Olympic Winter Games 1928 / Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing at the II Olympic Winter Games
information
venue	St. Moritz
Competition venue	Olympiaschanze ski stadium
Nations	15th
Athletes	124 (124 men)
date	11-17 February 1928
decisions	4th
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At the II. Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz in 1928 , four competitions were held in Nordic skiing . These were also the 5th Nordic World Ski Championships . 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 venues were the Olympic ski stadium and the Olympic hill .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Norway	3	3	2	8th
2	Sweden	1	1	1	3
3	Czechoslovakia	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Cross-country skiing

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
18 km	Johan Grøttumsbråten	Ole Hegge	Reidar Ødegaard
50 km	Per-Erik Hedlund	Gustaf Jonsson	Volger Andersson

Ski jumping

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Special jumping	Alf Andersen	Sigmund Ruud	Rudolf Burkert

Nordic combination

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
singles	Johan Grøttumsbråten	Hans Vinjarengen	John Snersrud

Cross-country skiing

→ Main article : 1928 Winter Olympics / Cross-country skiing

18 km

→ Main article : 1928 Winter Olympics / Cross-country skiing - 18 kilometers (men)

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	NOR	Johan Grøttumsbråten	1:37:01
2	NOR	Ole Hegge	1:39:01
3	NOR	Reidar Ødegaard	1:40:11
4th	FIN	Veli Saarinen	1:40:57
5	NOR	Hagbart Haakonsen	1:41:29
6th	SWE	Per-Erik Hedlund	1:41:51
7th	SWE	Lars Theodor Jonsson	1:41:59
	FIN	Martti Lappalainen

Date: February 17, 1928
49 participants from 15 countries, 44 of them in the ranking. Not finished u. a .: Alphonse Julen (SUI).

Cross-country skiing over 18 km was also a rating for Nordic combined.

50 km

→ Main article : 1928 Winter Olympics / Cross-country skiing - 50 kilometers (men)

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	SWE	Per-Erik Hedlund	4:52:03
2	SWE	Gustaf Jonsson	5:05:30
3	SWE	Volger Andersson	5:05:46
4th	SWE	Olav Kjelbotn	5:14:22
5	NOR	Ole Hegge	5:17:58
6th	FIN	Tauno Lappalainen	5:18:33
7th	SWE	Strom is different	5:21:54
8th	NOR	Johan Støa	5:25:30

Date: February 14, 1928
41 participants from 11 countries, 30 of them in the ranking.

Due to the unusual temperature increase from three degrees at 8 o'clock to 25 degrees in the midday hours, the skiers were faced with severe wax problems that caused almost a third of the participants to give up. According to “Sport Zürich” there was “an unexpected defeat for the Norwegians and the most grueling battle in the history of the ski marathon”.

Special jumping

→ Main article : 1928 Winter Olympics / Ski jumping

space	country	athlete	Widths (m)	Points
1	NOR	Alf Andersen	60.0 / 64.0	19.208
2	NOR	Sigmund Ruud	57.5 / 62.5	18,542
3	TCH	Rudolf Burkert	57.0 / 59.5	17.937
4th	SWE	Axel-Herman Nilsson	53.5 / 60.0	16,937
5	SWE	Sven-Olof Lundgren	48.0 / 59.0	16,708
6th	United States	Rolf Monsen	53.0 / 59.5	16.687
7th	SUI	Sepp Mühlbauer	52.0 / 58.0	16,541
8th	SUI	Ernst Feuz	52.5 / 58.5	16,458

Date: February 18, 1928
39 participants from 13 countries, all in the ranking. (S) indicates a fall.

This discipline is also known as jumping or ski jumping . The furthest jump received 20 points, all further points were deducted. In addition, three judges awarded style marks. The mean was calculated from both results. There were a total of eleven falls.

Nordic combination

→ Main article : 1928 Winter Olympics / Nordic Combined

space	country	athlete	Points running	Points jumping	Points average
1	NOR	Johan Grøttumsbråten	20,000	15.667	17.833
2	NOR	Hans Vinjarengen	17.750	12.854	15.303
3	NOR	John Snersrud	13.125	16.917	15.021
4th	FIN	Paavo Nuotio	14.125	15.729	14,927
5	FIN	Esko Järvinen	15.375	14,246	14.810
6th	SWE	Sven Eriksson	12.375	16,312	14,593
7th	GER	Ludwig Boeck	14.125	12.395	13,260
8th	NOR	Ole Kolterud	13.375	12.917	13,146

Date: February 17, 1928 (cross-country skiing), February 18, 1928 (special jumping)
35 participants from 14 countries, 28 of them in the ranking.

The combination consisted of 18 km cross-country skiing and a jump run with two attempts each. The fastest runner received 20 points, then 0.25 points were deducted per minute behind. The mean was then calculated from the two partial results.

literature

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

Web links

• Cross-country skiing at the 1928 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ski jumping at the 1928 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Nordic combination at the 1928 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1928 Winter Olympics (PDF; 1.3 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sport Zürich, February 19, 1960, p. 4.