Larry Damon

Laurence Snow " Larry " Damon ( born December 8, 1933, Burlington ) is a former American cross country skier, biathlete and athlete. He participated in four Olympic Winter Games.

Larry Damon studied at the University of Vermont, for their winter sports team UVM Outing Club, he also took and in 1955 he graduated. He then moved to the U.S. military, for which he was active as a sports soldier. In Cortina d'Ampezzo, he took time in 1956 at the Olympic Winter Games and took part in cross-country skiing the 51st place over 15 kilometers and was with Theodore Farwell Jr., Mack Miller and Marvin Crawford in the relay race 12 By the late 1950s he became a soldier in the biathlon squad. At the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley Damon participated in the first Olympic biathlon single part and was as Worst of four U.S. starter 24 of 30 biathletes be beaten. After the games, he moved back to cross-country skiing and won the title of 1961 U.S. Champion on 15 - and 30 - kilometers. At the Boston Marathon in 1960, he finished in tenth place (two hours and 34:05 minutes). In Innsbruck Damon took in 1964 again participate in the Olympics in cross-country skiing. About 30 kilometers, he reached the 46th place and was 28 over 50 kilometers. For the fourth and last time the Americans started in Grenoble at the Olympic Games in 1968. Damon came over 15 kilometers on the 55th, about 50 kilometers on the 32nd.

Damon is married to the Norwegian Olympic champion Babben Enger. He lived with her first short time in Norway, before the couple moved to Stowe in Vermont, where he worked as a ski instructor at the guest house of the Von Trapp family.