Stone Eriksen

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Stone Eriksen Alpine skiing
27308 Stein Eriksen.jpg
nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday December 11, 1927
place of birth Oslo , Norway
date of death December 27, 2015
Place of death Park City, United States
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 4 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Oslo 1952 Giant slalom
silver Oslo 1952 slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Aspen 1950 slalom
gold Oslo 1952 Giant slalom
silver Oslo 1952 slalom
gold Are 1954 Giant slalom
gold Are 1954 slalom
gold Are 1954 combination
 

Stein Eriksen (born December 11, 1927 in Oslo , † December 27, 2015 in Park City , Utah ) was a Norwegian ski racer .

Life

He won the gold medal in giant slalom at the Olympic Games in Oslo in 1952 . He also won the silver medal in slalom . Eriksen was the first male skier outside the Alpine region to win an Olympic gold medal and also a world championship medal in alpine skiing. Until then, only the women of the British Ski Association, in the 1930s, had managed to intervene in the domain of the Alpine countries when they won world championship titles. It should be noted in this context that the world championship competitions mentioned in the overviews from 1931 onwards were only recognized retrospectively as world championships in 1937.

The alpine skiing competitions at the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo were also considered the world championships of the International Ski Federation (Fédération Internationale de Ski / FIS). Only in 1936 - and then again only from and including 1984 - were the alpine skiing competitions, from 1984 also the Nordic skiing competitions, not considered world championships. Eriksen was thus also giant slalom world champion in 1952 - and also 3-time world champion in 1954 in Åre (slalom, giant slalom, combined). Between 1949 and 1954 he also won six Norwegian championship titles . In 1954 he also won the slalom of the 3-tre races on the Marmolada . In 1952 he was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal . In 1951 and 1954 Eriksen won the Norwegian Sportsman of the Year election , and in 1951 the Morgenbladet gold medal .

Because of his appearance and charisma, Stein Eriksen was the first “superstar” in alpine skiing. Shortly after his Olympic victory, Stein Eriksen emigrated to the USA . He worked as a ski instructor in different regions of the USA; most recently he was director of the Deer Valley Resort in Utah.

He was married and had four children. He lived alternately in Utah and Montana . In 1997, Eriksen was awarded the highest Norwegian honor by the sports-loving Norwegian king. His father Marius represented Norway as a gymnast at the 1912 Olympic Games . His older brother Marius also took part in the 1948 Olympic Games .

It was only with Erik Håker in the 1970s and especially then in the early 1990s with Kjetil André Aamodt and Lasse Kjus that there were “real” successors for Eriksen among the Norwegian alpine skiers.

Web links

Commons : Stein Eriksen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Skiing Legend and Deer Valley Director of Skiing Stein Erikson has passed away