Birger Ruud biography
Birger Ruud, (born August 23, 1911, Kongsberg, Norway—died June 13, 1998, Kongsberg), Norwegian ski jumper, who was the one athlete to win each a leaping and a downhill occasion in the identical Olympics.
Raised within the silver mining city of Kongsberg, Ruud and his brother Sigmund turned the main ski jumpers of Norway within the Thirties. Sigmund gained the 1927 world championship and, on the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, he earned a silver medal within the ski soar. These accomplishments have been surpassed by his youthful brother Birger, who claimed world championship ski-jumping titles in 1931, 1935, and 1937, and earned three Olympic medals in his profession.
Birger Ruud gained his first Olympic gold medal on the 1932 Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, U.S. There he led a medal sweep for Norway within the regular hill ski soar. In entrance of a crowd that included Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Ruud triumphed once more on the 1936 Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. He not solely repeated as the conventional hill ski-jump gold medalist, however he additionally gained the downhill competitors (sadly for Ruud, medals weren't awarded for the downhill race till 1948) and narrowly missed an Alpine mixed medal, ending fourth. World War II pressured the cancellation of the 1940 and 1944 Winter Olympics, however 1948 discovered Ruud on the Olympic Games in St. Moritz, as an assistant coach on the Norwegian ski-jumping crew. When the climate turned treacherous the night time earlier than the competitors, he changed a youthful athlete. Sixteen years after his first Olympics, Ruud gained the silver medal.