Nordic World Ski Championships 1939 / Nordic Combined Men

Nordic World Ski Championships 1939 competitions
Cross-country skiing0
singles	Men 18 km
singles	Men 50 km
Season	Men 4 × 10 km
Ski jumping0
singles	Men K-80
Nordic combination0
singles	Men K-80/18 km
Framework competitions 0
Military races
team	Military patrol
Other competitions0
Alpine skiing
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The Nordic World Ski Championships in 1939 were a Nordic Combined competition that took place in Zakopane , Poland , from February 11th to 19th .

In the 12th edition of the Nordic Combined as a competition of the Nordic World Ski Championships , 38 athletes started cross-country skiing over 18 km, which the Finn Erkki Mäkinen won just ahead of Olaf Hoffsbakken and John Westbergh . The later medal winners followed on ranks five to seven.

In ski jumping 35 athletes started the race, of which Albert Burk and Jan Marek after falls in the first passage in the following competitions no longer participated.

The combined jumping was decided by Stanisław Marusarz from Poland . In the squares followed Hans Lahr from, incorporated the German Reich Sudetenland and Stanislav same age cousin Andrzej Marusarz .

Gustl Berauer , also from the Sudetenland, achieved sixth place in cross-country skiing and fourth place in ski jumping and thus achieved the best average performance for the first German ski world champion in Nordic combined as well as in the Nordic disciplines . Second place went to the Swede Gustav Sellin with ranks seven (cross-country skiing) and five (ski jumping) in the individual disciplines. Third place went to Magnar Fosseide from Norway.

The favored Norwegian team arrived in Zakopane after the official training session. The organization of a special training only for the Norwegian team, offered by the Polish organizers, was rejected by their team leaders with the obscure reason that the hill was too big and the landing was therefore not safe. From the point of view of the Norwegian team leadership it seemed as if it was safer for their combination jumpers to make the first jump in the competition and not in the training. In the Norwegian sports newspaper “ Sportsmanden ” it was reported that the organizers angrily asked “Are the Norwegians crazy?” In fact, three out of four Norwegians (Hoffsbakken, Odden and Kvanlid) fell on their first jump and lost their chances for a medal .

Individual (large hill K-80/18 km)

space	athlete	country	Total points	Time 18 km	Points 18 km	Rank 18 km	Jump 1	Jump 2	Points jumping	Rank jumping
1	Gustav Berauer	German Empire	429.60	1:12: 43.0 h	223.50	6th	64.5 m	66.5 m	206.10	4th
2	Gustav Adolf Sellin	Sweden	426.60	1:12: 44.0 h	223.50	7th	63.5 m	63.5 m	203.1	5
3	Magnar Fosseide	Norway	422.40	1: 11: 35.0 h	231.00	5	55.5 m	61.5 m	191.40	9
4th	Andrzej Marusarz	Poland	410.60	1:16:15 h	202.50	12	64.0 m	65.0 m	208.10	3
5	Günther Meergans	German Empire	408.50	1: 15: 05.0 h	210.00	9	65.0 m	61.5 m	198.50	7th
6th	Christian Merz	German Empire	403.00	1: 16: 21.0 h	202.50	13	64.5 m	65.5 m	200.50	6th
7th	Stanislaw Marusarz	Poland	391.93	1: 23: 15.0 h	164.43	27	73.5 m	71.5 m	227.50	1
8th	Mieczysław Wnuk	Poland	391.65	1:16: 54.0 h	198.75	15th	62.0 m	65.0 m	192.90	8th
9	Adi Gamma	Switzerland	390.30	1: 15: 21.0 h	208.50	10	52.0 m	55.5 m	181.80	13
10	Hans Lahr	German Empire	388.80	1: 21: 20.0 h	174.00	24	63.0 m	72.0 m	214.80	2
11	Marian Woyna Orlewicz	Poland	374.40	1: 17: 54.0 h	193.50	16	52.0 m	54.0 m	180.90	14th
12	Olaf Hoffsbakken	Norway	370.10	1: 10: 18.0 h	240.00	2	57.5 m *	61.0 m	130.10	22nd
13	Olav Odden	Norway	368.10	1: 40: 46.0 h	235.50	4th	62.0 m *	58.5 m	132.60	20th
14th	Emil Kvanlid	Norway	365.50	1: 14: 43.0 h	211.00	8th	71.0 m *	69.5 m	154.00	19th
15th	John Westbergh	Sweden	361.60	1:10: 35.0 h	237.22	3	53.5 m	57.5 m *	124.40	24
16	Władisław Roj	Poland	360.97	1: 22: 02.0 h	169.77	25th	55.5 m	50.5 m	191.20	10
17th	Michał Górski	Poland	359.10	1: 18: 53.0 h	187.50	19th	49.0 m	50.5 m	171.60	16
18th	Anatol Grandfeld	Poland	344.20	1: 21: 12.0 h	174.00	23	53.5 m	55.0 m	170.20	17th
19th	Stanisław Sowiński	Poland	341.15	1: 25: 03.0 h	153.75	32	57.0 m	59.5 m	187.40	12
20th	Eric Soguel	Switzerland	330.50	1:16: 42.0 h	199.50	14th	62.5 m	63.0 m *	131.00	21st
21st	Adam Becker-Giewont	Poland	321.60	1: 29: 02.0 h	133.50	35	61.0 m	59.5 m	188.10	11
22nd	Georg Wimmer	German Empire	319.65	1: 18: 28.0 h	189.75	17th	62.0 m *	63.0 m	129.90	23
23	Teodor Dawidek	Poland	317.20	1: 24: 38.0 h	156.00	31	54.0 m	54.0 m	161.20	18th
24	Jan Marusarz	Poland	316.90	1: 27: 40.0 h	139.50	34	55.0 m	56.5 m	177.40	15th
25th	Erkki Mäkinen	Finland	315.50	1: 10: 07.0 h	240.00	1	61.5 m *	62.5 m *	75.50	30th
26th	Jan Dawidek	Poland	290.00	1: 18: 53.0 h	187.50	19th	49.0 m *	51.5 m	102.50	27
27	Franciszek Marduła	Poland	288.60	1: 18: 52.0 h	187.50	18th	49.0 m *	48.0 m	101.10	29
28	Jozef Bursa	Poland	279.80	1:20: 34.0 h	178.50	22nd	49.0 m *	50.0 m	101.30	28
29	Gregor Klančnik	Yugoslavia	274.20	1: 23: 20.0 h	163.50	28	50.5 m *	54.0 m	110.70	26th
30th	Franciszek Gut-Szczerba	Poland	271.40	1: 24: 27.0 h	157.30	30th	62.5 m *	64.5 m *	113.90	25th
31	Jan Bobowski	Poland	216.35	1: 22: 25.0 h	168.75	26th	55.5 m *	50.0 m *	47.60	32
32	Franciszek Fiedor	Poland	203.00	1: 23: 57.0 h	159.00	29	52.5 m *	52.5 m *	44.00	33
33	Edo Bevc	Yugoslavia	201.20	1: 26: 36.0 h	145.50	33	62.0 m *	55.0 m *	55.70	31
DNF	Albert Burk	German Empire	-	1: 15: 23.0 h	207.75	11	63.5 m	DNS	-	-
DNF	Jan Marek	Poland	-	1:20: 21.0 h	179.25	21st	62.0 m	DNS	-	-
DNF	Lauri Valonen	Finland	-	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	-
DNF	Kalervo Kaplas	Finland	-	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	-
DNF	Carl Christian Lange	Norway	-	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	-
DNS	Bronislaw Czech	Poland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DNS	Edward (Ted) Zinkan	Canada	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DNS	Franciszek Tapek	Poland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DNS	Arnold Vultier	Switzerland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DNS	Wilhelm Bogner	German Empire	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DNS	Andrzej Peksa	Poland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DNS	Waclaw Doroba	Poland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
DNS	Włodzimierz Bandura	Poland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Date: Wednesday, February 15 and Thursday, February 16, 1939;

Venues: Cross-country skiing: Gubałówka ; Ski jumping: Wielka Krokiew (K-80)

Participants: 46 named; 38 started; 33 rated;

swell

• Narciarskie Mistrzostwa Świata FIS Zakopane, 11.-19. luty 1939 R. (Polish), s. 3
• Narciarskie Mistrzostwa Świata: Zawody FIS: Zakopane 11-19 lutego 1939 r. (Polish), Kraków, 1939.
• Sensationshop i kombinerade VM. Alla favoriter föllo Dagens Nyheter (Swedish) of February 16, 1939, s. 9
• Result: Westberg på tredje plats Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish) from February 16, 1939, s. 16
• Sudettysken Berauer vann kombinerade - Sellin tvåa Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish) from February 17, 1939, s. 15th
• Sudettyskeren Berauers store triumf i Zakopane i går, Aftenposten (Norwegian) of February 17, 1990, p. 8, in Nasjonalbiblioteket , Oslo
• Vårt første nederlag i combined race, Aftenposten (Norwegian) from February 18, 1939, s. 1, in Nasjonalbiblioteket , Oslo
• Sportsmanden (Norwegian) from February 13, 1939, s. -, in Deichmanske bibliotek , Oslo
• Sportsmanden (Norwegian) from February 16, 1939, s. -, in Deichmanske bibliotek , Oslo
• Sportsmanden (Norwegian) from February 20, 1939, s. -, in Deichmanske bibliotek , Oslo

Explanation of symbols

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