Hans Vinjarengen

Hans Vinjarengen

Vinjarengen in 1932
Personal information
Born	20 August 1905 Nordre Land, Norway
Died	1 February 1984 (aged 78) Oslo, Norway
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Sport
Sport	Nordic combined
Club	Nordre Land IL
Medal record Representing Norway Olympic Games 1928 St. Moritz Individual 1932 Lake Placid Individual World championships 1929 Zakopane Individual 1930 Oslo Individual 1934 Sollefteå Individual 1938 Lahti Individual

Hans Vinjarengen (20 August 1905 – 1 February 1984) was a Nordic combined skier from Norway. He won a silver medal at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz and a bronze at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. In addition, he won gold medals at the 1929 and 1930 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships and bronzes in 1934 and 1938.

Vinjarengen won the Holmenkollen ski festival's Nordic combined event twice (1930 and 1932). In 1931, he shared the Holmenkollen medal with fellow Norwegian Ole Stensen, a cross-country skier. Vinjarengen lived most of his life in Oslo, where he worked as a lorry driver, but he represented his childhood club from Nordre Land.

External links

• Holmenkollen medalists – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)
• Holmenkollen winners since 1892 – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)
• databaseOlympics