Gunder Gundersen

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Gunder Gundersen Nordic combination
Gundersen at the Norwegian Championships in 1958

Gundersen at the Norwegian Championships in 1958

nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday September 12, 1930
place of birth Asker ,  NorwayNorwayNorway 
date of death June 2, 2005
Place of death Oslo ,  NorwayNorwayNorway 
Career
society IF Frisk Asker
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
National medals 1 × gold 4 × silver 3 × bronze
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
bronze 1958 Lahti Single (NH)
Norwegian Ski Association Norwegian championships
bronze 1953 Oslo singles
silver 1954 Strinda singles
silver 1955 Trysil singles
bronze 1957 Mo i Rana singles
silver 1958 Oslo singles
silver 1959 Porsgrunn singles
bronze 1960 Mjøndalen singles
gold 1961 Rælingen singles
 

Gunder Gundersen (born September 12, 1930 in Asker , † June 2, 2005 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian Nordic combined .

Career

Gundersen celebrated his first international success at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in 1952. There he won the individual competition in Nordic combined.

At the Norwegian Championships in Oslo in 1953 , he won the bronze medal in singles behind Simon Slåttvik and Per Gjelten . A year later at the Norwegian Championships in Strinda in 1954 , he only had to admit defeat to Sverre Stenersen and won the silver medal. In the same year Gundersen won the silver medal in the Nordic Combined at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1954 .

At the Lahti Ski Games in 1955 he won bronze in the combined competition. He had already succeeded in doing this in 1954. Gundersen won silver again at the Norwegian Championships in 1955 , before winning bronze again two years later in Mo i Rana . After winning silver again at the Norwegian Championships in Oslo in 1958 , he also competed at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti . There he won bronze in the singles behind Paavo Korhonen and Sverre Stenersen.

In 1959 he was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal after another victory at Holmenkollen .

At the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , he reached 11th place in the individual competition of the combination. A short time later he reached the bronze medal behind Tormod Knutsen and Arne Larsen at the Norwegian Championships in Mjøndalen . A year later at his last Norwegian Championships in Rælingen in 1961 , he won his first and only national title.

In his career he also took part in the Four Hills Tournament as a ski jumper .

After his active career, Gundersen became known primarily through the introduction of the so-called Gundersen method , a special start mode in Nordic combined, which was introduced in 1985. Before that he was from 1974 to 1979 Chairman of the Combination Committee at the FIS and technical director of the Combination Competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vinnere av Holmenkollrennene . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Orklahopp Norge: NM SKI NORDISKE GRENER , 2007
  3. ↑ Salpausselän Hiihdot 1955 - Yhdistetty mäki 18 km + . In: lahdenmuseot.fi . Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  4. ↑ Salpausselän Hiihdot 1954 - Yhdistetty mäki 18 km + . In: lahdenmuseot.fi . Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  5. ↑ World Ski Championships 1958 - Men's Individual K90 / 15.0 km ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  6. ↑ Holmenkollmedaljen . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
  7. ^ Gundersen method . In: Sportlexikon.com . Retrieved November 30, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Gundersen, Gunder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION norwegian nordic combined
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Asker , Norway
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 2005
Place of death Oslo , Norway