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Helmut Recknagel

1937 - Today

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Helmut Recknagel (born 20 March 1937 in Steinbach-Hallenberg) is an East German former ski jumper who was active in the late 1950s and early 1960s. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helmut Recknagel has received more than 28,688 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Helmut Recknagel is the 39th most popular skier (up from 49th in 2019), the 3,758th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,819th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Skier.

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Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Helmut Recknagel ranks 39 out of 541Before him are Torbjørn Falkanger, Yukio Kasaya, Heidi Biebl, Josef Bradl, Laila Schou Nilsen, and Bojan Križaj. After him are Gunnar Eriksson, Marielle Goitschel, Maurilio De Zolt, Vreni Schneider, Gunde Svan, and Émile Allais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Helmut Recknagel ranks 271Before him are Jack Nitzsche, Magnar Solberg, Ivo Daneu, Birju Maharaj, Barbro Lindgren, and Alfredo M. Bonanno. After him are Juan José Saer, Brian G. Marsden, Vittorio Adorni, David Margulies, Zoltán Horváth, and Anita Traversi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmut Recknagel ranks 3,758 out of 6,142Before him are Johann Georg Halske (1814), Bernhard Cullmann (1949), Karl Mai (1928), Friedrich Ludwig Schröder (1744), Hans Meyer (1858), and Detlev von Liliencron (1844). After him are Franz Nissl (1860), Edda Moser (1938), Heinrich Campendonk (1889), Friedrich Dickel (1913), Carl Joseph Begas (1794), and Theo Lingen (1903).

Among SKIERS In Germany

Among skiers born in Germany, Helmut Recknagel ranks 4Before him are Hanni Wenzel (1956), Heidi Biebl (1941), and Josef Bradl (1918). After him are Rosi Mittermaier (1950), Jens Weißflog (1964), Johann Mühlegg (1970), Hans-Georg Aschenbach (1951), Georg Thoma (1937), Ossi Reichert (1925), Sven Hannawald (1974), and Barbara Petzold (1955).