Thormod Moum
Rolf Thormod Moum (born June 9, 1934 in Fredrikstad , Norway ; † June 1, 2015 in Trollhättan , Sweden ) was a Norwegian speed skating trainer and functionary.
Career
Moum was one of the best speed skating coaches in his home country from an early age. In the 1960s he was part of the coaching staff of the Norwegian national team led by Stein Johnson , which ensured the "Norwegian speed skating revolution" by winning the first four places at the 1963 European all- around championship . In 1965 Moum moved to the Federal Training Center in Inzell , where he trained the German national team around Gerhard Zimmermann and Erhard Keller . The latter led Moum to an Olympic victory over the 500 m distance in 1968 , while Zimmermann advanced to become the best German long-distance runner under Moum. In 1970 he returned to the Norwegian Association. Under his leadership, Per Bjørang and Frode Rønning became sprint world champions in 1974 and 1981, respectively . As director of the local sports institute at the University of Oslo , he promoted research into training science.
As a member of the technical commission of the International Skating Union (ISU), Moum played a key role in the introduction of the Speed Skating World Cup in 1985 and later the individual distance world championships . He left the ISU committee in protest of the 1988 doping scandal involving the Soviet world champion Nikolai Guljajew and the Norwegian Stein Olav Krosby . He ended his activity as a speed skating official in 1994 as a liaison between the Organizing Committee of the Lillehammer Olympic Winter Games and the ISU. Moum died a few days before his 81st birthday in his adopted Swedish home.
Web links
- Gold trainer Thormod Moum has passed away. Obituary on sportal.de on July 9, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ NIV medlemmer som har gått bort. Obituary on the website of the Norwegian Speed Skating Association (Norwegian, accessed October 9, 2015).
- ^ Ottavio Cinquanta , Fredi Schmid: Obituary on the ISU homepage from June 17, 2015 (English, accessed on July 9, 2015).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moum, Thormod |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moum, Rolf Thormod (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian speed skating trainer and official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fredrikstad , Norway |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 2015 |
| Place of death | Trollhättan , Sweden |