Anders Olsen Haugen (October 24, 1888 – April 14, 1984) was a Norwegian-American

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who won four national ski jumping championships. He competed in the

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and the

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in St. Moritz. Anders Haugen was the first and, as of 2022, only American to win an Olympic medal for

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Biography

Anders Olsen Haugen was born in

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, Norway. Anders Haugen and his brother Lars emigrated to the United States in 1909 and built a

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with the Milwaukee Ski Club near Lake Nagawicka west of

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, in order to open ski jumping to the public of the area. In 1911 Anders Haugen set a world record of 46m (152 feet) on

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while winning the National Championship. Between 1910 and 1920, the Haugen brothers won the U.S. National Championships eleven times. In 1919 and 1920, Anders Haugen set the two world record ski jumping distances of 213 ft (64.92m) and 214 ft (65.23m), respectively. He was Captain of the first US skiing team at the

. Haugen and his brothers later moved to northwestern Wisconsin and then

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. Haugen had won the 1924 Olympic

bronze medal in the individual large hill, though he was not awarded the medal due to a scoring error. In 1974, at the 50th reunion of the 1924 Norwegian team, Norwegian sports historian

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was going over the results when he noticed an error. The bronze medal had been awarded to Norwegian skier

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, who also won three gold medals in the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix. On 12 September 1974, Anders Haugen came to Norway as an 86-year-old and was given the bronze medal by Anna Maria Magnussen, Thorleif Haug's youngest daughter. In 1929, Haugen and his brother Lars moved to the

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area in

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, where he developed the Lake Tahoe Ski Club. Up until his 70s, he directed the junior skiing program at the ski club. Haugen was elected to the

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in 1978.Anders Haugen
at Colorado Snowsports Museum Haugen was inducted into the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame in 1963. His bronze medal is on display at the Hall of Fame in

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. He died at Redlands Community Hospital in

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on April 14, 1984, of

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, and had been suffering from

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Cross-country skiing results

Olympic Games

Ski jumping world records

Not recognized! Crash at world record distance.

References

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