Word: ruud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resistance, gave more horizontal thrust for 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...
...from Ski Jumping, by Sigmund Ruud...
Norway's Jon Riisnaes is not quite so articulate about his ski jumping as his fellow countryman Sigmund Ruud, former world champion; but at the young jumping age of 21, Riisnaes, a whisper-thin (6 ft. 1 in., 135 Ibs.), blue-eyed blond, is just as enthusiastic, and fast becoming as proficient as the famed Ruud brothers.*Last week, standing atop the towering (556 ft.) slide at Iron Mountain, Mich., Jon had "a little of what you call butterflies in the stomach." An exchange student (engineering) at the University of New Hampshire this year, he also had a tight...
What was the Scandinavians' secret? Said 38-year-old Birger Ruud, the old master who is non-jumping captain of Norway's team: "Of all a child's playthings, skis are the first gift in Norway, and the most important." In Norway they could also count on having snow...