- Gunder Gundersen
Gunder Gundersen (
September 12 ,1930 —June 2 ,2005 ) was a Norwegiannordic combined skier and sports official. During his active career he won two individualFIS Nordic World Ski Championships medals (1954: silver, 1958: bronze) and theHolmenkollen ski festival three times (1952, 1959 (shared withSverre Stenersen , and 1960).Gundersen was also the Technical Director of the nordic combined individual event at the
1980 Winter Olympics inLake Placid, New York . He finished 11th in the nordic bined event at the1960 Winter Olympics inSquaw Valley .His most significant impact on nordic combined was creating the "
Gundersen method ", in use since 1985. This method recalculated theski jumping points intocross country skiing start times with the athletes then starting at staggered times with the winning ski jumper starting first. For the 15 km individual and the 7.5 km sprint, the difference between the competitors at the start of the cross country portion of the event was one ski jumping point equaling four seconds. For the 4 x 5 km team event, one ski jumping point equaled 3 seconds, but this was changed in 1995 to one point equaling 1.5 seconds, then again in 2005 to one point equaling one second.Gundersen received the
Holmenkollen medal in 1959.References
* [http://www.todor66.com/olim/1960w/Nordic_Combined.html 1960 nordic combined results]
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* [http://www.skiforeningen.no/holmenkollen/holmenkollen_historikk Holmenkollen medalists] - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file no icon
* [http://www.skiforeningen.no/holmenkollen/holmenkollen_historikk Holmenkollen winners since 1892] - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file no icon
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