Sigurd Røen

Sigurd Røen
nation	Norway
birthday	February 12, 1909
place of birth	Rindal , Norway
date of death	17th September 1992
Career
discipline	Cross-country skiing Nordic combined ski jumping
society	IK Troll Rindal
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1937 Chamonix-Mont-Blanc NK single gold 1937 Chamonix-Mont-Blanc 4 × 10 km relay

Sigurd Røen (born February 12, 1909 in Rindal ; † September 17, 1992 ) was a Norwegian skier . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Chamonix in 1937 , he was world champion in the Nordic combined and cross-country relay.

Career

Røen celebrated his first success with the victory in the combined at the Lahti Ski Games in 1934, before he finished fifth in the Nordic Combined individual at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1935 in Vysoké Tatry a year later . A few weeks later he won silver in the individual combination behind Olav Lian at the Norwegian Nordic Ski Championships in Molde in 1935 .

Cross-country relay at the 1937 World Championships in Chamonix

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Chamonix in 1937 , Røen won the individual Nordic Combined competition. He also won another title with the cross-country skiing relay, which also included Annar Ryen , Oskar Fredriksen and Lars Bergendahl . At the Lahti Ski Games in 1937, he again won the combination competition. He also won bronze at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival .

At the Norwegian Nordic Ski Championships in 1938 in Mo i Rana , he won silver in cross-country skiing over 30 km and bronze in the individual combination.

A statue in honor of Røen was inaugurated in 1991 in his hometown of Rindal . His eldest brother John Røen represented Norway in cross-country skiing at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz .

Web links

Commons : Sigurd Røen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sigurd Røen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Sigurd Røen in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Ski Championships 1935 - Men's Nordic Combined K80 / 10.0 km in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 19, 2017
2. ↑ Olav Arild Abrahamsen: MOI - 100 år for idrett and friluftsliv . MOI, 1991, ISBN 82-90393-42-3 , pp. 70-78 .
3. ↑ World Ski Championships 1937 - Men's Nordic Combined in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 19, 2017
4. ↑ Leif Alstadhaug: Fra Ånnersbakken Til Olympiatoppen - Mon Skilag 100 år 1896-1996 . Mo Skilag, 1996, ISBN 82-994017-0-4 , p. 119–125 , urn : nbn: no-nb_digibok_2009042304041 (access only with an IP address from Norway).