Nordic World Ski Championships 1926

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winner
Cross-country skiing 30 km FinlandFinland Matti Raivio
Cross-country skiing 50 km FinlandFinland Matti Raivio
Ski jumping large hill NorwayNorway Jacob Tullin Thams
Nordic combination NorwayNorway Johan Grøttumsbråten
Competitions
Venues FinlandFinland Finland
Individual competitions 4th
Attendees
Nations 6th
← Johannisbad 1925 Cortina d'Ampezzo 1927 →

The 3rd Nordic World Ski Championships were held from February 4th to 7th, 1926 in Lahti in Finland .

history

Associated with the IX. Congress of the International Ski Federation , which lasted from February 3 to 6, 1926, major international ski competitions were held. The competitions were designated by the FIS as rendezvous races and only subsequently received the status of a world championship. The contemporary German-language media mostly spoke of "Congress Games" or, incorrectly, of "Nordic Games".

In the Scandinavian countries, the FIS races of 1926 were considered to be the first official FIS races at all, since the FIS races held in Czechoslovakia in 1925 were not recognized in Norway , Finland and Sweden . Finland and Sweden had not sent any teams for this purpose, from the Norwegian side only two skiers took part in Johannisbad , who at that time also lived in Central Europe .

The FIS races or "Congress Games" were held as part of the ski games held by Lahti since 1923 and, due to the international nature of the event, meant that foreigners were also allowed to take part in these ski games for the first time. The competitions were held in the ski sports center on Salpausselkä -Höhenzug, which was built especially for the ski games in 1923 and was expanded again for the congress games. Criticism of the system, which was built based on the model of the ski center on Holmenkollen in Oslo , came mainly from the Norwegian side, because for the system of the Finnish ski center, in contrast to Norway, where no tree was allowed to be felled for the construction of ski slopes, especially on Holmenkollen and in Nordmarken , in Lahti the paths were radically widened and artificial hills were raised without taking into account the existing trees and the natural features of nature .

The snow and weather conditions were very good during the ski competitions . The temperatures were around −20 ° to −30 ° C , however, during the combined cross-country skiing on February 5, it was said to have been down to −42 ° C at the coldest parts of the slope. These low temperatures resulted in Finnish runners sometimes wearing plaster masks , while Norwegian athletes tried to protect themselves from the cold with petroleum jelly , and individual Czechoslovak athletes were dressed as they were on a North Pole expedition . Despite all the precautionary measures, some athletes suffered severe frostbite and one death occurred .

The congress held in what was then the youngest town in Finland was a national event. Above all, the skiing connected with it was enthusiastically received by the people described as very hospitable. Particular attention was paid to the well-functioning organization in all competitions that were held, and that with a number of participants, including the national Finnish competitions for soldiers , juniors, senior citizens and women, of up to 600 skiers. All events and results were continuously announced across the country via radio .

As a result, Lahti has already been awarded the Nordic World Ski Championships seven times, namely after 1926 in 1938 , 1958 , 1978 , 1989 , 2001 and 2017 .

Competitions

The traditional Nordic ski competitions, endurance run over 50 km, ski jumping and the Nordic combined competitions were held . Instead of the short distance of 18 km, cross-country skiing over 30 km was carried out. At the following world championships, however, was again run over a length of 18 km. The cross-country skiing distance of 30 km was only reintroduced at the 1954 World Championships .

program

date competition
Thursday February 4th Cross-country skiing 30 km men
Friday February 5th Combination cross-country skiing 15 km
Saturday February 6th Combination jump run K50
Sunday February 7th Cross-country skiing 50 km
Special jump run K50


Only the international competitions that were later recognized as part of the world championships are listed .

As a supporting program, the organizer organized several competitions at national level.

Attendees

Europe (7 associations)

Athletes from 7 federations from 6 countries took part in the rendezvous races of the International Ski Federation of 1926 in Lahti. The number of foreign participants was 30, most of them from the Scandinavian countries Norway and Sweden . Only 4 athletes from Germany and Czechoslovakia came from Central Europe . Winter sports countries like Poland , Austria , Switzerland , Italy , as well as the representatives from Great Britain and France , stayed away from the congress games in Lahti.

Medal table

Nations
space nation gold silver bronze total
01 NorwayNorway Norway 2 2 3 7th
02 FinlandFinland Finland 2 2 1 5
athlete
space athlete gold silver bronze total
01 FinlandFinland Matti Raivio 2 0 0 2
02 NorwayNorway Jacob Tullin Thams 1 0 0 1
NorwayNorway Johan Grøttumsbråten 1 0 0 1
04th FinlandFinland Tauno Lappalainen 1 0 0 1
05 NorwayNorway Otto Aasen 0 1 0 1
NorwayNorway Thorleif Haug 0 1 0 1
07th NorwayNorway Olav Kjelbotn 0 0 1 1
NorwayNorway Einar Landvik 0 0 1 1
NorwayNorway Georg Østerholt 0 0 1 1
FinlandFinland Veli Saarinen 0 0 1 1

Cross-country skiing

Detailed results

30 km

space athlete country time
1 Matti Raivio FinlandFinland Finland 2: 20: 55.0 h
2 Tauno Lappalainen FinlandFinland Finland 2: 27: 13.0 h
3 Veli Saarinen FinlandFinland Finland 2: 27: 34.0 h
4th Gustaf Jonsson SwedenSweden Sweden 2: 28: 27.0 h
5 Sven Åström SwedenSweden Sweden 2: 31: 27.0 h
6th Martti Lappalainen FinlandFinland Finland 2: 34: 54.0 h
7th Olav Kjelbotn NorwayNorway Norway 2: 35: 55.0 h
8th Juho Kurra FinlandFinland Finland 2: 36: 51.0 h
9 Matti Ritola FinlandFinland Finland 2: 37: 06.0 h
10 Ole Hegge NorwayNorway Norway 2: 37: 14.0 h

Date: Thursday February 4, 1926

Participants: 28 named, 21 started; 15 rated.

Route: The trail, based on the Norwegian model, led through a light forest and hilly terrain.

The Finn Matti Raivio won his first of two world championship titles. The later Olympic champion and three-time world champion Veli Saarinen won his first medal with third place. The highly rated Norwegians disappointed and only came in seventh and tenth place.

The two Czechoslovaks Josef Německý and the German Bohemian Emmerich Rath were still marked by the journey and gave up due to fatigue. In addition to the two Central Europeans and the Latvian Mottmiller, only three runners who did not come from a Scandinavian country took part in the race.

The German Ski Association only named Lahti in the jumping and Nordic combined competitions.

50 km

space athlete country time
1 Matti Raivio FinlandFinland Finland 4: 18: 18.0 h
2 Tauno Lappalainen FinlandFinland Finland 4: 26: 45.0 h
3 Olav Kjelbotn NorwayNorway Norway 4: 26: 47.0 h
4th Ole Hegge NorwayNorway Norway 4: 27: 50.0 h
5 Gustaf Jonsson SwedenSweden Sweden 4: 29: 55.0 h
6th Tapani Niku FinlandFinland Finland 4:30: 06.0 h
7th Erkki Kämäräinen FinlandFinland Finland 4:30: 54.0 h
8th Sven Åström SwedenSweden Sweden 4: 39: 50.0 h
9 Veli Saarinen FinlandFinland Finland 4: 44: 14.0 h
10 Asser Autio FinlandFinland Finland 4: 45: 15.0 h

Date: Sunday, February 7, 1926
Participants: 31 named; 19 started; 14 rated.

The continuous operation took place under favorable snow conditions and a temperature of -25 ° C instead. Of the 30 registered runners, only 18 started, of which four, including the only Central European , the Czechoslovak Josef Německý , did not finish the run.

Victory again went to the Finn Matti Raivio , who finished the track in an excellent time of 4 hours and 18 minutes. His compatriot Lappalainen , who was already second in the 30 km run, narrowly won the duel for second place . With third place, Olav Kjelbotn captured the only podium in cross-country skiing for Norway .

Ski jumping

Jump run K-40

Detailed results

space athlete country Width 1 Width 2 grade
1 Jacob Tullin Thams NorwayNorway Norway 37.0 m 38.5 m 113.880
2 Otto Aasen NorwayNorway Norway 37.5 m 37.0 m 113.135
3 Georg Østerholt NorwayNorway Norway 34.5 m 35.0 m 108.385
4th Johan Grøttumsbråten NorwayNorway Norway 36.0 m 34.0 m 106.020
5 Yrjö Kivivirta FinlandFinland Finland 33.5 m 33.5 m 103,500
6th Lars Høgvold NorwayNorway Norway 32.5 m 34.5 m 101,500
7th Toivo Reingoldt FinlandFinland Finland 33.0 m 34.0 m 101.270
8th Sulo Jääskeläinen FinlandFinland Finland 32.0 m 34.5 m 101.135
9 Alfred Eklöf SwedenSweden Sweden 31.0 m 32.0 m 99.770
10 Harald Holm FinlandFinland Finland 32.0 m 32.5 m 99.635

Date: Sunday, February 7, 1926

Participants: 28 started; 20 rated; (45 participants are also reported in contemporary media).

Jumping facility: Salpausselkä ski jump
The competition was held on the old K-40 facility built in 1923. This was across from today's grandstand and was described as a huge system with a tower approach based on the Holmenkollbakken model . The ancillary facilities such as the steam bath , warm house, club room and above all the large grandstands were very well received .

In the competition itself, the Norwegians were superior. Tullin Thams , who at that time held the world record with 69.5 meters, repeated his triumph from the Olympic Games in Chamonix and was crowned world champion in ski jumping for the second time . For Aasen and Østerholt , the second and third place respectively remained the only medals at major international events. As the best Finn , Kivivirta placed fifth behind the fourth Norwegian Grøttumsbråten .

More than 20,000 spectators were present at the special jumping event. Jacob Tullin Thams showed the longest jump of the day with 38.5 meters in the second round.

As the best of the three Central European representatives, Gustl Müller placed 15th with two evenly and beautifully completed jumps that were too short.

Nordic combination

Detailed results

Individual (large hill / 15 km)

space athlete country Overall grade
1 Johan Grøttumsbråten NorwayNorway Norway 37.125
2 Thorleif Haug NorwayNorway Norway 35,415
3 Einar Landvik NorwayNorway Norway 33.127
4th Otto Aasen NorwayNorway Norway 32.827
5 Toivo Nykänen FinlandFinland Finland 31,583
6th Esko Järvinen FinlandFinland Finland 31,519
7th Verner Petersson SwedenSweden Sweden 28.813
8th Uuno Suomalainen FinlandFinland Finland 27.559
9 Asbjørn Elgstøen NorwayNorway Norway 27.310
10 Toivo Järvinen FinlandFinland Finland 26.875

Date: Friday, February 5 (cross-country skiing) and Saturday, February 6, 1926 (ski jumping)

Participants: 25 started; 24 rated. (The contemporary media also reported about 29 or 30 starters).

Johan Grøttumsbråten won the combined cross-country race over 15 km, which was carried out in a cold of −30 ° C, ahead of his compatriot Thorleif Haug .

Gustl Müller from Bayrischzell and Willy Dick from the Bohemian part of the Ore Mountains came in 14th and 19th. The Prague council came last. Because he was too late, he was awarded zero points.

In the jump from the Salpausselkä ski jump (K-40), the Norwegian Otto Aasen took the lead with a score of 17.952. In jumping the Norwegians and Swedes dominated , the best Finn only came in seventh place. Jacob Tullin Thams showed the longest jump of the competition, it was jumped twice, the better jump was scored, with 39.5 meters.

Willy Dick reached tenth place with a standing jump of 33 meters, Gustl Müller missed a better final position with a fall in the first and a bad jump over 30 meters in the second run.

In the overall standings, the Norwegians impressed with places 1 to 4. World champion was Grøttumsbråten , who after his previous three medals, one silver and two bronze medals at the Olympic Games in Chamonix , has now won a gold medal for the first time.

More competitions

In addition to the international ski competitions, there were a number of national decisions. The start was made on the opening day with a competition of the Finnish army on skis over 20 km with 252 participants, on the second day a combined run over 8 km with 150 participants was organized. On February 6th, 10 Finnish peasant girls from the region started on a 5 km course laid out over a lake, which Siiri Leivonen was able to win. There were also national competitions for juniors over 25 km and senior competitions over 10 km. In the flat running of the oldest age group, the almost 60-year-old Finnish old master Matti Koskenkorva took eighth place. These competitions do not count towards the World Cup.

IX. Congress of the International Ski Federation

The IX. The FIS Congress was held from February 3 to 6, 1926 in the Lahti town hall. The ski associations from Germany ( Peter Frey ), Sweden , Norway , Austria , Italy , Finland , Switzerland , France , Czechoslovakia , Romania , Poland and Japan were represented .

At the beginning, at the request of Finland, it was decided to adopt German as the language of the protocol.

During the three-day meetings, some important decisions were made:

  • contrary to the votes of the Scandinavian countries Norway, Finland and Sweden, the decision was made to take part in the Olympic Games with the competitions endurance running, cross-country skiing, Nordic combined and jumping.
  • St. Moritz was set as the location for the next congress in 1928 ;
  • the request of the General Austrian Ski Association (as an avowed opponent of the Aryan paragraph) for direct membership in the international ski association was granted;

There were heated debates when the proposal to introduce the Aryan paragraph in the International Ski Federation was to be discussed. Italy submitted the counterproposal and found a strong majority among the member associations. Only the delegates from Austria, Germany, Norway and Finland voted against the rejection of the introduction. The congress also decided to call on the Austrian Ski Association , which had already introduced the aforementioned paragraph and openly represented its nationalist orientation, to give it up again. The delegate of the Austrian Association then resigned from representing his country and the Austrian Ski Association subsequently withdrew from the FIS.

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Thor Gotaas: Døde etter kuldesjokk i første ski-VM NRK.no of February 21, 2011; accessed on March 21, 2016