Hjalmar Andersen

Hjalmar Andersen
Full name	Hjalmar Johan Andersen
nation	Norway
birthday	March 12, 1923
place of birth	Rødøy
date of death	March 27, 2013
Place of death	Oslo
Career
discipline	Speed ​​skating
Medal table
winter Olympics 3 × 0 × 0 × M-World Championship medals 3 × 0 × 0 × M-EM medals 3 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Oslo 1952 1500 m gold Oslo 1952 5000 m gold Oslo 1952 10,000 m  All around world championships gold Eskilstuna 1950 All-around gold Davos 1951 All-around gold Hamar 1952 All-around  All-around European Championships silver Davos 1949 All-around gold Helsinki 1950 All-around gold Oslo 1951 All-around gold Ostersund 1952 All-around silver Davos 1954 All-around

Hjalmar Johan "Hjallis" Andersen (born March 12, 1923 in Rødøy , Nordland ; † March 27, 2013 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian speed skater .

Career

Andersen achieved his breakthrough in speed skating when he qualified for the 1500 meters for the Norwegian team for the 1948 Olympic Games in St. Moritz in 1948 . However, he then started at the Olympic Games over 10,000 meters because he was not nominated for the 1500 meters. However, the 10,000-meter run at the time was canceled due to the poor ice conditions.

Hjalmar Andersen in 2010

From 1950 to 1952 Andersen was the world's best speed skater and won the world championship three times and the European championship just as often . At the Olympic Games in Oslo in 1952 , he won over 1500 meters, 5000 meters and 10,000 meters.

After the Olympic Games in Oslo, he initially resigned, then returned to the European Championships in 1954, where he won silver. At the Olympic Games in 1956 , he reached sixth place over 10,000 meters and was eleventh over 5000 meters.

During his career, he set five world records and was the first to run the 10,000 meters under 17 minutes. His 16: 32.7 lasted until February 25, 1960, when his compatriot Knut Johanessen won the Olympic Games in Squaw Valley in 15: 46.6, but was also up to fifth-placed Terrence Monaghan (16: 31.6) undercut this time.

Andersen led the nobility calendar for 708 days between 1952 and 1954. His best score was 187.446 points.

In 1952 he won the election for Norway's Sportsman of the Year as well as the Fearnleys olympiske ærespris , which was donated for the first time, and in 1949 the Morgenbladet gold medal .

Personal bests

route	time	date	place
500 m	43.7 sec	January 13, 1951	Trondheim
1000 m	1: 30.6 min	February 2, 1954	Davos
1500 m	2: 16.4 min	February 6, 1949	Davos
3000 m	4: 49.6 min	January 30, 1954	Davos
5000 m	8: 06.5 min	January 29, 1956	Misurina lake
10,000 m	16: 32.6 min 1	February 10, 1952	Hamar

¹ World record at the time of the run

Web links

Commons : Hjalmar Andersen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hjalmar Andersen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics at speed skating news

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hjalmar Andersen er død
2. ↑ Johanessen: world record . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 28, 1960, p. 28 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).