Winter pentathlon at the 1948 Winter Olympics

In the VI. Olympic Winter Games of 1948 in St. Moritz was held for the only time a contest in Winter Pentathlon competition as a demonstration or demonstration contest.

Winter Pentathlon

The competition consisted of the disciplines 10 km cross-country skiing, Pistol with 4 × 5 shots at 25 m, downhill skiing, epee fencing and off-road ride in the snow together and was considered a winter equivalent of the modern pentathlon, however, was contrary to this is not to one but to five consecutive days played. The rating was carried out according to place numbers. The winner of each discipline got a point, the other athletes in each case the appropriate place their number of points. Was starters do not finish the race, he was seen in this part of competition as the last with the number of points, which corresponded to the number of starters in this discipline. The points of the discipline votes were tallied and declared the athlete with the fewest points the winner.

Participants and course

The field consisted of only fourteen athletes, eleven of them were able to bring the contest to an end. In the third discipline, the downhill race, it came to serious accidents and three starters could no longer compete for fencing and horse riding. Although had to give up in the snow of the remaining competing athletes in the Austrian and Swiss Griessler Schriber at the final cross country and counted each with eleven points, they could still place in the overall standings.

As with the military patrol also the field of participants in the Winter Pentathlon was composed exclusively of military personnel. The Winter Pentathlon fought in direct competition with the military patrol run to the inclusion in the official program of the Olympic Winter Games, but could neither the officials nor the public to persuade and was never carried out in this form. The IOC had all the plans for a modified Winter Pentathlons fall.

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