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The Norge Ski Club is the oldest continuously open ski club in the United States. During the spring and summer, snow is substituted by plastic tarps that are laid along the jumps. In the colder months, snow machines are employed to ensure that the slopes have a continual dusting of snow. [12] In 2018, three of its members were named to the men ...
One famous member of Norway Ski Club, Torger Tokle, was a champion ski jumper who emigrated to New York in 1939. While traveling the country for jumping competitions, Torger wore the colors of the ski club and the logo on his competitive uniform. Torger won 42 of his 48 jumping competitions.
Roy Mikkelsen (September 15, 1907 – October 29, 1967) was a Norwegian born, American Olympic ski jumper. [1] Mikkelsen was US Champion in ski jumping in 1933 and 1935, but was also a strong skier in the new discipline of alpine skiing, competing in that sport from 1933–42.
Like his older brother Daniel Forfang he represents the club Tromsø SK. Forfang made his World Cup debut in December 2014. He won team gold medal FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2016 with his teammates in Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf. [3] His first individual world cup victory was in Titisee-Neustadt on 12 March 2016. [4]
The Norwegian Ski Federation (Norwegian: Norges Skiforbund) is headquartered in Oslo, Norway and is the national representative of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation. Founded on 21 February 1908, it covers the skiing disciplines of alpine , cross-country , freestyle , Nordic combined , ski jumping , and snowboarding .
Norge Ski Club: Patrick Gasienica (November 28, 1998 – June 12, 2023) was an American ski jumper. He competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. [1] [2]
Starkad Ski Club, 1914. Starkad is "among the oldest ski clubs in the Oslo area and became part of a thriving ski community before 1900." [1] The club emerged at a time when skiing, and the concepts of "sport" and "club," were new in Norway. It never became large, but it had historical and cultural significance for the development of skiing.