1924 Winter Olympics / Participant (Finland)

FIN

4th	3	3

Finland participated in the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix with a delegation of 13 athletes in 3 sports. The Finnish NOK had registered 14 athletes for the games, of which 13 took part in competitions. The members of the military patrol do not count as official Olympic participants. A total of 2 athletes took part in the Olympic Games for the second time:

• Ludowika Jakobsson (1920 figure skating)
• Walter Jakobsson (1920 figure skating)

Results: With 11 medals (4 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze) the Finns were the second best nation. There was also a German on the Olympic team. The Berliner Ludowika Jakobsson , née Eilers, started with her Finnish husband Walter Jakobsson as defending champion in 1920 in pair skating and won her second Olympic medal with silver. The speed skater Clas Thunberg , also affectionately known as "Nurmi des Eises", won 5 medals alone (gold over 1,500 m, 5,000 m and in all-around, silver over 10,000 m and bronze over the 500 m distance) and was not only ice skating King, but also the most successful athlete at the Winter Games. Other medal collectors of the Finnish team were the speed skater Julius Skutnabb (gold over 10,000 m, silver over 5,000 m and bronze in the all- around event) , the cross-country skier Tapani Niku (bronze in 18 km cross-country skiing) and the military patrol of Captain Väinö Bremer (silver). Since the 30 km military patrol run was a demonstration competition , the silver medal does not appear in the official medal ranking.

Participants by sport

Skiing (8)

• Anton Collin

  18 km cross-country skiing (16th place), 50 km cross-country skiing (dnf)

• Verner Eklöf

  Nordic combined (9th place), ski jumping (dns)

• Sulo Jääskeläinen

  Nordic combined (16th place), ski jumping (11th place)

• Erkki Kamarainen

  50 km cross-country skiing (dnf)

• Tuure Nieminen

  Nordic combined (dns), ski jumping (13th place)

• Tapani Niku

  18 km cross-country skiing (bronze), 50 km cross-country skiing (dnf)

• Armas Palmros

  Nordic combined (dns, injured), ski jumping (dns, injured)

• Matti Raivio

  18 km cross-country skiing (7th place), 50 km cross-country skiing (7th place)

• Matti Ritola

  18 km cross-country skiing (11th place)

Military patrol

30 km military patrol (silver)

• Väinö Bremer (captain)
• Aku Eskelinen
• Heikki Hirvonen
• Martti Lappalainen

Figure skating (2)

• Ludowika Jakobsson

  Pair skating (silver)

• Walter Jakobsson

  Pair skating (silver)

Speed ​​Skating (3)

• Julius Skutnabb

  500 m (10th place), 1,500 m (4th place), 5,000 m (silver), 10,000 m (gold), all-around (bronze)

• Clas Thunberg

  500 m (bronze), 1 500 m (gold), 5 000 m (gold), 10 000 m (silver), all-around (gold)

• Asser Vallenius

  500 m (5th place), 1,500 m (dnf), 5,000 m (10th place), 10,000 m (10th place), all-around (dnf)

Medals

	gold	silver	bronze	Total
Finland	4th	3	3	10

Medalist

Gold medals

• Speed ​​skating, 1,500 m / 5,000 m / all-around: Clas Thunberg
• Speed ​​skating, 10,000 m: Julius Skutnabb

Silver medals

• Speed ​​skating, 10,000 m: Clas Thunberg
• Speed ​​skating, 5,000 m: Julius Skutnabb
• Figure skating, pair skating: Ludowika Jakobsson and Walter Jakobsson

The silver medal of the military patrol is not included in the evaluation as it was a demonstration competition.

Bronze medals

• Speed ​​skating, 500 m: Clas Thunberg
• Speed ​​skating, all-around: Julius Skutnabb
• Skiing, 18 km cross-country skiing: Julius Skutnabb

Web links

• Official Report of the Olympic Games 1924 (PDF; 87.6 MB)