Nordic World Ski Championships 1925

Nordic World Ski Championships 1925
winner
Cross-country skiing 18 km	Otakar Německý
Cross-country skiing 50 km	Franz Donth
Ski jumping large hill	Wilhelm Dick
Nordic combination	Otakar Německý
Competitions
Venues	Janské Lázně
Individual competitions	4th
Attendees
Nations	10 (11 associations)
athlete	248 called
← Chamonix 1924	Lahti 1926 →

The 2nd Nordic World Ski Championships were held from February 12 to 15, 1925 in Johannisbad / Janské Lázně in Czechoslovakia .

history

At the request of Switzerland , at the congress of the International Ski Federation on February 2, 1924, on the occasion of the winter sports week held in Chamonix , it was decided to organize so-called international rendezvous races under the patronage of the FIS every year . At the same time, the Czechoslovak Ski Association was unanimously commissioned to hold the first rendezvous race in 1925. The Czechoslovak ski federation made its decision due to better infrastructure and existing accommodation and catering possibility of skiers in the existing hotel - and health establishments for Johannisbad and against New World (Novy Svet) in Harrachov , the last in 1923, the international affiliated with the Czechoslovak Championship Congress races aligned would have.

In Johannisbad, the athletes had suitable changing rooms , a sufficient number of showers , a swimming pool for relaxation and, if necessary, treatment rooms with medical care in the spa facilities. For the time of the event, the Adam pharmacy in Prague had set up a branch in Johannisbad, and six doctors were on duty to take care of the medical care of the skiers.

Václav Novák , the baritone singer of the Prague National Theater, and the violin soloist Ervina Brokesová performed in the opening concert of the Central European Ski Championships . Before the competitions, the military music from Hradec Králové played for spectators and participants. At the invitation of the Czechoslovak Ski Association, Defense Minister František Udržal attended the competitions for three days. Ministers Jan Šrámek and Josef Dolanský and Alice Masaryk , the daughter of the President of the Republic, were also present at the ski jumping event.

The President of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , as well as some of the ministers and guests of honor, including František Udržal, Milan Hodža , Jan Šrámek and Jiří Stříbrný , donated valuable honorary prizes such as bronze , silver and crystal cups as well as gold and silver plaques . Other prizes were donated by the Slavia Sports Club, the Association for Increasing Tourism and the Czechoslovak Officers Association.

At the 25th Congress of the International Ski Federation from June 8th to 11th, 1965 in the Romanian tourist resort Mamaia , the FIS declared the Nordic ski competitions of the first Olympic Winter Games of 1924 in Chamonix to be the first Nordic World Ski Championships . With the same decision, the rendezvous races held from 1925 to 1927 and the FIS races held from 1929 to 1935 were officially elevated to the status of Nordic World Ski Championships. With this decision, the rendezvous races of Johannisbad 1925, which were called the Central European Ski Championships when they were held, have since counted as the 2nd Nordic World Ski Championships .

Competitions

As with the Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in the previous year (before 1926 called International Winter Sports Week ), the traditional Nordic ski competitions in cross-country skiing over 50 and 18 km, jumping and Nordic combined were on the program . Like the IOC , the FIS announced its competitions exclusively for men .

program

date	Time ( MST )	competition
Thursday February 12th	8:30 a.m.	Cross-country skiing 50 km men
Friday February 13th		Rest day
Saturday February 14th	9:30 a.m.	Cross-country skiing 18 km men
		with combined cross-country skiing 18 km men
Sunday February 15th	09:00	Combination ski jumping men
	subsequently	Special jumping men
	in the evening	Prize giving

Attendees

For the rendezvouz races of the FIS in 1925 in Johannisbad, 248 athletes from 12 national ski associations from 10 countries entered. The Scandinavian ski countries Finland and Sweden refused to participate in the rendezvous races in Central Europe and stayed away from the event. The Norwegian Ski Association also did not send a team, but allowed the athletes Henry Ljungmann and Johan Blomseth, who were living in Central Europe at the time because of their studies, to participate.

Europe (12 associations)

German Empire  France  Italy  Yugoslavia  Norway  Austria ( ÖSV )  Austria ( AÖSV )  Poland  Romania  Switzerland  Czechoslovakia ( SL RČS )  Czechoslovakia ( HDW ) Note: Austria and Czechoslovakia both had two ski associations recognized as official members of the International Ski Association , in addition to Finland , which was not participating here . Both associations in these countries also had the right to send their athletes to the FIS races and World Ski Championships ( Nordic and Alpine ). However, the situation was different at the Olympic Winter Games , as the IOC granted the right to delegate to either only one of the two associations or a joint umbrella association (for Austria e.g. the Austrian Ski Delegation or later the Austrian Ski Federation).

Medal table

Nations

space	country
1	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	2	3	2	7th
2	Czechoslovakia (SL RČS)	2	0	1	3
3	Norway	0	1	0	1
4th	Switzerland	0	0	1	1

athlete

space	Sportswoman)	nation
1	Otakar Německý	Czechoslovakia (SL RČS)	2	0	0	2
2	Franz Donth	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	1	1	0	2
3	Wilhelm Dick	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	1	0	0	1
4th	Josef Adolf	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	0	1	0	1
	Franz Haeckel	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	0	1	0	1
	Henry Ljungmann	Norway	0	1	0	1
7th	Xaver Affentranger	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
	Josef Erlebach	Czechoslovakia (SL RČS)	0	0	1	1
	Albert Ettrich	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	0	0	1	1
	Franz Wende	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	0	0	1	1

Cross-country skiing

Detailed results

18 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Otakar Německý	Czechoslovakia SL RČS	1: 43: 38.0 h
2	Franz Donth	Czechoslovakia HDW	1: 43: 54.5 h
3	Josef Erlebach	Czechoslovakia SL RČS	1: 45: 40.0 h
4th	Josef Adolf	Czechoslovakia HDW	1: 48: 16.0 h
5	Josef Bräth	Czechoslovakia HDW	1: 48: 46.0 h
6th	Giuseppe Ghedina	Italy	1: 48: 47.0 h
7th	Enrico Colli	Italy	1: 48: 53.5 h
8th	Franz Haeckel	Czechoslovakia HDW	1: 49: 46.0 h
9	Vincenzo Colli	Italy	1: 50: 26.5 h
10	Josef Německý	Czechoslovakia SL RČS	1: 51: 41.0 h

Date: Saturday, February 14, 1925. Start time 9:30 am.

Course of the route: The cross-country skiing over 18 km took place at a temperature of 11 ° C in the direct vicinity of Johannisbad. It led in serpentines to the 740 meter high Janský vrch , on to Hoffmann-Baude (Hofmanovy boudy), over the most difficult section to the Spieglerovy boudy at 900 meters above sea level and from there back to Johannisbad. In addition to the steep gradients, the athletes had to struggle with the snow conditions . While the sections of the route leading through the forest were well covered with snow, the meadows in the lower regions, which had become muddy in parts due to the persistent thaw, made great demands on their endurance.

Participants: 222 named; 140 started; 136 rated.
The competition was announced for both the special runners and the combination runners. From the record number of 222 entries, there were ultimately 140 participants in four different performance and age groups . 44 participants started in 1st class and 78 participants in 2nd class. Age classes I (over 32 years) and II (over 40 years) comprised 12 and 2 athletes, respectively. Of the skiers who started, only four had to abandon the competition prematurely, which meant that 136 were able to classify.

The organization of the competition was described as excellent despite the high number of participants at the time. The company VJ Rott from Prague , where Emmerich Rath once completed his apprenticeship as a clerk, had set up markers on the route and a large display board in the finish area , with which the viewers could quickly get closer to the intermediate and final times of the participants. At the invitation of the Czechoslovak Ski Association, the then Minister of Defense František Udržal attended the event as a guest of honor .

The 18 km cross-country skiing ended with a great success for Czechoslovak skiers. With three Italians, only three foreigners and three runners from the Czechoslovak Association (SL RČS) and four athletes from the Main Association of German Winter Sports Clubs (HDW), in which the German-Bohemian skiers were organized, placed in the first ten ranks .

Otakar Německý from Nové Město na Moravě won the first of three world championship medals of his career. In second place was the winner of the 50 km run, Franz Donth , who won the second of a total of four medals at the Nordic World Ski Championships. The bronze medal went to Josef Erlebach , a descendant of immigrants from Switzerland , who competed for the Czechoslovak Association .

The very good eleventh place went to the Austrian ski pioneer Peter Radacher from Mühlbach am Hochkönig, whose nephew and son also took part in World Ski Championships and Olympic Games in later decades.

Of the Swiss team, Xaver Affentranger was the best in 14th place, followed by Sepp Schmid two places behind .

The best Reich German runner was Kurt Endler from the Giant Mountains from the ski club in Schreiberhau , who had won the joint ski championship between Germany and Austria just a week earlier .

Aladar Thern from the Spiš , the reigning ski champion of the Carpathian Association came in 17th place. The well-known Prague all-round athlete Emmerich Rath reached 102nd place at the age of 42 and was thus able to leave 34 runners behind.

50 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Franz Donth	Czechoslovakia HDW	5: 09: 56.0 h
2	Franz Haeckel	Czechoslovakia HDW	5: 11: 20.0 h
3	Albert Ettrich	Czechoslovakia HDW	5: 15: 12.0 h
4th	Josef Adolf	Czechoslovakia HDW	5: 23: 01.0 h
5	Josef Erlebach	Czechoslovakia SL RČS	5: 29: 47.5 h
6th	Josef Německý	Czechoslovakia SL RČS	5: 34: 26.0 h
7th	Karel Koldovský	Czechoslovakia SL RČS	5: 34: 49.5 h
8th	Enrico Colli	Italy	5: 39: 26.0 h
9	Josef Koerber	Czechoslovakia HDW	5:40:24 h
10	Jaroslav Martin	Czechoslovakia SL RČS	5: 44: 18.0 h

Date: Thursday, February 12, 1925. Start time 8:30 am

Participants: 90 named; 65 started, 54 scored.
In addition to the large number of athletes from the two Czechoslovakian ski associations, participants from Germany (1), Austria (1), Italy (3), Poland (5), Yugoslavia , Romania (1), Norway (2) and France started .

Route: The start of the endurance run took place in clear weather in front of the main spa in Johannisbad at an altitude of 649 meters. Due to the thaw , there was a lack of snow in the lower regions, which is why the route had to be slightly modified and relocated to higher elevations. This brought the route to a length of 53 km . The route continued via the Hrnčířské Boudy and the Lahrbauden (Lahrovy boudy) to the Hinteren Rennerbauden (Zadní Rennerovky), where the runners reached the highest point of the route at 1,200 m. Via the Vordere Rennerbaude (Přední Rennerovky) the route continued to Pommerndorf , Novinka, Benetzko , over the Heidelberg (Žalý) towards Starkenbach and on to Ober-Hohenelbe (Hořejší Vrchlabí) and Hohenelbe . The higher elevation resulted in generally good snow conditions for the competitors, partly with firn snow on the mountains. Only at Hohenelbe did a piece of the road have to be covered through watery, softened snow. We went back to Johannisbad via Niederhof , Ober Langenau and Schwarzenthal .

The organizer set up 53 control stations with 300 controllers, six telephone stations and six refreshment stations for skiers along the route. In the finish area in Johannisbad, the audience was able to follow the split times given over the phone on a large display board set up by the renowned Prague company VJ Rott . After 20 km, around Pommerndorf , Franz Häckel was in the lead with a throughput time of 1 hour, 53 minutes. Ettrich followed with 1 hour and 55 minutes and the later winner, Franz Donth, with 1 hour and 56 minutes. The course of the route was described as very difficult and challenging, which is why some runners refused to start and others had not yet reached the finish line after the official end of the competition.

The most successful were the Czechoslovak athletes, especially the HDW skiers. Of the athletes who started, 54 were rated, only nine of them from the international field. Among the top 20 cross-country skiers, there was only one foreigner, Italian Enrico Colli, in eighth place. The first four places went to athletes from the Main Association of German Winter Sports Clubs, the next three places went to athletes from the Czechoslovak Association.

The winner Franz Donth , a woodcutter from Rochlitz an der Iser won his first of two medals at this event and his first of four medals at the Nordic World Ski Championships. For Franz Häckel , also from the Giant Mountains, and Albert Ettrich , who a week earlier won the cross-country skiing competition over 17 km at the ski championships of Germany and Austria in Kitzbühel , it was the only medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships.

Of the foreign nations, the Italians were the most successful with ranks 8 for Colli and 21 for Ghedina . The success of Enrico Colli is all the more remarkable when he broke his thumb in a fall and ran to one of the top ranks without further care. The Poles brought Bujak , Wilczyński and Krzeptowski II their best runners in the top 30 under. The only German representative, von Ekkeherdt, needed two hours longer than the winner for the difficult route and came in 45th.

Ski jumping

Detailed results

Large hill

space	athlete	country	Width 1	Width 2	Width 3	grade
1	Wilhelm Dick	Czechoslovakia HDW	44.0 m	44.0 m	45.0 m	18.985
2	Henry Ljungmann	Norway	44.0 m	43.0 m	47.0 m	18,442
3	Franz Wende	Czechoslovakia HDW	40.0 m	43.0 m	40.0 m	18.111
4th	Otto Schrimpel	Czechoslovakia HDW	42.0 m	39.0 m	39.0 m	17.083
5	Adolf Berger	Czechoslovakia HDW	40.0 m	39.0 m	40.0 m	17.055
6th	Stefan Lauener	Switzerland	42.0 m	38.0 m	39.0 m	17.027
7th	Max Kröckel	German Empire	37.0 m	38.0 m	40.0 m	16,944
8th	Josef Bím	Czechoslovakia SL RČS	37.0 m	37.0 m	39.0 m	16,500
9	Rudolf Burkert	Czechoslovakia HDW	?	?	?	16,222
10	Ernst Lauer	Czechoslovakia HDW	?	?	?	16,192

Date: Sunday, February 15, 1925
Jumping facility: Rübezahl-Schanze
The K-40- Schanze was on the slope opposite the Protestant church . At that time it was the largest jumping facility in the Giant Mountains and was only rebuilt and modernized in autumn of the previous year. It had a 12 m high inrun tower with a slope of 36 degrees which merged into 19 degrees below the tower. The landing track was 70 m long and had an angle of incline of 39.5 degrees, the run had a gentle incline of 14 degrees, in the resulting kink there were many falls, especially in bad snow conditions. In this competition, too, many jumpers fell at this point.

The ski jump had due to the thaw with snow prepared to be that of soldiers shoveled the Czechoslovak army in higher regions in boxes and means horn sled was taken to the diving boards for Johannisbad. Due to the onset of rain , however , the snow had gotten wet, so that the inrun track became very slow and there were no great jumping distances.

Participants: 115 named; 60 started, 47 scored.

The ski jumping, to which only the 60 most promising jumpers were allowed due to the weather conditions, was the most popular competition of the world championships and was held against a backdrop of 12,000 spectators. In the finish area, the large, widely visible scoreboard from the Rott company from Prague was set up again, by means of which the distance achieved by the athletes could be displayed directly to the audience.

On the day of the competition, there was surprisingly heavy snowfall. However , there was no question of the 60 meter jumps expected in advance, which were mainly attributed to the Norwegian Henry Ljungmann . Ljungmann reached the daily maximum distance of 49 meters when jumping in. In the competition he reached the maximum distance of 47 m, but surprisingly had to admit defeat to the German Bohemian Willi Dick , who achieved two times 44.0 and 45.0 meters. Third place went to Franz Wende with jumps of 40.0 and 43.0 meters twice. The excellent form of the jumpers of the German Winter Sports Association was also reflected in the final result, which included no fewer than six HDW athletes among the top ten. The local hero Adolf Berger , German champion from 1921 and owner of a sporting goods shop in Johannisbad, was disappointed had to be satisfied with fifth place.

Vinzenz Buchberger from Spindelmühle , who was one of the favorites and showed a nice first jump over 43 m, injured himself and had to give up due to the sustained tendon strain. The current German champion Kurt Endler and the Swiss Eidenbenz suffered the same injury .

As the best Swiss , Stefan Lauener ( Wengen ) came in sixth, followed by Max Kröckel ( Neuhaus am Rennweg ), the best representative of the German Ski Association , in seventh . From the Austrian Ski Association , Heinz Hinterauer from Salzburg came twelfth.

Nordic combination

Detailed results

Individual (large hill / 18 km)

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Otakar Německý	Czechoslovakia SL RČS	35.816
2	Josef Adolf	Czechoslovakia HDW	32.874
3	Xaver Affentranger	Switzerland	30.096
4th	Franz Wende	Czechoslovakia HDW	31,236
5	Josef Bím	Czechoslovakia SL RČS	30.750
6th	Johan Blomseth	Norway	30,347
7th	Peter Radacher sen.	Austria ÖSV	29.972
8th	Bruno Braun	Czechoslovakia HDW	29.666
9	Josef Bräth	Czechoslovakia HDW	29,560
10	Walter Wagner	German Empire	29,555

Date: Saturday, February 14th (cross-country skiing 18 km) and Sunday, February 15th (ski jumping K-40)

Participant :? started; 32 rated.

For the combination evaluation, the results of the cross-country skiing over 18 km and the combination jump run were summarized. The winner was the Czech Otakar Německý due to his lead in the cross-country skiing competition. Second place went to Josef Adolf from the Giant Mountains who came closest to his compatriot with his excellent jumps.

According to contemporary reports from Austrian , Czechoslovak and Polish newspapers, the German Bohemian Franz Wende took third place . The International Ski Association leads the Swiss Xaver Affentranger as third place , but without specifying the points actually achieved. In the contemporary list of results, the Swiss is only sixth behind Wende, Bím and Blomseth with 30,096 points . A later correction of the result seems likely, but cannot currently be proven.

With third place Affentranger won the first medal for the Swiss Ski Association at the Nordic World Ski Championships. For Austria the Mühlbacher Peter Radacher came in very good seventh place overall. As the best representative of the DSV , Walter Wagner from the ski club in Neuhaus am Rennweg came in 10th place.

literature

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

swell

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Congress Information. 8th Chamonix (FRA) 1924 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. FIS website; Retrieved June 28, 2015 
2. ↑ Congress Information. 25th Mamaia (ROM) 1965 ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. FIS website; Retrieved June 28, 2015