Achievements He won a gold medal in the normal hill event at the 1952 Winter Olympics, accompanied on the podium by Torbjørn Falkanger who won the silver medal. Bergmann also earned the bronze medal at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships and won the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1952. Foreign his ski jumping success, Bergmann received the Holmenkollen medal in 1956 (shared with Borghild Niskin and Arne Hoel).