Birger Ruud

Birger Ruud
nation	Norway
birthday	August 23, 1911
place of birth	Kongsberg ,  Norway
date of death	June 13, 1998
Place of death	Kongsberg ,  Norway
Career
discipline	Ski jumping Alpine skiing
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 5 × 2 × 1 ×
Participants in ski jumping  winter Olympics gold 1932 Lake Placid Large hill gold 1936 Garmisch-Part. Large hill silver 1948 St. Moritz Large hill  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1931 Oberhof Large hill gold 1932 Lake Placid Large hill gold 1935 Vysoke Tatry Large hill gold 1936 Garmisch-Part. Large hill gold 1937 Chamonix Large hill silver 1939 Zakopane Large hill silver 1948 St. Moritz Large hill Participants in alpine skiing  Alpine World Ski Championships bronze 1935 Murren Alpine combination

Statue of Birger Ruud in Kongsberg

Birger Ruud (born August 23, 1911 in Kongsberg , Norway ; † June 13, 1998 there ) was a Norwegian ski jumper and ski racer .

Career

Ruud was considered one of the world's best pre-war ski jumpers. In 1931, 1935 and 1937 he became world champion in jumping on the normal hill. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1932 and 1936 he won the gold medal in jumping from the normal hill. Ruud was also successful as an alpine ski racer . He reached 4th place in the Alpine Combined at the Olympic Games in 1936 and won the bronze medal in the Combined at the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1935 . In 1937 he was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal .

During the Second World War, Norway was occupied by the Germans. Ruud did not want to support the occupiers with his popularity and refused to take part in official competitions. As a result, he was imprisoned in the Grini police prison near Oslo from 1943 .

After the war he started again at the Winter Olympics in 1948 at the age of 36 and won the silver medal on the normal hill. At the opening of the 17th Olympic Games in 1994 in Lillehammer , Ruud was supposed to hoist the Olympic flag. However, he suffered a heart attack before the ceremony and was rushed to the hospital.

In Kongsberg the Birger Ruuds vei ( Eng . Birger-Ruud-Weg) is named after him.

Sigmund Ruud is his older brother.

various

• In Kongsberg there is a bronze statue of Birger Ruud.
• From Christoph and Lollo there is the song The day when Birger Ruud died - a winking homage to the legendary jumper.

successes

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
innsbruck	Austria	74.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	February 13, 1933	January 6, 1955
Planica	Slovenia	86.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	March 25, 1934	1935

Web links

Commons : Birger Ruud  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Birger Ruud in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Ski jumping
• Birger Ruud in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Alpine skiing
• Birger Ruud in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Birger Ruud in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Birger Ruud - Ski Jumping Hero , website of the International Olympic Committee, engl.
• Ski king Birger Ruud is dead , report in the newspaper Dagbladet , norw.
• Birger Ruud philately

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ski jumping songs
2. ↑ Lyrics: The day when Birger Ruud died