Thorleif Schjelderup
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| Bronze | 1948 St. Moritz | Individual large hill | |
Thorleif Schjelderup (born January 20, 1920 in Aker; died May 28, 2006) was a Norwegian author and in the 1940s and 50s one of Norway's best ski jumpers.
He won a bronze medal in the 1948 Winter Olympics. That same year he met American singer Anne Brown, who moved with him to Oslo where the couple eventually married. Schjelderup published his first essay in 1952 and has then wrote books in the field of sports and on Norwegian nature until his 2006 death.
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