Henry Martinus Olsen (March 11, 1887 – August 16, 1978) was a Norwegian

track and field athlete Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

who specialized in the jumping events. He represented Kristiania IF. Participating at the

1908 Summer Olympics The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an international multi-sport event held in London, England, from 27 April to 31 October 1908. The 1908 Games were originally schedu ...

, he finished thirteenth in both

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

and

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the tr ...

. He also participated in the long jump competition but his result is unknown. Olsen became Norwegian champion, four times, in the events standing high jump twice and he won two titles in 1913, in the 110 hurles and in standing long jump. He came in second and third several times in the jumping events. His strongest event by today's standards was the triple jump, in which his personal best was 13.82 metres, achieved in May 1908 in

Kristiania Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022, an ...

. Norwegian all-time list triple jump

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* 1887 births 1978 deaths Norwegian male long jumpers Norwegian male high jumpers Norwegian male triple jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Norway Olympic male high jumpers 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-athletics-bio-stub