Thorleif Schjelderup

Leif Thor Schjelderup ( born January 20, 1920 in Aker, Oslo, † May 28, 2006 ) was a Norwegian ski jumper.

He was the son of the famous mountaineer Ferdinand Schjelderup and Marie Leigh Vogt. From 1940 to 1944 he was married to actress Sauces Krohg. The marriage produced two sons were born. In 1948 he married his second wife, the soprano Anne Brown, with whom he has a daughter.

Schjelderup was the first Norwegian ski jumper who was jumping over 100m ( Planica ). After being in Tistedal the silver medal and 1948 in Strinda won the bronze medal at the Norwegian championships in 1947, he belonged in the same year in the squad for the Olympic Games. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1948 in St. Moritz, he won the bronze medal behind his countrymen Petter Hugsted and Birger Ruud.

After the end of his active sports career, he was from 1957 to 1962 national coach of the Norwegian ski jumper. In the 1970s he published a series of books about sports, travel and the Norwegian nature.