Nordic World Ski Championships 1931 / Men ski jumping

Nordic World Ski Championships 1931 competitions
Cross-country skiing0
singles	Men 17 km
singles	Men 50 km
Ski jumping0
singles	Men K-55
Nordic combination0
singles	Men K-55/17 km

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1931 in Oberhof in Thuringia ( Germany ), a ski jumping competition was held on the large hill ( K -55).

The ski jump on the Hindenburgschanze took place on Sunday, February 15, 1931 in front of around 30,000 spectators. Around 70 ski jumpers took part in the competition, 65 of whom were able to classify.

The young Norwegian Birger Ruud won the special jumping event with widths of 56.5 and 58.5 meters ahead of the surprise Fritz Kaufmann from Switzerland, who thus reached the peak of his career, and Sven Eriksson from Sweden.

Large hill K-55

space	Start No.	athlete	country	Width 1	Width 2	grade
1	?	Birger Ruud	Norway	56.5 m	58.5 m	236.00
2	37	Fritz Kaufmann	Switzerland	57.0 m	56.0 m	228.80
3	51	Sven Eriksson (Selånger)	Sweden	56.0 m	55.5 m	227.30
4th	?	Reidar Andersen	Norway	54.0 m	54.0 m	225.80
5	91	Kaare Wahlberg	Norway	54.5 m	53.5 m	225.00
6th	11	Sigmund Ruud	Norway	56.0 m	51.5 m	224.20
7th	72	Sverre Kolterud	Norway	53.0 m	53.5 m	222.30
8th	54	Wilhelm Dick	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	52.0 m	54.0 m	215.00
9	(38/39)	Heinz Ermel	German Empire	50.0 m	53.0 m	213.50
10	55	Alois Kratzer	German Empire	47.0 m	53.5 m	206.10
11	65	Cesare Chiogna	Switzerland	49.0 m	50.5 m	205.20
12	87	David Zogg	Switzerland	48.0 m	51.0 m	200.90
13	8th	Johan Grøttumsbråten	Norway	45.0 m	47.0 m	197.80
14th	58	Vítězslav bad luck	Czechoslovakia (SL RČS)	51.0 m	46.0 m	196.60
15th	62	Rudolf Vrána	Czechoslovakia (SL RČS)	45.0 m	47.0 m	190.30
16	?	Franz Reiser	German Empire	44.0 m	43.0 m	189.80
17th	52	Rudolf Lesser	German Empire	46.0 m	46.0 m	189.30
18th	?	Willy Möhwald	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	44.0 m	43.0 m	188.80
19th	(43/44)	Franz Wende	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	46.0 m	44.0 m	188.40
20th	3	Erik Rylander	Sweden	38.5 m	50.0 m	188.00
21st	78	Antonín Bartoň	Czechoslovakia (SL RČS)	44.0 m	43.5 m	187.40
22nd	46	Franz Lauer	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	45.0 m	45.0 m	187.00
23	9	Henry Grönlund	Sweden	44.0 m	41.5 m	185.80
24	80	Josef Gumpold	Austria	44.0 m	46.5 m	185.10
25th	?	Max Meinel	German Empire	42.0 m	44.5 m	184.50
26th	71	Karl Wagner	German Empire	44.0 m	45.0 m	183.60
27	75	Paul Henckel	German Empire	39.5 m	46.5 m	183.40
28	(6/7)	Heinz Fehringer	German Empire	36.0 m	46.0 m	?
29	89	Hans Schmid	Switzerland	45.0 m	45.0 m	180.00
30th	(81/82)	Walter Wagner	German Empire	44.0 m	45.0 m	177.10
31	?	Hans Leonhardt	German Empire	43.5 m	45.0 m	?
32	(66/67)	Oskar Fuchs	German Empire	40.5 m	40.0 m	?
33	74	Sepp Scherbaum	German Empire	41.5 m	39.5 m	?
34	?	Max Kröckel	German Empire	38.5 m	40.0 m	174.00
35	?	Alfred Lohse	German Empire	40.0 m	36.0 m	?
36	2	Jan Cífka	Czechoslovakia (SL RČS)	42.0 m	40.5 m	?
37	?	Werner Martin	German Empire	40.5 m	39.5 m	171.20
38	90	Fritz Steuri III	Switzerland	35.0 m	43.0 m	169.30
39	(67/68)	Wilhelm Kuert	German Empire	30.5 m	46.0 m	168.90
40	36	Colin Wyatt	United Kingdom	38.5 m	39.5 m	?
40	(39/40)	Willy Geipel	German Empire	39.5 m	39.0 m	?
42	?	Walter Herberger	German Empire	39.0 m	39.5 m	166.00
42	85	Percy Legard	United Kingdom	40.0 m	43.0 m	?
44	(34/35)	Gustav Scheerschmidt	German Empire	31.0 m	39.0 m	?
45	?	Matthias Wörndle	German Empire	32.5 m	38.5 m	158.10
46	69	Gustl Mueller	German Empire	54.5 m *	53.0 m	157.50
46	42	Bogomir Šramel	Yugoslavia	39.0 m	39.0 m	157.50
48	84	Erich Recknagel	German Empire	51.0 m *	54.5 m	152.70
49	4th	Walter Glass I.	German Empire	53.0 m *	53.0 m	151.30
49	10	Lorang Andersen	Norway	53.0 m *	53.5 m	151.30
51	61	František Šimůnek	Czechoslovakia (SL RČS)	54.0 m *	50.5 m	?
52	83	Gunnar Andersen	Norway	50.0 m	50.0 m *	139.00
53	?	?	?	?	?	?
54	57	Wolfgang Glaser	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	35.0 m	41.0 m	?
55	?	?	?	?	?	?
56	63	Willy Bogner senior	German Empire	46.0 m *	44.5 m	123.20
57	?	?	?	?	?	?
58	?	?	?	?	?	?
59	?	?	?	?	?	?
60	77	Guy Nixon	United Kingdom	44.0 m *	49.0 m	?
60	?	Hans Musch	German Empire	38.0 m	44.0 m *	?
62	?	?	?	?	?	?
63	?	?	?	?	?	?
64	50	Knut Kobberstad	Norway	57.5 m *	56.5 m *	92.00
65	?	?	?	?	?	?
...	-	further results	-	-	-	-
?	1	Oswald Blümel	Austria	46.0 m	46.0 m *	?
?	5	Karl Müller-Scheer	German Empire	45.0 m	41.0 m *	?
?	?	Eduard Galeitner	Austria	45.0 m	46.0 m *	?
?	?	Joško Janša	Yugoslavia	32.5 m	38.5 m	?
?	41	Arno Müller-Schwefel	German Empire	46.0 m *	44.0 m	?
?	56	Emil wisdom	German Empire	40.0 m *	44.5 m	?
?	76	Arno Müller-Scheer	German Empire	44.0 m *	44.0 m	?
?	88	Elias Julen	Switzerland	*	44.0 m	?
?	14th	Adolf Engel	German Empire	37.0 m *	38.0 m *	?
DNF?	53	Erich Krausser	German Empire	34.5 m *	-?	-?
DNF	73	Esko Järvinen	Finland	44.0 m *	-	-
DNS?	(44/45)	Josef Burkert	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	-? (46.0 m?)	-?	-?
DNS?	(47/48)	Eduard Porkert	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	-? (45.0 m?)	-?	-?
DNS	(6/7)	Herbert Leupold	German Empire	-	-	-
DNS	13	Hannes Schroll	Austria	-	-	-
DNS	?	Holger Schön	Sweden	-	-	-
DNS	?	Jaroslav Lukeš	Czechoslovakia (SL RČS)	-	-	-
DNS	?	Jiří Beranovský	Czechoslovakia (SL RČS)	-	-	-
DNS	23	Rudolf Burkert	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	-	-	-
DNS	?	Janko Janša	Yugoslavia	-	-	-
DNS	30th	Otakar Německý	Czechoslovakia (SL RČS)	-	-	-
DNS	31	Tomaž Godec	Yugoslavia	-	-	-
DNS	32	Gustav Lantschner	Austria	-	-	-
DNS	?	Kurt Heider	German Empire	-	-	-
DNS	?	Josef Ponn	German Empire	-	-	-
DNS	(43/44)	Adolf Hnyk	Czechoslovakia (SL RČS)	-	-	-
DNS	(48/49)	Walter Delle Karth	Austria	-	-	-
DNS	59	Harald Reinl	Austria	-	-	-
DNS	60	Rudolf Hrabie	Austria	-	-	-
DNS	64	Wilhelm Stolpe	Sweden	-	-	-
DNS	?	Erich Meyer	German Empire	-	-	-
DNS	70	Ola Moon	Norway	-	-	-
DNS	79	Hans Vinjarengen	Norway	-	-	-
DNS	(81/82)	Lovro Arh	Yugoslavia	-	-	-
DNS	86	Franz Rau	Czechoslovakia (HDW)	-	-	-

Date: Sunday, February 15, 1931

Participants: 91 named; 67-70 started; 65 rated; Originally 86 ski jumpers had registered for the event, but four Swiss and one Norwegian had named after and received the last five starting numbers 87-91.

Ski jump: Hindenburgschanze

The 12-year-old Kurt Eichhorn started as a jump-in, who shortly before went off the hill in this role at the German championships in Lauscha-Erntthal .

The 1931 World Cup also marked the final international breakthrough for the young Norwegian trio Birger Ruud , Reidar Andersen and Sven Eriksson (Selånger) , who continued their intense sporting rivalry throughout the decade. While Birger Ruud won a total of five gold medals at the Olympic Winter Games and World Ski Championships (even 7 if the Olympic medals were counted twice as World Cup medals) and was the only one who challenged Matti Nykänen for the title of " Greatest Ski Jumper of All Time ", neither Selånger nor Andersen could ever win a ski jump. Earn gold medal. Selånger won gold in Nordic combined , and Andersen won the prestigious jumping competition on Holmenkollbakken three times .

According to Svenska Dagbladet , there were 15 falls in the first and 8 falls in the second run.

Notes: Most sources speak of 67 starters. However, the number of athletes mentioned in the sources is 70.

The lists of results from the sources show slight differences from rank 40 onwards. Knut Knobberstad is named as the penultimate, it seems likely that Adolf Engel from Brotterode took the last place in the ranking.

Esko Järvinen , FIN, may have only started in the first run. Also Josef Burkert and Eduard Porkert (both from HDW) have not jumped all likelihood more than once.

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• Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, s. 149. ISBN 3-89784-099-5
• Aftenposten , (Norwegian) of February 16, 1931, s. 6-7, in Nasjonalbiblioteket , Oslo
• Aftenposten , Aftenutgaven, (Norwegian) of February 14, 1931, s. 1, in Nasjonalbiblioteket , Oslo
• Helsingin Sanomat , (Finnish) of February 16, 1931, s. -, in he Päivälehti Archives , Helsinki, accessible to visitors at the researcher workstation.
• Sportsmanden , (Norwegian) from February 12, 1931, s. -, in Deichmanske bibliotek , Oslo
• Sportsmanden , (Norwegian) from February 16, 1931, s. -, in Deichmanske bibliotek , Oslo
• The FIS races in Oberhof on 13/16 Feb. 1931 ; in: Der Schnhnee-Hase , No. 5, 1931, p. 105
• World Championships: February 15, 1931 - Oberhof (GER), in: Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, s. 149. ISBN 3-89784-099-5