Arne Larsen
Arne Kjell Larsen ( born December 23, 1937 in Asker ) is a former Norwegian skier who launched internationally in ski jumping and Nordic combined.
Career
First international success collected Larsen ski jumpers at the Four Hills Tournament 1956/57. At the opening event on the Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf, he was ranked 38th, just a day later, he landed in Innsbruck on the Bergiselschanze on the 30th place. At his last competition on the Great Olympic ski jump in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, he landed with the 25th place on the best individual placing the tour. In the overall standings Larsen thus reached rank 30 at the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 in Squaw Valley, he reached in the Nordic combined sixth. He was in ski jumping after the second passage to third before he went as seventh in the long run after the third passage.
At the World Championships 1962 in Zakopane, he won the title in the combination before Dmitri Kotschkin and Ole Henrik Fagerås. In ski jumping, he landed on the large hill to rank 19th in the same year he won the national title in Skien in ski jumping as well as in the combination. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 in Innsbruck, he was in contrast to 1960 show good jumps, but convinced as a third party in the long run. In the end, he finished the single race in fifth place.
In 1965 he received the Holmenkollen medal together with Arto Tiainen and Bengt Eriksson.
In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1966 in Oslo Larsen started again in the Nordic combined and reached in individual the 11th Place.