Johan Grøttumsbråten

Johan Grøttumsbråten
Grøttumsbråten at the 1931 World Cup
Full name	Johan Hagbart Pedersen Grøttumsbråten
nation	Norway
birthday	February 12, 1899
place of birth	Sørkedalen , Norway
size	180 cm
date of death	January 24, 1983
Place of death	Vestre Aker , Norway
Career
discipline	Nordic combined cross-country skiing ski jumping
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 1 × 2 × World Cup medals 6 × 1 × 2 × National medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 1924 Chamonix CC 18km bronze 1924 Chamonix NK single bronze 1924 Chamonix CC 50km gold 1928 St. Moritz CC 18km gold 1928 St. Moritz NK single gold 1932 Lake Placid NK single  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1924 Chamonix CC 18km bronze 1924 Chamonix NK single bronze 1924 Chamonix CC 50km gold 1926 Lahti NK single gold 1928 St. Moritz CC 18km gold 1928 St. Moritz NK single gold 1931 Oberhof NK single gold 1931 Oberhof CC 18km gold 1932 Lake Placid NK single  Norwegian championships bronze 1922 Gjøvik singles gold 1926 Drammen singles silver 1929 Kongsberg singles

Johan Hagbart Pedersen Grøttumsbråten (born February 12, 1899 in Sørkedalen near Oslo ; † January 24, 1983 in Vestre Aker ) was a Norwegian skier who was particularly successful in cross-country skiing and Nordic combined . During his career he was three times Olympic champion and together with these medals six times world champion.

Career

Grøttumsbråten achieved his first success at the Norwegian Championships in Gjøvik in 1922 , where he won the bronze medal in the Nordic Combined behind Thorleif Haug and Einar Landvik . Two years later he started at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc . After winning the silver medal in cross-country skiing over 18 km, he was able to win bronze in Nordic combined and over 50 km cross-country skiing.

At the Norwegian Championships in Drammen in 1926 Grøttumsbråten won his first and only national title in combination, before winning his first world title in combination a short time later at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1926 . In the ski jumping individual, he narrowly missed a medal and ended up fourth. In the same year he also won the combined individual competition on Holmenkollen.

Two years later, Grøttumsbråten competed again over 18 km in cross-country skiing and Nordic combined at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz and was superior in both disciplines as an Olympic champion and also world champion, as the Olympic Games were also rated as the Nordic World Ski Championships . In 1929 Grøttumsbråten at Holmenkollen was at the top of the combination competition for the fourth time. He was also able to win silver behind Hans Vinjarengen at the Norwegian Championships in Kongsberg in 1929 .

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberhof in 1931 , Grøttumsbråten again won the title over 18 km and in combination, before winning the combination again at the Holmenkollen Festival and thus being the first and so far the only one to complete this competition five times as a winner.

At his last Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid in 1932 , Grøttumsbråten was able to win the combination again at the age of 32. In cross-country skiing over 18 km, he could not defend his title and finished sixth. It was his only Olympic competition in which he could not win a medal.

successes

winter Olympics

• 1924 in Chamonix : silver over 18 km, bronze over 50 km, bronze in the Nordic combined
• 1928 in St. Moritz : Gold over 18 km, gold in the Nordic combined
• 1932 in Lake Placid : Gold in Nordic Combined, 6th in cross-country skiing over 18 km

World championships

• 1926 in Lahti : Gold in Nordic Combined
• 1931 in Oberhof : Gold over 18 km, gold in the Nordic combined

Awards

As early as 1924, together with his compatriot and teammate Harald Økern, he received the Holmenkollen Medal for his successes, although he only achieved his greatest successes afterwards.

Web links

Commons : Johan Grøttumsbråten  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Johan Grøttumsbråten in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - cross-country skiing
• Johan Grøttumsbråten in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Nordic Combined
• Johan Grøttumsbråten in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Ski jumping
• Johan Grøttumsbråten in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Orklahopp Norge: NM SKI NORDISKE GRENER ( MS Word ; 2.3 MB) , 2007
2. ↑ Winner of the Holmenkollmedailjen ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 91 kB) from the Norwegian Ski Association, accessed on November 15, 2013