Word: holmenkollen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American ski jumpers seldom finish better than 20th in big international meets, but last week a young 18-year-old from Duluth, Minn, placed tenth against the world's best at the Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. He would have done still better had he not faltered on one landing. As it was, Eugene Robert Kotlarek actually outjumped the winner, and established himself in a sport traditionally dominated by Europeans...
...longer jumps. Fortnight ago in the North American championships at Squaw Valley, Calif., he came within 3.3 points of beating Finland's Kalevi Karkinen. one of the world's best. "We were all amazed," said Norway's top expert, Sigmund Ruud, after watching Kotlarek at the Holmenkollen. "The U.S. has never had a more promising jumper...
Andy Again With the winter Olympics winding up at Oslo's famed Holmenkollen ski-jumping hill this week, some 150,000 Norwegians, shouting Heia! after each soaring leap, seemed to think that this was the best of all winter Olympic games. Native-born Arnfinn Bergmann won the big jump; Norwegian Speed Skater Hjalmar Andersen became a national hero by his grand-slam performance in winning the 5,000-, 1,500-, and 10,000-meter races on consecutive days; and Norway, according to unofficial point scores, won the games, 125½ to the second-place...
...Best. As an Olympic preview,* this year's Holmenkollen again proved one thing: the Norwegians are still the world's best. On his second jump, Hoel was a marvel of consistency. He matched his first effort to the foot (226) in distance, to the decimal point in style. Neither Thrane nor Bradl came close. Hoel's winning score: 225, nine more than Thrane, for the biggest margin in Hol-menkollen history. Champion Bjornstad was seventh...
...Without U.S. participation. At Holmenkollen time, U.S. jumpers were holding their own Olympic trials at Iron Mountain, Mich. The winner: Norwegian-born Art Tokle...