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Asbjørn Ruud

1919 - 1989

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Asbjørn Ruud has received more than 18,625 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Asbjørn Ruud is the 561st most popular athlete (up from 862nd in 2019), the 300th most popular biography from Norway (up from 366th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Norwegian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Asbjørn Ruud ranks 561 out of 6,025. Before him are Hjalmar Johansson, Peter-Michael Kolbe, François Brandt, Ibrahim Shams, Ulrike Meyfarth, and Roscoe Lockwood. After him are Yelena Gorchakova, Rudolf Harbig, Wolfgang Nordwig, Giancarlo Brusati, Vasili Kuznetsov, and József Csermák.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Asbjørn Ruud ranks 244. Before him are Helen Walton, Roberto Bonomi, Eugenia Charles, Isaak Khalatnikov, Olena Apanovych, and Joe Hunt. After him are Richard Todd, Finn Helgesen, George Gerbner, Michel Déon, Grisha Filipov, and Milan Horvat. Among people deceased in 1989, Asbjørn Ruud ranks 201. Before him are Yannis Tsarouchis, Manlio Di Rosa, Süreyya Ağaoğlu, Mary McCarthy, Alfredo Zitarrosa, and José Augusto Brandão. After him are Gilda Radner, Rostislav Plyatt, Manuel Rosas, George Robledo, Fred Agabashian, and Roy Eldridge.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Asbjørn Ruud ranks 300 out of 1,039. Before him are Jens Hundseid (1883), Tom Henning Øvrebø (1966), Knud Knudsen (1812), Petter Solberg (1974), Karoline Krüger (1970), and Elise Ottesen-Jensen (1886). After him are Axel Thue (1863), Johan Ludwig Mowinckel (1870), Finn Helgesen (1919), Ketil Bjørnstad (1952), Jahn Teigen (1949), and Gunnar Knudsen (1848).

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Among ATHLETES In Norway

Among athletes born in Norway, Asbjørn Ruud ranks 16. Before him are Steinar Amundsen (1945), Hallgeir Brenden (1929), Grete Waitz (1953), Håkon Brusveen (1927), Simon Slåttvik (1917), and Trine Hattestad (1966). After him are Gjermund Eggen (1941), Tom Sandberg (1955), Oskar Olsen (1897), Grete Ingeborg Nykkelmo (1961), Sverre Stenersen (1926), and Charles Mathiesen (1911).

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