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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1930 births 2009 deaths Norwegian male alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 1956 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers for Norway 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-alpine-skiing-bio-stub