Ski jumping at the 1924 Winter Olympics — 1924 edition of the ski jumping competitions during the Olympic Winter Games
The 1924 Olympic ski jumping result was corrected 50 years later when a scoring error gave the bronze medal to an American instead of a Norwegian.
Key Facts
- Event date
- 4 February 1924
- Error discovered
- 1974, by Jacob Vaage
- Score difference
- 0.095 points in favour of Haugen
- Haugen's age at medal ceremony
- 85 years old
- Original bronze medalist
- Thorleif Haug, Norway
- Corrected bronze medalist
- Anders Haugen, United States
By the Numbers
Location
Cause → Event → Consequence
A clerical error was made when calculating Thorleif Haug's score at the conclusion of the 1924 Winter Olympics ski jumping event. The mistake went undetected for five decades and resulted in Haug being incorrectly awarded the bronze medal while Anders Haugen of the United States was placed fourth.
The single individual ski jumping event at the 1924 Winter Olympics was held on 4 February 1924. Norwegian ski historian Jacob Vaage discovered the scoring error in 1974, and the International Olympic Committee verified that Haugen had actually outscored Haug by 0.095 points, making Haugen the rightful bronze medalist.
In September 1974 in Oslo, Thorleif Haug's daughter formally presented the bronze medal to Anders Haugen, then 85 years old, correcting the official record half a century after the competition. The case became one of the most notable retroactive corrections in Olympic history.
Result
at Chamonix, France