Johan Grøttumsbråten

Johan Hagbart Pedersen Grøttumsbråten, who also spelled his surname Grøttumsbraaten, was a Norwegian skier born on 24 February 1899 who died on 24 January 1983 and who competed in Nordic combined and cross-country skiing. He dominated both events in the 1920s and early 1930s and won six medals at the early Winter Olympics: a silver and two bronzes at the first Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924, two golds at St. Moritz in 1928, which made him the most successful athlete there together with Clas Thunberg of Finland, and a defended Nordic combined title in 1932. He also won three gold medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, in the cross-country 18 km and the Nordic combined in 1931 and in the Nordic combined in 1926. He is one of only four people to win the Nordic combined event at the Holmenkollen ski festival five times, in 1923, 1926, 1928, 1929 and 1931.