Alpine World Ski Championships 1931
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| Place: | Murren , Switzerland | |
| Start: | February 20, 1931 | |
| The End: | February 23, 1931 | |
| Nations: | 7th | |
| Athletes: | Official competitions: 50 participants (30 M / 20 F) | |
| Competitions: | 4 (another four unofficial) | |
| winner | ||
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| Men's | Ladies | |
| Departure |
 Walter Prager
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 Esmé MacKinnon
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| slalom |
David Zogg
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Esmé MacKinnon
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The 1st Alpine World Ski Championships took place from February 19 to 23, 1931 in Mürren , Switzerland . In its time the competition was called the FIS championship or simply FIS race , only from 1937 onwards the events officially carried the title of world championships .
history
At the XI held in Oslo from February 24 to 26, 1930 International Ski Congress of the FIS , chaired by Ivar Holmquist and with the participation of delegates from 16 countries, the question of introducing downhill and slalom racing into the FIS race regulations was discussed.
A study commission chaired by Karl Danegger discussed this on February 25, apart from the congress in Finse . Other members of the commission were Walter Amstutz (Switzerland), Conte Aldo Bonacossa (Italy), Arnold Lunn (Great Britain), Colonel Bobkowski (Poland) and Olaf Helset (Norway).
On the basis of the two existing race regulations of the Ski Club of Great Britain and the Swiss Academic Ski Club , a draft was developed that was intended as an addition to the FIS competition regulations. In the final session of the FIS congress, Danninger, as president of the study commission, recommended that the congress regulate downhill and slalom races and explained the motivation of the commission, among other things, with the fact that skiing in the Alps has developed quite differently due to the special topographical conditions in the north ", and emphasized" that it is the duty of the FIS to take these conditions in Central Europe into account . "
Nikolai Ramm Østgaard, as spokesman for the ski associations of the three Scandinavian countries, which had so far strictly opposed the inclusion of alpine competitions, surprisingly and without further discussion declared that they approve of the resolution if the rules of the race say: " In addition , downhill and slalom runs can be carried out ". With the international regulation of downhill and slalom racing by the FIS, the foundation stone for the development of alpine ski racing as it was to take place in the decades that followed was laid at the congress in Oslo.
After the delegates of the German Ski Association declared that they would refrain from the announcement of alpine skiing competitions in Oberhof in 1931 , the Ski Club of Great Britain suggested, in the person of Arnold Lunn , as a replacement after the FIS competitions in Thuringia slalom and Wanting to run downhill runs for men and women in Mürren , Switzerland. This entry was accepted without a dissenting vote. These first international Alpine FIS races from Mürren , which were named as such, were later recognized retrospectively as the first Alpine World Ski Championships .
Attendees
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In addition to the participants in the official competitions, Harald Paumgarten , Walter Amstutz , John Frautschi and Christian Rubi also took part in the special descent .
Time schedule
Legend for the competition program shown below:
| do | Fr. | Sat | So | Mon | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February | 19th | 20th | 21st | 22nd | 23 |
| Men | |||||
| Departure | • | ||||
| Long descent | • | ||||
| slalom | • | ||||
| combination | • | ||||
| Women | |||||
| slalom | • | ||||
| Departure | • | ||||
| Long descent | • | ||||
| combination | • | ||||
Official competitions
Men
Departure
| space | athlete | country | time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walter Prager |
Switzerland
|
1: 56.2 min |
| 2 | Otto Furrer |
Switzerland
|
2: 18.0 min |
| 3 | Fritz Steuri (1903) |
Switzerland
|
2: 21.8 min |
| 4th | Ernst Feuz |
Switzerland
|
2: 22.2 min |
| 5 | Gustav Lantschner |
 Austria
|
2: 31.0 min |
| 6th | Otto Lantschner |
Austria
|
2: 34.4 min |
| 7th | Tony Knebworth |
United Kingdom
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2: 42.8 min |
| 8th | Harald Reinl |
Austria
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2: 48.8 min |
| 9 | Hans von Weech |
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2: 53.8 min |
| 10 | David Zogg |
Switzerland
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2: 55.0 min |
Date: Friday February 20, 1931
Route: Winteregg route ; Elevation difference 430 m. The length of the race had to be shortened to 2000 meters due to a heavy snow storm.
Participants: 26 started; 25 rated;
slalom
| space | athlete | country | time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Zogg |
Switzerland
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00: 54.6 min |
| 2 | Toni Seelos |
Austria
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00: 55.5 min |
| 3 | Friedl Däuber |
German Empire
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00: 55.8 min |
| 4th | William James Riddel |
United Kingdom
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00: 57.9 min |
| 5 | Walter Prager |
Switzerland
|
01: 01.1 min |
| 6th | Martin Neuner |
German Empire
|
01: 01.6 min |
| 7th | Peter Lunn |
United Kingdom
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01: 02.5 min |
| 7th | Hans von Weech |
German Empire
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01: 02.5 min |
| 9 | Bill Bracken |
United Kingdom
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01: 02.7 min |
| 10 | Ulrich Neuner |
German Empire
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01: 04.8 min |
Date: Monday February 23, 1931
Route: Winteregg route ; Height difference 160 m.
Participants: 30 named; 20 started; 20 rated;
Bill Bracken and Ulrich Neuner each received 6 penalty seconds for touching or crossing a gate.
The slalom competition , which was postponed several times, could only be carried out under difficult conditions and was carried out in one go. Because of this, there was no official " FIS winner" in the slalom. As a result, no combination calculation officially certified by the FIS was carried out.
Only in January 2013 did the FIS officially add the result of the slalom competition to the medal balance retrospectively.
Women
Departure
| space | athlete | country | time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esmé MacKinnon |
United Kingdom
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3: 05.6 min |
| 2 | Nell Caroll |
United Kingdom
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3: 32.4 min |
| 3 | Irma Schmidegg |
Austria
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4: 02.6 min |
| 4th | Jeanette Kessler |
United Kingdom
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4: 08.2 min |
| 5 | Freda Gossage |
United Kingdom
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4: 18.2 min |
| 6th | Helene Zingg |
Switzerland
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4: 20.4 min |
| 7th | Rösli Rominger |
Switzerland
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4: 25.2 min |
| 7th | Ingrid Wersin-Lantschner |
Austria
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4: 33.8 min |
| 9 | Audrey Sale-Barker |
United Kingdom
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4: 47.2 min |
| 10 | Medi Schmidt |
German Empire
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4: 47.6 min |
Date: Friday February 20, 1931
Route: Winteregg route ; Height difference 400 m.
Participants: 19 started; 17 rated
slalom
| space | athlete | country | time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esmé MacKinnon |
United Kingdom
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02: 38.0 min |
| 2 | Ingrid Wersin-Lantschner |
Austria
|
02: 42.0 min |
| 3 | Jeanette Kessler |
United Kingdom
|
02: 42.3 min |
| 4th | Audrey Sale-Barker |
United Kingdom
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02: 49.5 min |
| 5 | Freda Gossage |
United Kingdom
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02: 49.8 min |
| 6th | Dorothy Credswon |
United Kingdom
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02: 50.6 min |
| 7th | Rösli Rominger |
Switzerland
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02: 52.6 min |
| 7th | Rösli Streiff |
Switzerland
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03: 01.8 min |
| 9 | Ella Maillart |
Switzerland
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03: 03.5 min |
| 10 | Irma Schmidegg |
Austria
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03: 15.7 min |
Date: Thursday February 19, 1931
Route: Winteregg route ; Height difference 160 m.
Participants: 18 started; 18 rated
More competitions
Men
Long descent (special descent)
| space | athlete | country | time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gustav Lantschner |
Austria
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4: 49.0 min |
| 2 | Chris Mackintosh |
United Kingdom
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4: 56.4 min |
| 3 | Harald Paumgarten |
Austria
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4: 57.0 min |
| 4th | Otto Furrer |
Switzerland
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4: 58.8 min |
| 5 | Otto Lantschner |
Austria
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5: 19.8 min |
| 6th | Anton Seelos |
Austria
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5: 24.6 min |
| 7th | Bill Bracken |
United Kingdom
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5: 40.0 min |
| 8th | David Zogg |
Switzerland
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5: 46.6 min |
| 9 | Friedl Däuber |
German Empire
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5: 56.2 min |
| 10 | William James Riddel |
United Kingdom
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6: 00.2 min |
Date: Saturday, February 21, 1931
Route: Grütsch - Lauterbrunnen ; Height difference 690 m.
Participants: 24 started; 23 rated;
The "long" descent was not recognized by the FIS as an official world championship discipline.
Alpine combination
| space | athlete | country | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walter Prager |
Switzerland
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94.680 |
| 2 | David Zogg |
Switzerland
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83,200 |
| 3 | Friedl Däuber |
German Empire
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81.205 |
| 4th | Toni Seelos |
Austria
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80.790 |
| 5 | William James Riddel |
United Kingdom
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78.355 |
| 6th | Hans von Weech |
German Empire
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77.110 |
| 7th | Martin Neuner |
German Empire
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77.095 |
| 8th | Peter Lunn |
United Kingdom
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75.920 |
| 9 | Tony Knebworth |
United Kingdom
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74.415 |
| 10 | Ulrich Neuner |
German Empire
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71.710 |
Date: Friday 20th and Monday 23rd February 1931
Participants: 26 named; 26 started; 16 rated;
Because of the sometimes heavy snowfall, the races had to be shortened significantly. For this reason the organizers decided not to score the combination. Walter Prager would have become world champion .
Women
Long descent (special descent)
| space | athlete | country | time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esmé MacKinnon |
United Kingdom
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10: 04.4 min |
| 2 | Ingrid Wersin-Lantschner |
Austria
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10: 13.8 min |
| 3 | Irma Schmidegg |
Austria
|
10: 19.8 min |
| 4th | Freda Gossage |
United Kingdom
|
11:01.2 min |
| 5 | Dorothy Crewdson |
United Kingdom
|
11: 07.8 min |
| 6th | Nell Caroll |
United Kingdom
|
11: 16.0 min |
| 7th | Rösli Streiff |
Switzerland
|
11: 38.8 min |
| 8th | Medi Schmidt |
German Empire
|
12: 00.2 min |
| 9 | Audrey Sale-Barker |
United Kingdom
|
12: 33.0 min |
| 10 | Jeanette Kessler |
United Kingdom
|
13: 04.6 min |
Date: Saturday, February 21, 1931
Route: Grütsch - Lauterbrunnen ; Height difference 690 m.
Participants: 17 started; 16 rated;
The winner, Esmé MacKinnon, had to stop en route to let a funeral train pass by.
The "long" descent was not recognized by the FIS as an official world championship discipline.
Alpine combination
| space | athlete | country | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esmé MacKinnon |
United Kingdom
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100,000 |
| 2 | Jeanette Kessler |
United Kingdom
|
86.065 |
| 3 | Inge Wersin-Lantschner |
Austria
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82.660 |
| 4th | Freda Gossage |
United Kingdom
|
82.465 |
| 5 | Rösli Rominger |
Switzerland
|
80.760 |
| 6th | Audrey Sale-Barker |
United Kingdom
|
78.920 |
| 7th | Irma Schmidegg |
Austria
|
78.620 |
| 8th | Dorothy Crewdson |
United Kingdom
|
76.690 |
| 9 | Nell Caroll |
United Kingdom
|
74.685 |
| 10 | Rösli Streiff |
Switzerland
|
74.765 |
Date: Thursday 19th and Friday 20th February 1931
Participants: 19 named; 19 started; 17 rated;
The organizers decided not to score the combination. Esmé MacKinnon would have become world champion .
Medal table
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Switzerland
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3 | 2 | 1 | 6th |
| 2 |
United Kingdom
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2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 |
Austria
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1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 4th |
German Empire
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- | - | 1 | 1 |
literature
- Arnold Lunn : The Story of Skiing. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1952, pp. 77-79.
- Othmar Gurtner : 2x Mürren. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club SAS. Volume 2, No. 1, 1931, ZDB -ID 525691-4 , pp. 106-122.
- Paul Schnaidt: Courses internationales de slalom et de descente. Mürren, 19 to 22 February 1931. In: Ski. Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 27, 1931, ZDB -ID 600235-3 , pp. 183-185.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Walter Amstutz: The FIS competitions and the 11th ski congress in Oslo in: The snow hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Vol. 1, No. 4th of 1930; Page 396
- ↑ Eternal World Cup balance sheet: Austria now has one more medal. In: kleinezeitung.at. January 29, 2013, accessed March 30, 2016 .
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