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The Fearnley Olympic Award is a Norwegian award created by ship owner Thomas Fearnley (1880–1961) in connection with the winter Olympic games in Oslo 1952 Winter Olympics. The prize is a statue in bronze, modeled by Per Palle Storm, after the antique Hellenic sculptor Myrons statue Discobolus (Discus thrower). The award is given for "outstanding achievements" by a Norwegian Olympic participant. No competitor may win the award more than once.〔 (''Fearnleys olympiske ærespris'' ), hentet 3. januar 2013〕 == History == The first prizes went to the "Skate King" Hjalmar Andersen at the Oslo Winter Olympic Games and to the shooter Erling Kongshaug, who won a very close competition in the Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympic Games.〔 〕 With the exception of the 1964 Summer Olympic Games (where no medals were awarded to Norway) and the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympic Games (boycotted by Norway and other countries) the prize has been awarded for every Olympic Games since 1952. In 1991, the prize was awarded to sports leader Arne Mollén for long and faithful service to Norwegian Olympic sports. Mollén is so far the only person to have received the award other than for participation in an Olympic event. Mollén's award was also the only one made outside of Olympic years. In its early years one prize was awarded to an Olympic champion at the winter games and one to an Olympic champion at the summer games but the rules for the prize do not require any such practice. The "Golden Four" from the K4 1000 metres canoe event in 1968 was the first team awarded the Fearnley award. Later the brothers Alf and Frank Hansen (1976), woman national team football team (2000), as well as woman national team handball team (2008), received the award as teams. On two occasions the prize has gone to winners of silver medals, the first time to Grete Waitz who received the award after her silver in the Marathon in 1984. The next such award was to ski jumper Erik Johnsen who was the silver medallist in Ski jumping, large hill, event. At the two games, 1984 Summer Olympics and 1988 Winter Olympics, Norwegian competitors did not won any gold medals. The 1988 Summer Olympics was the first occasion on which two athletes from two different sports at the same Olympics were awarded the prize, Tor Heiestad and Jon Rønningen. Since 1996, when both the 800 meter runner Vebjørn Rodal and paddler Knut Holmann received the award, the Fearnley prize has been awarded to two winners for each summer Olympic Games and one award winner at each Winter Olympics. To date, no team received the award in the field of winter sports. 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「Fearnley award」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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