1952 Winter Olympics / Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing with the VI. Winter Olympics
information
venue	Oslo
Competition venue	Holmenkollbakken
Nations	18th
Athletes	164 (23 women and 141 men)
date	17.-24. February 1952
decisions	6th
← St. Moritz 1948 Cortina 1956 →

At the VI. At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo , six competitions were held in Nordic skiing . This was also the 19th 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 venue was the Holmenkollbakken on Oslo's local mountain, Holmenkollen . For the first time there was a cross-country skiing competition for women. There was also an innovation in Nordic Combined: For the first time, ski jumping was held and the second discipline was cross-country skiing.

The Nordic competitions were shaped more than ever by the superiority of Scandinavian athletes . Norwegians and Finns shared the six gold medals. There were two bronze medals left for Sweden . Only the two German ski jumpers Toni Brutscher (4th place) and Sepp Weiler (8th place) were among the top eight as non-Scandinavians. However, these Olympics should be the last with this Scandinavian dominance. At the following World Cup in 1954 in Falun , Sweden , the Soviet Union also entered the international stage in winter sports and was involved from then on.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Finland	3	4th	2	9
2	Norway	3	2	2	7th
3	Sweden	-	-	2	2

Medalist

Cross-country men

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
18 km	Hallgeir Brenden	Tapio Mäkelä	Paavo Lonkila
50 km	Veikko Hakulinen	Eero Kolehmainen	Magnar Estenstad
4 × 10 km relay	Heikki Hasu , Urpo Korhonen , Paavo Lonkila , Tapio Mäkelä	Hallgeir Brenden , Magnar Estenstad , Mikal Kirkholt , Martin Stokken	Sigurd Andersson , Enar Josefsson , Martin Lundström , Nils Täpp

Cross-country women

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
10 km	Lydia Wideman	Mirja Hietamies	Siiri Rantanen

Ski jumping

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Normal hill	Arnfinn miner	Torbjørn Falkanger	Karl Holmström

Nordic combination

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
singles	Simon Slåttvik	Heikki Hasu	Sverre Stenersen

Cross-country men

18 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	NOR	Hallgeir Brenden	1:01:34
2	FIN	Tapio Mäkelä	1:02:09
3	FIN	Paavo Lonkila	1:02:20
4th	FIN	Heikki Hasu	1:02:24
5	SWE	Nils Karlsson	1:02:56
6th	NOR	Martin Stokken	1:03:00
7th	SWE	Nils Täpp	1:03:35
8th	FIN	Tauno Sipilä	1:03:40
9	SWE	Gunnar Ostberg	1:03:44
10	FIN	Toivo Oikarinen	1:04:07
23	AUT	Josef Schneeberger	1:09:12
26th	SUI	Alfons Supersaxo	1:09:38
28	AUT	Hias Noichl	1:09:48
30th	SUI	Alfred Kronig	1:10:12
31	AUT	Hans Eder	1:10:13
35	SUI	Hans Loetscher	1:10:45
37	SUI	Josef Schnyder	1:10:51
43	AUT	Friedrich Krischan	1:11:54
46	SUI	Karl Bricker	1:12:19
48	AUT	Oskar Schulz	1:12:37
51	AUT	Leopold Kohl	1:13:10
54	GER	Alois Harrer	1:13:30
64	GER	Rudi Kopp	1:15:53
65	GER	Albert Mohr	1:16:32
69	AUT	Josef Schiffner	1:17:31

Date: February 18, 1952, 11:00 a.m.
80 participants from 18 countries, 75 of them in the ranking.

This cross-country race also served to determine the result of the Nordic combined.

50 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	FIN	Veikko Hakulinen	3:33:33
2	FIN	Eero Kolehmainen	3:38:11
3	NOR	Magnar Estenstad	3:38:28
4th	NOR	Olav Økern	3:38:45
5	FIN	Kalevi Monons	3:39:21
6th	SWE	Nils Karlsson	3:39:30
7th	NOR	Edvin Landsem	3:43:43
8th	NOR	Harald Maartmann	3:43:43
9	FIN	Pekka Kuvaja	3:46:31
10	SWE	Törnkvist is different	3:49:22
15th	SUI	Otto Beyeler	4:06:15
16	SUI	Alfred Roch	4:09:39
17th	SUI	Karl Hischier	4:13:46
20th	SUI	Josef Schnyder	4:18:45
26th	GER	Juku Pent	4:30:56

Date: February 20, 1952, 10:00 a.m.
36 participants from 13 countries, 33 of them in the ranking.

The race was held under extremely difficult conditions: damp snow, temperature differences, inclines and difficult descents. The Finns had made excellent provisions for the race. Already at 4 a.m. they pulled a truck to the track area, unloaded 300 pairs of skis and ski poles, as well as radios, food of all kinds, ovens and mountains of wax. At the race itself there were 50,000 spectators in the stadium, the same number were estimated along the route. The Finn Mononen started first, the interval was one minute. Hakulinen crossed the finish line with 3:33:33 and, because of his winning time, they found a connection with the many three-pointers, because this run was his third marathon race and his third victory. Although Nils Karlsson was beaten in sixth, he received minutes of applause, because he had won the Vasa race five times in a row, from 1945 to 1951 .

4 × 10 km relay

space	Country sportsman	time
1	Finland Heikki Hasu Paavo Lonkila Urpo Korhonen Tapio Mäkelä	2: 20.16 h 35:01 min 35:22 min 35:47 min 34:06 min
2	Norway Magnar Estenstad Mikal Kirkholt Martin Stokken Hallgeir Brenden	2: 23.13 h 36:52 min 36:07 min 35:37 min 34:37 ​​min
3	Sweden Nils Täpp Sigurd Andersson Enar Josefsson Martin Lundström	2: 24.13 h 36:19 min 36:39 min 35:43 min 35:32 min
4th	France Gerrad Perrier Benoît Carrara Jean Mermet René Mandrillon	2: 31.11 h 38:53 min 37:35 min 38:00 min 36:43 min
5	Austria Hans Eder Friedrich Krischan Karl Rafreider Josef Schneeberger	2: 34.36 h 38:41 min 39:50 min 38:16 min 37:49 min
6th	Italy Arrigo Delladio Nino Anderlini Frederico De Florian Vincenzo Perruchon	2: 35.33 h 38:46 min 38:08 min 40:51 min 37:48 min
7th	Germany Hubert Egger Albert Mohr Heinz Hauser Rudolf Kopp	2: 36.37 h 38:26 min 39:56 min 39:23 min 38:52 min
8th	Czechoslovakia Vladimír Šimůnek Štefan Kovalčík Vlastimil Melich Jaroslav Cardal	2: 37.12 h 38:59 min 39:50 min 40:24 min 37:59 min
9	Switzerland Fritz Kocher Walter Lötscher Alfred Kronig Alfons Supersaxo	2: 38.00 h 40:55 min 39:21 min 39:44 min 38:00 min

Date: February 23, 1952, 12:00 p.m.
13 relays at the start, 12 of them in the valuation.

The Finns were ahead from start to finish, Hasu had a ten-second lead two hundred meters after the start. Behind them Sweden and Norway fought for silver, with Sweden leading until the second handover, but then Norway pulling away. Mäkelä (34:06) had the best part times ahead of Brenden (34:37) and Hassu (35:01). A helicopter circled around the track and constantly radioed the positions of the runners into the stadium. The message was always the same: "Finland increases the lead".

Cross-country women

10 km

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	FIN	Lydia Wideman	41:40
2	FIN	Mirja Hietamies	42:39
3	FIN	Siiri Rantanen	42:50
4th	SWE	Marta Norberg	42:53
5	FIN	Sirkka Polkunen	43:07
6th	NOR	Squeegee choice	44:54
7th	NOR	Marit Øiseth	45:04
8th	SWE	Margit Albrechtsson	45:06
9	SWE	Eivor Alm	45:20
10	NOR	Gina Sigstad	45:37
15th	GER	Hanni Gehring	50:39

Date: February 23, 1952, 10:00 a.m. 20 participants from 8 countries, 18 of them in the evaluation.

The Austrian Lizzy Kladensky could not finish the race and had to give up half of the race (placed in 10th place). She still suffered from a fall while training and developed headaches while running. The fears regarding aesthetics were not fulfilled: the women were not a "sad" sight, they were surprisingly fresh at the finish and even smiled.

Ski jumping

Normal hill

space	country	athlete	Widths (m)	Points
1	NOR	Arnfinn miner	67.5 / 68.0	226.0
2	NOR	Torbjørn Falkanger	68.0 / 64.0	221.5
3	SWE	Karl Holmström	67.0 / 65.5	219.5
4th	GER	Toni Brutscher	66.5 / 62.5	216.5
4th	NOR	Halvor Næs	63.5 / 64.5	216.5
6th	NOR	Arne Hoel	63.5 / 64.5	215.5
7th	FIN	Antti Hyvärinen	66.5 / 61.5	213.5
8th	GER	Sepp Weiler	67.0 / 63.0	213.0
10	GER	Josef Kleisl	66.5 / 62.5	208.0
14th	AUT	Walter Steinegger	61.5 / 63.0	202.0
16	AUT	Andreas Däscher	62.0 / 61.0	200.5
20th	CHE	Hans Däscher	61.0 / 60.0	198.5
21st	AUT	Rudolf Dietrich	63.0 / 62.5	198.0
23	CHE	Jacques Perreten	61.0 / 59.0	193.0
26th	CHE	Fritz Schneider	59.5 / 59.5	189.5
29	AUT	Hans Eder	57.5 / 55.5	188.5
31	GER	Franz Dengg	60.0 / 56.5	187.5

Date: February 24, 1952, 1.30 p.m.
44 participants from 13 countries, 43 of them in the ranking.

The Austrian Josef Bradl , who was one of the favorites, fell in the first round at 50.5 m and did not compete in the second. One of the biggest surprises were the three German jumpers among the top ten. Central Europe's top class had caught up with the Norwegian ones, the difference was no longer so great - except that they were unmatched in width, because they had twenty jumpers in the format of an Arnfinn Bergmann. With regard to the Austrians, it was found that they were simply rated too highly at home, while they could not keep up internationally. The ceremony before the ski jump was unusual: King Haakon VII walked over the take-off table, stopped in the middle, took off his hat and greeted the people. The audience then sang the national anthem.

Nordic combination

Individual (normal hill / 18 km)

space	country	athlete	Points jumping	Points running	points total
1	NOR	Simon Slåttvik	223.5	228.121	451.621
2	FIN	Heikki Hasu	207.5	240,000	447,500
3	NOR	Sverre Stenersen	223.0	213,335	436,335
4th	FIN	Paavo Korhonen	206.0	228.727	206.00
5	NOR	Per Gjelten	212.0	220.848	212.00
6th	NOR	Ottar Gjermundshaug	206.0	226.121	432.121
7th	FIN	Aulis Sipponen	198.5	226.727	425.227
8th	FIN	Eeti Nieminen	206.0	218.181	424.181
9	AUT	Hans Eder	209.0	211.575	420.575
10	CHE	Alfons Supersaxo	201.5	213.696	415.196
15th	GER	Heinz Hauser	193.5	199.636	393.136
18th	AUT	Leopold Kohl	182.5	200.848	383,348
20th	AUT	Josef Schiffner	186.5	185.030	371.530

Date: February 17, 1952, 12:30 pm (ski jumping) / February 18, 1952, 11:00 am (cross-country skiing, as part of the 18 km race)
25 participants from 11 countries, 22 of them in the ranking.

Hans Eder, who finished fourth in the combined event behind Slåttvik, Stenersen and Gjelten, beat everyone except the Norwegians and Finns. It was the greatest success of an Austrian in Nordic combined so far.

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 1952 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ski jumping at the 1952 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Nordic combined at the Olympic Winter Games 1952 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1952 Winter Olympics (PDF; 25.4 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Ski marathon under difficult conditions" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 21, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ "The highlight in Oslo: the ski marathon" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 22, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ ^{a b} “A day of Finnish triumph” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 24, 1952, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ↑ "Bradl missed the crucial second" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 26, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ^ "A great success of Eder" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 19, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).