Inger Bjørnbakken

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Inger Bjørnbakken Alpine skiing
nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday 28th December 1933 (age 86)
place of birth Bærum , Norway
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom
descent , combination
society Bærum Ski Club
status resigned
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Bad Gastein 1958 slalom
 

Inger Bjørnbakken (born December 28, 1933 in Bærum ) is a former Norwegian ski racer . She became world champion in slalom in 1958 .

Career

Bjørnbakken was one of the most successful slalom runners in the second half of the 1950s. In 1955 she won the slalom for the first time at the Holmenkollen Kandahar races in Oslo . She was able to repeat this success over the next three years, also winning the combined in 1957 and the giant slalom and the downhill in 1959. In 1957 she won the slalom of the 17th Harriman Cup in Sun Valley . From 1956 to 1959 she was Norwegian champion seven times - three times in slalom, twice in giant slalom and once each in downhill and combined.

Bjørnbakken took part in the Winter Olympics twice. In 1956 she reached sixth place in slalom and 14th in giant slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo , in 1960 she was 14th in slalom and 20th in giant slalom in Squaw Valley . In between was the greatest success of her career: At the 1958 World Championships in Bad Gastein , she won the gold medal in slalom with the fastest time in both rounds and an overall lead of 1.4 seconds over Austrian Josefa Frandl ; she was also tenth in the giant slalom. This makes her the only world champion in alpine skiing from Norway to date. For her world championship title, she was awarded the Holmenkollen Medal and the Morgenbladet Gold Medal together with Håkon Brusveen in the same year . Bjørnbakken also won Norway's Sportswoman of the Year . She is one of only nine non-Nordic skiers since 1895 to have received this honor.

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

World championships

Norwegian championships

Bjørnbakken won seven Norwegian championship titles :

  • 3 × slalom (1956, 1957, 1959)
  • 2 × giant slalom (1958, 1959)
  • 1 × descent (1958)
  • 1 × combination (1959)

Further placements

  • 2nd place in slalom on March 15, 1957 at the "International Ski Championships of the USA" in Stowe
  • 2nd place in the slalom at the "White Ribbon of St. Moritz" on January 23, 1959
  • Victory in the slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo on February 15, 1959

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Schranz and Frandl Holmenkollensieger" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 16, 1958, p. 28 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ "A miracle of permanence" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 26, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ Results of the 1958 World Cup ( memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on www.alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com
  4. ↑ «As always: Toni Sailer wins everything» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 19, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ^ "Molterer and Leitner win" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 24, 1959, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ↑ «Only Schranz remained untouched by everything»; Subtitle: "Erika Netzer was the most balanced" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 15, 1959, p. 24 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Bjørnbakken, Inger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Bærum , Norway