Thorleif Haug

Thor Leif Johnsen - Haug (born 28 September 1894 in Lier, † 12 December 1934 in Drammen ) was a Norwegian skier who collected in cross-country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined success. He was regarded in the 1920s as one of the best skiers in the world.

Career

First National Medals

His first success came Haug at the Norwegian Championships in 1915 Geithus where behind Gunnar Ødegaard and Embret Mellesmo he won the bronze medal in the individual Nordic Combined. Two years later at the Norwegian Championships 1917 in Dokka he repeated this success. The following year he was able to secure the silver medal behind Otto Aasen at the Norwegian Championships in Rjukan.

International breakthrough

1918 Haug began with the victory in the 50 - km cross-country ski 's successful run at the Holmenkollen. He repeated this success 1919. Moreover, the first time he also won the competition in the combination. Shortly thereafter, Haug won at the Norwegian Championships in 1919 in Bærum again bronze in this discipline.

In the same year he was subsequently awarded for its first successes, together with Otto Aasen with the Holmenkollen medal.

In the Norwegian Championships 1920 in Elverum, he could not prevail for the first time in the combination, but instead won the gold medal in cross country skiing over 30 km. At Holmenkollen, he was also successful again in the combination, as well as over 50 km of cross-country skiing.

Only a year later he defended at the Norwegian Championships 1921 in Trondheim his title in cross-country skiing. In the combination, it is not resubmitted for a win. At Holmenkollen he lay as in the previous year once again in both disciplines at the forefront. In the Norwegian Championship 1922 in Gjøvik, he won the first time a Norwegian title in the combination. It was his only title in this discipline.

Olympic Winter Games

The year 1924 should be the most successful of his career. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1924 in Chamonix -Mont- Blanc Haug started in all three Nordic disciplines. In cross-country, he was able to consider the race over 18 km and 50 km of the race to win. In addition to these two gold medals in cross-country skiing, he was also successful in the combination. After he was already after jumping in, he was able to defend these unchallenged in the following cross-country skiing. This Haug was the first athlete to have won three gold medals at a Winter Olympics only. Since cross-country skiing, the Olympic Games were considered Nordic World Ski Championships at the same time, he also became the first double world champion with success. In ski jumping he was after jumping in third place and received so after the contest ends, the Olympic and hands over the World Cup bronze medal. The combined score of jumping was 18,000 points, what. Thirdly ranking before the American Anders Haugen, which reached a total score of 17,917

Fifty years after the Games in 1974, met the six surviving Norwegian Olympian, with Thoralf Strømstad, silver medalist in the combination, the Norwegian writer and Skihistoriker Jakob Vaage pointing to the incorrect calculation of the points at Haug who were correctly not 18.000 but 17.813, which it would have placed only fourth place. The IOC agreed to the amendment of the list of winners. The daughter of the late 1934 Haug, Anne -Marie Magnusson agrees to the return of the bronze medal, whereupon it on 12 September 1974 representative, awarded to the daughter of Anders Haugen, who lived the age of 86 in Yucaipa, California in Holmenkollen house. This was Haugen, who died in 1984, the first U.S. American to win a medal in the Olympic ski jumping competition.

After the Olympics and End of career

In his great success in Chamonix, he also won the Holmenkollen again in the 50 -km cross-country skiing. In the Norwegian Championships in 1926 in Drammen, he landed in a single combination before at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1926 in Lahti, he won again the silver medal in the combination. It was his last international success.

Only eight years after Haug's last success, he died in December 1934 at the age of just 40 years of pneumonia.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games in 1924 in Chamonix: gold over 18 km, 50 km of gold, gold in Nordic combined
Nordic World Ski Championships 1926 in Lahti: Silver in Nordic Combined

Honors after death

1946, the City of Drammen on the Fylkesvei 38 near the spiral tunnel a statue Haugs by Per Palle Storm up. Reveals it was Olav V, who was the Crown Prince of Norway at that time.

1952 a street was named in Voksenåsen by Haug.

His former ski club Drafn in Drammen organized since 1966 every year in his honor a memorial run, the Thorleif Haug Minneløp. This leads from Geithus to Drammen, among others passing at his home in Årkvisla. The memorial run has now become a Thorleif Haug Ski Festival.

On January 21, 1984, the Thorleif Haug Lodge was founded by the Sons of Norway.

Lier, Norway Winter Olympic Games September 28 December 12 International Olympic Committee FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1926 Sons of Norway (film) List of Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing Hallgeir Brenden Per-Erik Hedlund Veli Saarinen Elis Wiklund Nils Karlsson Veikko Hakulinen Ivar Formo Nikolay Zimyatov Thomas Wassberg Gunde Svan Mikhail Ivanov (cross-country skier) Giorgio Di Centa Petter Northug List of Olympic medalists in Nordic combined Sverre Stenersen Georg Thoma Tormod Knutsen Franz Keller Ulrich Wehling Tom Sandberg Hippolyt Kempf Fabrice Guy Bjarte Engen Vik Georg Hettich Eric Frenzel List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in men's cross-country skiing John Lindgren Arne Rustadstuen Nils-Joel Englund Sulo Nurmela Klaes Karppinen Lars Bergendahl Matti Raivio Anselm Knuuttila Ole Stenen Pekka Niemi Gunnar Eriksson Gjermund Eggen Gerhard Grimmer Martin Koukal Frode Estil

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