Olaf Tandberg (7 July 1879 – 15 June 1932) was a Norwegian doctor and Nordic skier.
Career
On 11 February 1900 he set the ski jumping world record distance 35.5 metres (116 ft) at
Solbergbakken
Solbergbakken was a K60 ski jumping hill located at Valler (Gjettum) in Bærum, Norway and owned by Bærums SK.
History
On 29 January 1888, Solbergbakken located at the western suburb of Oslo, was officially opened as one of the largest in the ...
hill 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 ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
.
[Jakob Vaage, Tom Kristensen: ]
Holmenkollen – Historien og resultatene
'. De norske Bokklubbene, Stabekk 1992. (s. 192-193, digitalisert av Nasjonalbiblioteket
The National Library of Norway ( no, Nasjonalbiblioteket) was established in 1989. Its principal task is "to preserve the past for the future". The library is located both in Oslo and in Mo i Rana. The building in Oslo was restored and reopened i ...
)
A year later he won the Nordic combined event at
Holmenkollen and won the royal trophy. In later years he was a ski jumping judge in Holmenkollen between 1918 and 1930.
Ski jumping world record
Set on the first ever official ski jumping competition.
References
External links
Sondre Norheim – The Skiing Pioneer of Telemark
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1879 births
1932 deaths
Holmenkollen medalists
Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
Norwegian male ski jumpers
People from Askim
Skiers from Østfold