Nordic World Ski Championships 1926 / Men's ski jumping

Nordic World Ski Championships 1926 competitions
Cross-country skiing0
singles	Men 30 km
singles	Men 50 km
Ski jumping0
singles	Men K-40
Nordic combination0
singles	Men K-40/15 km

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1926 in the Finnish city ​​of Lahti , a ski jumping competition was held.

The ski jump from the Salpausselkä ski jump ( K-40 ) took place on Sunday, February 7th, 1926 in front of around 20,000 spectators. 24 ski jumpers were able to classify each other in the competition.

Jacob Tullin Thams was crowned for the second time in 1924 for the world champion in ski jumping . His compatriots Otto Aasen and Georg Østerholt followed in the squares . As the best Finn, Kivivirta placed fifth. 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 from Bayrischzell came in 15th with two evenly and beautifully executed jumps that were too short.

Ski jumping

rank	St. No.	athlete	country	Overall grade	Jump 1	Jump 2
1	?	Jacob Tullin Thams	Norway	113.880	37.0 m	38.5 m
2	?	Otto Aasen	Norway	113.135	37.5 m	37.0 m
3	?	Georg Østerholt	Norway	108.385	34.5 m	35.0 m
4th	?	Johan Grøttumsbråten	Norway	106.020	36.0 m	34.0 m
5	?	Yrjö Kivivirta	Finland	103,500	33.5 m	33.5 m
6th	?	Lars Høgvold	Norway	101,500	32.5 m	34.5 m
7th	?	Toivo Reingoldt	Finland	101.270	33.0 m	34.0 m
8th	?	Sulo Jääskeläinen	Finland	101.135	32.0 m	34.5 m
9	?	Alfred Eklöf	Finland	99.770	31.0 m	32.0 m
10	?	Harald Holm	Finland	99.635	32.0 m	32.5 m
11	?	Urho Kunttu	Finland	99.520	30.0 m	32.0 m
12	?	Toivo Tukia	Finland	99,000	31.5 m	32.5 m
13	?	Arvo Lukander	Finland	98.885	31.0 m	31.5 m
14th	?	Uuno Suomalainen	Finland	98.750	32.5 m	33.5 m
15th	?	Gustav Müller	German Empire	95.630	28.5 m	31.5 m
16	?	Eino Kunttu	Finland	93,520	30.0 m	29.0 m
17th	?	Toivo Nykänen	Finland	89.770	30.0 m	31.0 m
18th	?	Einar Landvik	Norway	79.635	34.0 m *	35.0 m
19th	?	Erkki Järvinen	Finland	75.885	32.0 m	31.5 m
20th	?	Rafael Tuliara-Davidsson	Finland	75.750	36.0 m *	33.5 m
21st	?	Verner Pettersson	Sweden	?	? *	30.5 m
22nd	?	?	?	?	?	?
23	?	Birger Östrand	Sweden	?	33.5 m	? *
24	?	Viktor Dahlén	Sweden	?	? *	? *
DNF	?	Wilhelm Dick	Czechoslovakia HDW	-	32.5 m	? *
DNF	?	Josef Bím	Czechoslovakia SL RČS	-	29.0 m *	28.5 m
DNF	?	Paavo Nuotio	Finland	-	? *	36.5 m
DNF	?	Asbjørn Elgstøen	Norway	-	? *	? *
DNF	?	Thorleif Haug	Norway	-	? *	32.5 m
DNS	?	?

Date: Sunday, February 7, 1926

Participants: 28 started; 24 rated; (45 participants are also reported in contemporary media).

Jumping facility: Salpausselkä ski jump
The competition was held on the 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 .

Note: The 22nd place should have occupied an athlete from the quintet of those who are marked with DNF.

Explanation of symbols

• * = Jump counted as fallen
• DNF = Did not finish (not finished, abandoned)
• DNS = Did not start (reported but not started)

swell

• Lahden Hiihtomuseo: Mänenlasku February 7, 1926 Retrieved February 6, 2018, PDF file
• World Championships: February 14, 1926 - Lahti (FIN), in: Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, s. 145. ISBN 3-89784-099-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nordiska grenar. Lahtis (FIN) 1926. Backhoppning ( Memento of May 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 6, 2018 from web.archive.org
2. ↑ Nordiska grenar. Lahtis (FIN) 1926. Backhoppning ( Memento of May 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 6, 2018 from web.archive.org
3. ↑ Nordiska grenar. Lahtis (FIN) 1926. Backhoppning ( Memento of May 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 6, 2018 from web.archive.org