Nordic World Ski Championships 1929 / participant (Hungary)

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Hungary registered four participants, two women and two men , for the 6th Nordic World Ski Championships , which took place from February 5 to 10, 1929 in Zakopane , Poland .

The best placement was achieved by Jules Csekey with 24th place in cross-country skiing over 18 km.

Hungary's second participant, Béla Szepes , the in Berlin living journalist and participants of the Summer Olympics in 1928 in the javelin , reached in ski jumping from the Wielka Krokiew the 30th place ski jump.

For the women’s cross-country skiing over 7 kilometers, which was practically a demonstration competition at the Zakopane World Championships, but which was not included in the official program by the FIS , the Hungarian Ski Association registered the two Szapáry, who were known in tennis and alpine skiing in the following years -Sisters. The two were the daughters of the Austro-Hungarian diplomat Friedrich von Szápáry , Marianne (actually "Maria Anna") and the mother of Marie Christine von Reibnitz , who, as the wife of Michael von Kent, belongs to the British royal family . For reasons that were not reported in detail, however, both withdrew their entries shortly before the start of the competition.

Participants and Results

Men

athlete	society	Cross-country skiing 18 km	Cross-country skiing 50 km	Ski jumping K-60	N. Comb. 18 km / K-60	Downhill skiing	Patrol 28 km
Gyula Csekey	Budapesti Budai Torna Egylet (BBTE)	38.	24.	-	-	-	-
Béla Szepes	MAC Budapest	-	-	30th	DNS / F	DNS / F	-

Women

athlete	society	Cross-country skiing 7 km
Gabriele Szapáry		DNS
Marianne Szapáry		DNS

Legend

• DNS = Did not start (not started)
• DNS / F = Did not start or Did not finish (unclear whether not started or not finished)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Zagranica na zawodach FIS in Stadjon . Ilustrowany Tygodnik Sportowy. Volume 7, No. 5 from January 31, 1929, page 13 ( Polish )