Torgeir Torbjørn Brandtzæg (born 6 October 1941) is a retired
Norwegian ski jumper
Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the fin ...
who won bronze medals both in the large hill and normal hill at the 1964 Winter Olympics.
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Brandtzæg placed fifth in the Four Hills Tournament in 1963; he won it in 1965, placing first in three out of four events. He also held the national jumping titles in 1963–1965. In 1965, while competing in Finland, he broke his leg in three places and was forced to retire. After that he married and became a farmer in Sparbu. One of his sons, Roy Brandtzæg, became a European ]powerlifting
Powerlifting is a competitive strength athletics, strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: Squat (exercise), squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athle ...
champion.[
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1941 births
Ski jumpers at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic ski jumpers for Norway
Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
Olympic medalists in ski jumping
Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics
20th-century Norwegian people
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