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Jan Olaf Roaldset

ski jumper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ3430857 ↗
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Jan Olaf Roaldset (born 28 March 1946) is a Norwegian ski jumper. He was born in Molde and represented the club IL Hjelset-Fram. He competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, where he placed 21st in the normal hill and 13th in the large hill.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1946-03-28. The account is most persuasive where Olaf, Roaldset and jumper can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as ski jumper. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jan Olaf Roaldset” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.