Ole Stenen

Ole Stenen
nation	Norway
birthday	August 29, 1903
place of birth	Øyer , Norway
size	170 cm
job	post man
date of death	April 23, 1975
Place of death	Oslo , Norway
Career
discipline	Cross-country skiing Nordic combined military patrol runner
society	Øyer Idrettslag
End of career	1934
Medal table
Type of medals 5 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold St. Moritz 1928 Military patrol silver Lake Placid 1932 Nordic combination  Nordic World Ski Championships silver Zakopane 1929 Nordic combination gold Oberhof 1931 Cross-country skiing (50 km)  Norwegian championships gold Narvik 1928 Nordic combination gold Hamar 1931 Nordic combination  Norwegian championships gold 1929 Cross-country skiing (30 km)

Ole Stenen (born August 29, 1903 in Øyer , † April 23, 1975 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian skier.

useful information

Stensen competed for the club in his hometown, the Øyer Idrettslag, in the disciplines of cross-country skiing , Nordic combined and military patrol running . He was about 1.70 m tall and was a postman by profession .
In 1931, Stenen and his compatriot Hans Vinjarengen from Nordre Land IL were honored with the Holmenkollen Medal for his competitive achievements .

Competition successes

The first major title of his sports career Stenen achieved with victory in the Norwegian Championship of Nordic Combined in 1928. He was again able to get the Norwegian championship title in this discipline in 1931, in the discipline of 30 km cross-country skiing in 1929. At the Olympic At the 1928 Winter Games in St. Moritz , he was a member of the Norwegian winning team in the military patrol demonstration competition . In 1929, he scored at the Nordic World Ski Championships in the Nordic combined individual (NH / 18 km) in second place and took the Nordic World Ski Championships 1931 in cross-country skiing on the 50-km distance the world title. He also won the 50 km cross-country competition at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in 1931 . In 1932 he won the silver medal in the Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid and achieved fourth place in the Nordic combined individual (normal hill / 18 km) at the 11th  Nordic World Ski Championships in Sollefteå in 1934 .

literature

• Jon Vegard Lunde: Han satte spor: Fortellingen om Ole Stenen. Øyer 1992, Øyer kommune (Kulturetaten), ISBN 8272750708

Web links

Commons : Ole Stenen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ole Stenen , sports-reference.com, accessed on February 25, 2015 (English)
2. ↑ Holmenkollmedaljen ( Memento from December 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), skiforeningen.no, accessed on February 25, 2015 (Norwegian)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Store norske leksikon : Ole Stenen , accessed on February 25, 2015 (Norwegian)
4. ↑ Norway Military Ski Patrol at the 1928 Sankt Moritz Winter Games , sports-reference.com, accessed on February 25, 2015 (English)
5. ↑ ^{a b} STENEN Ole , data.fis-ski.com, accessed on February 25, 2015 (English)
6. ↑ March 26, 2006. Norges første verdensmester på 50 km, Ole Stenen ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), online.no, accessed on February 25, 2015 (Norwegian)
7. ↑ Vinnere av Holmenkollrennene ( Memento from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), skiforeningen.no, accessed on February 25, 2015 (English) - Note: Name misspelled - "Stensen"