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

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. Together with his brothers

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and

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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

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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

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, Ruud finished seventh in the individual large hill competition. He won the Holmenkollen medal for ski jumping 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 for Norway FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping Kongsberg IF ski jumpers Skiers from Kongsberg 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-skijumping-bio-stub