Tor «Jern-Gustav» Gundersen (September 15, 1935 – September 13, 2012) was a Norwegian

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two o ...

player. He played for the

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, and participated at the

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in 1964 and in 1968. He was awarded

Gullpucken Gullpucken (translit. ''the Golden puck'') is awarded by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation (NIHF) to the best Norwegian ice hockey player each year. The award is subject to consideration which means it is not necessarily awarded every year. ...

as best Norwegian ice hockey player in 1960. He was a playing head coach for Vålerenga Ishockey during the team's golden age in the 1960s and has ten championships in his name.

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Tor Gundersen's obituary
1935 births 2012 deaths Ice hockey players at the 1964 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1968 Winter Olympics Norwegian ice hockey players Olympic ice hockey players of Norway Ice hockey people from Oslo {{norway-icehockey-bio-stub