Asle Sjåstad (6 January 1930 – 22 May 2009) was a Norwegian alpine skier.
He took eight national championships between 1955 and 1960, representing the club
Geilo IL
Geilo Idrettslag is a multi-sports club from Geilo, Norway.
Established on 2 December 1917 as ''Gjeilo SK'', it changed its name to ''Gjeilo IL'' on 19 May 1918 and later to ''Geilo IL''. It has sections for alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, skiing ...
. He finished fifth at the
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1956,
and at the
1956 Winter Olympics
The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 ( or ), were a multi-sport event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from 26 January to 5 February 1956.
Cortina, which ...
he acquired a fourteenth place in the
downhill event, a 22nd place in the
giant slalom
Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding competitive discipline. It involves racing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in Slalom skiing, slalom but less than in Super-G.
Giant sl ...
event and an eighteenth place in the
slalom event.
He died in May 2009 in
Geilo
Geilo () is a centre in the municipality of Hol, Norway, Hol in Buskerud, Buskerud county, Norway. Geilo is primarily a ski resort town, with around 2,500 inhabitants. It is situated in the valley of Hallingdal, 250 km from Oslo and 260 ...
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References
1930 births
2009 deaths
Norwegian male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers for Norway
20th-century Norwegian sportsmen
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