Hjalmar Andersen
Hjalmar Andersen
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| Birth name | Hjalmar Johan Andersen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Hjallis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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12 March 1923 Rødøy, Norway |
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| Died | 27 March 2013 (aged 90) Oslo, Norway |
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| Country | Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Speed skating | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Sportsklubben Falken | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 500 m: 43.7 (1951) 1000 m: 1:30.6 (1954) 1500 m: 2:16.4 (1949) 3000 m: 4:49.6 (1954) 5000 m: 8:06.5 (1956) 10 000 m: 16:32.6 (1952) |
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Hjalmar "Hjallis" Johan Andersen (12 March 1923 – 27 March 2013) was a speed skater from Norway who won three gold medals at the 1952 Winter Olympic Games of Oslo, Norway. He was the only triple gold medalist at the 1952 Winter Olympics, and as such, became the most successful athlete there.
Nicknamed King Glad for his famous cheerful mood, he was one of Norway's most popular sportsmen ever. Four statues of him were raised during his lifetime; in Trondheim, Hamar, Rødøy and outside Bislett Stadium in Oslo. He was honored with a funeral at the state’s expense.
Andersen was born on Rødøy, an island off the coast of Nordland in Norway, where his mother hailed from. His father, who originally was from Hammerfest, was a boatswain. While Andersen was still an toddler, the family moved to Lademoen, a working-class neighborhood in Trondheim, where sport and friendship was an important part of life.
He began speed skating at the age of 10, and became a member of the sports club Falken. The club was part of the Workers' Sports Federation (AIF), and the first competitions he participated in were small, local competitions organized by the AIF. Other members of the club were Sverre Farstad and Henry Wahl; later Andersen, Farstad and Wahl would be known by the nickname The Falken Trio.
After the German occupation of Norway in 1940, when Andersen was 17 years old, all organized sports competitions were halted as a result of the sports boycott against the Nazi regime. Like others of his generation, he had to wait until the winter of 1946 to take up his sports career again.
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