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Gunder Gundersen (
September 12,
1930 —
June 2,
2005) was a
Norwegian nordic combined skier and sports official. During his active career he won two individual
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medals (
1954: silver,
1958: bronze) and the
Holmenkollen ski festival three times (
1952,
1959 (shared with
Sverre Stenersen, and
1960).
Gundersen was also the Technical Director of the
nordic combined individual event at the
1980 Winter Olympics in
Lake Placid, New York. He finished 11th in the nordic bined event at the
1960 Winter Olympics in
Squaw Valley.
His most significant impact on nordic combined was creating the "
Gundersen method", in use since
1985. This method recalculated the
ski jumping points into
cross country skiing start times with the athletes then starting at staggered times with the winning ski jumper starting first. For the 15 km individual and the 7.5 km sprint, the difference between the competitors at the start of the cross country portion of the event was one ski jumping point equaling four seconds. For the 4 x 5 km team event, one ski jumping point equaled 3 seconds, but this was changed in
1995 to one point equaling 1.5 seconds, then again in
2005 to one point equaling one second.
Gundersen received the
Holmenkollen medal in
1959.
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