Trygve Brudevold (19 December 1920 – 19 August 2021) was a Norwegian
bobsled
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of 2 to 4 athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobs ...
der who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two
Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympic Games (), also known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held i ...
, he earned his best finish of 11th in the four-man event at
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Cortina d'Ampezzo (; , ; historical ) sometimes abbreviated to simply Cortina, is a town and ''comune'' in the heart of the southern (Dolomites, Dolomitic) Alps in the province of Belluno, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. Situated on the ...
in
1956
Events
January
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. He was born in
Stange
is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hedemarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stangebyen. Other villages include Bekkelaget, Espa, Bottenfjellet, Il ...
. He
turned 100
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on 19 December 2020, and died in August 2021.
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1952 bobsleigh four-man results
1920 births
2021 deaths
Bobsledders at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Norwegian men centenarians
Norwegian male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Norway
People from Stange
Sportspeople from Innlandet
20th-century Norwegian sportsmen
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