Tormod Knutsen

Tormod Knutsen
v. l. To the right: Frank Hansen, Axel Pettersen and Tormod Knutsen
Full name	Tormod Kåre Knutsen
nation	Norway
birthday	January 7, 1932
place of birth	Eidsvoll ,  Norway
Career
society	Eidsvold Værk SK
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × National medals 4 × 2 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver 1960 Squaw Valley singles gold 1964 Innsbruck singles  Norwegian championships bronze 1955 Trysil singles silver 1956 Drammen singles silver 1957 Mo i Rana singles gold 1959 Porsgrunn singles gold 1960 Mjøndalen singles bronze 1962 Skien singles gold 1963 Kristiansand singles gold 1964 Voss singles

Tormod Kåre Knutsen (born January 7, 1932 in Eidsvoll ) is a former Norwegian Nordic combined .

Career

Knutsen achieved his first successes on a national level. So he won bronze in the singles at the Norwegian Championships in Trysil in 1955 behind Sverre Stenersen and Gunder Gundersen . The following year at the Norwegian Championships in Drammen in 1956 , he improved to silver.

In 1958 Knutsen won the combined competition at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival. At the following Norwegian Championships in 1959 in Porsgrunn and the Norwegian Championships in 1960 in Mjøndalen , he won the title twice in a row.

At the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , he won the silver medal behind the German Georg Thoma . Two years later he narrowly missed the medal ranks at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1962 in Zakopane, Poland, with fourth place. At the Norwegian Championships in Kristiansand in 1963 and the Norwegian Championships in Voss in 1964 , he again won the national title twice in a row.

At the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , he finally won the gold medal in Nordic combined shortly before the end of his career .

Awards

In 1960 Knutsen was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal . A small exhibition panorama in the city library of Eidsvoll has been devoted to Knutsen's successes since 2009. In 2010 he became an honorary citizen of Eidsvoll.

Web links

• Tormod Knutsen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Tormod Knutsen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Tormod Knutsen in the norske leksikon store

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Orklahopp Norge: NM SKI NORDISKE GRENER , 2007
2. ^ Vinnere av Holmenkollrennene . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
3. ↑ Holmenkollmedaljen . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
4. ↑ Tormod Knutsen-utstillingen ved Eidsvoll bibliotek i Panorama ( Norwegian ) Eidsvoll commune. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
5. ↑ Tormod - en kombinert history ( Norwegian ) Team Løver. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. 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. Retrieved December 2, 2013.