Martinus Lørdahl (28 July 1873, in

Hof, Vestfold Hof is a village in Holmestrand Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The village is located about northwest of the Holmestrand (town), town of Holmestrand, about southwest of the village of Sande, Vestfold, Sande i Vestfold, and about sout ...

– 2 April 1933, in Oslo) was a Norwegian businessperson, multi sports competitor and sports administrator. He was active in several sports, in particular

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competitio ...

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

and

skating Skating involves any sports or recreational activity which consists of traveling on surfaces or on ice using skates, and may refer to: Ice skating *Ice skating, moving on ice by using ice skates **Figure skating, a sport in which individuals, ...

. He was among Norway's best racewalkers, and had several good results in

speed skating Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marathon speed skat ...

, including placing second at the

1905 World Allround Speed Skating Championships The 1905 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 21 and 22 January 1905 at the ice rink Stadspark in Groningen, Netherlands. Sigurd Mathisen was defending champion. He did not participate and did not defend his title. Coen de Ko ...

. He co-founded the sports club Kristiania Idrætsforening in 1893, and participated in restarting Christiania Skøiteklub in 1898. He was a driving force in the construction of

Bislett Stadium Bislett Stadium () is a sports stadium in Oslo, Norway. Bislett is Norway's most well known sports arena internationally, with 15 speed skating world records and more than 50 track and field world records having been set here. The original stadi ...

from 1908. He served as President of the Norwegian Swimming Federation from 1920 to 1923, and co-founded . A bust of Lørdahl, sculpted by Per Ung, was unveiled at Bislett Stadium in 2010.

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* 1873 births 1933 deaths Norwegian male speed skaters Norwegian male race walkers Norwegian sports executives and administrators People from Hof, Vestfold Sportspeople from Vestfold {{norway-sport-bio-stub