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Asbjørn Ruud

1919 - 1989

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Asbjørn Ruud (6 October 1919 – 26 March 1989) was a Norwegian ski jumper. Together with his brothers Birger and Sigmund he dominated international ski jumping in the 1930s. Ruud won a gold medal at the 1938 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Eight years later, he won the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival, the first held since the German occupation of Norway in 1940 during World War II. At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Asbjørn Ruud is the 1,308th most popular athlete (down from 568th in 2019), the 404th most popular biography from Norway (down from 300th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Norwegian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Asbjørn Ruud ranks 1,308 out of 6,025. Before him are Jackson Scholz, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Viljo Heino, Ine Schäffer, and Béla Szepes. After him are Gustav Goßler, Klaus Reichert, Daniel Bautista, Edwin Graves, Charles Blondin, and Sonia Robertson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Asbjørn Ruud ranks 281. Before him are Isabella Abbott, Jan Flinterman, Jacques Laurent, Masao Takemoto, Bahriye Üçok, and Alan Brown. After him are Gayatri Devi, Kateryna Yushchenko, Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, Kurt Wires, Gevorg Emin, and Tim Holt. Among people deceased in 1989, Asbjørn Ruud ranks 244. Before him are Frank Sullivan, M. King Hubbert, Roberto Figueroa, Virgil Thomson, Hemanta Mukherjee, and György Kulin. After him are Birago Diop, Duncan Gregg, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, John Ogdon, Franco Luambo, and Erik Almgren.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Asbjørn Ruud ranks 404 out of 1,039. Before him are Jan Johansen (1944), Georg Selenius (1884), Arne Halse (1887), Olaf Gulbransson (1873), Hanne Krogh (1956), and Frithjof Ulleberg (1911). After him are Nils Arne Eggen (1941), Erling Evensen (1914), Jørn Lier Horst (1970), Thorbjørn Svenssen (1924), Nils Petter Molvær (1960), and Johan Falkberget (1879).

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Among ATHLETES In Norway

Among athletes born in Norway, Asbjørn Ruud ranks 35. Before him are Charles Mathiesen (1911), Trine Hattestad (1966), Per Ivar Moe (1944), Eirik Kvalfoss (1959), Jan Johansen (1944), and Arne Halse (1887). After him are Ingrid Kristiansen (1956), Oskar Olsen (1897), Tore Berger (1944), Ole Lilloe-Olsen (1883), Jan Egil Storholt (1949), and Reidar Liaklev (1917).

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