Bjørn Oscar Gulbrandsen (17 September 1925 – 2011) was a Norwegian ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player and yacht racer

Yacht racing

Yacht racing is the sport of competitive yachting.While sailing groups organize the most active and popular competitive yachting, other boating events are also held world-wide: speed motorboat racing; competitive canoeing, kayaking, and rowing; model yachting; and navigational contests Yacht racing...

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He was born in Bærum

Bærum

is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sandvika. Bærum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. A suburb of Oslo, Bærum is located on the west coast of the city....

. He grew up at Stabekk

Stabekk

Stabekk is a suburban centre in the municipality of Bærum, Norway. Mainly a residential area and have most of the conservative population in Norway the current population is 6,261....

 and later lived at Hosle

Hosle

Hosle is a district in the municipality of Bærum, Norway. Its population is 5,713.-References:...

. He represented the club Stabæk IF

Stabæk IF

Stabæk Idrætsforening is a Norwegian multi-sports club in Bærum, a municipality bordering on Oslo in the west.-Organization:It has sections for football, bandy, handball and alpine skiing. While the football team Stabæk Fotball is the most prominent, the men's bandy team has taken multiple national...

 in ice hockey, football and bandy. After Stabæk's ice hockey team was discontinued in 1955, he played some years for Gamlebyen IF. He won the national titles in bandy in 1952, 1953 and 1955 and in ice hockey in 1947. He was capped three times in bandy and 28 times in ice hockey. For the Norwegian national ice hockey team he also participated at the 1952 Winter Olympics

1952 Winter Olympics

The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games, took place in Oslo, Norway, from 14 to 25 February 1952. Discussions about Oslo hosting the Winter Olympic Games began as early as 1935; the city wanted to host the 1948 Games, but World War II made that impossible...

, where the Norwegian team placed ninth and last.

He also took up yacht racing, where he represented the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club

Royal Norwegian Yacht Club

The Royal Norwegian Yacht Club is a yacht club in Oslo, Norway . The club was established in 1883 and has some 4,000 members...

. He competed in sailing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

1956 Summer Olympics

The 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations...

 in Melbourne

Melbourne

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, together with Thor Thorvaldsen

Thor Thorvaldsen

Thor Thorvaldsen was a Norwegian sailor and Olympic champion. He was born in Bamble and died in Bærum...

, and finished seventh.