Austrian Ski Championships 1912

The 6th Austrian Ski Championship took place as part of the sixth association competition of the Austrian Ski Association from February 3rd to 4th, 1912 on the Bödele near Dornbirn in the Kronland Vorarlberg .

The Norwegian Lauritz Bergendahl was crowned Austrian ski champion for 1912 .

organization

The competitions of the Austrian Ski Federation on the Bödele presented the first championship of Austrian sports association in Vorarlberg and also the last major sporting event in the country before the First World War . For the organization, founded in 1905 showed club Vorarlberg skiers , shortly VVS responsible, which already, in Organized the annual " Bödele ski race " years before , the overall management was the responsibility of the local ski pioneer Viktor Sohm .

Prices

For the ski champion of 1912, Bergendahl , there was a gold plaque and a diploma from the association. The winner of the endurance run also received a silver wine jug donated by the Association for Tourism in Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein . Henriksen was awarded the price for the boldest ski jump and received a silver cup donated by the Association of Inn Owners on Lake Constance and the Rhine .

Attendees

With the participation of Lauritz Bergendahl , who was then leading in Nordic skiing, and his Norwegian compatriots Johann Henriksen and Per Simonsen , as well as some of the German and Swiss ski greats at the time, the championship of 1912 surpassed all of its previous editions in sporting terms. Of the Austrians, only Sepp Bildstein (VSS Graz) was able to keep up with the overwhelming competition with an 8th place in the jumping and seventh place in the composite run .

Besides Bildstein called by the Association of Styrian skiers still Josef Obereder , Ludwig Grettler and Lieutenant Elsner . Grettler retired after a fall, Elsner and Obereder resigned from the competition.

Last year's winner Karl Böhm-Hennes missed the opportunity to defend his title. He took part in the upcoming competitions of the Thuringian Winter Sports Association in Oberhof and won the Rennsteig race there .

Competitions

Endurance run seniors

space	country	athlete	society	time	grade
1	NOR	Lauritz Bergendahl	Christiania	1: 05.58	?
2	NOR	Per Simonsen	SC Alpina St. Moritz	1: 07.10	?
3	NOR	Johann Henriksen	Christiania	1: 12.14	?
4th	GER	Karl Gruber	Davos	1: 15.00	?
5	NOR	Thorleif Knudsen		1: 15.12	?
6th	SUI	Kapaul	SC Alpina St. Moritz	?	?
7th	SUI	Ernst Bächtold	Davos ski club	?	?
8th	GER	Siegfried König	Munich	?	?
9	SUI	Walty	Davos	?	?
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11	AUT	Sepp Bildstein	VSS Graz	?	?

Date: February 3, 1912 In
excellent snow and weather conditions, the route led over partly ascending terrain over a length of 16 km from Bödele (Alpe Untersehren - Weißenfluh - Gschwendtsattel - Hochälpelekopf ) to Schwarzenberg . 17 participants
The Norwegian Peter Østbye , who shortly before won this year's German championships , was unable to start due to a foot injury.

Endurance run juniors

space	country	athlete	society	time	grade
1	GER	Otto Wuppermann	ASC Munich	?	?
2	GER	Ludwig Römer	Ski team Munich TB	?	?
3	SUI	Anton Maurer	Davos	?	?

Date: February 3, 1912
Distance: 8 km

Jumping senior 1st class

space	country	athlete	society	Expanse	grade
1	NOR	Lauritz Bergendahl	Christiania	32.0 m / 3 gest.	1.475
2	NOR	Thorleif Knudsen	Freiberg	29.5 m / 2 gest.	2.008
3	NOR	Johann Henriksen	Christiania	30.0 m / 1 gest.	2,433
4th	SUI	Adolf Attenhofer	Davos	?	?
5	NOR	Per Simonsen	SC Alpina St. Moritz	?	?
6th	GER	from Redwitz	Munich	?	?
7th	SUI	Ernst Bächtold	Davos ski club	?	?
8th	AUT	Josef Bildstein	VSS Graz	?	?

Date: February 4, 1912 The jump
was on the Lanckschanze, which was built in 1904 and modernized and converted for the championship .
31 participants

The jumping winner Lauritz Bergendahl also jumped the daily maximum distance of 32 meters. Johann Henriksen received the honorary award for the "boldest jump".

Jumping senior citizens 2nd class

space	country	athlete	society	Expanse	grade
1	GER	Johann Schult	Schliersee ski club	22.5 m	2,316
2	GER	Ludwig Römer	Ski team Munich TB	13.5 m	3.380
3	SUI	Robert Ruesch	St. Gallen ski club	22.0 m	3.350

Date: February 4, 1912
Lanckschanze
10 participants

Jumping juniors

space	country	athlete	society	Expanse	grade
1	AUT	Emil Mathis	Bregenz	19.0 m	1.775
2	AUT	Franz Schuler	Arlberg ski club	19.0 m	3.383
3	GER	Hermann Lukas	Sauerland Ski Club	19.5 m	3,591

Date: February 4, 1912
20 participants
Lanckschanze

Compound run

space	country	athlete	society	grade
1	NOR	Lauritz Bergendahl	Christiania	1.2375
2	NOR	Johann Henriksen	Christiania	2.0493
3	NOR	Per Simonsen	St. Moritz	2.0686
4th	NOR	Thorleif Knudsen		3.1660
5	SUI	Ernst Bächtold	Davos ski club	3.4175
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7th	AUT	Sepp Bildstein	VSS Graz	?

Date: February 3 and 4, 1912
A total of 47 mentions

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• Austrian main association ski competition in: Salzburger Volksblatt of February 5, 1929, page 7
• Austrian main association ski competition in: Innsbrucker Nachrichten of February 5, 1912, page 7
• From Bödele in: Vorarlberger Landeszeitung of February 5, 1912, page 3
• Laurin Peter: Gymnastics for the Fatherland. Sport for pleasure. Vorarlberg sports history until 1945; Chapter 3.17 Skiing
• Austrian Main association ski competition in: Vorarlberger Volksfreund from February 6, 1912, page 2
• Ski races on the Bödele in: Bregenzer Tagblatt of February 6, 1912, page 2
• Austrian Ski Championship in: Grazer Tagblatt dated February 6, 1912, page 7
• Austrian main association ski competition in: Vorarlberger Landeszeitung of February 7, 1912, pages 2
• Austrian main association ski competition in: Vorarlberger Landeszeitung of February 7, 1912, pages 3
• The Ski Championship of Austria in: Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung of February 11, 1912, page 135