Nordic World Ski Championships 1939

Nordic World Ski Championships 1939
winner
Cross-country skiing 18 km	Jussi Kurikkala
Cross-country skiing 50 km	Lars Bergendahl
4 × 10 km cross-country relay	Finland
Ski jumping normal hill	Josef Bradl
Nordic combination	Gustl Berauer
Competitions
Venues	Zakopane
Individual competitions	4th
Team competitions	1 (+1 unofficial)
← Lahti 1938	Cortina d'Ampezzo 1941 (unofficial) → St. Moritz 1948 →

The 16th Nordic World Ski Championships were held in Zakopane from February 11th to 19th, 1939 . This was the second time that the Polish town hosted the Nordic World Ski Championships.

The Scandinavians dominated as usual cross-country competitions, where it twice gold for Finland and one for Norway was. But in ski jumping and Nordic combined, two athletes who competed for Germany won . However, this was only possible because the reckless power politics of the National Socialists in the previous year had resulted in the so-called incorporation of other national areas. Josef Bradl , the world champion in ski jumping and the first jumper in the world over the 100 m mark, had previously had Austrian citizenship and Gustl Berauer , who won the Nordic combined, had Czechoslovak citizenship .

In 1939 in Zakopane, the Nordic World Ski Championships - partly as part of the Winter Olympics - were held for the last time in an annual rhythm. The interruption caused by the Second World War ultimately led to the fact that it was initially held every two years, alternating with the Winter Olympics. From 1985 on, two world championships in Nordic skiing took place between the Olympic Games in the odd years.

Cross-country men

Detailed results

Cross-country skiing 18 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Jussi Kurikkala	Finland	1: 05: 30.0 h
2	Klaes Karppinen	Finland	1: 06: 05.0 h
3	Carl Pahlin	Sweden	1: 06: 35.0 h
4th	Kalle Jalkanen	Finland	1: 07: 42.0 h
5	Lars Bergendahl	Norway	1: 07: 54.0 h
6th	Pekka Niemi	Finland	1: 07: 56.0 h
7th	Alfred Dahlqvist	Sweden	1: 07: 59.0 h
8th	Eino Olkinuora	Finland	1: 08: 04.0 h
9	Toivo Tiainen	Finland	1: 08: 35.0 h
10	Axel Danielsson	Sweden	1: 08: 53.0 h

Date: Wednesday February 15, 1939

Venue / route: Gubałówka

Participants: 133 named; 116 started; 106 rated;

Endurance run 50 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Lars Bergendahl	Norway	2: 57: 43.0 h
2	Klaes Karppinen	Finland	3: 00: 27.0 h
3	Oscar Gjøslien	Norway	3: 05: 42.0 h
4th	Pekka vannins	Finland	3: 05: 56.0 h
5	Pekka Niemi	Finland	3:06:48 h
6th	Alvar Hagglund	Sweden	3:08:56 h
7th	Clarence Atterday	Sweden	3: 11: 55.0 h
8th	Herbert Nenzen	Sweden	3: 12: 17.0 h
9	Franc Smolej	Yugoslavia	3: 16: 06.0 h
10	Kristian Lillegjelten	Norway	3: 18: 34.0 h

Date: Thursday February 18, 1939

Participants: 68 named; 55 started; 41 rated;

4x10 km relay

space	athlete	country	time
1	Pauli Pitkänen Olavi Alakulppi Eino Olkinuora Klaes Karppinen	Finland	2:08:35 h
2	Alvar Hägglund Selm Stenvall John Westbergh Carl Pahlin	Sweden	2: 09: 43.0 h
3	Aristide Compagnoni Severino Compagnoni Gottfried Baur Alberto Jammaron	Italy	2: 13: 38.0 h
4th	Olav Odden Magnar Fosseide Erling Evensen Olaf Hoffsbakken	Norway	2: 13: 55.0 h
5	Adolf Freiburghaus Eric Soguel Victor Borghi Adi Gamma	Switzerland	2: 15: 43.0 h
6th	Hermann Lochbihler Rudolf Wöss Leonhard Bach Albert Burk	German Empire	2: 16: 33.0 h

Date: Monday February 13, 1939;

Participants: 10 teams named; 10 teams started; 10 teams rated; The other places were occupied by the relays from France , Poland , Yugoslavia and Hungary .

Ski jumping men

Detailed results

Large hill K-80

space	athlete	country	Width 1	Width 2	grade
1	Josef Bradl	German Empire	80.0 m	76.5 m	224.70
2	Birger Ruud	Norway	72.5 m	81.5 m	224.20
3	Arnholdt Kongsgård	Norway	76.5 m	79.0 m	223.10
4th	Sven Selånger (Eriksson)	Sweden	78.0 m	78.5 m	222.20
5	Stanislaw Marusarz	Poland	74.0 m	78.5 m	219.50
6th	Hilmar Myhra	Norway	79.0 m	76.5 m	218.60
7th	Hans Lahr	German Empire	78.5 m	75.0 m	215.40
8th	Paul Kraus	German Empire	76.5 m	72.0 m	214.30
9	Asbjorn Ruud	Norway	68.0 m	70.0 m	214.20
10	Paul Haeckel	German Empire	69.0 m	76.0 m	213.70

Date: Sunday, February 19, 1939;

Ski jump: Wielka Krokiew (K-80)

Participants: 68 named; 46 started; 30 rated;

Nordic combined men

Detailed results

Individual (large hill K-80/18 km)

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Gustav Berauer	German Empire	429.60
2	Gustav Adolf Sellin	Sweden	426.60
3	Magnar Fosseide	Norway	422.40
4th	Andrzej Marusarz	Poland	410.60
5	Günther Meergans	German Empire	408.50
6th	Christian Merz	German Empire	403.00
7th	Stanislaw Marusarz	Poland	391.93
8th	Mieczysław Wnuk	Poland	391.65
9	Adi Gamma	Switzerland	390.30
10	Hans Lahr	German Empire	388.80

Date: Wednesday, February 15 and Thursday, February 16, 1939;

Venues: Cross-country skiing: Gubałówka ; Ski jumping: Wielka Krokiew (K-80)

Participants: 46 named; 38 started; 33 rated;

Military patrol run - unofficial

Team competition

A military patrol run was also held as part of the World Cup. The participating teams consisted of four soldiers each, led by an officer who carried a pistol and did not participate in the shooting competitions himself, as well as one non-commissioned officer rank and two team ranks. Each team had to cover a distance of 25 km. The soldiers of the German winning team were members of the III. Battalion of the Mountain Infantry Regiment 100 from Bad Reichenhall .

space	athlete	country	time
1	Albert-Ernst Gaum , OLt.Fritz Zängl , Oberjäger Heinrich Schaumann , Obergefreiter Hans Speckbacher , private	German Empire	2:26:16 h
2	Gerhard Hjukström , Lieutenant Wilhelm Hjukström , Sergeant Nils Östensson , conscripted Kristian Svelander , conscripted	Sweden	2:28:48 h
3	Józef Hamburger Jan Haratyk Jan Czepczor Jan Wawrzacz	Poland	2:42:30 h
4th	Giuseppe Fabre Luigi Perenni Refreider Benedetti	Italy	2:42:39 h
5	Eino Kuvaja Kohonen Lauri Silvennoinen Kaplas	Finland	2:50:13 h
6th	Brezeanu Schiau Olteanu Barboi	Romania	2:54:58 h
7th	Buky-Becht Berecz Katona Rieth	Hungary	2:54:58 h

Date: Friday February 17, 1939;

Participants: 7 teams named; 7 teams started; 7 teams rated;

Medal table

Nations

space	nation
01	Finland	2	2	0	4th
02	German Empire	2	0	0	2
03	Norway	1	1	3	5
04th	Sweden	0	2	1	3
05	Italy	0	0	1	1

athlete

space	athlete
01	Klaes Karppinen	1	2	0	3
02	Josef Bradl	1	0	0	1
	Gustl Berauer	1	0	0	1
	Jussi Kurikkala	1	0	0	1
	Lars Bergendahl	1	0	0	1
	Pauli Pitkänen	1	0	0	1
	Olavi Alakulppi	1	0	0	1
	Eino Olkinuora	1	0	0	1
09	Carl Pahlin	0	1	1	2
010	Birger Ruud	0	1	0	1
	Gustav Adolf Sellin	0	1	0	1
	Alvar Hagglund	0	1	0	1
	Selm Stenvall	0	1	0	1
	John Westbergh	0	1	0	1
015th	Arnholdt Kongsgård	0	0	1	1
	Magnar Fosseide	0	0	1	1
	Oscar Gjøslien	0	0	1	1
	Aristide Compagnoni	0	0	1	1
	Severino Compagnoni	0	0	1	1
	Gottfried Baur	0	0	1	1
	Alberto Jammeron	0	0	1	1

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Nazi foreign policy on dhm.de/lemo
2. ↑ Sepp Bradl: Bubis Leap into History on nachrichten.at/sport
3. ↑ Gustl Berauer on sports-reference.com
4. ↑ FIS World Championships - Men 18k on fis-ski.com

literature

• Hermann Hansen, Knut Sveen: VM på ski '97. Alt om ski-VM 1925-1997. Adresseavisens Forlag, Trondheim 1996, ISBN 82-7164-044-5 .

Web links

• 16th Nordic World Ski Championships 1939 in Zakopane, Poland from ifosta.de, accessed on May 7, 2017
• Medal winners - Nordic World Ski Championships, ski jumping on skispringen-news.de, accessed on May 7, 2017
• "As athletes in the trenches" , Wiener Zeitung February 1, 2013 at wienerzeitung.at, accessed on May 7, 2017
• Statistics. Alpine, Nordic, Biathlon, Freestyle, Ski-Cross , The top three winners at the Winter Olympics and World Ski Championships, Zakopane 1939: p. 29 on deutscherskiverband.de (PDF), accessed on May 7, 2017