Reidar Amble Ommundsen Explained

Reidar Amble-Ommundsen
Nationality:	Norwegian
Birth Date:	17 March 1890
Birth Place:	Sørvågen, Flakstad, Norway
Death Place:	Oslo, Norway
Personalbest:	54m (177feet) Mjøndalen, Norway (7 February 1915)

Reidar Amble Ommundsen (17 March 1890 – 26 December 1940) was a Norwegian ski jumper and soccer player.

Career

In 1911 he won the Norwegian soccer cup final 5–2, with his club Lyn Fotball against IF Urædd.^[1]

On 7 February 1915 he set the ski jumping world record distance of at Vikkollen hill in Mjøndalen, Norway.^{[2] [3]}

External links

• Eiker Arkiv: Kulturminneåret 2009 på Eiker: Vikkollen (2. januar 2009)
• Arne Thoresen: Lengst gjennom lufta. Versal Forlag, Oslo 2007., s. 54-55
• RSSSF Norway: Cupfinalen 1911
• Norges Fotballforbund: Norgesmestere menn 1902-2009

Notes and References

1. Isak Kobro: Norges læger 1909-1925. Aschehaug, Oslo 1927 (registrert hos Nasjonalbiblioteket men ikke digitalisert)
2. Web site: New ski jump record. Harrisburg Telegraph. 19 February 1916.
3. Web site: Ny verdensrekord i hop paa ski (page 5). Aftenposten. 7 February 1915. no.