Torgeir Brandtzæg

Torgeir Torbjørn Brandtzæg ( born October 26, 1941 in Ogndal ) is a former Norwegian ski jumper.

Starting in 1962, belonged to the Norwegian National Brandtzæg squad. His first international tournament was the Four Hills Tournament 1962/63, when he reached the 5th place in the Tour overall standings. In 1963, he went on to win in Kristiansand first time the Norwegian ski jumping championships before Torbjørn Yggeseth and Arnfinn Malm. In 1964 he repeated this success in Voss before Toralf Engan and Hans Olav Sørensen. He then belonged to the squad for the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 in Innsbruck. There he won from the normal and large hill bronze medals.

In the Four Hills Tournament 1964/65 he was able to reach the first place in the overall standings at the end and so celebrated the biggest success of his career after two bullets in Oberstdorf and Innsbruck. In the same year he again won the silver medal on the normal and the Gold Medal from the large hill at the Norwegian Championships in Bærum.

Winter Olympic Games List of Four Hills Tournament winners Nikolay Kamenskiy Helmut Recknagel Max Bolkart Horst Queck Ingolf Mork Rainer Schmidt Hans-Georg Aschenbach Jochen Danneberg Hubert Neuper Manfred Deckert Ernst Vettori Dieter Thoma Espen Bredesen Sven Hannawald Sigurd Pettersen Jakub Janda 2006–07 Four Hills Tournament Anders Jacobsen (ski jumper) 2007–08 Four Hills Tournament 2008–09 Four Hills Tournament Wolfgang Loitzl 2009–10 Four Hills Tournament 2010–11 Four Hills Tournament Thomas Morgenstern 2011–12 Four Hills Tournament Gregor Schlierenzauer 2012–13 Four Hills Tournament 2013–14 Four Hills Tournament Thomas Diethart
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