Torbjørn Yggeseth

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Torbjørn Yggeseth Ski jumping
1960 press photo

1960 press photo

nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday June 18, 1934
place of birth AskerNorwayNorwayNorway 
date of death January 10, 2010
Career
society Heggedal IL
Medal table
National medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Norwegian Ski Association Norwegian championships
silver 1963 Kristiansand Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
 Four Hills Tournament 2. ( 1962/63 , 1963/64 )
 

Torbjørn Yggeseth (born June 18, 1934 in Asker , † January 10, 2010 ) was a Norwegian ski jumper .

Career

Yggeseth was internationally successful for the first time in 1959 on the Kulm , when he won the ski flying competition with 127 meters. In the same year he was named Norway's Sportsman of the Year . In 1960 Yggeseth, who started for Heggedal IL, competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley . He finished fifth on the normal hill. From 1962 he started at the Four Hills Tournament . In his first competition on December 28, 1962 in Oberstdorf , he was able to jump on the podium with 3rd place. After a 7th place in Innsbruck and 6th place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he was able to win his first jumping on the tour in Bischofshofen . In the end, he finished 2nd in the tour's overall ranking. At the Norwegian Championship on the normal hill in Kristiansand , he won the silver medal behind Torgeir Brandtzæg . In the same year he was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal for his successes together with Astrid Sandvik , Pawel Koltschin and Alewtina Koltschina .

He also took part in the 1963/64 Four Hills Tournament and won the opening competition in Oberstdorf. After two rather mediocre competitions in Innsbruck and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, he jumped on the podium again in Bischofshofen with third place and, as in the previous year, finished second in the overall ranking. One month after the tour he was part of the squad for the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . On the normal hill he jumped to 14th place, which he had to share with the Finn Niilo Halonen and the American Gene Kotlarek . He jumped from the large hill to 28th place. It was his last international competition.

Yggeseth was chairman of the ski jumping department at the FIS until 2004 and was replaced by Jouko Törmänen . Yggeseth resigned after an argument between him and the jumper Anette Sagen became public. He spoke out publicly against women in ski jumping, even though he had promoted women's jumping in 1996. Yggeseth came under fire as early as 1988 when he openly spoke out against the V-style developed by Jan Boklöv with the words “We do not want such a development within the FIS” . He also intended to fire judges who did not rate this style with a point deduction.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Thorbjørn Yggeseth er død - VG Nett om Hopp . www.vg.no. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
  2. ^ Ski Jumping at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's Normal Hill, Individual . www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  3. Ski Jumping at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's Large Hill, Individual . www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  4. Gerd von der Lippe: Let the girls / women jump! . www.ladies-jumping.de. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. Retrieved on May 29, 2009.
  5. Torbjørn Yggeseth: A shame that Boklöv wins ski jumping (Norwegian) . In: Aftenposten , December 22, 1988. Retrieved May 29, 2009.