Johan Grøttumsbråten

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Medal record
Men's nordic skiing
Olympic Games
Gold 1928 St. Moritz Cross country 18 km
Gold 1928 St. Moritz Nordic combined
Gold 1932 Lake Placid Nordic combined
Silver 1924 Chamonix Cross country 18 km
Bronze 1924 Chamonix Cross country 50 km
Bronze 1924 Chamonix Nordic combined
World Championships
Gold 1926 Lahti Nordic combined
Gold 1931 Oberhof 18 km
Gold 1931 Oberhof Nordic combined

Johan Grøttumsbråten (February 12, 1899January 24, 1983) was a Norwegian skier who competed in Nordic combined and cross-country. Dominating both events in the 1920s and early-1930s, he won several medals in the early Winter Olympics.

In addition, he won three gold medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships: In 1931 he won both the cross-country 18 km and Nordic combined, after winning the Nordic combined event earlier in 1926.

Grøttumsbråten is one of only four people to ever win the Holmenkollen ski festival's nordic combined event five times (1923, 1926, 1928, 1929, and 1931). In 1924, he shared the Holmenkollen medal with fellow Norwegian Nordic combined athlete Harald Økern.

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Preceded by
Thoralf Strømstad
Holmenkollen medal with Harald Økern
1924
Succeeded by
Einar Landvik