Keith R. Wegeman

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Keith Richard Wegeman (August 28, 1929 – August 22, 1974) was an American ski jumper who competed in the early 1950s. He finished tied for 12th in the individual large hill competition at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.

A native of Colorado, Wegeman was on the national championships ski team at the University of Denver. After college and his career, he became a ski instructor and later host of a television series entitled Ski Tips in the early 1960s after moving to Los Angeles, California. At the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, Wegeman was a technical advisor.

He was posthumously inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 1989. His older brother, Alvin, competed as a nordic combined skier at Oslo and was inducted into the same Hall of Fame in 1998.

He has a daughter, Katherine Kelly Lang, known for her portrayal of Brooke Logan Forrester on the American soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful. He also provided the human figure (although not the voice) of the Jolly Green Giant in early commercials.