Roger Ruud
Roger Ruud ( born October 1, 1958 in Hurdal ) is a former Norwegian ski jumper.
Career
Ruud, who started for the Lensbygda IL, made his international debut at the Four Hills Tournament 1976/77, where it already in the first competition in Oberstdorf jumped into the top twenty. After he reached good results also in the further jumping, he could occupy the 19th place overall at the end of the tour. After he did not go in the following year at the tour at the start, he was with the second place celebrate his first podium of his career at the Four Hills Tournament 1978/79 in Innsbruck. However, it was the some of the top places of the tour, so he could end only reach the 31 place overall.
After Ruud made his debut in the inaugural Ski Jumping World Cup in Oberstdorf on December 30, 1979 he has already won two jumping later with a seventh place in Innsbruck his first World Cup points. After 1979/80 he finished the Four Hills Tournament at the 21st place overall, he again succeeded in Sapporo a clear points win for eighth place on the large hill.
At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, which were also seen as Nordic World Ski Championships, Ruud reached on the normal hill on the 13th and on the normal hill in sixth place. Two weeks after the Games, he won his first World Cup in St. Moritz. Also in Gstaad, he stood with his second place on the podium again. After he narrowly missed the podium in Engelberg in fourth, he had until the end of the season do without top rankings, but achieved good top -20 finishes. At the end of the season he had 82 points in 14th place in the World Cup overall standings.
The Ski Jumping World Cup 1980/1981 he started with a third place at the competition in Oberstdorf. After another good finishes in the Four Hills Tournament 1980/81, he missed overall in the top three and only just finished fourth. After the tour he won in Harrachov Liberec and the jumping and reached again in St. Moritz and Gstaad the podium. His achievements he could henceforth acknowledge and so also won the competition in Chamonix -Mont- Blanc and St. Nizier, where he worked with 111.0 yards on the Dauphine set a new hill record and valid to this day on 28 February, and the penultimate competition of the season on the Holmenkollbakken in Oslo. So he could in the overall World Cup rankings reach the second rank behind the Austrian Armin Kogler at the end of the season.
At this season, he was not able in the following years. He began the 1981/82 season with a victory at the Italia in Cortina d' Ampezzo and peaked at the Four Hills Tournament 1981/82 for good individual results into second place in the overall standings behind Manfred Deckert from the GDR. Following this, however, victories and podium finishes remained from the time being. Although he reached in the next World Cup Jumping good top - 10 finishes, but was not even at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1982 in Oslo over the ninth place out.
At the beginning of the 1982/83 season Ruud had to contend with a significant drop in performance. By the end of January 1983 he missed in all jumping a place among the top ten. Only in St. Moritz Ruud came back into the world top and missed the fourth rank the podium just barely. In Gstaad, he only had to concede defeat Horst Bulau and finished second. Despite this success, Ruud failed to boot at all World Cup competitions.
Surprisingly, he was nearing the end of his career on January 8, 1985 following a rather poorly performing Four Hills Tournament 1984/85 for the second time after 1981, the World Cup competition in Cortina d' Ampezzo win. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1985 in Seefeld in Tirol Ruud could not jump on top rankings and finally finished in 35th place on the normal hill. His personal end of the season was the World Cup in St. Moritz, in which Ruud finished ninth.
The following season he started only in St. Moritz and ended after a 14th place there and a 68th place in the overall standings his active ski jumping career.
Achievements
World Cup wins
World Cup rankings
Trivia
Roger Ruud spent 30 days in a jail after the police had stopped him at 220 km / h on a motorcycle.