Olaf Tandberg Explained

Olaf Tandberg
Nationality:	Norway
Birth Date:	1879 7, df=yes
Birth Place:	Askim, Norway
Death Place:	Lillehammer, Norway
Club:	Frigg Ski Club Lillehammer Ski Club
Personalbest:	35.5m (116.5feet) Bærum, Norway (11 February 1900)

Olaf Tandberg (7 July 1879  - 15 June 1932) was a Norwegian doctor and Nordic skier.

Career

On 11 February 1900 he set the ski jumping world record distance 35.5 metres (116 ft) at Solbergbakken hill in Bærum, Norway.^{[1] [2] [3]}

A year later he won the Nordic combined event at Holmenkollen and won the royal trophy. In later years he was a ski jumping judge in Holmenkollen between 1918 and 1930.

Ski jumping world record

Set on the first ever official ski jumping competition.

External links

• Sondre Norheim – The Skiing Pioneer of Telemark

Notes and References

1. Web site: I Solbergbakken. Hoprekorder (page 2). Aftenposten. 12 February 1900.
2. Web site: Solbergrendet (page 3). Asker og Bærum Budstikke. 14 February 1900. no.
3. Jakob Vaage, Tom Kristensen: Holmenkollen – Historien og resultatene. De norske Bokklubbene, Stabekk 1992. (s. 192-193, digitalisert av Nasjonalbiblioteket)