Otto Aasen

Otto Aasen
Otto Aasen 1929
nation	Norway
birthday	January 1, 1894
place of birth	Fåberg , Norway
date of death	October 20, 1983
Place of death	Rjukan , Norway
Career
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × National medals 1 × 4 × 2 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1926 Lahti Normal hill  Norwegian championships silver 1916 Trondheim singles silver 1917 Dokka singles gold 1918 Rjukan singles bronze 1920 Elverum singles silver 1921 Trondheim singles silver 1923 Risør singles bronze 1924 Voss singles

Otto Olaussen Aasen (born January 1, 1894 in Fåberg , Norway ; † October 20, 1983 in Rjukan , Norway) was a Norwegian skier who was successful in ski jumping , cross-country skiing and Nordic combined .

Career

Aasen won the Nordic Combined competitions at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in Oslo in 1917 and 1918 . For these and other victories he received the Holmenkollen Medal in 1919 together with Thorleif Haug . He also won his first and only Norwegian championship title in 1918.

In 1926 he took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships on the normal hill in ski jumping and won the silver medal behind his compatriot Jacob Tullin Thams . He also won several national titles in cross-country skiing.

Aasen, who moved to Rjukan for work in 1916 , worked there at Norsk Hydro until 1964 . He died there in 1983 at the age of 89.

Web links

• Otto Aasen in the database of the International Ski Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Otto Olaussen Aasen ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2013 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; 95 kB) in Skjellerudsveen Slektsbok; Retrieved June 6, 2012 
2. ↑ List of winners of the Holmenkollen Medal on snl.no, accessed on November 2, 2017
3. ↑ Orklahopp Norge: NM SKI NORDISKE GRENER ( MS Word ; 2.3 MB) , 2007