Nordic combined at the 1956 Winter Olympics

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Nordic Combined
at the VII Olympic Winter Games
Nordic combined pictogram.svg
VenueTrampolino Olimpico (ski jumping)
Lo Stadio della neve (cross-country skiing)
Dates29–31 January
Competitors36 from 12 nations
Winning Score457.95
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sverre Stenersen  Norway
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bengt Eriksson  Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Franciszek Gąsienica Groń  Poland
← 1952
1960 →

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[]

Medal table[]

[1]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Norway1001
2 Sweden0101
3 Poland0011
Totals (3 nations)1113

Franciszek Gąsienica Groń's bronze medal was the first, and as of 2010, only, medal for Poland in nordic combined.

Events[]

[1]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual
details 		Sverre Stenersen
 Norway		 455.00 Bengt Eriksson
 Sweden		 437.40 Franciszek Gąsienica Groń
 Poland		 436.80

Individual[]

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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sverre Stenersen  Norway 95.5 107.5 107.5 215.0 2 56:18 240.00 1 455.00
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bengt Eriksson  Sweden 108.0 106.0 99.5 214.0 3 1:00:36 223.40 15 437.40
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Franciszek Gąsienica Groń  Poland 60.0 101.5 101.5 203.0 10 57:55 233.80 7 436.80
4 Paavo Korhonen  Finland 97.0 96.5 99.5 196.5 17 56:32 239.10 2 435.60
5 Arne Barhaugen  Norway 99.0 98.5 100.0 199.0 15 57:11 236.58 3 435.58
6 Tormod Knutsen  Norway 89.5 103.5 99.5 203.0 10 58:22 232.00 9 435.00
7 Nikolay Gusakov  Soviet Union 98.0 102.0 96.5 200.0 14 58:17 232.30 8 432.30
8 Alfredo Prucker  Italy 101.0 100.0 95.0 201.0 12 58:52 230.10 10 431.10
9 Eeti Nieminen  Finland 99.5 105.0 101.0 206.0 8 1:00:20 224.40 14 430.40
10 Leonid Fyodorov  Soviet Union 101.0 100.0 98.0 201.0 12 59:17 228.50 12 429.50
11 Sepp Schiffner  Austria 105.0 106.5 104.0 211.5 4 1:02:02 217.80 25 429.30
12 Vítězslav Lahr  Czechoslovakia 92.0 98.0 95.0 193.0 22 57:39 234.80 5 427.80
13 Yury Moshkin  Soviet Union 110.5 83.5 107.0 217.5 1 1:04:18 209.10 30 426.60
14 Kjetil Mårdalen  Norway 93.0 92.5 96.0 189.0 26 57:43 234.50 6 423.50
15 Aleksander Kowalski  Poland 99.0 104.5 106.0 210.5 5 1:03:37 211.70 29 422.20
16 Willi Egger  Austria 102.0 105.0 103.0 208.0 7 1:03:00 214.10 28 422.10
17 Leopold Kohl  Austria 97.5 101.0 95.5 198.5 16 1:01:00 221.80 21 420.30
18 Vlastimil Melich  Czechoslovakia 88.5 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 91.5 190.0 24 59:13 228.70 11 418.70
20 Enzo Perin  Italy 97.5 98.5 95.5 196.0 19 1:00:48 222.60 18 418.60
21 Heinz Hauser  United Team of Germany 93.0 101.0 94.0 195.0 20 1:00:43 222.90 17 417.90
22 Josef Nüsser  Czechoslovakia 92.5 95.5 94.0 189.5 25 59:28 227.80 13 417.30
23 Marvin Crawford  United States 96.5 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 77.0 203.5 9 1:04:17 209.10 30 412.60
25 Esko Jussila  Finland 96.5 97.5 95.0 194.0 21 1:02:38 215.50 27 409.50
26 Uno Kajak  Soviet Union 84.0 92.0 94.5 186.5 27 1:00:48 222.60 18 409.10
27 Irvin Servold  Canada 91.0 89.0 87.5 180.0 31 1:01:44 219.00 24 399.00
28 Herbert Leonhardt  United Team of Germany 79.5 89.0 88.0 177.0 32 1:01:34 219.60 23 396.60
29 Józef Daniel Krzeptowski  Poland 78.0 87.5 86.0 173.5 33 1:00:48 222.60 18 396.10
30 Theodore Farwell, Jr.  United States 88.5 83.0 85.0 173.5 33 1:01:21 220.50 22 394.00
31 Aldo Pedrana  Italy 85.0 79.5 83.0 168.0 35 1:00:36 223.40 15 391.40
32 Jan Raszka  Poland 89.0 91.5 91.0 182.5 29 1:05:15 205.40 32 387.90
33 Koichi Sato  Japan 93.0 98.0 93.5 191.5 23 1:08:21 193.40 35 384.90
34 Charles Tremblay  United States 88.0 91.0 91.0 182.0 30 1:07:40 196.00 34 378.00
35 Buck Levy  United States 72.5 80.5 81.5 162.0 36 1:05:42 203.60 33 365.60
- Hiroshi Yoshizawa  Japan 98.0 106.5 104.0 210.5 5 DNF DNF - -

Participating NOCs[]

Twelve nations participated in nordic combined at the Cortina Games. The Soviet Union made their Olympic nordic combined debut.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "VII Giochi Olimpici Invernali - Rapporto ufficiale" (PDF). COMITATO OLIMPICO NAZIONALE ITALIANO. LA84 Foundation. 1956. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
  2. ^ "Nordic Combined at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2019.

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