1965 Nordic Athletics Championships

The 1965 Nordic Athletics Championships was the third and final edition of the international athletics competition between Nordic countries and was held in Helsinki, Finland. It consisted of 34 individual athletics events, 22 for men and 12 for women. This covered a track and field programme plus a men's marathon race.

Finland won its third team title in the men's points classification with 161 points and dethroned Sweden in the women's team competition with a total of 77 points. Iceland took part in the men's competition only and had its first and only champion at this edition – in the decathlon. Among the athletes in attendance were 1962 European Athletics Championships medalists Stig Pettersson, and Pentti Eskola.^[1]

Berit Berthelsen of Norway was the athlete of the tournament, taking a sweep of the women's sprints from 100 metres to 400 metres as well as the long jump. Finland's won the shot put and discus throw events. No man won an individual double at this edition. Nina Hansen won the women's pentathlon, making her the only athlete in the competition's history to win three straight titles in an event. Carl Fredrik Bunæs (twice 100 m champion) returned to win a third title, this time in 400 m. Athletes to defend their 1963 titles included Bengt Persson (steeplechase) and Bjørn Bang Andersen (shot put).

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(NOR)	10.6	(FIN)	10.7	(FIN)	10.8
200 metres	(FIN)	21.6	(NOR)	21.7	Bo Althoff (SWE)	21.9
400 metres	Carl Fredrik Bunæs (NOR)	47.2	Bengt-Göran Fernström (SWE)	48.0	(FIN)	48.1
800 metres	Juha Väätäinen (FIN)	1:50.7	Anders Gärderud (SWE)	1:50.8	(FIN)	1:50.9
1500 metres	Karl-Uno Olofsson (SWE)	3:46.4	(NOR)	3:46.6	(FIN)	3:47.1
5000 metres	Bengt Nåjde (SWE)	14:05.0 CR	(SWE)	14:14.8	(NOR)	14:19.0
10,000 metres	(SWE)	30:18.4	(NOR)	30:36.4	(FIN)	30:42.0
Marathon	(FIN)	2:24:51	(NOR)	2:24:51	Paavo Pystynen (FIN)	2:26:56
3000 metres steeplechase	Bengt Persson (SWE)	8:40.0 CR	(FIN)	8:40.6	Jouko Kuha (FIN)	8:41.0
110 m hurdles	Bo Forssander (SWE)	14.0 CR	(SWE)	14.8	(SWE)	14.8
400 m hurdles	(SWE)	52.0	Jan Gulbrandsen (NOR)	52.5	(SWE)	52.6
High jump	Kjell-Åke Nilsson (SWE)	2.08 m	(FIN)	2.08 m	Stig Pettersson (SWE)	2.08 m
Pole vault	(FIN)	4.85 m CR	(SWE)	4.80 m	Hans Lagerqvist (SWE)	4.75 m
Long jump	(FIN)	7.89 m CR	Pentti Eskola (FIN)	7.77 m	Juhani Manninen (FIN)	7.65 m
Triple jump	Pertti Pousi (FIN)	15.61 m CR	(NOR)	15.50 m	(FIN)	15.41 m
Shot put	Bjørn Bang Andersen (NOR)	17.80 m CR	Matti Yrjölä (FIN)	17.43 m	(NOR)	17.30 m
Discus throw	Lars Haglund (SWE)	57.68 m CR	Pentti Repo (FIN)	55.24 m	(FIN)	54.78 m
Hammer throw	(NOR)	64.30 m CR	Birger Asplund (SWE)	63.46 m	(FIN)	60.46 m
Javelin throw	Jorma Kinnunen (FIN)	82.90 m CR	Willy Rasmussen (NOR)	80.72 m	Väinö Kuisma (FIN)	76.40 m
Decathlon	(ISL)	6902 pts	(SWE)	6801 pts	(FIN)	6782 pts
4 × 100 m relay	Finland (FIN)	40.3 CR	Sweden (SWE)	41.5	Norway (NOR)	41.6
4 × 400 m relay	Sweden (SWE)	3:10.3 CR	Norway (NOR)	3:10.3	Only 2 teams finished

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Berit Berthelsen (NOR)	12.0	Karin Wallgren (SWE)	12.0	(DEN)	12.2
200 metres	Berit Berthelsen (NOR)	24.4	Karin Wallgren (SWE)	24.6	(DEN)	25.1
400 metres	Berit Berthelsen (NOR)	54.4 CR	Elisabeth Östberg (SWE)	55.6	(NOR)	55.8
800 metres	Jette Andersen (DEN)	2:12.0 CR	(SWE)	2:13.0	Elisabeth Östberg (SWE)	2:14.0
80 m hurdles	Sirkka Norrlund (FIN)	10.9 CR	Nina Hansen (DEN)	11.3	(SWE)	11.5
High jump	(SWE)	1.64 m CR=	(SWE)	1.64 m	(SWE)	1.64 m
Long jump	Berit Berthelsen (NOR)	6.37 m CR	Oddrun Hokland (NOR)	6.08 m	(FIN)	5.90 m
Shot put	(FIN)	15.66 m CR	Karen Inge Halkier (DEN)	14.23 m	(SWE)	14.00 m
Discus throw	(FIN)	51.70 m CR	(FIN)	44.90 m	(FIN)	44.70 m
Javelin throw	(DEN)	47.72 m	(FIN)	45.14 m	(SWE)	44.74 m
Pentathlon	Nina Hansen (DEN)	4477 pts	Oddrun Hokland (NOR)	4475 pts	(FIN)	4311 pts
4 × 100 m relay	Norway (NOR)	47.0 CR	Sweden (SWE)	47.5	Finland (FIN)	47.8

Points table[]

Future European champion Juha Väätäinen won the 800 m to help Finland to a third men's title

Karin Wallgren of Sweden was runner-up in the short sprints and in the women's competition with Sweden

Men[]

Rank	Country	Points
1	Finland	161
2	Sweden	147
3	Norway	106
4	Iceland	10
5	Denmark	9

Women[]

Rank	Country	Points
1	Finland	77
2	Sweden	69
3	Norway	54
4	Denmark	47

References[]

• Nordic Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-04-29.