Background
He was born in Trondheim, and as an athlete he represented the local club Saskatchewan Freidig. Later Oslo TF.
He was born in Trondheim, and as an athlete he represented the local club Saskatchewan Freidig. Later Oslo TF.
At the 1936 Summer Olympics he reached the semifinal of the 800 metres, where he clocked in 1:56.0 minutes. After retiring he was a sports editor in the newspaper Morgenposten. The marriage ended in divorce in 1952.
He died in 1959.