Johnny Lunde
{{Short description|Norwegian alpine skier and engineer (1923–2013)}}
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Johnny Anker Lunde (26 October 1923 – 2 April 2013) was a Norwegian alpine skier and engineer.
Biography
Lunde was born in Nore,{{cite news|title=Johnny Anker Lunde 75 år 26. oktober|agency=Norwegian News Agency|date=7 October 1998|language=Norwegian}} and represented the club Konnerud IL. He participated at the 1948 Winter Olympics in Saint Moritz, and at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. He did not finish the downhill race in 1948, but finished a tied 20th in downhill in 1952.{{cite web |title=Johnny Lunde |publisher=Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lu/johnny-lunde-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417191849/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lu/johnny-lunde-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |accessdate=17 March 2011}} In 1949 he won the downhill competition which was part of the alpine combined in the Norwegian championship.{{cite book|title=Norsk Idrettsleksikon |first=Tom A|last=Schanke |page=128|publisher=Aller Forlag|year=2007 |isbn=978-82-8156-044-4|language=Norwegian}}
He graduated as a construction engineer from ETH Zurich in 1949. After working in construction from 1950 to 1958 he spent his career at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute until 1990, working with geomechanics.
He resided in Sandvika. He was a grandfather of snowboarder Line Østvold.{{cite news|author=Buggerud, Sven Arne|title=OL-håp i koma|page=24|work=VG|date=18 September 2004|language=Norwegian|display-authors=etal}} He died in April 2013.Death announcement, Budstikka, 5 April 2013 p. 46
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Category:People from Nore og Uvdal
Category:Norwegian male alpine skiers
Category:Olympic alpine skiers for Norway
Category:Alpine skiers at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Category:Alpine skiers at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Category:Norwegian expatriates in Switzerland
Category:20th-century Norwegian sportsmen
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