Sigurd Clausen Haanes (1 August 1913 – 3 April 1943) 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 ...

and pilot. He was born 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 ...

as the son of Thorgny Haanes and his wife Hedvig Kristine Clausen, and resided in

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. He was the brother of

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player

Johan Haanes Johan Clausen Haanes (30 April 1912 – 21 March 2000) was a Norwegian tennis player, ski jumper, bandy player and track and field athlete. He was among Norway's best tennis players of all time. Early and personal life Haanes was born in Dra ...

, and played

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with Johan during the summer. Haanes placed fourth in ski jumping at the

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1937 The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1937 took place on February 12–18, 1937, in Chamonix, France. The French city hosted the 1924 Winter Olympics The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games () and commonly kno ...

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. At that time, he was based in

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as an amateur skiing coach. He was the record holder of the

Holmenkollbakken Holmenkollbakken is a large ski jumping hill located at Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. It has a hill size of HS134, a construction point of K-120, and a capacity for 70,000 spectators. Holmenkollen has hosted the Holmenkollen Ski Festival sinc ...

ski jump in 1940. He represented the club Njård. He had taken the

examen artium Examen artium was the name of the academic certification conferred in Denmark and Norway, qualifying the student for admission to university studies. Examen artium was originally introduced as the entrance exam of the University of Copenhagen in 1 ...

and commerce school. Following the German invasion of Norway in 1940 he participated in the fighting during the Norwegian Campaign as member of a ski company. He later travelled to the United Kingdom and enrolled in the Air Force where he became a pilot. He died in an aircraft accident in

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in 1943. His urn was brought home and buried in

Ullern Ullern is a List of boroughs of Oslo, borough of the city of Oslo, Norway. History The borough has its name from an old farm, Old Norse language, Norse ''Ullarin''. The first element is the genitive case of the name of the Norse god Ullr. The l ...

after the war, in October 1945. A memorial cup for Haanes in ski jumping was later instituted.

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* 1913 births 1943 deaths Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in England Skiers from Oslo Norwegian male ski jumpers Norwegian male tennis players Norwegian expatriates in Italy Norwegian Army personnel of World War II Norwegian Army Air Service personnel of World War II Norwegian World War II pilots Norwegian Royal Air Force pilots of World War II Norwegian military personnel killed in World War II Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1943 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{norway-skijumping-bio-stub