Alpine World Ski Championships 1936

6th Alpine World Ski Championships 1936
Place:	Innsbruck , Austria
Start:	February 21, 1936
The End:	February 22, 1936
Nations:	15th
Competitions:	6th
winner
	Men's	Ladies
Departure	Rudolf Rominger	Evelyn Pinching
slalom	Rudolph Matt	Gerda Paumgarten
Alpine combination	Rudolf Rominger	Evelyn Pinching
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The 6th Alpine World Ski Championships took place on February 21 and 22, 1936 in Innsbruck , Austria . The racing slopes were on the Patscherkofel and on the Gschwandtkopf (near Seefeld ). In its time, the competition was called the FIS championship or simply FIS race , it was only from 1937 that the events officially carried the title of World Championships .

Award

As early as the summer of 1935, officials from several ski associations met in Northern Italy under the leadership of England, bearing in mind the impending ban of the IOC on the male racers who were regarded as professionals, in order to forge a federation of Alpine countries. The Austrian federation was "baited" by the fact that it was assured that it would hold the world championships, which were then still known as the "FIS races"; Switzerland had also agreed. The ÖSV chose Innsbruck again (after 1933).

history

At the recently held Olympic Winter Games , almost all men from Austria and Switzerland were excluded from participation due to the different handling of the amateur regulations by the International Ski Federation and the International Olympic Committee , as they worked as ski instructors in winter and therefore as "professionals" "were true.

The main board of the Austrian Ski Association therefore decided not to send the men's alpine skiing competitions to the Olympic Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The Swiss Ski Association followed this decision.

These decisions did not have too much of an impact on the women's competitions. Due to her work as a ski instructor, the Austrian Gerda Paumgarten , who was, however, a co-favorite, and the Swiss Elvira Osirnig were not allowed to take part in the Winter Games, although this was very controversial, especially in the case of the Swiss.

With regard to the World Ski Championships in Innsbruck, the German Reichsportführer Von Tschammen und Osten had now banned skiers who had already traveled to Garmisch-Partenkirchen from taking part as a countermeasure to the Austrian decisions on not loading. It was said, "Austria is maintaining its general starting ban for Austrian athletes in Germany, the Reichssportführer is thus forced to take this step."

Toni Seelos decided not to take part in the World Ski Championships because, according to his own statement, “he had to work hard as a ski instructor all winter to support his family and that made him feel drained”.

Innsbruck without snow

In Innsbruck and its surroundings, the weather was fine before the start of the competitions, but there was not enough snow. The organizers had to use all their energy to create good slopes. (Please see footnote 2)

Slaloms

"Sport Zürich" was only brief in issue no. 27 of February 24, 1936, page 3, wrote (possibly also more related to that of the gentlemen) that it was very difficult, but was monotonous; there was a lack of clarity as in Kandahar races. In any case, the research with which it was driven was admirable, considering that the participants had started with wounds and exertions from the descent.

Men

Departure

space	athlete	country	time
1	Rudolf Rominger	Switzerland	4: 29.8 min
2	Giacinto Sertorelli	Italy	4: 43.2 min
3	Heinz von Allmen	Switzerland	4: 43.6 min
4th	Birger Ruud	Norway	4: 45.0 min
5	Eberhard Kneissl	Austria	4: 52.8 min
6th	Rudolph Matt	Austria	4: 56.2 min
7th	Wilhelm Walch	Austria	4: 59.0 min
7th	Émile Allais	France	4: 59.0 min
9	Peter Lunn	United Kingdom	5: 04.0 min
10	Hans Schlunegger	Switzerland	5: 09.9 min

Date: Friday February 21, 1936; Start: scheduled at 10:30 a.m. CET (actually started at 12 p.m.)

Route: Patscherkofel / Mutters ; Length: 4430 m; Difference in altitude: 900 m

Participants: 79 named; 54 started; 37 rated; Participants from 15 countries.

Other important ranks and best of their countries:

11. Friedl Pfeifer (AUT) 5: 14.6
12. Per Fossum (NOR) 5: 23.6
14. Richard Henry Durrance (USA) 5: 42.2
15. Arnold Glatthard (SUI) 5: 55.2
16 . Bronislaw Czech (POL) 6: 03.0
17 Zanni (ITA) 6: 05.2
18. Ciril praček (YUG) 6: 12.0
19. Hermann Steuri (SUI) 6: 15.4
26. Frederico Pariani (ITA) 6: 51.8
31st W Ball (CAN) 8: 14.0
32nd Joszef Zelkay (HUN) 8: 34.4
37th and last: Herbert George Lamble (AUS) 11: 52.0

The downhill run, which was scheduled to start at 10.30 a.m., was at risk because the track was completely icy after rain and thaw and the night frost that followed and looked like a concrete track. The start was postponed three times, but even at 12 noon the slope was still as hard as two hours before, but FIS President Major Nikolai Ramm Østgaard decided to go ahead .
The race on the sometimes very narrow track leading over gutted tree roots was very accident-prone, because apart from a few of the elite drivers (including Peter Lunn ), who drove a little more cautiously, all the starters were focused on the medals. Even Willy Steuri (. Start No. 1) had made acquaintance with these obstacles, his face was covered in blood - and at a wave he fell so that he had to be removed. Later it was also Rudolph Matt who was catapulted out into the audience by one of the many bumps (but continued afterwards, as did Hans Schlunegger at roughly the same point). Wilhelm Walch had already done it further up, before the target shot he was just able to keep his balance with a hump. Siegmund Ruud had splintered his skis in a fall over 60 m, it seemed as if he was surprised that he was still alive. Heinz von Almen seemed to get through with his controlled drive, but he too was hit by the notorious wave of tree stumps in the target shot, and the cautious-looking Birger Ruud fell at the same point. Those who didn't risk everything like Émile Allais , who lost half a second to the fastest time, had no chance of victory. The Frenchman, however, had flu and started despite being banned from starting.
The first to get through the target was Giacinto Sertorelli , on the other hand Friedl Pfeifer couldn't avoid a star on the target slope. Only Rudolf Rominger managed the route flawlessly, he still looked fresh at the finish. With a time advantage of more than 13 seconds, he offered one of the most impressive performances of these FIS World Games. In contrast, Per Fossum (only with a stick) arrived bleeding, and Hermann Steuri needed 35 seconds after a fall to get up and drive on. He had even started with a dislocated shoulder. Ultimately, Eberhard Kneissl also showed a strong run in the final part, but the overall result for the Austrians ( Franz Zingerle also fell ) was a great disappointment.
The runners in the following starting groups managed a few well-controlled braking turns, but there were still enough crashing falls.

slalom

space	athlete	country	time
1	Rudolph Matt	Austria	2: 18.1 min
2	Eberhard Kneissl	Austria	2: 18.6 min
3	Rudolf Rominger	Switzerland	2: 22.3 min
4th	Heinz von Allmen	Switzerland	2: 22.5 min
5	Wilhelm Walch	Austria	2: 27.8 min
6th	Émile Allais	France	2: 30.8 min
7th	Hans Schlunegger	Switzerland	2: 31.2 min
8th	Gottfried Wolfgang	Austria	2: 31.7 min
9	Birger Ruud	Norway	2: 33.1 min
10	Giacinto Sertorelli	Italy	2: 34.2 min

Date: Saturday, February 22, 1936; Start: 10:30 a.m. CET

Route: Seefeld / Gschwandtkopf ; Length: 400 m; Difference in altitude: 200 m; 39 goals

Course setter: Toni Seelos (Austria) (Seelos did not take part in the races, but was a forerunner in the slalom.)

Participants: 39 started; 38 rated; Participants from 13 countries.

Addition of the runtimes of the top ten and other important ranks and best of their countries:
1) Matt 138.1 (69.5 / 68.6); 2) Kneissl 138.6 (71.1 / 67.5); 3) Rominger 142.3 (71.8 / 70.5); 4) von Allmen 142.5 (73.2 / 69.3); 5) Walch 147.8 / 73.5 / 74.3); 6) Allais 150.8 (76.9 / 73.9); 7) Schlunegger 151.2 (76.5 / 74.7); 8) Wolfgang 151.7 (74.7 / 77.0); 9) Ruud 153.1 (74.0 + 6.0 / 73.1); 10) Sertorelli 154.2 (71.4 / 82.8)
11. Joszef Zelkay (HUN) 159.1
12. Per Fossum (NOR) 159.3
13. Richard Henry Durrance (USA) 161.2
15. Ciril Praček (YUG) 162.4
16. Bronislaw Czech (POL) 163.3
18. Fritz Steuri junior (SUI) 164.7 (84.7 / 80.0)
19. Arnold Glatthard (SUI) 166.1 (72.4 / 82.4 + 12.0)
20th Peter Lunn (GBR) 168.8

Alpine combination

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Rudolf Rominger	Switzerland	443.4
2	Heinz von Allmen	Switzerland	457.5
3	Eberhard Kneissl	Austria	461.9
4th	Rudolph Matt	Austria	465.3
5	Giacinto Sertorelli	Italy	471.3
6th	Birger Ruud	Norway	471.8
7th	Wilhelm Walch	Austria	479.3
8th	Émile Allais	France	483.0
9	Hans Schlunegger	Switzerland	494.4
10	Peter Lunn	United Kingdom	509.9

Date: Friday 21 and Saturday 22 February 1936;

Participants: 54 started; 34 rated; Participants from 13 countries.

The combinations were calculated in a point system, separately for downhill and slalom, and then added up.

Details of the combination points of the "Top Ten" as well as other important ranks and best of their countries:

1) Rominger 443.4 (269.8 / 173.6); 2) von Allmen 457.5 (283.6 / 173.9); 3) Kneissl 461.9 (292.8 / 169.1); 4) Matt 464.7 (296.2 / 168.5); 5) Sertorelli 471.3 (283.2 / 188.1); 6) Ruud 471.8 285.0 / 186.8); 7) Walch 479.3 (299.0 / 180.3); 8) Allais 483.0 (299.0 / 184.0); 9) Schlunegger 494.4 309.9 / 184.5); 10) Lunn 509.9 (304.0 / 205.9)
11. Per Fossum (NOR) 517.9 (323.6 / 194.3)
12. Richard Henry Durrance (USA) 538.9 (342.2 / 196, 7)
14. Arnold Glatthard (SUI) 558.7 (355.2 / 203.5)
15. Bronislaw Czech (POL) 562.2 (363.0 / 199.2)
16. Ciril Praček (YUG) 570.1
24. Frederico Pariani (ITA) 647.1

Women

Departure

space	athlete	country	time
1	Evelyn Pinching	United Kingdom	4: 45.0 min
2	Elvira Osirnig	Switzerland	4: 43.2 min
3	Nini from Arx-Zogg	Switzerland	4: 55.8 min
4th	Frieda Clara	Italy	5: 06.6 min
5	Gerda Paumgarten	Austria	5: 06.8 min
6th	Erna Steuri	Switzerland	5: 25.2 min
7th	Jeanette Kessler	United Kingdom	5: 29.6 min
8th	Elizabeth Davenport Woolsey	United States	5: 31.4 min
9	Marcelle Bühler	Switzerland	5: 34.6 min
10	Loulou Boulaz	Switzerland	5: 38.6 min

Date: Friday February 21, 1936; Start: 1:00 p.m. CET

Route: Patscherkofel / Mutters ; Length: 3600 m, altitude difference: 600 m

Participants: 40 named; 30 started; 25 rated; Participants from 11 countries.
Elizabeth Davenport Woolsey was the first member of the US Ski Association to make it into the "Top Ten" at an Alpine World Ski Championships.

Other important ranks and best of their countries:
11. Herta Rosmini (AUT) 5: 35.2
13. Emmy Ripper (AUT) 6: 02.2
15. Grete Weikert (AUT) 6: 25.0
16. Rösli Streiff (SUI ) 6: 14.8
22. Helen Bougthon-Leigh (USA) 7: 13.4
25th and last: Locke Hannah Haydock (USA) 8: 09.8

For the women, who had their turn immediately after the men, there was initially a change in the length of the route; Whether the men’s target slope was dangerous, the target was moved further upwards (although it was also at an inconvenient place where you came with a full shot and swinging down was hardly possible).
The first runners ( Emmy Ripper , Marcelle Bühler , Jeanette Kessler and Elizabeth Davenport Woolsey ) braked several times by sliding sideways, which was not always free of falls. Elvira Osirnig did the same for the time being, but then she took the target shot without hesitation. Evelyn Pinching stayed in the transverse position and she managed the last part of the route with unbelievable speed; their victory was commented as a big surprise.
Even Frieda Clara ran it cheeky, Gerda Paumgarten had a Glanztag. Nini von Arx-Zogg and Erna Steuri literally shot through the target, after which they had to accept unwanted forest flights . Of the other two Swiss women, Rösli Streiff pushed the steepness a little bit, while Loulou Boulaz worked very briskly.
The entire race of racing drivers stumbled and then hobbled down to the track that brought them back to Innsbruck.

slalom

space	athlete	country	time
1	Gerda Paumgarten	Austria	2: 17.1 min
2	Evelyn Pinching	United Kingdom	2: 18.9 min
3	Grete Weikert	Austria	2: 20.6 min
4th	Elvira Osirnig	Switzerland	2: 24.3 min
5	Erna Steuri	Switzerland	2: 29.3 min
6th	Elli Löri-Stiller	Austria	2: 32.1 min
7th	Nini from Arx-Zogg	Switzerland	2: 33.5 min
8th	Jeanette Kessler	United Kingdom	2: 34.2 min
9	Marcelle Bühler	Switzerland	2: 34.4 min
10	Herta Rosmini	Austria	2: 34.9 min

Date: Saturday, February 22, 1936;

Route: Seefeld / Gschwandtkopf ; Difference in altitude: 180 m, 39 gates

Participants: 24 started; 24 rated; Participants from 11 countries.

Supplement to the runtimes of the “Top 9” and other important ranks and best in their countries:
1) Paumgarten 137.1 (69.5 / 67.6); 2) pinching 138.9 (69.9 / 69.0); 3) Weikert 140.6 (70.2 / 70.4); 4) Osirnig 144.3 (71.9 / 72.4); 5) Steuri 149.3 (74.2 / 75.1); 6) Stiller 152.1 (73.5 / 78.6); 7) Arx 153.5 (80.8 / 72.7); 8) Kessler 154.2 (82.2 / 72.0); 9) Bühler 154.4 (76.6 / 77.8)
12. Emmi Ripper (AUT) 163.5
13. Rösli Streiff (SUI) 166.7
14. Elizabeth Davenport Woolsey (USA) 168.6
15. Frieda Clara (ITA) 171.5
16. Loulou Boulaz (SUI) 176.1 (83.2 + 12.0 / 80.9)

Alpine combination

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Evelyn Pinching	United Kingdom	465.57
2	Elvira Osirnig	Switzerland	482.59
3	Gerda Paumgarten	Austria	485.03
4th	Nini from Arx-Zogg	Switzerland	495.35
5	Erna Steuri	Switzerland	519.29
6th	Frieda Clara	Italy	529.55
7th	Jeanette Kessler	United Kingdom	530.06
8th	Marcelle Bühler	Switzerland	535.32
9	Herta Rosmini	Austria	546.57
10	Elizabeth Davenport Woolsey	United States	550.58

Date: Friday 21 and Saturday 22 February 1936;

Participants: 30 started; 24 rated; Participants from 11 countries.

Details of the combination points of the “Top Ten” and other important ranks:
1) Pinching 465.57 (285.0 / 180.6); 2) Osirnig 482.59 (295.0 / 187.6); 3) Paumgarten 485.03 (306.8 / 178.2); 4) Arx 495.36 (295.6 / 199.6); 5) Steuri SUI 519.29 (325.2 / 194.2); 6) Clara 529.55 (306.6 / 222.9); 7) Kessler 530.06 (329.6 / 200.5); 8) Buhler 535.32 (334.6 / 200.7); 9) Rosmini 536.57 (335.2 / 201.4); 10) Woolsey 550.58 (331.4 / 219.2)
11. Grete Weikert (AUT) 553.8
12. Loulou Boulaz (SUI) 567.5 (338.6 / 228.9)
13. Emmi Ripper (AUT ) 578.8
14. Elli Stiller (AUT) 582.7
15. Rösli Streiff (SUI) 591.5 (374.8 / 216.7)

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Switzerland	2	3	3	8th
2	Austria	2	1	3	6th
3	United Kingdom	2	1	-	3
4th	Italy	-	1	-	1

literature

• Heinrich Fueter: The 1936 World Championships in Innsbruck. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club SAS. Volume 3, No. 10, 1936, ZDB ID 525691-4 , pp. 366-373.

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Great Swiss successes in the FIS races" in "Sport Zürich" No. 27 of February 24, 1936, page 1
2. ^ "The German Olympic champions do not participate in the FIS races in Innsbruck" in "Sport Zurich" No. 25 of February 19, 1936, page 2, column 1, below
3. ^ Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes - balance sheet of alpine skiing. Rudolf Trauner Verlag, Linz 1964.
4. ↑ “Great Swiss successes at the FIS races” with the subtitles “Holzhackerbuam im sports shop” and “The ladies, yes the ladies” in “Sport Zürich” No. 27 of February 24, 1936, page 2