Petter Hugsted

Petter Hugsted in 1949, after having won the International Invitational Ski Jumping Tournament at Nels Nelsen Hill

Olympic medal record
Men's ski jumping
Competitor for Norway
	1948 St. Moritz	Individual large hill

Petter Hugsted (11 July 1921 – 19 May 2000) was a champion Norwegian ski jumper. Born in Kongsberg, Hugsted was held in the Grini concentration camp during the German occupation of Norway. He won the Olympic gold medal in ski jumping in 1948 Winter Olympics at St. Moritz. He was also an excellent soccer player and was the captain of the Norwegian B-National soccer team.

Other awards

Gold medal at the ski jumping competition at Lahti, Finland in 1947.

Silver medal in the 1940 and third-place finish in 1947 and 1948 ski jump competitions at the Holmenkollen ski jump in Oslo.

Champion of the United States National Ski Jumping Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1949.

Later in life, Petter Hugsted, with his friend Birger Ruud, devoted much energy to the creation and curatorship of the Kongsberg Skiing Museum.

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Olympic champions in ski jumping individual large hill

1924: Jacob Tullin Thams (NOR)
1928: Alf Andersen (NOR)
1932: Birger Ruud (NOR)
1936: Birger Ruud (NOR)
1948: Petter Hugsted (NOR)
1952: Arnfinn Bergmann (NOR)
1956: Antti Hyvärinen (FIN)
1960: Helmut Recknagel (EUA)
1964: Toralf Engan (NOR)
1968: Vladimir Belussov (URS)
1972: Wojciech Fortuna (POL)
1976: Karl Schnabl (AUT)
1980: Jouko Törmänen (FIN)
1984: Matti Nykänen (FIN)
1988: Matti Nykänen (FIN)
1992: Toni Nieminen (FIN)
1994: Jens Weißflog (GER)
1998: Kazuyoshi Funaki (JPN)
2002: Simon Ammann (SUI)
2006: Thomas Morgenstern (AUT)
2010: Simon Ammann (SUI)
2014: Kamil Stoch (POL)

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