Rune Nilsen (15 September 1923 – 19 July 1998) was a Norwegian

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 ...

er. He represented

IF Tønsberg-Kameratene Idrettsforeningen Tønsberg-Kameratene is a Norwegian sports club from Tønsberg, Vestfold. It has sections for boxing, sport wrestling and weightlifting. General history The club was founded on 10 October 1917. In November 1981 it lost its trac ...

and

IL i BUL Idrottslaget i Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo (also BUL, Oslo) is a sports club in Oslo, Norway, founded on 8 January 1913. It is one of several branches of Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo, a local chapter of Noregs Mållag and Noregs Ungdomslag. IL i BUL h ...

. At the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in ...

he finished fifth in the triple jump final with a jump of 15.13 metres. At the

1950 European Championships in Athletics The 4th European Athletics Championships were held from 23 August to 27 August 1950 in the Heysel Stadium of the Belgian capital Brussels. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. Men's results Complete result ...

he finished fourth in triple jump and fifth in

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

. He became Norwegian triple jump champion in 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1952. He won the national silver in 1948 and 1954, and the bronze in 1955. He edged out

Kaare Strøm Kaare Strøm may refer to: *Kaare Strøm (limnologist) (1902–1967), Norwegian limnologist *Kaare Strøm (athlete) (1915–1982), Norwegian triple and long jumper *Kaare Strøm (political scientist) Kaare Strøm (born 10 April 1953) is a Norwegia ...

and

Eugen Haugland Eugen Haugland (12 July 1912 – 21 October 1990) was a Norwegian triple jumper. He represented Haugesund IL. He was a brother of Jens Edv. Haugland, father of Terje Haugland and grandfather of Hanne Haugland. At the 1936 Summer Olympics he f ...

, who had greatly dominated the event before the war. In 1949 Nilsen also became national champion in long jump. Here he won the silver medal in 1950, and bronzes in 1946 and 1952. His personal best triple jump was 15.13 metres, achieved at the 1952 Olympics. His personal best long jump was 7.12 metres, achieved in June 1950 at

Bislett stadion 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 ...

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1923 births 1998 deaths Norwegian male triple jumpers Norwegian male long jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Norway Sportspeople from Tønsberg 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-athletics-bio-stub