Halvor Næs

Halvor Næs
nation	Norway
birthday	April 5, 1927
place of birth	Trysil
size	180 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
society	Trysilgutten IL
status	resigned
Medal table
NM medals 1 × 0 × 2 ×
Norwegian championships gold 1957 Mo i Rana Normal hill bronze 1960 Mjøndalen Normal hill bronze 1961 Rælingen Normal hill

Halvor Næs (born April 5, 1927 in Trysil ) is a former Norwegian ski jumper .

At the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , he jumped from the normal hill to 63.5 and 64.5  meters . With 216.5 points, Næs took fourth place, which he shared with the German Toni Brutscher .

With 877.5 points, Næs was second in the first Four Hills Tournament in 1953. This year he won the jumping in Bischofshofen with 228.0 points.

In 1957 Næs became the Norwegian normal hill champion. In 1960 he was again on the squad for the Olympic Games. At the 1960 Winter Games in Squaw Valley , he jumped from the normal hill to 11th place. In 1960 and 1961 he also won the bronze medal at the Norwegian Championships on the normal hill.

In 1964 Næs received the Holmenkollen Medal , the highest Norwegian award in skiing , which was also awarded that year to the Finns Veikko Kankkonen and Eero Mäntyranta as well as to the German Georg Thoma .

His son Bjarne (* 1955) was also a ski jumper.

successes

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Bischofshofen	Austria	94.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 11, 1953	January 6, 1960

Web links

• Halvor Næs in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Halvor Næs in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ski Jumping at the 1952 Oslo Winter Games: Men's Normal Hill, Individual . www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved April 26, 2009.