Johan Grøttumsbråten

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Medal record
Men's nordic skiing
Olympic Games
Gold 1928 St. Moritz Cross country 18 km
Gold 1928 St. Moritz Nordic combined
Gold 1932 Lake Placid Nordic combined
Silver 1924 Chamonix Cross country 18 km
Bronze 1924 Chamonix Cross country 50 km
Bronze 1924 Chamonix Nordic combined
World Championships
Gold 1926 Lahti Nordic combined
Gold 1931 Oberhof 18 km
Gold 1931 Oberhof Nordic combined

Johan Grøttumsbråten (February 12, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was a Norwegian skier who competed in Nordic combined and cross-country. Dominating both events in the 1920s and early-1930s, he won several medals in the early Winter Olympics.

In addition, he won three gold medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships: In 1931 he won both the cross-country 18 km and Nordic combined, after winning the Nordic combined event earlier in 1926.

Grøttumsbråten is one of only four people to ever win the Holmenkollen ski festival's nordic combined event five times (1923, 1926, 1928, 1929, and 1931). In 1924, he shared the Holmenkollen medal with fellow Norwegian Nordic combined athlete Harald Økern.

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Olympic champions in men's 18 km/ 15 km cross country
18 km
1924: Thorleif Haug * 1928: Johan Grøttumsbråten * 1932: Sven Utterström * 1936: Erik August Larsson * 1948: Martin Lundström * 1952: Hallgeir Brenden
15 km
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Olympic champions in nordic combined individual
1924: Thorleif Haug * 1928: Johan Grøttumsbråten * 1932: Johan Grøttumsbråten * 1936: Oddbjørn Hagen * 1948: Heikki Hasu * 1952: Simon Slåttvik * 1956: Sverre Stenersen * 1960: Georg Thoma * 1964: Tormod Knutsen * 1968: Franz Keller * 1972: Ulrich Wehling * 1976: Ulrich Wehling * 1980: Ulrich Wehling * 1984: Tom Sandberg * 1988: Hippolyt Kempf * 1992: Fabrice Guy * 1994: Fred Børre Lundberg * 1998: Bjarte Engen Vik * 2002: Samppa Lajunen * 2006: Georg Hettich
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World champions in men's 18 km/ 15 km cross country
As 18 km
1925: Otakar Německý * 1927: John Lindgren * 1929: Veli Saarinen (17 km) * 1930: Arne Rustadstuen (17 km) * 1931: Johan Grøttumsbråten * 1933: Nils-Joel Englund * 1934: Sulo Nurmela * 1935: Klaes Karppinen * 1937: Lars Bergendahl * 1938: Pauli Pitkänen * 1939: Juho 'Jussi' Kurikkala * 1950: Karl-Erik Åström
As 15 km
1954: Veikko Hakulinen * 1958: Veikko Hakulinen * 1962: Assar Rönnlund * 1966: Gjermund Eggen * 1970: Lars-Göran Åslund * 1974: Magne Myrmo * 1978: Józef Łuszczek * 1982: Oddvar Brå * 1985: Kari Härkönen * 1987: Marco Albarello * 1989 freestyle: Gunde Svan * 1989 classical: Harri Kirvesniemi * 1991: Bjørn Dæhlie * 2001: Per Elofsson * 2003: Axel Teichmann * 2005: Pietro Piller Cottrer * 2007: Lars Berger
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World champions in nordic combined individual
1925: Otakar Německý * 1926: Johan Grøttumsbråten * 1927: Rudolf Burkert * 1929: Hans Vinjarengen * 1930: Hans Vinjarengen * 1931: Johan Grøttumsbråten * 1933: Sven Selånger * 1934: Oddbjørn Hagen * 1935: Oddbjørn Hagen * 1937: Sigurd Røen * 1938: Olaf Hoffsbakken * 1939: Gustl Berauer * 1950: Heikki Hasu * 1954: Sverre Stenersen * 1958: Paavo Korhonen * 1962: Arne Larsen * 1966: Georg Thoma * 1970: Ladislav Rygl * 1974: Ulrich Wehling * 1978: Konrad Winkler * 1982: Tom Sandberg * 1985: Hermann Weinbuch * 1987: Torbjørn Løkken * 1989: Trond Einar Elden * 1991: Fred Børre Lundberg * 1993: Kenji Ogiwara * 1995: Fred Børre Lundberg * 1997: Kenji Ogiwara * 1999: Bjarte Engen Vik * 2001: Bjarte Engen Vik * 2003: Ronny Ackermann * 2005: Ronny Ackermann * 2007: Ronny Ackermann
Preceded by
Thoralf Strømstad		 Holmenkollen medal with Harald Økern
1924		 Succeeded by
Einar Landvik