The Development of Ski Sport
Skiing had been used as an
intercommunication vehicle in Norway, Sweden, Finland and in
some of East European countries, from the 15th century
onwards it had been used for military purposes by Sweden
Norway, Poland and Russia for the reason of adopting the ski
as a sport instrument. Ski competitions were first arranged
in Cristina in 1866 and as a result of the great interest
shown by the races, a greater organization had been realized
in Oslo in 1879 and ski jump races had been executed, for
this reason Norwegian man Fridtj of Nansen and his six man
squad reached to the northern frontier of Greenland by ski,
then after publishing his book named "The First Crossing of
Greenland" this had an increasing effect on the interest of
skiing. In 1896 Mathias Zdarsky made a great break through
by inventing new techniques on the basics of Alpine Style
skiing.
The club named "Ski Club de Cristina" founded in 1877
through the attempts made by Fridtj of Nansen, is the first
in the world and the others founded in 1890 in Germany in
1907 in France and in 1903 in England then followed. The
International Ski
The Historical Ski Types
Siberia, Mongolia and
Altai are the places where the ski first arose and was
utilized. Later on it stretched
to North America, the
Balkans, Anatolia and in the direction of northwest to
Scandinavia and Iceland.
A primitive ski (Hoting
Ski), which had been found in the year 1921 and made of pine
tree in Sweden, had
been determined as being
4500 years old. Three types of skis were found after
excavation.
Southern Style Skis :
The skis thought to be used in the Ural Mountains, Middle
Europe and Southern
Norway
were tied at the ankles, long and the peaks had been folded
upwards.
Northern Style Skis :
The soles of the ski reminiscent of those used in Siberia
and the present day, had
been
coated with hide and were short and wide.
Nordic Style Skis :
The sole of the
ski implied that the first skis used in Japan were
corrugated and the
left foot was longer than the right one.
For the History of
Skiing in Turkey page, click
here.
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