Reidar Andersen

Reidar Andersen
Reidar Andersen 1936
nation	Norway
birthday	April 20, 1911
place of birth	Norderhov ,  Norway
date of death	December 15, 1991
Place of death	Oslo ,  Norway
Career
National squad	since 1930
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 3 × 1 × National medals 3 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Large hill  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1930 Oslo Large hill silver 1935 Vysoké Tatry Large hill bronze 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Large hill silver 1937 Chamonix Large hill  Norwegian championships silver 1933 Oslo Normal hill gold 1936 Kongsvinger Normal hill gold 1937 Tønsberg Normal hill gold 1938 Mo i Rana Normal hill bronze 1946 Alvdal Normal hill

Reidar Andersen (born April 20, 1911 in Norderhov , † December 15, 1991 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian ski jumper .

Career

Andersen, who moved to Oslo at an early age to practice ski jumping, won his first international medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1930 with the silver medal. Five years later he finished second again at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1935 in Vysoké Tatry and was able to repeat his success from 1930. After he had won the Norwegian Championships in 1936, he was included in the Norwegian selection for the Olympic Winter Games in 1936 , where he won the bronze medal behind his compatriot Birger Ruud and the Swede Sven Selånger . In 1937 he was able to win the Norwegian Championships again and was part of the team for the Nordic World Ski Championships in Chamonix in 1937 . In the jumping on the normal hill, dominated by Norwegians, he took silver again behind his compatriot Birger Ruud and in front of Sigurd Solid .

In 1938 he and Johan R. Henriksen received the Holmenkollen Medal after he had succeeded in winning the jumping on the Holmenkollbakken in 1936 and 1937 as well . He was the first jumper to do this three years in a row.

After the Second World War , he entered the Norwegian Championship again in 1946 and was 3rd. Subsequently, at the age of 35, he ended his active jumping career.

He died on December 15, 1991 in his adopted home Oslo at the age of 80.

successes

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Planica	Slovenia	93.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	1935	1935
Planica	Slovenia	98.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	1935	1935
Planica	Slovenia	99.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	1935	March 15, 1936

Web links

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