Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen

Olympic medal record
Sailing
	1936 Berlin	8 metre class

Olaf Christian Ditlev-Simonsen, Jr. (2 January 1897 – 19 February 1978) was a Norwegian footballer, sports administrator and businessperson.

He was born in Dypvåg to ship-owner Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen (1865–1960) and Magdalena Pedersen (1873–1920). He had eight siblings. The family moved to Kristiania in 1902, and he joined the family's company (John P. Pedersen & Søn) after finishing Kristiania Commerce School in 1917. He was a brother of John Ditlev-Simonsen and uncle to both Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen, Jr. and Per Ditlev-Simonsen.

In 1920 he married Else Heyerdahl (1899–1985), and had Hieronymus Heyerdahl as a father-in-law. He died in January 1978 in Oslo.

Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen practised different sports in the club IF Ready, and, partly together with his four brothers, he won several Norwegian championships in bandy. Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen's first national title came in 1913, and the last in 1927. He played two matches for the national team. He was also capped five times for the Norway national football team, the first in 1915. He also competed in yacht racing. At the 1936 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal as crew member of the Norwegian boat Silja in the 8 metre event. He had taken his first King's Cup in Norway with that boat in 1930.

He was a board member of the Norwegian Tennis Federation from 1918 to 1919 and of the Football Association of Norway for four years, chaired IF Ready from 1923 to 1927 and the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club from 1947 to 1949. From 1948 to 1966 he was a member of the International Olympic Committee, and he headed the organizational committee at the 1952 Winter Olympics. In the IOC he took over for Thomas Fearnley, following tradition since 1905 that Norway must have one IOC member at any time.

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