Nordic World Ski Championships 1929

Nordic World Ski Championships 1929
winner
Cross-country skiing 18 km	Veli Saarinen
Cross-country skiing 50 km	Anselm Knuuttila
Ski jumping large hill	Sigmund Ruud
Nordic combination	Hans Vinjarengen
Downhill men ( demonstration competition )	Bronislaw Czech
Cross-country skiing women 7 km (demonstration competition)	Bronisława Staszel-Polankówa
Military patrol (unofficial)	Finland
Competitions
Venues	Zakopane
Individual competitions	4 + 2 demo
Team competitions	1 unofficial
Attendees
Nations	14th
← St. Moritz 1928	Oslo 1930 →

The 6th Nordic World Ski Championships were held from February 5 to 10, 1929 in Zakopane , Poland .

history

The competitions were officially called International FIS Races at that time and did not have the status of a world championship. Unofficially, however, the media and interested sports circles in particular have already spoken of events worthy of the World Cup, but rather of equally unofficial European skiing championships . The Polish Ski Association and Zakopane were for the first time familiarized with the organization of a major FIS race, and in 1939 and 1962 the Polish health resort was also awarded the organization of the then official World Championships .

A total of 15 associations from 14 countries, mostly from Western and Central Europe and Scandinavia, took part in the competitions. During the FIS races , Zakopane accommodated around 25,000 spa guests in addition to the entourage of active people and supervisors, so that there was a colorful and lively hustle and bustle in the small Polish town.

Competitions

As in the previous FIS races in Cortina in 1927 and the 1928 Winter Olympics in Switzerland, the traditional Nordic ski competitions in cross-country skiing over 50 and 18 km, jumping and Nordic combined were on the program .

At the FIS congress on the occasion of the Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz in February 1928, at Arnold Lunn's request for international recognition of downhill and slalom , it was decided to allow the national federations to conduct "experimental" races according to the so-called "British Rules". The Polish Ski Association made use of it on the occasion of the FIS races in Zakopane and for the first time held alpine competitions as part of the international FIS races. From today's perspective, these competitions would be called demonstration sports.

The program of the FIS races at that time also included the military patrol run . When the FIS retrospectively awarded the status of world championships to its major international races, which were advertised once a year, only the traditional competitions were designated as official. The military patrol run was left out as well as the two alpine downhill runs.

program

date	Time ( MST )	Men's	Ladies
Tuesday February 5th		Cross-country skiing: endurance run 50 km
Wednesday February 6th		Alpine skiing: downhill
Thursday February 7th			Cross-country skiing: individual 7 km
Friday February 8th		Cross-country skiing: individual 18 km
		Nordic combination: cross-country skiing 18 km
Saturday February 9th	morning	Military patrol
	in the afternoon	Nordic combined: Jumping K-60
Sunday February 10th		Ski jumping: Jumping K-60

Attendees

A total of 15 national ski associations from 14 countries took part in the 1929 FIS races in Zakopane. The Czechoslovakia was again with two associations, the Czech SL RCS and the German Bohemian HDW represented. Great Britain participated with nine athletes in the alpine competitions, but had also named three men for the ski jumping. France only took part in the non-World Cup military patrol run.

Participants in the official FIS competitions:

Europe (15 associations)
Austria ( AÖSV )  German Empire  Finland  Great Britain  Italy  Yugoslavia  Latvia  Norway  Poland  Romania  Sweden  Switzerland  Czechoslovakia ( SL RČS )  Czechoslovakia ( HDW )  Hungary

Participants in the unofficial military patrol run only:

France

Medal table

Final result after 4 competitions officially part of the World Cup today

Nations

space	country
1	Norway	2	2	1	5
1	Finland	2	2	1	5
3	Sweden	0	0	2	2

athlete

space	athlete	nation
1	Anselm Knuuttila	Finland	1	1	0	2
	Veli Saarinen	Finland	1	1	0	2
3	Sigmund Ruud	Norway	1	0	0	1
	Hans Vinjarengen	Norway	1	0	0	1
5	Kristian Johansson	Norway	0	1	0	1
	Ole Stenen	Norway	0	1	0	1
7th	Hjalmar Bergström	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	Esko Järvinen	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Hans Kleppen	Norway	0	0	1	1
	Olle Hansson	Sweden	0	0	1	1

Cross-country skiing men

Detailed results

18 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Veli Saarinen	Finland	1: 20: 03.0 h
2	Anselm Knuuttila	Finland	1:20:40 h
3	Hjalmar Bergström	Sweden	1: 21: 28.0 h
4th	Olle Hansson	Sweden	1: 23: 03.0 h
5	Hagbart Haakonsen	Norway	1: 23: 36.0 h
5	Gustaf Jonsson	Sweden	1: 23: 36.0 h
7th	Väinö Liikkanen	Finland	1: 23: 43.0 h
8th	Serious cancer	German Empire	1: 25: 12.0 h
9	Franz Donth	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	1: 25: 42.0 h
10	Walter Bussmann	Switzerland	1: 26: 11.0 h

Date: Friday February 8, 1929

Route: The route started east of Zakopane on a circular route over the surrounding slopes. The start was at an altitude of 920 m. The trail descended continuously for the first three kilometers and then rose again to 1,100 meters. After the ascent, the runners had a descent to an altitude of 860 m in front of them, which was followed by a longer flat route. After a renewed ascent to 975 m, the course of the route descended again to the destination. Overall, the route had a height difference of about 220 m. The snow conditions were good, so that apart from the temperatures of −15 ° C, the route did not pose too much of a challenge to the competitors.

Participants: 55 started; 40 rated.
The total of 98 participants from twelve associations were rated in two classes according to the announcement, in that of the special cross-country skiers and that of the combination cross-country skiers.

The three German representatives in the special cross-country skiing were able to classify themselves quite well. They also received good start numbers in the draw made the day before with the numbers 29 for Otto Wahl , 31 for Krebs and 75 for Helmut Schuster . Surprisingly, Munich's Ernst Krebs performed best, taking part in a major international competition for the first time and placing himself in an excellent eighth place as the best Central European, ahead of the well-known German Bohemian Franz Donth and the Swiss Walter Bussmann . Wahl and Schuster also delivered an excellent performance, but missed even better placings due to ski breakage, which caused them to lose some time.

As expected, the Scandinavians , especially the Finns , made the race among themselves. Veli Saarinen achieved the best time and relegated his compatriot Anselm Knuuttila , the winner of the endurance run by 37 seconds, to second place. The Swedish representatives were surprisingly positive again and crowned their performance with third place by Hjalmar Bergström . The only representative of Norway , Hagbart Haakonsen , came in fifth.

50 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Anselm Knuuttila	Finland	3: 50: 01.0 h
2	Veli Saarinen	Finland	3: 53: 23.0 h
3	Olle Hansson	Sweden	3: 53: 30.0 h
4th	Väinö Liikkanen	Finland	3: 56: 15.0 h
5	Gustaf Jonsson	Sweden	3: 58: 07.0 h
6th	Hjalmar Bergström	Sweden	3: 59: 05.0 h
7th	Leif Skagnaes	Norway	4:02: 43.0 h
8th	Franz Donth	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	4: 04: 39.0 h
9	Ole Stenen	Norway	4: 11: 51.0 h
10	Josef Německý	Czechoslovakia	4: 19: 05.0 h

Date: Tuesday, February 5, 1929
Participants: 41 named; 32 started, 28 scored.

The first competition was the 50 km endurance run in moderate snow conditions and a temperature of −7 ° C. Several thousand spectators lined the route, and many military attachés from other European countries were invited to the finish area .

As expected, the Scandinavians took the top positions. The Finn Anselm Knuuttila won his first and only gold medal at a major event, his compatriot Veli Saarinen achieved the second success with the silver medal after his third place at the 1926 World Championships in Lahti over 50 km. Third place went to the Swede Olle Hansson . Somewhat disappointing was the performance of the favored Norwegians whose best runners only crossed the finish line in ranks 7 and 9.

As the best Central European , the German Bohemian Franz Donth was ranked 8th. His Czechoslovak compatriot Josef Německý and Swiss Walter Bussmann also took good places .

The German team missed the competition because they missed the connecting train on their way from Klingenthal in Saxony to Zakopane . From the German side, Helmut Schuster , Hans Bauer , Otto Wahl and Fritz Pellkofer were named for the competition.

Ski jumping men

Detailed results

Large hill

space	athlete	country	Width 1	Width 2	grade
1	Sigmund Ruud	Norway	57.0 m	55.0 m	227.2
2	Kristian Johansson	Norway	56.0 m	56.0 m	225.2
3	Hans Kleppen	Norway	57.0 m	55.0 m	223.8
4th	Alois Kratzer	German Empire	53.0 m	56.0 m	220.0
4th	Hans Vinjarengen	Norway	55.0 m	53.5 m	220.0
6th	Arne Busterud	Norway	53.0 m	55.0 m	217.1
7th	Christian Holmen	Norway	52.0 m	55.5 m	215.3
8th	Paavo Nuotio	Finland	48.0 m	53.0 m	210.3
9	Erich Recknagel	German Empire	50.0 m	53.5 m	209.2
10	Bronislaw Czech	Poland	50.0 m	53.5 m	208.7

Date: Sunday, February 10, 1929
Jumping area: Wielka Krokiew
Participants: 57 named; 49 started, 41 scored.

The Krokiew ski jump is located about 15 minutes from the center of Zakopane and showed the following characteristics in 1929: The inrun was 93 meters long, the incline was 30 degrees and the landing track was 135 meters wide. For the spectators there was a large grandstand which was not filled with only 5,000 spectators due to the grim cold.

The ski jump took place on Sunday at noon at about −34 ° C and was broadcast live on the radio by the Vienna station. The hill was in excellent condition. The inrun track had become faster due to the jumps from the previous day's combined jumping, which meant that greater distances could be achieved. During a trial training session on Wednesday, the favored Norwegians, above all Hans Vinjarengen and Sigmund Ruud, were in excellent shape. The German jumpers, led by Erich Recknagel from Thuringia, as well as the Polish and Czechoslovak representatives, also made a good impression.

In the competition itself, the Norwegians dominated, who performed their jumps in an exemplary manner. Sigmund Ruud won the competition with jumps over 57.0 and 55.0 meters in front of his compatriots Kristian Johannson and Hans Kleppen . Out of competition, Ruud set a new hill record with a jump over 71.5 meters.

Alois Kratzer became the best Central European as fourth, who was able to break through the Norwegian phalanx with his widths of 53 and 56 meters. Erich Recknagel completed the excellent results of the German team with 9th place. Thannheimer and Müller placed in the top 20.

Nordic combination

Detailed results

Individual (normal hill / 18 km)

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Hans Vinjarengen	Norway	452.10
2	Ole Stenen	Norway	432.86
3	Esko Järvinen	Finland	431.70
4th	Bronislaw Czech	Poland	431.06
5	Kristian Johansson	Norway	429.79
6th	Peder Belgum	Norway	428.42
7th	Paavo Nuotio	Finland	423.30
8th	Alois Kratzer	German Empire	416.90
9	Gustav Müller	German Empire	411.15
10	Arne Busterud	Norway	408.60

Date: Friday, February 8th (cross-country skiing) and Saturday, February 9th (ski jumping)

Participants: 43 started, 39 rated.

The combined cross-country race over 18 km was held as part of the special cross-country race on February 8th on the slopes around the city of Zakopane and saw the Finn Esko Järvinen as the winner ahead of the two Norwegians Hans Vinjarengen and Ole Stenen . The best chances of victory were given next to the first placed Peder Belgum , Paavo Nuotio and above all the highly rated Poles Bronisław Czech , who with a fourth place in the following combined event jumped just past the podium. The Norwegian Sigmund Ruud , who was favored in the run-up , gave away all chances of a top place with a 37th place in the running competition, as did Rudolf Burkert with the 25th run.

The German representatives did very well, above all Gustav Müller in seventh and Hans Bauer in ninth place. However, they were no longer considered for a podium after running. Aschauer and Kratzer place in the top 15, Pellkofer came in 21st place.

In the second part of the Nordic Combined, the ski jumping, the Krokiew-Schanze showed itself after extensive snowfall, which made the inrun track a bit slower, and in the sunshine despite the icy cold of -20 ° C, in a wonderful snow cover. Around 10,000 spectators followed the competition. The best was the Norwegian Hans Vinjarengen with two jumps over 40 and 44 m, shown in perfect posture. He relegated his compatriot Ole Stenen (34.0 and 44.0 m) and the Finn Esko Järvinen (32.0 and 42.0 m) to second and third place in the combined jumping and also moved up to first place in the final classification Stenen and Järvinen.

The German combined athletes also showed some good performances in jumping. Loisl Kratzer came to 36 and 44 meters and Müller to 35 and 41 meters, whereby he fell on the second jump in the run. Bauer only reached 22 meters in the first run, but showed a nice jump to 34 meters in the second run. Pellkofer came to 30 and 37 m. Josef Aschauer fell in the first run at 22 meters and did not start in the second run. He fell back from 12th to 35th place in the overall standings.

The best Swiss was Vuilleumier with jumps over 36 and 46 meters, the best Central European in running and jumping and thus also in the overall standings was the local hero Bronisław Czech .

More competitions

Downhill men

• Detailed results

space	athlete	country	time
1	Bronislaw Czech	Poland	06:52 min
2	Bill Bracken	United Kingdom	06:55 min
3	Stefan Lauener	Switzerland	08:21 min
4th	Fritz Kaufmann	Switzerland	08:24 min
5	Bruno Trojani	Switzerland	08:26 min
6th	Guy Nixon	United Kingdom	08:30 min
7th	Andrzej Krzeptowski I	Poland	08:43 min
8th	William James Riddel	United Kingdom	08:54 min
9	Wladyslaw Czech	Poland	09:05 min
10	Pelham Maitland	United Kingdom	09:13 min

Date: Wednesday February 6, 1929

Participants: 60 named, 29 started, 23 rated. Out of competition, the two English women Doreen Elliott and Audrey Sale-Barker took part. With their times of 10: 16.00 and 10: 25.00 they would have come in 13th and 14th in the competition.

Route: The downhill race on the Gąsienicowa plateau was run in two stages ( Sucha-Przełęcz - Hala Gąsienicowa and Kopa Magury - Hala Olczysko - Wyznia ) due to weather conditions and for safety reasons and ran over a total length of 5 km. The difference in altitude was about 400 meters.

Cross-country skiing women 7 km

Detailed results

space	athlete	country	time
1	Bronisława Staszel-Polankówa	Poland	31: 34.0 min
2	Bela Friedländerová-Havlová	Czechoslovakia (SL RČS)	34: 29.0 min
3	Elżbieta Ziętkiewiczowa	Poland	35: 20.0 min
4th	Zofia Stopkówna	Poland	36: 30.0 min
5	Zofia Lorenzówna	Poland	36: 52.0 min
6th	Janina Sawczak-Fischerowa	Poland	37: 09.0 min
7th	Wanda Dubieńska	Poland	38: 43.0 min
8th	Zofia Giewontówna	Poland	39: 09.0 min
9	Hede Miemitz	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	39: 35.0 min
10	Władysława Szostakówna	Poland	39: 51.0 min

Date: Thursday February 7, 1929

Participants: 29 named; 23 started; 22 rated;

Route: The start was on the Gubałówka , the route length was 7 km. The snow conditions were good, the weather frosty and sunny.

Military patrol

space	athlete	country	time
1	---	Finland	3: 11: 44.0 h
2	---	Poland	3: 16: 13.0 h
3	---	Romania	3: 19: 18.0 h
4th	---	Czechoslovakia	3: 22: 24.0 h
5	---	Yugoslavia	3: 34: 22.0 h
6th	---	France	3: 52: 50.0 h

Date: Saturday, February 9th, 1929
The military patrol run took place at −20 ° C and excellent snow conditions in the morning before the combined jump. Each patrol consisted of an officer and three men in full gear. During the run a total of 13 targets had to be shot.

Meeting of the International Ski Sports Federation

On the occasion of the FIS races, the board of the International Ski Federation held a meeting in Zakopane and made the following decisions:

The Latvian Ski Association has been provisionally accepted as a member. Half of the membership fee was waived for Latvia, but the decision still had to be officially recognized at the next FIS Congress in Oslo in 1930 .

With regard to the then upcoming Olympic Games in Lake Placid in 1932 , it was decided to make the participation of the European associations dependent on financial subsidies from America .

The Austrian Ski Delegation (ÖSD) submitted an application for the official introduction of downhill runs at FIS races. The application was handed over to a commission which had to collect the experiences of the individual associations about downhill runs and, on the basis of these results, draw up proposals for the congress in Oslo.

Finally, the decision was made to limit the size of new ski jumping hills in order to minimize the great dangers for ski jumpers and to prevent the hunt for distance records.

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

• Zaimponowalismy Stadjon: Ilustrowany Tygodnik Sportowy , No. 7, 1929, s. 3-10
• Cross-country skiing in Zakopane and jumping in Zakopane in: Freiburger Zeitung of February 11, 1929 (Sportblatt), page 1
• End of the European Championships in: Freiburger Zeitung of February 11, 1929 (Sportblatt), page 2
• European Ski Championships - The exact result in Zakopane in: Freiburger Zeitung of February 12, 1929 (2nd sheet), page 3
• Ski races in Zakopane in: (Linzer) Tages-Post from February 8, 1929, page 6
• The women's run in Zakopane in: (Linzer) Tages-Post from February 9, 1929, page 7
• The international ski competitions in Zakopane in (Linzer) Tages-Post of February 10, 1929, page 8
• The international ski races in Zakopane in: (Linzer) Tages-Post from February 12, 1929, page 6
• The ski competitions in Zakopane in: (Linzer) Tages-Post from February 13, 1929, page 6
• The European skiing championships in: Neue Freie Presse from February 6, 1927, page 9
• The European skiing championships in: Neue Freie Presse from February 7, 1929, page 10
• European championships in skiing. Women's and cross-country skiing in: Neue Freie Presse from February 9, 1927, page 11
• Account Startuje w Zakopanem. Obsada poszczególnych konkurencyj w zawodach FIS in: Przegląd Sportowy of February 6, 1929, page 3 ( Polish )
• Czech i Polankowa zdobywają dia Polski pierwsze mistrzostwa Europy in: Przegląd Sportowy of February 9, 1929, page 1 (Polish)
• 50 Kilometrów jednym tchem / Na finiszu 50-TKI / Triumpf Br. Czecha nad Anglikami i Szwajcarami in: Przegląd Sportowy of February 9, 1929, page 2 (Polish)
• Zaimponowaliscie Europie / Królowie sniegu o Maratonie Narciarskim in: Przegląd Sportowy of February 9, 1929, page 3 (Polish)
• Polacy na czele. Narciarstwa Europy Srodkowej in: Przegląd Sportowy of February 16, 1929, page 1 (Polish)
• Jak zdobyl Br. Czech czwarte miejsce et al in: Przegląd Sportowy from February 16, 1929, page 2 (Polish)
• Na klasycznym szlaku 18-stu klm. among others in: Przegląd Sportowy from February 16, 1929, page 3 (Polish)
• The 18 km in Zakopane in: Prager Tagblatt from February 9, 1929, page 7
• The European Championships in Zakopane in: Prager Tagblatt of February 8, 1929, page 12
• European championship in skiing in: Sport-Tagblatt dated February 6, 1929, page 4
• European championship in skiing in: Sport-Tagblatt dated February 7, 1929, page 5
• European skiing championship in: Sport-Tagblatt dated February 8, 1929, page 5
• European championship in skiing in: Sport-Tagblatt from February 9, 1929, page 6
• European skiing championship in: Sport-Tagblatt dated February 11, 1929, page 6
• Conference of the International Ski Sports Association in: Vorarlberger Tagblatt from February 15, 1929

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beat Hodler: The fight for the recognition of downhill and slalom ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: 100 years of winter sports in Mürren, page 6 (pdf) 
2. ↑ Meeting of the International Ski Association in: Bregenzer / Vorarlberger Tagblatt of February 15, 1921, page 6