Nordic World Ski Championships 1950 / Cross-country skiing men

Nordic World Ski Championships 1950 competitions
Cross-country skiing0
singles	Men 18 km
singles	Men 50 km
Season	Men 4 × 10 km
Ski jumping0
singles	Men K-70
Nordic combination0
singles	Men K-70/18 km

At the 18th Nordic World Ski Championships, which were held from February 1 to 6, 1950 in Lake Placid ( New York ) and Rumford ( Maine ) in the USA , three cross-country skiing competitions were carried out. The medals all went to representatives from the Scandinavian countries, the gold medals only to athletes from Sweden . To world masters in the individual events on the distances of 18 and 50 kilometers, crowned Karl-Erik Åström and Gunnar Eriksson . With the victorious Swedish cross-country skiing relay, Åström also won his second gold medal at these world championships.

Cross-country skiing 18 km

rank	St. No.	athlete	country	time
1	67	Karl-Erik Åström	Sweden	1:06:16 h
2	50	Enar Josefsson	Sweden	1:06:28 h
3	59	Arnljot Nyaas	Norway	1:07:07 h
4th	15th	August Kiuru	Finland	1:07:08 h
5	54	Paavo Lonkila	Finland	1:07:15 h
6th	16	Viljo Vellonen	Finland	1:07:32 h
7th	10	Harald Maartmann	Norway	1:07:35 h
8th	29	Martin Lundström	Sweden	1:07:45 h
9	63	Törnkvist is different	Sweden	1:07:56 h
10	45	Heikki Hasu	Finland	1:08:13 h
11	36	Nils Täpp	Sweden	1:08:28 h
12	53	Tapio Mäkelä	Finland	1:08:33 h
13	28	Nils Karlsson	Sweden	1:08:35 h
14th	12	Gunnar Eriksson	Sweden	1:08:36 h
15th	23	Henry Hermansen	Norway	1:08:49 h
16	24	Magnar Estenstad	Norway	1:08:52 h
17th	11	Martin Stokken	Norway	1:08:58 h
18th	42	Kristian Bjørn	Norway	1:09:16 h
19th	61	Tauno Kirves	Finland	1:09:19 h
20th	18th	Martti Huhtala	Finland	1:09:21 h
21st	8th	Tauno Sipilä	Finland	1:09:30 h
22nd	68	Edvin Landsem	Norway	1:09:34 h
23	39	Eilert Dahl	Norway	1:09:37 h
24	5	Arthur Herrdin	Sweden	1:09:45 h
25th	37	Sven Israelsson	Sweden	1:10:00 h
26th	34	Ivar Odd Formo	Norway	1:10:14 h
27	62	Pekka Kuvaja	Finland	1:10:16 h
28	49	Bénoît Carrara	France	1:10:45 h
29	51	Ottar Gjermundshaug	Norway	1:10:47 h
30th	2	Esko Rautiola	Finland	1:11:14 h
31	4th	Mikko Merrilainen	Finland	1:11:43 h
32	58	Aulis Sipponen	Finland	1:12:22 h
33	26th	Per Sannerud	Norway	1:12:44 h
34	?	Karl Bricker	Switzerland	1:13:02 h
35	25th	Kjetil Mårdalen	Norway	1:13:11 h
36	6th	Simon Slåttvik	Norway	1:13:49 h
37	40	Alfons Supersaxo	Switzerland	1:14:29 h
38	?	Tone Razinger	Yugoslavia	1:15:07 h
38	19th	Klas Haraldsson	Sweden	1:15:07 h
40	?	René Mandrillon	France	1:15:35 h
41	?	Georges Forestier	France	1:16:13 h
42	?	Theo Allenbach	Switzerland	1:16:22 h
43	57	Per Gjelten	Norway	1:16:40 h
44	?	Marius Mora	France	1:16:57 h
45	?	André Buffard	France	1:17:32 h
46	?	Olavi Alakulppi	United States	1:19:05 h
47	?	Claude Richer	Canada	1:22:37 h
48	?	Don Johnson	United States	?
49	?	Tom Dennie	Canada	1:23:01 h
50	?	Lloyd Hawkensen	United States	1:23:41 h
51	?	Jack Wahlberg	Canada	1:24:09 h
52	?	Crosby Perry-Smith	United States	1:24:38 h
53	?	Paul Wegeman	United States	1:24:54 h
54	?	Alex Alain	Canada	1:25:07 h
55	?	Gerald Dennie	Canada	1:26:43 h
56	?	Silas Dunklee	United States	1:26:47 h
57	?	Jacques Carbonneau	Canada	1:28:03 h
58	?	Al Merrill	United States	1:28:12 h
59	?	John Burton	United States	1:28:40 h
60	?	Jack Pauly	United States	1:29:12 h
61	?	Buster Campbell	United States	1:29:23 h
62	?	Karl Martitsch	Austria	1:29:32 h
63	?	Elwin Johnson	United States	1:30:03 h
64	?	Ralph Townsend	United States	1:33:36 h
65	?	Paul Townsend	United States	1:34:32 h
66	?	Wendell Broomhall	United States	1:34:44 h
67	?	Noel Paul	Canada	1:35:55 ​​h
68	?	Ambrose Quinn	Canada	1:36:34 h
DNF	20th	Niklaus Stump	Switzerland	-

Date: Friday February 3, 1950

Route:

Participants: Participants: 69 named; 68 started; 68 rated;

Karl-Erik Åström's victory came as a big surprise. To this day he is considered to be the only cross-country skier to win all the competitions at the Olympic Games and Nordic World Ski Championships in which he participated.

Ivar Odd Formo was the father of the 1976 Olympic champion Ivar Formo .

Olavi Alakulppi , who started for the USA, had previously crowned himself world champion with the Finnish relay in Zakopane in 1939 . He emigrated to the USA in 1945, probably also because of his involvement in the controversial Weapons Cache Case and served in the US Army . During his service in West Germany in the 1950s, the future world star Elvis Presley was his personal chauffeur.

Jack Wahlberg was born in Sweden in 1905 and emigrated to Canada in 1926/27. At 44 he is probably still the oldest participant in a 4 × 10 km relay race at the Winter Olympics or Nordic World Ski Championships, closely followed by the Italian Maurilio de Zolt at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer at the age of 43. He remained loyal to the sport into old age and won the 15 km race at the Canadian Masters Championships in 1982 in the age group over 70.

Crosby Perry-Smith was the son of the American mountaineer and ski pioneer Oliver Perry-Smith .

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• 18 km Rumford 1950. In: Vidar Martinell: Svenska VM-guld på skidor (Swedish). Fingraf Tryckeri, Södertälje 1997, pp. 54-59, ISBN 91-630-5531-7 .

Cross-country skiing 50 km

rank	St. No.	athlete	country	Timekeeping 10 km	Timing 25 km	Timekeeping 35 km	End time 50 km
1	28	Gunnar Eriksson	Sweden	0:49:35 h	1:28:28 h	2:12:28 h	2:59:05 h
2	31	Enar Josefsson	Sweden	0:41:36 h	1:28:40 h	2:13:18 h	3:00:01 h
3	28	Nils Karlsson	Sweden	0:41:48 h	1:28:54 h	2:13:02 h	3:00:10 h
4th	17th	Törnkvist is different	Sweden	0:41:31 h	1:28:25 h	2:12:30 h	3:00:55 h
5	18th	Harald Maartmann	Norway	0:40:56 h	1:27:25 h	2:11:30 h	3:01:49 h
6th	26th	Pekka vannins	Finland	0:42:59 h	1:29:22 h	2:14:28 h	3:02:15 h
7th	22nd	Magnar Estenstad	Norway	0:40:38 h	1:22:43 h	2:12:29 h	3:04:19 h
8th	27	Pekka Kuvaja	Finland	0:42:36 h	1:30:35 h	2:16:39 h	3:06:20 h
9	6th	Martin Lundström	Sweden	0:42:10 h	1:30:35 h	2:16:40 h	3:06:30 h
10	8th	Martin Karlsson	Sweden	0:41:44 h	1:30:29 h	2:15:50 h	3:06:53 h
11	21st	August Kiuru	Finland	0:41:33 h	1:29:07 h	2:15:57 h	3:07:31 h
11	11	Edvin Landsem	Norway	0:42:06 h	1:30:43 h	2:17:06 h	3:07:31 h
13	14th	Arthur Herrdin	Sweden	0:40:48 h	1:18:03 h	2:12:35 h	3:08:05 h
14th	10	Arnljot Nyaas	Norway	0:42:43 h	1:30:53 h	2:16:18 h	3:08:20 h
15th	1	Gunnar Karlsson	Sweden	0:42:31 h	1:32:55 h	2:21:16 h	3:13:51 h
16	9	Tauno Kirves	Finland	0:41:41 h	1:33:00 h	2:22:07 h	3:13:54 h
17th	2	Martin Stokken	Norway	0:43:44 h	1:33:07 h	2:23:06 h	3:16:16 h
18th	32	Eero Rautiola	Finland	0:42:12 h	1:29:22 h	2:14:31 h	3:22:57 h
19th	19th	Tone Razinger	Yugoslavia	0:45:05 h	1:33:22 h	2:28:12 h	3:24:53 h
20th	12	Theo Allenbach	Switzerland	0:43:45 h	1:34:51 h	2:26:04 h	3:25:41 h
21st	16	Tauno Sipilä	Finland	0:40:46 h	1:28:08 h	2:23:31 h	3:29:59 h
22nd	23	Olavi Alakulppi	United States	0:46:58 h	1:41:12 h	2:35:23 h	3:34:56 h
23	15th	Wendell Broomhall	United States	0:51:00 h	1:51:36 h	2:51:31 h	3:59:16 h
24	4th	John Burton	United States	0:52:30 h	1:53:23 h	2:52:26 h	4:02:24 h
25th	20th	Don Johnson	United States	0:49:23 h	1:48:24 h	?	4:05:25 h
26th	33	Elwin Johnson	United States	0:58:17 h	2:08:35 h	?	4:38:38 h
DNF	7th	Viljo Vellonen	Finland	0:41:44 h	1:31:27 h	-	-
DNF	5	Paavo Lonkila	Finland	0:42:26 h	1:31:43 h	-	-
DNF	29	Ottar Gjermundshaug	Norway	0:43:37 h	1:33:38 h	-	-
DNF	3	Henry Hermansen	Norway	0:44:25 h	-	-	-
DNF	13	Paul Townsend	United States	-	-	-	-
DNF	25th	Karl Bricker	Switzerland	-	-	-	-
DNS	30th	Kristian Bjørn	Norway	-	-	-	-

Date: February 5, 1950

Place:

Participants: 33 named; 33 started; 26 rated;

swell

• 50 km Rumford 1950. In: Vidar Martinell: Svenska VM-guld på skidor (Swedish). Fingraf Tryckeri, Södertälje 1997, pp. 66-70, ISBN 91-630-5531-7 .

4 × 10 km relay

rank	St. No. team	country	athlete	Single time	Rank stage	Time change	Rank change	total time
1	?	Sweden	Nils Täpp Karl-Erik Åström Martin Lundström Enar Josefsson	0:39:55 h 0:40:10 h 0:39:39 h 0:40:15 h	2 2 1 1	1:20:05 h 1:59:44 h	2 1	2:39:59 h
2	?	Finland	Heikki Hasu Viljo Vellonen Paavo Lonkila August Kiuru	0:39:52 h 0:40:06 h 0:41:17 h 0:40:35 h	1 1 2 2	1:19:58 h 2:01:15 h	1 2	2:41:50 h
3	?	Norway	Martin Stokken Eilert Dahl Kristian Bjørn Henry Hermansen	0:41:06 h 0:42:10 h 0:42:02 h 0:42:01 h	3 3 3 3	1:23:16 h 2:05:18 h	3 3	2:47:19 h
4th	?	France	Marius Mora Georges Forestier René Mandrillon Bénoît Carrara	0:45:01 h 0:44:36 h 0:43:45 h 0:43:13 h	4 4 4 4	1:29:37 h 2:13:22 h	4 4	2:56:35 h
5	?	United States	Silas Dunklee Ralph Townsend Lloyd Hawkenson Don Johnson	0:48:02 h 0:51:51 h 0:50:35 h 0:49:38 h	5 5 6 6	1:39:53 h 2:30:28 h	5 5	3:20:06 h
6th	?	Canada	Claude Richer Jack Wahlberg Alec Alain Tom Dennie	0: 49: 06h 0:57:38 h 0:48:25 h 0:48:19 h	6 6 5 5	1:46:44 h 2:35:09 h	6 6	3:23:28 h
DNS	?	Switzerland	- - - -	- - - -	- - - -	- -	- -	-

Date: Monday February 6, 1950;

Place:

Participants: 7 teams named; 6 teams started; 6 teams rated; Switzerland withdrew its entry shortly before the start.

swell

• Relay 4 × 10 km Rumford 1950. In: Vidar Martinell: Svenska VM-guld på skidor (Swedish). Fingraf Tryckeri, Södertälje 1997, pp. 59-66, ISBN 91-630-5531-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ski World Championships. Swedish success in the 4x10 km relay. in Mittelbayerische Zeitung. Regensburg city review ; Volume 6, No. 17, from February 8, 1950, p. 8.