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Tommy Ingebrigtsen

Tommy Ingebrigtsen
Tommy Ingebrigtsen 2005.jpg
Ingebrigtsen in Oslo, 2005
Country Norway Norway
Full name Tommy Ingebrigtsen
Born (1977-08-08) 8 August 1977 (age 39)
Trondheim, Norway
Personal best 231 m (758 ft)
Planica, 20 Mar 2005
World Cup career
Seasons 19942006
Team wins 3
Indiv. podiums 5
Team podiums 5
Updated on 17 May 2015.

Tommy Ingebrigtsen (born 8 August 1977) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed from 1993 to 2007, representing Byåsen IL in Trondheim. He won the large hill competition at the 1995 Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, at the age of seventeen. Ingebrigtsen also competed in two Winter Olympics, earning a bronze in the team large hill event at Turin in 2006. He twice held the world distance record, both set in Planica, with a jump of 219.5 metres on 20 March 1999 and 231 m on 20 March 2005.

Tommy, himself a rock guitarist, is the son of musician Dag Ingebrigtsen.



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