Bjørn Oscar Gulbrandsen (17 September 1925 – 14 April 2011) was a Norwegian

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

player and yacht racer. He was born in

Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...

. He grew up at Stabekk and later lived at

Hosle Hosle is a district in the municipality of Bærum, Norway. Its population (as of 2007) is 5,713.Stabæk IF Stabæk Idrætsforening is a Norwegian multi-sports club in Bærum, a municipality bordering on Oslo in the west. It has sections for football, bandy, handball and alpine skiing. While the football team Stabæk Fotball is the most prominent, the m ...

in ice hockey, football and bandy. After Stabæk's ice hockey team was discontinued in 1955, he played some years for Gamlebyen IF. He won the national titles in bandy in 1952, 1953 and 1955 and in ice hockey in 1947. He was capped three times in bandy and 28 times in ice hockey. For the

Norwegian national ice hockey team The Norway men's national ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team from Norway that participates at the IIHF World Championships. The team is governed by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Association and is coached by Petter Thoresen. History ...

he also participated at the

1952 Winter Olympics The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 6. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 6. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Oslo 1952, was a winter multi-sport event held from 14 to 25 February 195 ...

, where the Norwegian team placed ninth and last. He also took up yacht racing, where he represented the

Royal Norwegian Yacht Club The Royal Norwegian Yacht Club ( no, Kongelig Norsk Seilforening, KNS) is a yacht club in Oslo, Norway. The club was founded in 1883 as country-wide organisation with affiliated local yacht clubs. In 1884, it was granted the right for members ...

. He competed in sailing at the

1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, whi ...

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, together with Thor Thorvaldsen, and finished seventh.

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* 1925 births 2011 deaths Ice hockey players at the 1952 Winter Olympics Norwegian bandy players Norwegian ice hockey players Norwegian male sailors (sport) Olympic ice hockey players for Norway Olympic sailors for Norway Royal Norwegian Yacht Club sailors Sailors at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Dragon Sportspeople from Bærum {{Norway-yachtracing-bio-stub