Olympic Winter Games 1936 / Nordic skiing
Nordic skiing at the IV Winter Olympics |
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venue | Garmisch-Partenkirchen |
Competition venue |
Olympic ski stadium Great Olympic hill |
Nations | 22nd |
Athletes | 177 (177 men) |
date | 6-15 February 1936 |
decisions | 5 |
← Lake Placid 1932 |
At the IV Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 , five competitions in Nordic skiing took place. This was also the 13th 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 Great Olympic Hill on Gudiberg . The cross-country relay was new to the Olympic program.
As in the previous games and the World Championships, the athletes from the Scandinavian countries completely dominated the action. They shared all the medals among themselves, in the individual disciplines no athlete from other nations managed to place in the top six. The fourth place in the cross-country relay for Italy was the best that came out for athletes from non-Scandinavian countries.
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
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1 | Norway | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7th |
2 | Sweden | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6th |
3 | Finland | 1 | - | 1 | 2 |
Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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18 km | Erik Larsson | Oddbjørn Hagen | Pekka Niemi |
50 km | Elis Wiklund | Axel Wikström | Nils-Joel Englund |
4 × 10 km relay |
Kalle Jalkanen , Klaes Karppinen , Matti Lähde , Sulo Nurmela |
Sverre Brodahl , Oddbjørn Hagen , Olaf Hoffsbakken , Bjarne Iversen |
John Berger , Arthur Häggblad , Erik Larsson , Martin Matsbo |
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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Special jumping | Birger Ruud | Sven Selånger | Reidar Andersen |
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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singles | Oddbjørn Hagen | Olaf Hoffsbakken | Sverre Brodahl |
Cross-country skiing
18 km
space | country | athlete | Time (h) |
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1 | SWE | Erik-August Larsson | 1:14:38 |
2 | NOR | Oddbjørn Hagen | 1:15:33 |
3 | FIN | Pekka Niemi | 1: 16.59 |
4th | SWE | Martin Matsbo | 1:17:02 |
5 | NOR | Olaf Hoffsbakken | 1:17:37 |
6th | NOR | Arne Rustadstuen | 1:18:13 |
7th | FIN | Sulo Nurmela | 1:18:20 |
8th | SWE | Arthur Haggblad | 1:18:55 |
9 | NOR | Bjarne Iversen | 1:18:56 |
10 | TCH | Lukáš Mihalák | 1:19:01 |
18th | GER | Walter Motz | 1:21:20 |
20th | GER | Georg von Kaufmann | 1:22:39 |
26th | SUI | August Sonderegger | 1:24:27 |
27 | GER | Anton Zeller | 1:24:32 |
28 | AUT | Harald Bosio | 1:24:39 |
29 | GER | Friedl Däuber | 1:24:57 |
31 | SUI | Willi Bernath | 1:25:12 |
36 | AUT | Hans Jamnig | 1:26:20 |
39 | AUT | Fred Roessner | 1:27:05 |
40 | SUI | Adolf Freiburghaus | 1:27:08 |
41 | AUT | Erich Gallwitz | 1:27:28 |
51 | SUI | Eduard Müller | 1:32:04 |
Date: February 12, 1936, 10:00 a.m.
75 participants in 22 countries, 72 of them in the ranking.
This 18 km cross-country skiing was also the first part of the Nordic combined. The route led consistently on northern slopes with excellent snow conditions. It went east towards Kaltenbrunn , then along the Kanker . There were always ascents and descents, the main climb was already after the turning point at kilometer 9, where it went up to Wamberg at kilometer 11.5 above Kaltenbrunn . The highest point (1020 m) was in a forest after 12.5 km. In the further course there were a few descents, one of them very steep, which you could not take at full speed. There was another ascent - and after crossing a last slope and a wooden bridge, the stadium entered the stadium with a short run. The trail was laid out by the former German ski champion Martin Neuner . It had snowed lightly on the morning of race day, but track teams completely polished away the fresh snow in the morning hours. At the start at 10 a.m. the thermometer in the ski stadium showed approx. 0 ° C. Towards the end of the competition it thawed in the valley floor, but on the northern slopes where the route ran, the increasing warming had no effect.
The expected Scandinavian dominance occurred, with the times achieved by the top runners being a lot below the experts' estimates of one hour and 20 minutes. After the Norwegian dominance in 1924 and 1928, however, as in 1932, there was a surprising Swedish victory. Once again it was the runners from Czechoslovakia with places 10 and 11 who stood out much better than the Italians in the non-Scandinavian wrestling. The Germans had made progress in recent years, but their hopes of becoming the best Central Europeans were not fulfilled. The Italians knew that they had carried out unsurpassed preparation over the past two years, which was, however, also a financial question - and Switzerland could not keep up here, whose runners ranked in line with expectations.
50 km
space | country | athlete | Time (h) |
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1 | SWE | Elis Wiklund | 3:30:11 |
2 | SWE | Axel Wikström | 3:33:20 |
3 | SWE | Nils-Joel Englund | 3:34:10 |
4th | SWE | Hjalmar Bergström | 3:35:50 |
5 | FIN | Klaes Karppinen | 3:39:33 |
6th | NOR | Arne Tuft | 3:41:18 |
7th | FIN | Frans Heikkinen | 3:42:44 |
8th | FIN | Pekka Niemi | 3:41:18 |
9 | TCH | Cyril Musil | 3:46:12 |
10 | YUG | Franc Smolej | 3:47:40 |
24 | GER | Matthias Wörndle | 4:03:33 |
25th | GER | Fritz Gaiser | 4:05:44 |
30th | GER | Josef Ponn | 4:13:12 |
32 | GER | Erich Marx | 4:25:48 |
Date: February 15, 1936, 8:00 a.m.
36 participants from 11 countries, 34 of them in the evaluation.
4 × 10 km relay
Date: February 10, 1936, 9:00 a.m.
16 squadrons at the start, 15 of them in the ranking
Around 6,000 spectators were present; it was cold, windy weather with light drifting snow. For the first three places of the 16 relays (Switzerland did not name) only the Scandinavian nations came into question, which was then also shown in the time difference of 7: 2 minutes between bronze and fourth place, with the performance of the Italians also as was great to watch. The expected duel between Italy and Germany did not take place because starting runner Friedl Däuber had made the wrong choice of wax, so that the home team fell behind with rank 10. While Italy's starter Gerardi handed over to third place (2:27 behind the leading Oddbjørn Hagen), Däuber was 7:50 behind. The second German, Willy Bogner sr. , ran fifth best time (the gap to the best man on this section, Hoffsbakken, was not quite 2 minutes). Herbert Leupold also ran fifth time, leaving Demetz 14 seconds behind. The German cross-country champion Anton Zeller , 50 seconds better than Kasebacher, brought the German team to sixth place.
Contrary to expectations, Austria asserted itself ahead of the French, of whom more had been expected. Turkey was already at the bottom after the mass start; her fourth runner Mahmut Şevket had to retire due to injury. The duel for gold did not take place until the fourth stage, with Iversen leaving the stadium with a large lead over Jalkanen - and contrary to expectations, the Finnish team did not see the situation as hopeless because they knew Jalkanen was strong. Soon reports of the Finn's successful catch-up came over the loudspeaker. At the third checkpoint he was in tow from Iversen. On the way back to the stadium, the Finn was already ahead and crossed the finish line with a lead of around ten ski lengths.
Special jumping
space | country | athlete | Widths (m) | Points |
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1 | NOR | Birger Ruud | 75.0 / 74.5 | 232.0 |
2 | SWE | Sven Selånger | 76.0 / 76.0 | 230.5 |
3 | NOR | Reidar Andersen | 74.0 / 75.0 | 228.9 |
4th | NOR | Kåre Walberg | 73.5 / 72.0 | 227.0 |
5 | POLE | Stanislaw Marusarz | 73.0 / 75.5 | 221.6 |
6th | FIN | Lauri Valonen | 73.5 / 67.0 | 219.4 |
7th | JPN | Masaji Iguro | 74.5 / 72.5 | 218.2 |
8th | NOR | Arnholdt Kongsgård | 74.5 / 66.0 | 217.7 |
9 | FIN | Väinö Tiihonen | 71.5 / 70.0 | 215.3 |
10 | GER | Hans Marr | 71.5 / 69.0 | 214.2 |
12 | GER | Kurt Koerner | 70.0 / 71.5 | 209.3 |
17th | GER | Franz Haslberger | 64.0 / 67.0 | 204.6 |
18th | GER | Paul Kraus | 62.5 / 62.5 | 204.4 |
19th | AUT | Josef Bradl | 64.0 / 70.5 | 204.0 |
SUI | Richard Buhler | 63.0 / 63.0 | 204.0 | |
25th | AUT | Hans Mariacher | 65.5 / 69.0 | 201.5 |
26th | AUT | Rudolf Rieger | 68.0 / 67.5 | 200.4 |
19th | SUI | Marcel Raymond | 64.0 / 68.5 | 197.3 |
34 | SUI | Reto Badrutt | 64.5 / 65.0 | 192.2 |
36 | AUT | Franz Aschenwald | 64.5 / 55.0 | 185.6 |
Date: February 16, 1936, 9:00 a.m.
48 participants in 14 countries, 47 of them in the ranking.
K point : 80 m
This discipline is also known as jumping or ski jumping .
Nordic combination
space | country | athlete | Points running |
Points jumping |
points total |
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1 | NOR | Oddbjørn Hagen | 240.0 | 190.3 | 430.3 |
2 | NOR | Olaf Hoffsbakken | 227.8 | 192.0 | 419.8 |
3 | NOR | Sverre Brodahl | 225.5 | 182.6 | 408.1 |
4th | FIN | Lauri Valonen | 178.6 | 222.6 | 401.2 |
5 | TCH | František Šimůnek | 219.0 | 175.3 | 394.3 |
6th | NOR | Bernt Østerkløft | 205.1 | 188.7 | 393.8 |
7th | POLE | Stanislaw Marusarz | 184.4 | 208.9 | 393.3 |
FIN | Timo Murama | 187.5 | 205.8 | 393.3 | |
9 | TCH | Johann Lahr | 185.8 | 201.6 | 387.4 |
10 | FIN | Niilo Nikunen | 192.2 | 191.6 | 383.8 |
12 | GER | Willy Bogner sr. | 191.2 | 190.3 | 381.5 |
13 | GER | Josef Gumpold | 190.4 | 190.3 | 380.7 |
15th | AUT | Hubert Köstinger | 186.0 | 189.2 | 375.2 |
17th | AUT | Hans Baumann | 198.5 | 173.6 | 372.1 |
18th | GER | Fidel Wagner | 189.2 | 182.7 | 371.9 |
21st | SUI | Oswald Julen | 183.0 | 184.3 | 367.3 |
22nd | SUI | Willi Bernath | 185.7 | 180.7 | 366.4 |
23 | GER | Toni Eisgruber | 152.8 | 212.1 | 364.9 |
25th | AUT | Markus Maier | 173.7 | 188.2 | 361.9 |
30th | SUI | Ernst Berger | 175.2 | 174.9 | 350.1 |
33 | AUT | Walter Delle Karth | 125.8 | 207.4 | 333.2 |
Cross-country skiing: February 12, 1936, 10:00 a.m.
Ski jumping: February 13, 1936, 11:00 a.m.
51 participants from 16 countries, 48 of them in the ranking.
The number of visitors to the combined ski jumping event, which took place in the best weather conditions, exceeded that of the men's slalom at 70,000. This is probably also because Adolf Hitler , Reichswehr Minister Werner von Blomberg , Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring were among the audience. Before the actual competition, there were trial jumps by special jumpers. The three leading Norwegians after running, especially Hagen and Hoffsbakken, could be sure of their medals and risked little. Brohdal had to be more careful, who was only six points ahead of fourth-placed Šimůnek. But he did not improve, while the fifth placed Severino Menardi slipped over the hill and fell back to 20th place in the overall standings. In a class of his own was the Finn Lauri Valonen , who showed the longest jumps and climbed from 26th to fourth place. For many participants, the gap between the performance in cross-country skiing and that in jumping (and vice versa) was too wide, so the second and fourth place in this second part of the competition did not help the German Toni Eisgruber and the Austrian Walter Delle Karth .
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 1936 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Ski jumping at the 1936 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Nordic combined at the 1936 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official report of the 1936 Winter Olympics (PDF; 29.6 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ «Sweden, Finland and Norway at the top in cross-country skiing». In: Sport Zürich, February 13, 1936, p. 1/2.
- ↑ a b «Finland wrestles Norway in the relay race». In: Sport Zürich, February 12, 1936, p. 1/2.
- ↑ «Combined jumping in front of 70,000 spectators». In: Sport Zürich, February 14, 1936, p. 1.