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Birger Ruud (23 August 1911 – 13 June 1998) was
a Norwegian ski
jumper.
Born in Kongsberg,
Birger Ruud, with his brothers Sigmund and Asbjørn, dominated international jumping
in the 1930s, winning three world championships
in 1931, 1935 and 1937. Ruud also won the Olympic gold medal in 1932
and 1936. He also was an accomplished
alpine skier,
winning a bronze medal in the combined at the 1935 world
championships. Ruud won the Holmenkollen ski jumping
competition in 1934 and shared the Holmenkollen medal in 1937 with Olaf
Hoffsbakken and Martin P. Vangsli.
In 1943, during the German occupation of
Norway, Ruud was committed to Grini concentration camp for
expressing his anti-Nazi
sentiments. After his release in 1944, he joined the Norwegian resistance
movement.[1]
Impressively, he competed also in the 1948
Olympics, at age 36, winning the silver medal in ski jumping.
This accomplishment he personally held in the highest regard. Twice
he set ski jumping world records: 76.5 m (250.98 ft) in Odnesbakken
in 1931, and 92 m (301.84 ft) in Planica in 1934.
Later in life, Birger Ruud, with his friend Petter Hugsted,
participated in the creation of the Kongsberg Skiing Museum.
In 1987, a bronze sculpture of Birger Ruud, by the Norwegian
sculptor Per Ung, was set up
in Ruud’s native town of Kongsberg, and in 1991 he was awarded the
Egebergs Ærespris for his
achievements in ski jumping and alpine skiing. Ruud was supposed to
light the Olympic Flame at
the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, but had to forfeit
due to heart complications immediately before the event.
References
| Holmenkollen medal |
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1895: Viktor Thorn (NOR) * 1897: Asbjørn
Nilssen (NOR) * 1899: Paul Braaten (NOR), Robert Pehrson
(NOR) * 1901: Askel
Refstad (NOR) * 1903: Karl Hovelsen (NOR) * 1904: Harald Smith (NOR) *
1905: Jonas Holmen
(NOR) * 1907: Per
Bakken * 1908: Einar Kristiansen (NOR) * 1909: Thorvald Hansen
* 1910: Lauritz Bergendahl * 1911: Otto Tangen (NOR), Knut Holst (NOR) * 1912:
Olav Bjaaland
(NOR) * 1914: Johan Kristoffersen (NOR) * 1915:
Sverre
Østbye (NOR) * 1916: Lars Høgvold (NOR) * 1918: Hans Horn (NOR), Jørgen Hansen (NOR) * 1919: Thorleif Haug
(NOR), Otto Aasen
(NOR) * 1923: Thoralf Strømstad (NOR) * 1924: Harald Økern
(NOR), Johan Grøttumsbråten (NOR) * 1925:
Einar Landvik
(NOR) * 1926: Jacob Tullin Thams * 1927: Hagbart
Haakonsen (NOR), Einar Lindboe (NOR) * 1928: Torjus
Hemmestveit (NOR), Mikkjel Hemmestveit (NOR) * 1931:
Hans
Vinjarengen (NOR), Ole
Stenen (NOR) * 1934: Oddbjørn Hagen (NOR) * 1935: Arne
Rustadstuen (NOR) * 1937: Olaf Hoffsbakken (NOR), Birger Ruud (NOR), Martin P.
Vangsli (NOR) * 1938: Reidar Andersen (NOR), Johan R.
Henriksen (NOR) * 1939: Sven Selånger (SWE), Lars Bergendahl
(NOR), Trygve
Brodahl (NOR) * 1940: Oscar Gjøslien (NOR), Annar Ryen (NOR) * 1947:
Elling Rønes
(NOR) * 1948: Asbjørn Ruud (NOR) * 1949: Sigmund Ruud (NOR) *
1950: Olav Økern
(NOR) * 1951: Simon Slåttvik (NOR) * 1952: Stein Eriksen
(NOR), Torbjørn Falkanger (NOR), Heikki Hasu (FIN), Nils Karlsson (SWE)
* 1953: Magnar
Estenstad (NOR) * 1954: Martin Stokken (NOR) * 1955: King
Haakon VII (NOR), Hallgeir Brenden (NOR), Veikko
Hakulinen (FIN), Sverre Stenersen (NOR) * 1956: Borghild Niskin
(NOR), Arnfinn
Bergmann (NOR), Arne
Hoel (NOR) * 1957: Eero Kolehmainen (FIN) * 1958: Inger
Bjørnbakken (NOR), Håkon Brusveen (NOR) * 1959: Gunder
Gundersen (NOR) * 1960: Helmut Recknagel (GDR), Sixten Jernberg
(SWE), Sverre
Stensheim (NOR), Tormod Knutsen (NOR) * 1961: Harald
Grønningen (NOR) * 1962: Toralf Engan (NOR) * 1963: Alevtina
Kolchina (URS), Pavel Kolchin (URS), Astrid Sandvik
(NOR), Torbjørn Yggeseth (NOR) * 1964: Veikko
Kankkonen (FIN), Eero Mäntyranta (FIN), Georg Thoma (FRG), Halvor Næs (NOR) *
1965: Arto Tiainen
(FIN), Bengt
Eriksson (SWE), Arne
Larsen (NOR) * 1967: Toini Gustafsson (SWE), Ole
Ellefsæter (NOR) * 1968: King Olav V (NOR), Assar
Rönnlund (SWE), Gjermund Eggen (NOR), Bjørn Wirkola
(NOR) * 1969: Odd
Martinsen (NOR) * 1970: Pål Tyldum (NOR) * 1971: Marjatta
Kajosmaa (FIN), Berit Mørdre Lammedal (NOR), Reidar
Hjermstad (NOR) * 1972: Rauno Miettinen (FIN), Magne Myrmo (NOR) *
1973: Einar
Bergsland (NOR), Ingolf Mork (NOR), Franz Keller (FRG) * 1974: Juha Mieto (FIN) * 1975:
Gerhard
Grimmer (GDR), Oddvar Brå (NOR), Ivar Formo (NOR) * 1976: Ulrich Wehling
(GDR) * 1977: Helena
Takalo (FIN), Hilkka Kuntola (FIN), Walter Steiner
(SUI) * 1979: Ingemar Stenmark (SWE), Erik Håker (NOR), Raisa Smetanina
(URS) * 1980: Thomas Wassberg (SWE) * 1981: Johan Sætre (NOR)
* 1983: Berit Aunli
(NOR), Tom
Sandberg (NOR) * 1984: Lars-Erik Eriksen (NOR), Jacob Vaage (NOR), Armin Kogler (AUT) *
1985: Anette Bøe
(NOR), Per
Bergerud (NOR), Gunde
Svan (SWE) * 1986: Britt Pettersen (NOR) * 1987: Matti Nykänen
(FIN), Hermann
Weinbuch (FRG) * 1989: Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi (FIN) *
1991: Vegard
Ulvang (NOR), Trond Einar Elden (NOR), Ernst Vettori
(AUT), Jens
Weißflog (GER) * 1992: Yelena Välbe (RUS) * 1993: Emil Kvanlid (NOR) *
1994: Lyubov
Yegorova (RUS), Vladimir Smirnov
(KAZ), Espen
Bredesen (NOR) * 1995: Kenji Ogiwara (JPN) * 1996: Manuela Di
Centa (ITA) * 1997: Bjarte Engen Vik (NOR), Stefania
Belmondo (ITA), Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR) * 1998: Fred
Børre Lundberg (NOR), Larissa Lazutina
(RUS), Alexey Prokurorov (RUS), Harri
Kirvesniemi (FIN) * 1999: Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN) * 2001: Adam Małysz (POL),
Bente Skari (NOR),
Thomas
Alsgaard (NOR) * 2003: Felix Gottwald (AUT), Ronny Ackermann
(GER) * 2004: Yuliya Chepalova (RUS) * 2005: Andrus Veerpalu
(EST) * 2007: Frode
Estil (NOR), Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset (NOR), King Harald
V (NOR), Queen Sonja (NOR), Simon Ammann
(SUI) |
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