Sven Selånger

Sven Selånger
Full name	Sven Ivan Selånger
nation	Sweden
birthday	March 19, 1907
place of birth	Bergsåker ,  Sweden
size	183 cm
date of death	November 9, 1992
Place of death	Sundsvall ,  Sweden
Career
discipline	Ski jumping Nordic Combined Alpine Skiing
society	Selångers SK
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 3 × National medals 9 × ? × ? ×
winter Olympics silver 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Large hill  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1931 Oberhof Large hill gold 1933 Innsbruck N. Combination bronze 1933 Innsbruck Large hill bronze 1934 Sollefteå Large hill silver 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Large hill  Swedish championships gold 1928 Normal hill gold 1931 Normal hill gold 1933 Normal hill gold 1935 Normal hill gold 1936 Normal hill gold 1938 Normal hill gold 1939 Normal hill gold 1941 Normal hill Swedish Championships (Alpine Skiing) gold 1938 slalom

Sven Ivan Selånger (actually Sven Eriksson ; born March 19, 1907 in Bergsåker , † November 9, 1992 in Sundsvall ) was a Swedish skier.

Career

Sven Eriksson took part in the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , where he was sixth in Nordic combined , but only 31st in special jumping . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1931 he won bronze in ski jumping, at the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid in 1932 , he missed the podium twice in fourth in the special jumping and fifth in the Nordic combined. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Innsbruck in 1933 , he became world champion in combination and again won bronze in the special jump. His hometown Selånger was so impressed by this success that they allowed him to use the place name Selånger as his surname to better distinguish himself from the other many Erikssons in the area.

The following year Sven Selånger was again third in jumping at the 1934 World Championships in Sollefteå in front of a home crowd. At the Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 , he won silver in ski jumping. He was also registered for the first ever Alpine competitions, but did not start. In 1938 he was Swedish Champion in Slalom . In 1939 Sven Selånger became the first non-Norwegian to win the annual ski jumping at Holmenkollen . For this achievement he was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal (as the first non-Norwegian athlete) and the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1941 , which had already been held during the Second World War , he won the bronze medal in ski jumping for the fourth time, but in 1946 the FIS declared this event to be invalid because many nations were unable to take part due to political circumstances.

successes

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	76.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	February 15, 1936	1st January 1968

Web links

• Sven Selånger in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (ski jumping)
• Sven Selånger in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) (Nordic Combined)
• Sven Selånger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )