (URS) | 39:48.2 |
Silver | Maria Gusakova (URS) | 40:59.9 |
Bronze | Radia Eroshina (URS) | 41:17.1 |
3 × 5 km relay edit
February 23, 1962
Medal | Team | Time |
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Gold | Soviet Union (Lyubov Baranova, Mariya Gusakova, Alevtina Kolchina) | 58:08.9 |
Silver | Sweden (Barbro Martinsson, Britt Strandberg, Toini Gustafsson) | 59:27.9 |
Bronze | Finland (Siiri Rantanen, Eeva Ruoppa, Mirja Lehtonen) | 1:01:33.0 |
Men's Nordic combined edit
Individual edit
February 19/20, 1962
Medal | Athlete | Points |
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Gold | Arne Larsen (NOR) | 454.33 |
Silver | Dmitry Kochkin (URS) | 448.77 |
Bronze | Ole Henrik Fagerås (NOR) | 442.25 |
Men's ski jumping edit
Individual normal hill edit
February 21, 1962
Medal | Athlete | Points |
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Gold | Toralf Engan (NOR) | |
Silver | Antoni Łaciak (POL) | |
Bronze | Helmut Recknagel (GDR) |
Individual large hill edit
February 25, 1962
Medal | Athlete | Points |
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Gold | Helmut Recknagel (GDR) | |
Silver | Nikolay Kamenskiy (URS) | |
Bronze | Niilo Halonen (FIN) |
Medal table edit
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
2 | Sweden (SWE) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
3 | Norway (NOR) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
4 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
5 | East Germany (GDR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
6 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
7 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (7 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |