Christen Christensen (figure skater)

Christians Christensen
nation	Norway
birthday	17th September 1904
place of birth	Oslo
date of death	2nd June 1969
Place of death	Oslo
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Randi Bakke
society	Oslo SK
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Stockholm 1933 Couples

Christen Christensen (born September 17, 1904 in Oslo , † June 2, 1969 ibid) was a Norwegian figure skater who started in pair skating .

As a figure skater, Christensen competed in pair skating with Randi Bakke . Together they were Norwegian champions eight times in a row from 1929 to 1936. They took part in world championships twice. In 1933 in Stockholm they won the bronze medal behind the Hungarians Emília Rotter and László Szollás and the Austrians Idi Papez and Karl Zwack . The following year, they finished fifth in Helsinki . In their only Olympic Games in 1936 , Bakke and Christensen were fifteenth in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

Christensen was a member of the Figure Skating Committee of the Norwegian Ice Skating Association from 1937 to 1940 and from 1945 to 1947. He worked as a businessman and had a radio business in Oslo.

Results

Pair skating

(with Randi Bakke )

Competition / year	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936
Olympic games								15th
World championships					3.	5.
Norwegian championships	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Christen Christensen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )