Ferdinand Bie

{{Short description|Athletics competitor}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Ferdinand Bie

| image = 1912 Ferdinand Bie.JPG

| image_size = 190px

| caption = Bie at the 1912 Olympics

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1888|02|16}}

| birth_place = Drammen, Buskerud, Norway

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1961|11|08|1888|02|16}}

| death_place = Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway

| height = {{convert|1.74|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|72|kg|lb|abbr=on}}

| sport = Pentathlon, long jump, hurdles

| club = Oslo IL

| headercolor = lightsteelblue

| show-medals = yes

| medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{NOR}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalSilver|1912 Stockholm|Pentathlon}}

}}

Ferdinand Reinhardt Bie (16 February 1888 – 9 November 1961) was a Norwegian track and field athlete. At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, he won the silver medal in pentathlon.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/74111 |title=Ferdinand Bie |work=Olympedia |access-date=22 April 2021}} On winner Jim Thorpe's subsequent disqualification for having played semi-professional baseball in 1913, Bie was declared Olympic champion, but refused to accept the gold medal from the IOC.{{cite book|author=Jim Reisler|title=Cash and Carry: The Spectacular Rise and Hard Fall of C.C. Pyle, America's First Sports Agent|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XoRZsN4HjkoC&pg=PA60|date=26 November 2008|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5262-0|pages=60–}} In 1982 Thorpe was reinstated as champion by the IOC; however, Bie was still listed as co-champion[http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp International Olympic Committee medal database] until the IOC announced 15 July 2022 that Thorpe's gold medal had been reinstated and Bie became the silver medalist.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbssports.com/olympics/news/jim-thorpe-reinstated-as-winner-of-the-1912-olympics-pentathlon-and-decathlon-gold-medals/|title=Jim Thorpe reinstated as winner of the 1912 Olympics pentathlon and decathlon gold medals|last=Gonzalez|first=Isabel|work=CBS Sports|date=15 July 2022|access-date=16 July 2022}}

He also finished eleventh in the long jump and competed in 110 metres hurdles and decathlon but failed to finish.[http://www.friidrett.no/friidrett/statistikk/internasjonal/mb.htm Norwegian international athletes – B] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928003207/http://www.friidrett.no/friidrett/statistikk/internasjonal/mb.htm |date=September 28, 2007 }} {{in lang|no}} He became Norwegian champion in long jump in 1910 and 1917[http://www.friidrett.no/friidrett/statistikk/nm/mlj.htm Norwegian championships in long jump] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080205234035/http://www.friidrett.no/friidrett/statistikk/nm/mlj.htm |date=February 5, 2008 }} {{in lang|no}} and in 110 m hurdles in 1910.[http://www.friidrett.no/friidrett/statistikk/nm/m110h.htm Norwegian championships in 110 metres hurdles] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930190438/http://www.friidrett.no/friidrett/statistikk/nm/m110h.htm |date=2007-09-30 }} {{in lang|no}}