Rune Olijnyk (born December 27, 1968) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed in the early 1990s. He won a silver medal in the individual large hill at the

1991 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 took place between 7 and 17 February 1991 in Val di Fiemme, Italy. The women's 5 km was reintroduced after not being held in the previous championships. The men's 10 km was introduced in this championshi ...

in Val di Fiemme and finished fourth in the team large hill event (along with

Espen Bredesen Espen Bredesen (born 2 February 1968) is a Norwegian former ski jumper. Career At World Cup level he won gold and silver medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer. At the 1992 Winter Olympics, he performed badly, coming last in the nor ...

, Kent Johanssen and Jon Inge Kjørum) at those same championships. At the

1992 Winter Olympics ) , nations = 64 , athletes = 1,801 (1313 men, 488 women) , events = 57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines) , opening = 8 February 1992 , closing = 23 February 1992 , opened_by = President François Mitterrand , cauldron ...

in Albertville, Olijnyk finished seventh in the team competition. He won two Norwegian championship team large hill medals with gold in 1992 and silver in 1991, and won three straight bronze medals in the individual normal hill (1990, 1991 and 1992). He represented the club Høland IL.

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1968 births Living people Norwegian male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers for Norway Ski jumpers at the 1992 Winter Olympics FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-skijumping-bio-stub