Career
In heat 6 of the 2000m in the 2008 Olympics single sculls, Tufte came in first with a time of 7:20.18. Tufte was listed as the number one male rower of 2009 in the 2010 Families Of Children Under Stress issue of FISA"s World Rowing Magazine. When not rowing, Tufte earns a living growing cereals at the family farm in the Nykirke part of Horten, and he also works as a fire-fighter.