ATHLETE

Ole Ellefsæter

1939 - 2022

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Ole Martin Ellefsæter (15 February 1939 – 18 October 2022) was a Norwegian athlete. He mostly competed in cross-country skiing, and won two gold medals at the 1968 Winter Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ole Ellefsæter has received more than 39,130 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ole Ellefsæter is the 149th most popular athlete (up from 242nd in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Norway (up from 223rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Norwegian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ole Ellefsæter ranks 149 out of 6,025Before him are Ewa Kłobukowska, Jüri Lossmann, Naoto Tajima, Angela Voigt, Berit Mørdre, and Barbara Jones. After him are Myer Prinstein, Roger Bannister, Robert Hennet, Ken McArthur, Naim Süleymanoğlu, and John Carlos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Ole Ellefsæter ranks 207Before him are Dick Scobee, Jerry Brudos, Nông Đức Mạnh, Brigitte Fontaine, Paul Gleason, and James Fox. After him are Carmen Salinas, Samantha Eggar, Yves Meyer, Vladimir Durković, Jorge Toro, and Néstor Combin. Among people deceased in 2022, Ole Ellefsæter ranks 181Before him are Chrysostomos II of Cyprus, Anatoly Filipchenko, Carl, Duke of Württemberg, Kitten Natividad, Herman Van Springel, and Joseph Delaney. After him are Toshi Ichiyanagi, Marsha Hunt, Letizia Battaglia, Vlado Milunić, Franciszek Pieczka, and Liz Sheridan.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Ole Ellefsæter ranks 173 out of 1,039Before him are Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (1818), Carl Anton Larsen (1860), Gunnar Staalesen (1947), Edvard Moser (1962), Hjalmar Johansen (1867), and Berit Mørdre (1940). After him are Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899), Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847), Ole-Johan Dahl (1931), Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862), Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836), and Jens Munk (1579).

Among ATHLETES In Norway

Among athletes born in Norway, Ole Ellefsæter ranks 4Before him are Ole Einar Bjørndalen (1974), Egil Danielsen (1933), and Berit Mørdre (1940). After him are Johan Grøttumsbråten (1899), Helge Løvland (1890), Harald Grønningen (1934), Pål Tyldum (1942), Magnar Solberg (1937), Steinar Amundsen (1945), Hallgeir Brenden (1929), and Grete Waitz (1953).