Arne Larsen

Arne Larsen
Full name	Arne Kjell Larsen
nation	Norway
birthday	December 23, 1937
place of birth	Asker ,  Norway
Career
society	Heggedal IL
status	resigned
Medal table
National medals 3 × 3 × 1 ×
Norwegian championships gold 1962 Skien Normal hill  Norwegian championships silver 1960 Mjøndalen singles silver 1961 Rælingen singles gold 1962 Skien singles silver 1963 Kristiansand singles bronze 1964 Voss singles gold 1965 Bærum singles
Ski jumping Four Hills Tournament 30. ( 1956/57 )

Arne Kjell Larsen (born December 23, 1937 in Asker ) is a former Norwegian skier who competed internationally in ski jumping and Nordic combined .

Career

Larsen gained his first international success as a special jumper at the Four Hills Tournament in 1956/57 . In the opening competition on the Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf he reached rank 38. Just one day later he landed in Innsbruck on the Bergiselschanze in 30th place. In his last jump on the Great Olympic Hill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he landed 25th place on the best individual ranking of the tour. In the overall standings, Larsen reached rank 30. At the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , he reached sixth place in the Nordic combined . He was third in ski jumping after the second run before he went into cross-country skiing in seventh place after the third run.

At the 1962 World Championships in Zakopane , he won the title in combination before Dmitri Kotschkin and Ole Henrik Fagerås . In ski jumping, he landed on the large hill is ranked 19th in the same year he won in Skien the national title in ski jumping and in combination. At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , in contrast to 1960, he could not show any good jumps, but convinced as third in cross-country skiing. In the end, he finished the individual race in fifth place.

In 1965 he received the Holmenkollen Medal together with Arto Tiainen and Bengt Eriksson .

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1966 , Larsen started again in the Nordic combined and reached 11th place in the individual.

successes

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
1956/57	30th	558.5

Web links

• Arne Larsen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Nordic Combined
• Arne Larsen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Ski jumping
• Arne Larsen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Arne Larsen on The-Sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nordic Ski World Championships (Nordic Combined - Men) . sport-komplett.de. Retrieved November 9, 2013.
2. ↑ 1962 Nordic World Championships: Zakopane, POL, 1962/02/25, Special Jumping 90m Hill, Krokiew Schanze ( English ) skijump-db.net. Archived from the original on December 17, 2004. Retrieved November 9, 2013.
3. ↑ Norgesmestere i nordiske grener ( Norwegian ) Store norske leksikon . Retrieved November 9, 2013.
4. ↑ Antti O. Arponen, Matti Hannus, Aarne Honkavaara, Kimmo Leinonen: Tähdet Talviurheilun . WSOY, 1986, ISBN 951-0-13095-8 , pp. 331–332 (accessed November 9, 2013).