Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics
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| Nordic Combined at the VII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Trampolino Olimpico (ski jumping) Lo Stadio della neve (cross-country skiing) | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 29–31 January 1956 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 36 from 12 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning Score | 457.95 | ||||||||||||
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Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics consisted of one event, held from 29 January to 31 January. The ski jumping portion took place at Trampolino Olimpico, while the cross-country portion took place at Lo Stadio della neve.[1][2]
Standings were determined by the combined length of 3 jumps per entrant and combined style points (best 2 out of 3), awarded by a pool of 5 international judges. The cross-country course had a vertical drop of 185 m (607 ft), a maximum climb of 150 m (490 ft) and a 420 m (1,380 ft) total climb.
Medal summary
[edit]Medal table
[edit]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 |  Sweden | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 |  Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (3 entries) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
Franciszek Gąsienica Groń's bronze medal was the first, and as of 2010, only, medal for Poland in nordic combined.
Events
[edit]| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual |
Sverre Stenersen Norway |
455.00 | Bengt Eriksson Sweden |
437.40 | Franciszek Gąsienica Gron Poland |
436.80 |
Individual
[edit]Athletes did three normal hill ski jumps, with the lowest score dropped. They then raced a 15 kilometre cross-country course, with the time converted to points. The athlete with the highest combined points score was awarded the gold medal.[1]
| Rank | Name | Country | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 3 | Total | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | ||||
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Sverre Stenersen | Norway |
107.5 | 107.5 | 215.0 | 2 | 56:18 | 240.00 | 1 | 455.00 | |
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Bengt Eriksson | Sweden |
108.0 | 106.0 | 214.0 | 3 | 1:00:36 | 223.40 | 15 | 437.40 | |
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Franciszek Gąsienica Groń | Poland |
101.5 | 101.5 | 203.0 | 10 | 57:55 | 233.80 | 7 | 436.80 | |
| 4 | Paavo Korhonen |  Finland |
97.0 | 99.5 | 196.5 | 17 | 56:32 | 239.10 | 2 | 435.60 | |
| 5 | Arne Barhaugen | Norway |
99.0 | 100.0 | 199.0 | 15 | 57:11 | 236.58 | 3 | 435.58 | |
| 6 | Tormod Knutsen | Norway |
103.5 | 99.5 | 203.0 | 10 | 58:22 | 232.00 | 9 | 435.00 | |
| 7 | Nikolay Gusakov |  Soviet Union |
98.0 | 102.0 | 200.0 | 14 | 58:17 | 232.30 | 8 | 432.30 | |
| 8 | Alfredo Prucker |  Italy |
101.0 | 100.0 | 201.0 | 12 | 58:52 | 230.10 | 10 | 431.10 | |
| 9 | Eeti Nieminen | Finland |
105.0 | 101.0 | 206.0 | 8 | 1:00:20 | 224.40 | 14 | 430.40 | |
| 10 | Leonid Fyodorov | Soviet Union |
101.0 | 100.0 | 201.0 | 12 | 59:17 | 228.50 | 12 | 429.50 | |
| 11 | Sepp Schiffner |  Austria |
105.0 | 106.5 | 211.5 | 4 | 1:02:02 | 217.80 | 25 | 429.30 | |
| 12 | Vítězslav Lahr |  Czechoslovakia |
98.0 | 95.0 | 193.0 | 22 | 57:39 | 234.80 | 5 | 427.80 | |
| 13 | Yury Moshkin | Soviet Union |
110.5 | 107.0 | 217.5 | 1 | 1:04:18 | 209.10 | 30 | 426.60 | |
| 14 | Kjetil Mårdalen | Norway |
93.0 | 96.0 | 189.0 | 26 | 57:43 | 234.50 | 6 | 423.50 | |
| 15 | Aleksander Kowalski | Poland |
104.5 | 106.0 | 210.5 | 5 | 1:03:37 | 211.70 | 29 | 422.20 | |
| 16 | Willi Egger | Austria |
105.0 | 103.0 | 208.0 | 7 | 1:03:00 | 214.10 | 28 | 422.10 | |
| 17 | Leopold Kohl | Austria |
97.5 | 101.0 | 198.5 | 16 | 1:01:00 | 221.80 | 21 | 420.30 | |
| 18 | Vlastimil Melich | Czechoslovakia |
90.5 | 93.0 | 183.5 | 28 | 57:18 | 236.10 | 4 | 419.60 | |
| 19 | Helmut Böck |  United Team of Germany |
97.0 | 93.0 | 190.0 | 24 | 59:13 | 228.70 | 11 | 418.70 | |
| 20 | Enzo Perin | Italy |
97.5 | 98.5 | 196.0 | 19 | 1:00:48 | 222.60 | 18 | 418.60 | |
| 21 | Heinz Hauser | United Team of Germany |
101.0 | 94.0 | 195.0 | 20 | 1:00:43 | 222.90 | 17 | 417.90 | |
| 22 | Josef Nüsser | Czechoslovakia |
95.5 | 94.0 | 189.5 | 25 | 59:28 | 227.80 | 13 | 417.30 | |
| 23 | Marvin Crawford |  United States |
97.5 | 99.0 | 196.5 | 17 | 1:02:24 | 216.40 | 26 | 412.90 | |
| 24 | Gerhard Glaß | United Team of Germany |
103.0 | 100.5 | 203.5 | 9 | 1:04:17 | 209.10 | 30 | 412.60 | |
| 25 | Esko Jussila | Finland |
96.5 | 97.5 | 194.0 | 21 | 1:02:38 | 215.50 | 27 | 409.50 | |
| 26 | Uno Kajak | Soviet Union |
92.0 | 94.5 | 186.5 | 27 | 1:00:48 | 222.60 | 18 | 409.10 | |
| 27 | Irvin Servold |  Canada |
91.0 | 89.0 | 180.0 | 31 | 1:01:44 | 219.00 | 24 | 399.00 | |
| 28 | Herbert Leonhardt | United Team of Germany |
89.0 | 88.0 | 177.0 | 32 | 1:01:34 | 219.60 | 23 | 396.60 | |
| 29 | Józef Daniel Krzeptowski | Poland |
87.5 | 86.0 | 173.5 | 33 | 1:00:48 | 222.60 | 18 | 396.10 | |
| 30 | Theodore Farwell, Jr. | United States |
88.5 | 85.0 | 173.5 | 33 | 1:01:21 | 220.50 | 22 | 394.00 | |
| 31 | Aldo Pedrana | Italy |
85.0 | 83.0 | 168.0 | 35 | 1:00:36 | 223.40 | 15 | 391.40 | |
| 32 | Jan Raszka | Poland |
91.5 | 91.0 | 182.5 | 29 | 1:05:15 | 205.40 | 32 | 387.90 | |
| 33 | Koichi Sato |  Japan |
98.0 | 93.5 | 191.5 | 23 | 1:08:21 | 193.40 | 35 | 384.90 | |
| 34 | Charles Tremblay | United States |
91.0 | 91.0 | 182.0 | 30 | 1:07:40 | 196.00 | 34 | 378.00 | |
| 35 | Buck Levy | United States |
80.5 | 81.5 | 162.0 | 36 | 1:05:42 | 203.60 | 33 | 365.60 | |
| - | Hiroshi Yoshizawa | Japan |
106.5 | 104.0 | 210.5 | 5 | DNF | DNF | - | - | |
Participating NOCs
[edit]Twelve nations participated in nordic combined at the Cortina Games. The Soviet Union made their Olympic nordic combined debut.[1]
Austria (3)
Canada (1)
Finland (3)
United Team of Germany (4)
Italy (3)
Japan (2)
Norway (4)
Poland (4)
Sweden (1)
Czechoslovakia (3)
Soviet Union (4)
United States (4)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "VII Giochi Olimpici Invernali - Rapporto ufficiale" (PDF). COMITATO OLIMPICO NAZIONALE ITALIANO. LA84 Foundation. 1956. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
- ^ "Nordic Combined at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
