FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1938

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The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1938 took place February 24-28, 1938 in Lahti, Finland. This was the Finnish city's second time hosting the championships after having done so in 1926.

1 Men's cross country
2 Men's Nordic combined
- 2.1 Individual
3 Men's ski jumping
- 3.1 Individual large hill
4 External links
5 Reference

[edit] Men's cross country

[edit] 18 km

February 25, 1938

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Pauli Pitkänen, Finland	1:09:37
Silver	Alfred Dahlqvist, Sweden	1:10:02
Bronze	Kalle Jalkanen, Finland	1:10:56

187 of 188 skiers completed the event.

[edit] 50 km

February 27, 1938

Medal	Athlete	Time
Gold	Kalle Jalkanen, Finland	4:06:09
Silver	Alvar Rantalahti, Finland	4:10:44
Bronze	Lars Bergendahl, Norway	4:10:54

62 of the 99 skiers completed the event.

[edit] 4 x 10 km relay

February 28, 1938

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Finland (Juho 'Jussi' Kurikkala, Martti Lauronen, Pauli Pitkänen, Klaes Karppinen)	2:38:42
Silver	Norway (Ragnar Ringstad, Olav Økern, Arne Larsen, Lars Bergendahl)	2:42:30
Bronze	Sweden (Sven Hansson, Donald Johansson, Sigurd Nilsson, Martin Matsbo)	2:43:05

[edit] Men's Nordic combined

[edit] Individual

February 24, 1938

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Olaf Hoffsbakken, Norway	432.60
Silver	John Westbergh, Sweden	412.80
Bronze	Hans Vinjarengen, Norway	411.20

[edit] Men's ski jumping

[edit] Individual large hill

February 27, 1938

Medal	Athlete	Points
Gold	Asbjørn Ruud, Norway	226.4
Silver	Stanislav Marusarz, Poland	226.1
Bronze	Hilmar Myhra, Norway	225.0

[edit] External links

[edit] Reference

Hansen, Hermann & Sveen, Knut. (1996) VM på ski '97. Alt om ski-VM 1925-1997 Trondheim: Adresseavisens Forlag. p. 59. ISBN-82-7164-044-5. (Norwegian)

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships