Olympic Winter Games 1924 / Ski jumping

Ski jumping at the 1924 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Chamonix
Competition venue	Le Mont
Nations	9
Athletes	27 (27 )
date	February 4, 1924
decisions	1
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At the 1st Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924 , a ski jumping competition was held. All Nordic ski competitions at the Games were also considered the 1st Nordic World Ski Championships . The venue was the Le Mont ski jump .

In 1921 the International Olympic Committee decided to hold an "International Week of Sport". This was first held in Chamonix in 1924 and was such a great success that the IOC subsequently declared it to be the first Winter Olympic Games in 1926. In addition to Olympic medals, world championship medals were also awarded.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Norway	1	1	0	1
2	United States	-	-	1	1

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Special jumping	Jacob Tullin Thams	Narve Bonna	Not so Haugen

Results

space	country	athlete	Widths (m)	Points
1	NOR	Jacob Tullin Thams	49.0 / 49.0	18,960
2	NOR	Narve Bonna	47.5 / 49.0	18.688
3	United States	Not so Haugen	49.0 / 50.0	17.917
4th	NOR	Thorleif Haug	44.0 / 44.5	17.813
5	NOR	Einar Landvik	42.0 / 44.5	17,522
6th	SWE	Axel-Herman Nilsson	42.5 / 44.0	17,147
7th	SWE	Menotti Jakobsson	43.0 / 42.0	17.083
8th	SUI	Alexandre Girard-Bille	40.5 / 41.5	16.793
9	SWE	Nils Lindh	41.0 / 41.5	16.738
10	TCH	František turn	40.5 / 44.0	16,480
18th	SUI	Peter Schmid	33.0 / 33.5	13,438
23	SUI	Hans Eidenbenz	42.0 / na	10,313
24	SUI	Xaver Affentranger	na / 32.5	07.813

Date: February 4, 1924
27 participants from 9 countries, including 26 in the evaluation.

The Norwegian team consisted of two jumpers, Narve Bonna and Jacob Tullin Thams , as well as the two all-rounders Einar Landvik and the three-time gold medal winner Thorleif Haug . The latter was not considered to be one of the top four Norwegian ski jumpers, but his place on the team was given to him in honor of his great all-round skiing ability. The only serious competitor against the Norwegian supremacy was the Norwegian-born US jumper Anders Haugen , who was known for his wide and daring jumps, but also for his robust style and unstable landings.

In the first round, Thams took the lead with a jump of 49.0 m from Bonna and Haugen. Haug was fourth with 44.0 m and excellent posture marks. In the second round, Thams managed to jump again to 49.0 m, but with better style marks than in the first attempt. Haugen made the longest jump of the competition with 50.0 m, but was again punished with poor posture marks for his landing. Haug jumped 44.5 m with also improved posture. Bonna equalized Thams's 49.0 m, but did not manage to outbid his compatriot in the overall result. So there was another medal frenzy for the Norwegians: Gold for Thams, silver for Bonna and bronze for Haug. After the end of the competition, some jumpers showed themselves to the audience in a show jumping and jumped from the longest possible inrun length. Thoralf Strømstad reached the longest jump with 57.5 m. However, his brand was soon equated by Thams and Bonna.

Almost 40 years later, Strømstad contacted the Norwegian ski historian Jacob Vaage and claimed that the points of the ski jumping competition had been calculated incorrectly for Thorleif Haug and that he must be behind Anders Haugen. Vaage reviewed the case and agreed to Strømstad. In 1974 the IOC decided to award the bronze medal to Haugen, who was then 86 years old. He was invited to Norway and at a festive ceremony he was presented with Haug's bronze medal by his youngest daughter. Thorleif Haug himself had died of pneumonia in December 1934.

Web links

• Ski jumping at the 1924 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1924 Winter Olympics (PDF file; 83.57 MB)