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International Masters
Championships
Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined
Skiing
Old Boys -- Still at it, after all
these years!
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CONTENTS
- Brief Introduction
- 1990 Lake Placid, USA
- 1991 Odnes, NOR
- 1992 Svanstein, SWE
- 1993 Kuopio, FIN
- 1994 Hurdal, NOR
- 1995 Zakopane, POL
- 1996 Steamboat Springs, USA
- 1997 Sundsvall, SWE
- 1998 Perm, RUS
- 1999 Otepaa, EST
- 2000 Rognan, NOR
- 2001 Rovaniemi, FIN
- 2002 Harrachov, CZE
- 2003 Zakopane, POL
- 2004 Reit im Winkl, GER
- 2005 Villach, AUT
- 2006 Kranj, SLO
- 2007 Hinterzarten, GER
- 2008 Taivalkoski, FIN
- 2009 Ruhpolding, GER
- 2010 Ziri & Kranj, SLO
- 2011 Harrachov, CZE
- 2012 Sczcyrk, POL
- 2013 Chaikovsky, RUS
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We welcome ski jumpers from all nations
INTRODUCTION
The first International Masters Championships in Ski Jumping and
Nordic Combined Skiing (IMC) were held in Lake Placid NY in
February of 1990.
Subsequent editions of the IMC visited Odnes NOR, Swanstein
SWE, Kuopio
FIN, Hurdal NOR, Zakopane POL, Steamboat Springs USA, Sundsvall
SWE, Perm RUS, Otepaa EST, Rognan NOR and Rovaniemi FIN. (The table above gives the complete list.)
The first ten years of IMC involved almost exclusively skiers from Scandinavia, Russia, Estonia and North America. Zakopane Poland hosted the 1995 IMC but the participants still all came down from the north -- somehow the central European Masters never got the word.
Finally in 2000, two German skiers traveled to Rognan, Norway for IMC-XIII and over the next few years this trickle grew to a flood. The IMC was hosted in Harrachov in the Czech Republic in 2002, and the next five IMC's were held in Poland, Germany, Austria and Slovenia, attracting skiers from almost all of the ski jumping nations.
The first IMC was modeled loosely on the Norwegian National Masters
Championships, but the IMC program has since expanded to include competition on
three or more hills, plus Nordic Combined and team events.
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The IMC
was the brainchild of Master jumpers Earle Murphy (left) of Lake Placid and Guttorm
Bakke (right) of Jessheim,
Norway, who also established an international committee for
Masters ski jumping to
coordinate IMC and other activities. This Committee has
representatives from more than twenty countries, and
seeks interest from all ski jumping nations.
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We have reports on all IMC events, from 1990 to the present, including all
gold, silver and bronze medal winners. The table at the top of this page gives links to these reports. The reports on the firt ten IMC's were done retrospectively and tend to be short and simple, but the reports on recent events are much longer and more complete with many more pictures and links to complete results.
See the first report: 1990 IMC in Lake Placid, USA.
Looking back at 20 Years of IMC
Guttorm Bakke
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(May 2009)
Both IMC founders, Guttorm Bakke of Norway and Earle Murphy of USA, came to Ruhpolding, Germany for the Festival Twentieth IMC.
Guttorm (left), the grand old man of IMC, both on and off the hill, could always tell you how many IMC gold medals he had won. However, Guttorm hasn't jumped in a couple of years, and in Ruhpolding he mentioned that he was about to be passed in gold medal count by his younger compatriate, Geir Rune Lislegaard (right).
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Geir Rune Lislegaard
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Who are the most decorated IMC skiers?
The comment about Guttorm and Geir Rune made us curious so we sat down and worked through our 20 years of records, which are almost complete, to find out which long-time IMC competitors have large numbers of medals.
The job was made difficult by the large number of medalists, more than 400 from 1990 to 2009, and changes in spelling of names. Our search was particularly difficult working with names transliterated from Russian with very different spellings in different years. For example, we find Valeery Chuykin, Valeriy Tchuikine, and several other spellings, all apparently naming the same skier.
There are certainly errors in our data, and a few event results are missing completely, but here are some things that we found.
Of 420 names in our list of medalists, 132 are from Norway. Finland follows with 87 medalists, then Russia with 67, and no other nations are close.
Martti Lamminpää leads all medalists with 39 (15 gold, 14 silver, 10 bronze) followed by Arsi Sjogren with 36 medals and Aarne Kuisma and Ingvart Törnängen with 30 each.
Martti Lamminpaa
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Arsi Sjogren
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Aarne Kuisma
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Ingvart Tornangen
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The original comment about medal counts was about total gold medals. If we count only gold medals, we find
Aarne Kuisma at the top of the list with 27, followed closely by Arsi Sjogren (25), then Nils Eriksen (20).
If we give each gold medal the value 3, each silver 2, and each bronze 1, then Arsi Sjogren gets the top score, followed by Aarne Kuisma and Martti Lamminpää.
Sometimes comparisons aren't really fair. For example, it is easier to win a medal in the oldest age groups where even last place sometimes brings a medal. And to pile up lots of medals, a skier should enter lots of events, including the Nordic Combined events. It is worth noting that Guttorm Bakke and Aarne Kuisma both accumulated their medals just in special jumping, no Nordic Combined. So should we really compare Guttorm with Geir Rune Lislegaard who has taken many of his medals in Nordic Combined?
You aren't getting older, you're getting better!
Arsi Sjogren (FIN) first competed in IMC in 1993 in Kuopio, Finland, where he scored a silver and a bronze. Arsi has missed only a couple of IMC's since that time, but his record indicates steady improvement. In his early years he mixed a few gold medals with silver and bronze. Then it was mostly gold medals, with fewer second and third place finishes. Finally, in the five year period from 2005 through 2009, Arsi entered three events every year and won his age group competition in every one -- perfect record -- fifteen gold medals in five years!
Here are two tables, sorted in two different ways.
TOTAL MEDALS
Skiers with at least 20 Medals
in the first 20 years of IMC.
Skier Name NAT y.o.b. Gold Silv. Brnz. total
Martti Lamminpää FIN 1937 15 14 10 39
Arsi Sjogren FIN 1953 25 8 3 36
Aarne Kuisma FIN 1936 27 3 0 30
Ingvart Törnängen SWE 1939 17 10 3 30
Geir-Rune Lislegaard NOR 1963 19 4 5 28
John Eidem NOR 1931 17 10 1 28
Ake Saloniemi SWE 1944 9 10 9 28
Teuvo Koljonen FIN 1935 5 8 14 27
Willy Johansen NOR 1935 14 7 2 23
Nils Eriksen NOR 1927 20 2 0 22
Guttorm Bakke NOR 1942 17 4 1 22
Reidar Finanger NOR 1944 10 9 3 22
Antti Kokkonen FIN 1943 9 7 6 22
Olav Malin NOR 1922 14 3 3 20
Veijo Stranden FIN 1958 7 5 8 20
Don West USA 1937 4 10 6 20
Aatto Lamminpää FIN 1945 5 7 8 20
Seppo Kinnunen FIN 1966 5 7 8 20
GOLD MEDALS
Skiers with at least 10 IMC Medals
in the first 20 years of IMC.
Aarne Kuisma FIN 1936 27 3 0 30
Arsi Sjogren FIN 1953 25 8 3 36
Nils Eriksen NOR 1927 20 2 0 22
Geir-Rune Lislegaard NOR 1963 19 4 5 28
Ingvart Törnängen SWE 1939 17 10 3 30
John Eidem NOR 1931 17 10 1 28
Guttorm Bakke NOR 1942 17 4 1 22
Martti Lamminpää FIN 1937 15 14 10 39
Willy Johansen NOR 1935 14 7 2 23
Olav Malin NOR 1922 14 3 3 20
Jan Heiberg NOR 1947 11 4 1 16
Odd Aarnes NOR 1923 11 4 0 15
Nils-Olav Kongsvik NOR 1955 11 1 2 14
Reidar Finanger NOR 1944 10 9 3 22
Oyvind Villesvik NOR 1964 10 4 2 16
Ari Raitoharju FIN 1958 10 3 0 13
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You can see the entire list
We have posted our original data in a text file suitable for loading into a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel.
The form is a table with a row for every medalist and a column for every IMC event. For example, the listing for 2009 has four columns labeled K-40, K-65, K-90, NC, respectively.
A cell of the table contains "1" for a gold medal, "2" for silver or "3" for bronze. Otherwise the cell is empty.
It is a large table with over 400 rows and almost 100 columns. The text file has the data items separated by tabs. You can open it directly with a spread sheet program -- in Excel, check "delimited", "tabs", but do not check "treat consecutive delimiters as one". You can also open it as a text file, then copy the entire text and paste it into Excel. [ Download it now.]
If you notice any errors or can supply missing information,
please tell us (and say what page you are looking at). Thank you. DCW
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