Asbjørn Ruud (6 October 1919 – 26 March 1989) was a Norwegian

ski jumper Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the fin ...

. Together with his brothers

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and Sigmund he dominated international ski jumping in the 1930s. Ruud won a gold medal at the

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. Eight years later, he won the ski jumping competition at the

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, the first held since the

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occupation of Norway in 1940 during

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. At the

1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz ...

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, Ruud finished seventh in the individual large hill competition. For his ski jumping effort, he earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1948, the second of the three Ruud brothers to do so.

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* * – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file * – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file 1919 births 1989 deaths Ski jumpers at the 1948 Winter Olympics Holmenkollen medalists Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners Norwegian male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers of Norway FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping Kongsberg IF ski jumpers People from Kongsberg Sportspeople from Viken (county) 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-skijumping-bio-stub