Erling Kroken

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Erling Kroken Ski jumping
nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday November 12, 1928
date of death October 5, 2007
Place of death Bærum
Career
Medal table
National medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Norwegian Ski Association Norwegian championships
gold 1951 Narvik Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
 Four Hills Tournament 11th ( 1953 )
 

Erling Kroken (born November 12, 1928 , † October 5, 2007 in Bærum ) was a Norwegian ski jumper .

Kroken achieved his first major success when he won the Norwegian Championship in Narvik in 1951 , where he set a new hill record on Fagerlibakken with 78.5 m. When jumping on the Skuibakken in Bærum in the same year he won with 83.5 meters. Two years later he was part of the Norwegian team for the first Four Hills Tournament in 1953 . He was able to win the second competition on January 4th, 1954 in Oberstdorf , after he had already reached 8th place in Partenkirchen on January 1st . In the third competition in Bischofshofen he came in 9th place. In the overall ranking he came in 11th place. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1954 in Sweden's Falun he was at the end of seventh.

literature

  • Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89784-099-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ På denne dag (Norwegian) . In: Dagbladet , November 12, 1996, p. 52. Retrieved February 7, 2010. 
  2. ↑ Vinnere - www.123hjemmeside.no/Skuibakken . www.123hjemmeside.no. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Kroken, Erling
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian ski jumper
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1928
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 2007
Place of death Bærum