Vidar Lindboe-Hansen was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 ski jumper and mining engineer.

He was born in Kongsberg

Kongsberg

is a town and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is located at the southern end of the traditional region of Numedal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kongsberg....

, and studied at the Norwegian Institute of Technology

Norwegian Institute of Technology

The Norwegian Institute of Technology, known by its Norwegian abbrevation NTH was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 85 years, after which it was merged into the University of Trondheim as an independent...

 before settling in Løkken Verk

Løkken Verk

Løkken Verk is a village in the municipality of Meldal in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located south of Svorkmo , east of Bjørnli, and north of the municipal center of Meldal....

 as a mining engineer. Here he joined the local sports club Løkken IF

Løkken IF

Løkken Idrettsforening is a Norwegian sports club from Løkken Verk, Sør-Trøndelag. It has sections for association football, speed skating and Nordic skiing....

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He finished tenth at the 1950 World Ski Championships

1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1950 took place during February 1–6, 1950 in Lake Placid, New York, USA and Rumford, Maine, USA. This was Lake Placid's second time hosting the championships after having done so at the 1932 Winter Olympics. It also marked the first time after World War II the...

. Three other Løkken IF members (former) participated here; Evert Karlsson

Evert Karlsson

Evert Gotthardt Karlsson was a Swedish ski jumper.He was born in Løkken Verk in Norway, and grew up there with his ski jumper brothers Arthur and Kåre Karlsson. They represented the sports club Løkken IF...

, Kåre Karlsson

Kåre Karlsson

Kåre Ingemar Karlsson is a former Swedish ski jumper.He was born in Løkken Verk in Norway, and grew up there with his ski jumper brothers Arthur and Evert Karlsson. They represented the sports club Løkken IF...

 and Arthur E. Tokle

Arthur E. Tokle

Arthur Emil Tokle was a Norwegian-born American ski jumper who competed for the United States at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, finishing 18th in the individual large hill event.-Biography:...

. Lindboe-Hansen also participated in the Holmenkollen ski festival

Holmenkollen ski festival

The Holmenkollen Ski Festival is a traditional annual Nordic skiing event in Holmenkollen, Oslo, Norway. The full official name of the event is Holmenkollen FIS World Cup Nordic. It takes place in March and has been arranged every year since 1892, except for 1898 and during World War II...

 in 1940, 1947, 1948 and 1949. His career was interrupted by the German occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1945, then in December 1950 he was badly injured when a mine explosion came out of control.

In 1963 he went from Løkken Verk to Sydvaranger

Sydvaranger

Sydvaranger was the company that operated the Bjørnevatn Mine in Kirkenes, Norway between the start in 1906 until 1996. Since then the company has mainly been concerned with cleaning up the industrial areas and business development...

 in Kirkenes

Kirkenes

is a town in the municipality of Sør-Varanger in the county of Finnmark in the far northeast of Norway...

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