Olympic Winter Games 1924 / Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing at the 1st Olympic Winter Games
information
venue	Chamonix
Competition venue	Stade Olympique Le Mont
Nations	12
Athletes	82 (82 men)
date	January 25 to February 2, 1924
decisions	4th
St. Moritz 1928 →

At the 1st Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924 , four competitions were held in Nordic skiing . These were also 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	4th	4th	2	10
2	Finland	-	-	1	1
	United States	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Cross-country skiing

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
18 km	Thorleif Haug	Johan Grøttumsbråten	Tapani Niku
50 km	Thorleif Haug	Thoralf Strømstad	Johan Grøttumsbråten

Ski jumping

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

Nordic combination

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
singles	Thorleif Haug	Thoralf Strømstad	Johan Grøttumsbråten

Cross-country skiing

18 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	NOR	Thorleif Haug	1: 14: 31.4
2	NOR	Johan Grøttumsbråten	1: 15: 51.0
3	FIN	Tapani Niku	1: 16: 26.0
4th	NOR	Jon Mårdalen	1: 16: 56.8
5	NOR	Einar Landvik	1: 17: 27.4
6th	SWE	Per-Erik Hedlund	1: 17: 42.4
7th	SWE	Elis Sandin	1: 18: 24.0
8th	FIN	Matti Raivio	1: 19: 10.4
9	SWE	Torkel Persson	1: 19: 29.8
10	SWE	Erik Winnberg	1: 20: 29.4
14th	SUI	Peter Schmid	1: 33: 34.4
15th	SUI	Daniele Pellissier	1: 33: 45.2
22nd	SUI	Xaver Affentranger	1: 36: 36.2
25th	SUI	Hans Eidenbenz	1: 39: 51.8
26th	SUI	Alexandre Girard-Bille	1: 41: 43.4

Date: February 2, 1924
41 participants from 12 countries, 36 of them in the ranking.

50 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	NOR	Thorleif Haug	3:44:32
2	NOR	Thoralf Strømstad	3:46:23
3	NOR	Johan Grøttumsbråten	3:47:46
4th	NOR	Jon Mårdalen	3:49:48
5	SWE	Torkel Persson	4:05:59
6th	SWE	Ernst Alm	4:06:31
7th	FIN	Matti Raivio	4:06:50
8th	SWE	Oskar Lindberg	4:07:44
9	ITA	Enrico Colli	4:10:50
10	ITA	Giuseppe Ghedina	4:27:48

Date: January 30, 1924
33 participants from 11 countries, 21 of them in the ranking.

The Swiss Simon Julen , Hans Herrmann and Alfred Aufdenblatten also took part in the race; however, none of them finished.

Special jumping

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.

Nordic combination

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.

literature

• Cross-country skiing at the Olympic Winter Games: List of Olympic champions in cross-country skiing. Edited by the Bucher Group, General Books Verlag, 2010, 188 pages.

Web links

• Cross-country skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ski jumping at the 1924 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• 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)