Petter Hugsted

Petter Hugsted
Petter Hugsted 1949
Full name	Alf Petter Hugsted
nation	Norway
birthday	July 11, 1921
place of birth	Kongsberg
date of death	May 19, 2000
Place of death	Kongsberg
Career
society	Kongsberg IF
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1948 St. Moritz K90  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1948 St. Moritz K90

Alf Petter Hugsted (born July 11, 1921 in Kongsberg ; † May 19, 2000 there ) was a Norwegian ski jumper .

During the German occupation of Norway, Hugsted was imprisoned in the Grini fangeleir . After his release he was able to practice his sport again and won the gold medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz ahead of his club mate Birger Ruud . Since the Nordic World Ski Championships were held this year as part of the Olympic Games, Hugsted was also world champion with his Olympic victory.

In 1948 he was also second in jumping on the Holmenkollbakken . In the same year he was named Sportsman of the Year .

Hugsted was also successful as a football player and has since been appointed to the Norwegian B national team.

After the end of his career he built the Kongsberg Ski Museum together with his friend Birger Ruud .

In Kongsberg the Petter Hugsteds vei ( Eng . Petter-Hugsted-Weg) is named after him.

Web links

• Petter Hugsted in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Petter Hugsted in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ski Jumping at the 1948 Sankt Moritz Winter Games: Men's Normal Hill, Individual . www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved April 26, 2009.
2. ↑ Petter Hugsteds vei ( Memento from June 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )