1925 Workers' Winter Olympiad
# 1925 Workers' Winter Olympiad

The 1925 Workers' Winter Olympiad was the first edition of International Workers' Olympiads. The games were held from January 31 to February 2 at the German town of Schreiberhau which today is a part of Poland and it is called Szklarska Poręba.

Four nations participated the 1925 Workers' Winter Olympiad. The only sport was Nordic skiing. Competitors did not represent their country but instead they were competing under the common red flag of the Workers' movement.

## Events and best placed competitors

### Men's 15 km cross-country skiing

| Place | Competitor | Time |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Elis Laine | 0 59.23 |
| 2 | Gabriel Kammonen | 0 59.34 |
| 3 | Toivo Kostiainen | 1.01.14 |

### Men's 30 km cross-country skiing

| Place | Competitor | Time |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Albin Veijalainen | 1.55.10 |
| 2 | Emil Halinen | 1.55.28 |
| 3 | Elis Laine | 1.57.07 |

### Men's 4 km steeplechase skiing

| Place | Competitor | Time |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Emil Elo | 27.07 |
| 2 | Toivo Paavilainen | 28.55 |
| 3 | Georg Bienert | 29.33 |

### Women's 6 km cross-country skiing

| Place | Competitor | Time |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Grete Buchbinder | 1.15.22 |
| 2 | Adele Thomas | 1.18.23 |
| 3 | Irma Prade | 1.23.40 |

### Men's Nordic combined

| Place | Competitor | Points |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Lauri Leppänen | 44.500 |
| 2 | Alois Heils | 35.700 |
| 3 | Toivo Paavilainen | 20.000 |

### Men's ski jumping

| Place | Competitor | Points |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Adolf Puz | 28.00 |
| 2 | Ernts Langhammer | 26.75 |
| 3 | Richard Reinwarth | 24.50 |

## Country ranking

Participating nations are ranked by positions, since no medals were awarded at the Workers' Olympiads.

| Rank | Country | 1st place | 2nd place | 3rd place |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Finland | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Austria | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | Germany | 0 | 0 | 2 |

## Sources

* Voitto Raatikainen: "Talviurheilun sankarit – talviurheilun kuvahistoria", Karisto Publishing 1977. ISBN 9512311798
