Torbjørn Falkanger

Torbjørn Falkanger, born on 8 October 1927 in Trondheim and died on 16 July 2013, was a Norwegian ski jumper who was active in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won a silver medal in ski jumping at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo and also took the Holmenkollen ski festival ski jumping competition twice, in 1949 and 1950. For his ski jumping he received the Holmenkollen medal in 1952, shared with Stein Eriksen, Heikki Hasu and Nils Karlsson. At the 1952 games he also took the Olympic oath on behalf of the competitors. His career ended a few months before the 1956 Winter Olympics because of a fall in the ski jumping hill. The entry follows the English Wikipedia article.