Thorleif Haug

Thorleif Haug
Thorleif Haug trading card from a pack of cigarettes (around 1930)
Full name	Thorleif Johnsen-Haug
nation	Norway
birthday	September 28, 1894
place of birth	Lier ,  Norway
date of death	December 12, 1934
Place of death	Drammen ,  Norway
Career
discipline	Nordic combined ski jumping cross-country skiing
society	Lier Skiløberforening Drafn Drammen
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 0 × National medals 3 × 1 × 4 ×
Participant in the Nordic Combined  winter Olympics gold 1924 Chamonix singles  Norwegian championships bronze 1915 Geithus singles bronze 1917 Dokka singles silver 1918 Rjukan singles bronze 1919 Bærum singles gold 1922 Gjøvik singles bronze 1926 Drammen singles Participants in cross-country skiing  winter Olympics gold 1924 Chamonix 18km gold 1924 Chamonix 50km  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1924 Chamonix CC 18km gold 1924 Chamonix CC 50km  Norwegian championships gold 1920 Elverum 30km gold 1921 Trondheim 30km

Thorleif Johnsen-Haug (born September 28, 1894 in Lier , † December 12, 1934 in Drammen ) was a Norwegian skier who was successful in cross-country skiing , ski jumping and Nordic combined . He was considered one of the best skiers in the world in the 1920s.

Career

First national medals

Haug celebrated his first success at the Norwegian Championships in Geithus in 1915 , where he won the bronze medal in the individual Nordic Combined behind Gunnar Ødegaard and Embret Mellesmo . Two years later at the Norwegian Championships in Dokka in 1917 , he repeated this success. The following year he was able to secure the silver medal behind Otto Aasen at the Norwegian Championships in Rjukan .

International breakthrough

In 1918, Haug began his series of successes on Holmenkollen by winning the 50 km cross-country skiing . He repeated this success in 1919. He also won the combination competition for the first time. Shortly afterwards Haug won again bronze in this discipline at the Norwegian Championships in 1919 in Bærum .

In the same year he was awarded the Holmenkollen Medal for his first successes together with Otto Aasen .

At the Norwegian Championships in Elverum in 1920 , he could not prevail in the combination for the first time, but instead won the gold medal in cross-country skiing over 30 km. On the Holmenkollen he was also successful again in the combination and over 50 km in cross-country skiing.

Only a year later he defended his cross-country skiing title at the Norwegian Championships in Trondheim in 1921 . In the combination it was again not enough for a win. As in the previous year, he was once again at the forefront in both disciplines at Holmenkollen. At the Norwegian Championship in Gjøvik in 1922 he won a Norwegian title in combination for the first time. It remained his only title in this discipline.

In 1923 he won again in the 50 km cross-country skiing on Holmenkollen, but could not win in the combination.

winter Olympics

1924 was to be the most successful of his career. At the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc , Haug started in all three Nordic disciplines. In cross-country skiing he managed to win the race over 18 km and also the race over 50 km with superiority. In addition to these two gold medals in cross-country skiing, he was also successful in the combination. After he was already in the lead after jumping, he was able to defend it unchallenged in the following cross-country skiing. Haug was the first athlete to win three gold medals in just one participation in the Winter Olympics. Since the Olympic Games were also considered the Nordic World Ski Championships in cross-country skiing , the success also made him the first double world champion. In ski jumping he was in third place after jumping and thus received the Olympic and World Cup bronze medals at the end of the competition. The combined grade of jumping was 18,000 points, which was third in front of the American Anders Haugen , who achieved a total of 17,917 points.

Fifty years after the Games, the six Norwegian Olympians still alive met in 1974, with Thoralf Strømstad , silver medal winner in the combined, the Norwegian writer and ski historian Jakob Vaage pointing out the incorrect calculation of the points at Haug, which were correctly not 18,000 but 17.813, which would only have placed him in fourth place. The IOC approved the change in the list of winners. The daughter of Haug, who died in 1934, Anne-Marie Magnusson agreed to the return of the bronze medal, whereupon it was presented on September 12, 1974 in the Holmenkollen House on behalf of the daughter of Anders Haugen, who lived in Yucaipa , California , at the age of 86 . Haugen, who died in 1984, was the first American to win a medal in the Olympic ski jumping competition.

After the Olympics and the end of your career

In the year of his great success in Chamonix, he was also able to win again in 50 km cross-country skiing on Holmenkollen. At the Norwegian Championships in Drammen in 1926 he landed in third place in the individual combination, before winning the silver medal in the combination again at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1926 . It was his last international success.

Only eight years after Haug's last success he died in December 1934 at the age of 40 years at a pneumonia .

successes

• Olympic Winter Games 1924 in Chamonix : Gold over 18 km, gold over 50 km, gold in the Nordic combined
• Nordic World Ski Championships 1926 in Lahti : Silver in Nordic Combined

Honors after death

In 1946 the city of Drammen had a statue of Haug by Per Palle Storm erected at Fylkesvei 38 near the spiral tunnel . It was unveiled by Olav V , who was Crown Prince of Norway at the time.

In 1952 a street in Voksenåsen was named after Haug.

His former ski club Drafn in Drammen has organized a memorial run every year since 1966, the Thorleif Haugs Minneløp . This leads from Geithus to Drammen, including past his house in Årkvisla . The memorial run has since developed into the Thorleif Haug Ski Festival .

The Thorleif Haug Lodge was founded on January 21, 1984 by the Sons of Norway .

literature

• Jakob Vaage : Norske Skiløpere . Ski forlaget - Erling Ranheim, Oslo 1956, p. 810-814 .
• Tor Bomann-Larsen : Den evige sne: En skihistorie om Norge . Cappelen, 1993, ISBN 82-02-13801-9 .
• Thor Gotaas : Først i løypa: Historien om langrenn i Norge . Andresen og Butenschøn, Oslo 2003, ISBN 82-7694-139-7 .
• Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, p. 24 .

Web links

• Thorleif Haug in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - cross-country skiing
• Thorleif Haug in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Nordic Combined
• Thorleif Haug in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Ski jumping
• Thorleif Haug in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Thorleif Haug in the norske leksikon store
• Thorleif Haug in the Encyclopædia Britannica
• Website of the Thorleif Haug Ski Festival

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Orklahopp Norge: NM SKI NORDISKE GRENER ( MS Word ; 2.3 MB) , 2007
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Vinnere av Holmenkollrennene . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
3. ↑ Holmenkollmedaljen . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Anders Haugen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ), accessed on September 12, 2018.
5. ↑ Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping, p. 24
6. ↑ World Ski Championships - Lahti 1926 - Men's Nordic Combined . FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
7. ↑ Thorleif Haug ( Norwegian ) NRK.no. January 7, 2008. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Store norske leksikon
9. ↑ Thorleif Hauf Lodge ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sons of Norway, accessed November 23, 2013