Asbjørn Ruud

Asbjørn Ruud

Personal information
Born	6 October 1919 Kongsberg, Norway
Died	26 March 1989 (aged 69) Oslo, Norway
Sport
Sport	Ski jumping
Club	Kongsberg IF
Medal record Men's ski jumping Representing Norway World Championships 1938 Lahti Individual large hill

Asbjørn Ruud (6 October 1919 – 26 March 1989) was a Norwegian ski jumper. Together with his brothers Birger and Sigmund he dominated international ski jumping in the 1930s. Ruud won a gold medal at the 1938 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Eight years later, he won the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival, the first held since the German occupation of Norway in 1940 during World War II. At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Ruud finished seventh in the individual large hill competition. He won the Holmenkollen medal for ski jumping in 1948, the second of the three Ruud brothers to do so.

External links

• Asbjoern Ruud at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
• Holmenkollen medalists at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 February 2007) – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)
• Holmenkollen winners since 1892 at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 February 2007) – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)