Haakon Jansen

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by BrownHairedGirl (talk | contribs) at 23:30, 2 August 2016 (removed Category:Norwegian long-distance runners; added Category:Norwegian male long-distance runners using HotCat). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Haakon Jansen (24 May 1900 – 6 November 1968) was a Norwegian long-distance runner.

He was born in Kristiania, and represented the club IK Tjalve. He competed in the 3000 metres team race at the 1924 Summer Olympics, along with team mates Nils Andersen, Johan Badendyck and Hans Gundhus.[1] He had modest success on the domestic level, only collecting a single national silver medal from the 5000 metres in 1923.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Haakon Jansen". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  2. ^ http://www.friidrett.no/stevner/statistikk/nm/Documents/m5000.htm