Olympic Winter Games 1924 / cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Chamonix
Competition venue	Stade Olympique
Nations	12
Athletes	59 (59 )
date	January 30 to February 2, 1924
decisions	2
St. Moritz 1928 →

At the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924 , two cross-country skiing competitions took place. All Nordic ski competitions at the Games were also considered the 1st Nordic World Ski Championships . The venues were the Stade Olympique .

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	2	2	1	5
2	Finland	-	-	1	1

Medalist

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

Results

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.

Web links

• Cross-country skiing 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)