Sverre Helgesen

Sverre Helgesen
Helgesen in 1924
Personal information
NationalityNorwegian
Born26 May 1903
Bodø, Nordland, Norway
Died4 November 1981 (aged 78)
Oslo, Norway
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
high jump/triple jump
ClubIK Tjalve, Oslo

Sverre Helgesen (26 May 1903 – 4 November 1981) was a Norwegian high jumper, sports official and journalist.[1]

Biography

Helgesen was born in Bodø.[2] He represented the sports club Bodø og Omegns IF, then IK Tjalve after moving to Oslo. When Norwegian athletics was split in a bourgeois camp and a Workers' Confederation of Sports, Helgesen eventually chose to move to the workers' club IF Rollo.[3]

His personal best jump was 1.91 metres (6 ft 3 in), achieved in September 1925 in Moss.[4] This was a Norwegian record at the time.[3] At the 1924 Summer Olympics he finished eighth in the high jump final with a jump of 1.83 metres (6 ft 0 in).[2] He became Norwegian champion in 1926 with a tied championship record of 1.90 metres (6 ft 3 in). He also won national silver medals in 1924 and 1925.[5] In the standing high jump he won a bronze medal in 1923, silver in 1928 and gold in 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927.[6] After joining the workers' movement he won the high jump at the 1928 Spartakiad.[3]

Helgesen finished second behind Jack Higginson in the triple jump event at the British 1926 AAA Championships.[7][8][9]

Besides active sports he was sports editor of Arbeiderbladet from 1928 to 1973.[3] He was a board member of the Norwegian Athletics Association from 1945 through 1948.[10] He was also a jury member for awarding the Egebergs Ærespris.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Sverre Helgesen". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
  2. 1 2 profile
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Sverre Helgesen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  4. ↑ "Høyde/High Jump". Norwegian Athletics Association. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  5. ↑ "Høyde/High Jump". Norwegian Athletics Association. Archived from the original on 15 December 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  6. ↑ "Høyde uten Tilløp/Standing High Jump". Norwegian Athletics Association. Archived from the original on 15 December 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  7. ↑ "AAA Championships". Gloucester Citizen. 3 July 1926. Retrieved 4 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "Champion Athletes". Daily News (London). 5 July 1926. Retrieved 4 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  10. ↑ "Sentralstyret" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Athletics Association. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  11. ↑ "Fire Egeberg-kandidater". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 1 December 1949. p. 11.
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