Anders Haugen

Anders Olsen Haugen ( born October 24, 1888 in Bø, Telemark, † April 14, 1984 in Yucaipa, California ) was an American ski jumper.

Career

Born in Norway Haugen emigrated in 1908 from the United States and settled in Dillon, Colorado. Haugen took the first Olympic Winter Games in 1924 in part in Chamonix and finished fourth in the ski jumping competition. In 1974 it was discovered a calculation error of the jury and Haugen was subsequently declared to Bronzemedaillisten. Anne -Marie Magnusson, daughter of the original medal winner Thor Leif Haug, now handed the 87 -year-olds, with 50 years late, on 12 September 1974 at Holmenkollen in Oslo home the bronze medal. In cross-country single about 18 km, he reached the 33rd place. In individual Nordic Combined he landed on rank 21

Four years later at the Olympic Winter Games in 1928 in St. Moritz Haugen ran in the 18- km cross-country ski race at the 43rd place. Previously, he had reached in the normal hill ski jumping rank 43. In singles, the combination he was ranked 25th

Haugen won in 1910 in Coleraine, 1923 in Minneapolis and Duluth in 1926 in the U.S. championships in ski jumping.

After the end of his career, he moved with his brother Lars Haugen to Lake Tahoe, where he founded the Lake Tahoe Ski Club. Into old age, he accompanied as the instructor the junior ski training. 1963 Haugen was inducted into the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame, and in 1978, 15 years later in the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame.

Haugen died in 1984 after a serious illness from prostate cancer.