Toralf Engan

Toralf Engan
Bjørge Lillelien interviewed Toralf Engan after he won the World Jumping Championships in Poland in February 1962
nation	Norway
birthday	October 1, 1936
place of birth	Hølonda ,  Norway
Career
status	resigned
End of career	1965
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 1 × 0 × National medals 1 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 1964 Innsbruck Large hill silver 1964 Innsbruck Normal hill  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1962 Zakopane Normal hill gold 1964 Innsbruck Large hill silver 1964 Innsbruck Normal hill  Norwegian championships gold 1961 Rælingen Normal hill silver 1964 Voss Normal hill bronze 1964 Bærum Normal hill silver 1966 Rena Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	1. ( 1962/63 )

Toralf Engan (born October 1, 1936 in Hølonda , Melhus municipality ) is a former Norwegian ski jumper .

Career

Engan made his first appearance at an international tournament in 1956 at the Four Hills Tournament on Innsbruck's Bergisel . He was not nominated for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , but after this disappointment a period of great success began for him. In jumping on the Holmenkollbakken in 1960 he was second behind Olympic champion Helmut Recknagel , in 1962 he won there. 1961-63 he won the jumping the Swedish Ski Festival three times in a row, in 1961 he was also Norwegian national champion.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane in 1962 he was world ski jumping champion. In the same year Engan received the Holmenkollen Medal , the Morgenbladet Gold Medal and was named Norway's Sportsman of the Year . In 1963, after three victories in Oberstdorf, Innsbruck and Partenkirchen and a fourth place in Bischofshofen, he won the overall ranking of the Four Hills Tournament .

At the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 he fought a duel with the Finn Veikko Kankkonen in both competitions . The first competition was on January 31st on the normal hill, which did not take place at Bergisel, Engan's favorite hill, but in Seefeld . There Engan won silver behind Kankkonen. During the jumping on the Bergisel large hill on February 9th, the situation turned around, Engan won a narrow victory over Kankkonen. Since the Nordic World Ski Championships were held this year as part of the Olympic Games, Engan (like Kankkonen) was both world champion and runner-up. These successes brought him the Fearnleys olympiske ærespris in his home country .

The following year Engan again reached eighth place in ski jumping in Innsbruck, after the winter he ended his career as an active athlete; from 1967 to 1969 he was the coach of the Norwegian ski jumping team.

successes

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
innsbruck	Austria	91.5 m ( HS : 130 m)	3rd December 1962	5th January 1964

Web links

• Toralf Engan in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Toralf Engan in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )