Olympic Winter Games 1924 / Nordic Combined

Nordic combined at the 1924 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Chamonix
Competition venue	Stade Olympique Le Mont
Nations	9
Athletes	30 (30 )
date	February 2-4, 1924
decisions	1
St. Moritz 1928 →

At the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924 , a competition in Nordic combined took place. All Nordic ski competitions at the Games were also considered the 1st Nordic World Ski Championships . The venues were the Stade Olympique and 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. The only exception was the Nordic Combined, in which there were only Olympic medals. The competitions were reserved for men for a long time. German participants were not admitted again until 1928 after the First World War .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Norway	1	1	1	3

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
singles	Thorleif Haug	Thoralf Strømstad	Johan Grøttumsbråten

Results

space	country	athlete	Points running	Points jumping	Points average
1	NOR	Thorleif Haug	20,000	17.812	18,906
2	NOR	Thoralf Strømstad	18,750	17.687	18.219
3	NOR	Johan Grøttumsbråten	19.375	16,333	17.854
4th	NOR	Harald Økern	17.125	17.395	17.280
5	SWE	Axel-Herman Nilsson	11.625	16,500	14,063
6th	TCH	Josef Adolf	14.625	12,916	13.729
7th	TCH	Walter Buchberger	11,000	16,250	13.625
8th	SWE	Menotti Jakobsson	08,750	16.895	12,823
9	FIN	Verner Eklöf	10,250	14.916	12,583
10	FRA	Kléber Balmat	10.375	14.291	12,333
11	SUI	Peter Schmid	10.375	14.062	12.219
14th	SUI	Alexandre Girard-Bille	06,500	16,708	11.604
15th	SUI	Hans Eidenbenz	07.375	15,583	11,438
17th	SUI	Xaver Affentranger	09,000	13.375	11,188

Date: January 30, 1924
30 participants from 9 countries, 22 of them in the evaluation.

In the Nordic Combined, only Olympic medals were awarded, as the competition was not part of the Nordic World Ski Championships. Haug won both the cross-country skiing and the jumping competition. After finishing second in the jumping, Strømstad had the third-best running time to win the silver medal. Grøttumsbråten fought his way from 8th place in the ski jumping competition with the second-best running time to third place.

Web links

• Nordic combination 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)