Berg, who started for SFK Lyn , finished fourth at the Lahti Ski Games in 1955. In January 1956, he reached the podium for the first time in Le Brassus, Switzerland, as third behind Georg Thoma and Andreas Däscher . Berg celebrated his first national success at the Norwegian Championship in Porsgrunn in 1959 , where he won the silver medal on the normal hill behind Anders Woldseth . At the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , Berg jumped from the normal hill to 13th place with jumps on 83.0 and 81.5 meters. A few weeks later he was twelfth at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in Oslo , which was his best placings in this ski jumping competition. As part of the Swiss ski jumpers' tour in 1961, Berg jumped three times among the top five, with which he narrowly missed the podium in fourth place in the overall standings.
literature
Arne Thoresen: Lengst gjennom lufta . Versal forlag, Oslo 2007, ISBN 978-82-8188-030-6 , p.334-341 (Norwegian).
Jens Jahn, Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 , p.87 .
Web links
Kåre Berg on Olympic.org - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
Kåre Berg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Kåre Berg in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)
Norway
