Alpine World Ski Championships 1931 / Downhill women

Alpine World Ski Championships 1931 competitions
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Official competitions
Departure		Men		Women
slalom		Men		Women
Unofficial competitions
Alpine combination		Men		Women
Demonstration competitions
Long descent		Men		Women

At the 1st Alpine World Ski Championships in Mürren in Switzerland in 1931 , a downhill skiing competition for women was held. This took place on February 20, 1931 on the Winteregg route. The 17-year-old Esmé MacKinnon from Great Britain crowned herself the first world champion in downhill skiing .

Bottom line

space	athlete	country	time
1	Esmé MacKinnon	United Kingdom	3: 05.6 min
2	Nell Caroll	United Kingdom	3: 32.4 min
3	Irma Schmidegg	Austria	4: 02.6 min
4th	Jeanette Kessler	United Kingdom	4: 08.2 min
5	Freda Gossage	United Kingdom	4: 18.2 min
6th	Helene Zingg	Switzerland	4: 20.4 min
7th	Rösli Rominger	Switzerland	4: 25.2 min
8th	Inge Wersin-Lantschner	Austria	4: 33.8 min
9	Audrey Sale-Barker	United Kingdom	4: 47.2 min
10	Medi Schmidt	German Empire	4: 47.6 min
11	Emmy Ripper	Austria	4: 53.0 min
12	Rösli Streiff	Switzerland	4: 56.4 min
13	Dorothy Crewdson	United Kingdom	5: 05.4 min
14th	Ella Maillart	Switzerland	5: 21.4 min
15th	Annemarie Kopp	German Empire	5: 22.8 min
16	Elsa Mende	Switzerland	6: 06.4 min
17th	Annemarie Honigmann	German Empire	6: 32.4 min
DNF	Østbye	Norway	-
Disq.	Josie de Latour	Switzerland	-

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 40 cm of fresh snow and a heavy snow storm.

Participants: 19 started; 17 rated;

Six runners were allowed to compete for each nation, but only Switzerland and Great Britain made use of this.

The Austrian Emma Ripper fell by a margin and suffered a small foot injury, but was able to finish the race in eleventh place.

The Swiss Josie de Latour was disqualified for stick riding (prohibited stick use). The Norwegian participant, Ms. Østbye, is said to have been injured in a fall and did not take part in the other competitions.

swell

• 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.
• Results on: alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com ; accessed April 6, 2015; meanwhile no longer available.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Murren. The first international skiing competitions in downhill skiing and slalom in: Sport-Tagblatt from February 28, 1931, p. 6