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}} Sverre Farstad (February 8, 1920 – March 27, 1978) was a speed skater representing ''Sportsklubben Falken'', Trondheim, as part of the Falken Trio also including Henry Wahl and Hjalmar Andersen. Farstad won one Olympic gold medal and one European Championship in his three-year international career. He was born in Lademoen, Trondheim. ==Pre St. Moritz== Before World War II, Farstad was active in workers races, and came second in the Norwegian Workers' Championship on the 5,000 m in 1940. During the war, he trained weightlifting and gymnastics in Trondheim, and returned to international competition by winning bronze at the European Championship 1947, where he won the 1,500 metres, and silver at the World Championship, where he won both 500 and 1,500 m, and was 2.2 seconds from becoming world champion by virtue of winning three distances. Instead, he finished second in the overall standings after finishing 30.9 seconds behind Lassi Parkkinen on 10,000 metres. He was awarded Egebergs Ærespris in 1947, having won two silver medals in Norwegian weightlifting championships, and he also won a bronze in rowing. Farstad also competed in boxing, cycling, sport shooting, swimming and amateur wrestling. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sverre Farstad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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