Thorleif Schjelderup

Olympic medal record
Men's ski jumping

Thorleif Schjelderup (January 20, 1920 - May 28, 2006) was a Norwegian author and in the 1940s and 1950s one of Norway's best ski jumpers.

He was born in Aker as a son of Ferdinand Schjelderup^[1] and his wife Marie Leigh Vogt.^[2]

He won a bronze medal in the 1948 Winter Olympics. That same year he met American singer Anne Brown, who moved with him to Oslo where the couple eventually married. Schjelderup had a failed marriage, from 1940 to 1944, behind him.^[2]

Schjelderup published his first essay in 1952 and has then wrote books in the field of sports and on Norwegian nature until his 2006 death.

References

Thorleif Schjelderup at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation

^ "Schjelderup, Thorleif". Aschehoug og Gyldendals Store norske leksikon. Kunnskapsforlaget. 2007.
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[1] "Schjelderup, Thorleif". Aschehoug og Gyldendals Store norske leksikon. Kunnskapsforlaget. 2007.

[genea-2] Genealogy Cite error: The named reference "genea" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

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