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Harald Natvig
Sport shooter

Harald Natvig

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Place of birth
Stavanger, Rogaland, Western Norway, Norway
Place of death
Hjerkinn, Dovre, Oppland, Eastern Norway
Age
75 years
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Biography

Harald Natvig (10 June 1872 – 1 August 1947) was a Norwegian physician and a sport shooter, who won three gold medals in the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics.

Life

Natvig graduated in 1898 and worked as a municipal doctor in Lyngør, Kristiansund and Flakstad. Since 1905 Natvig run his own medical practice in Bergen, and from 1908 in Oslo. During the 1912–1913 First Balkan War, he worked as a surgeon in a Serbian field hospital. In the 1918 Finnish Civil War, Natvig led a Norwegian Red Cross ambulance on the White side. In the late 1918, Natvig published a book of his photographs on the Finnish Civil War. Specially the ones taken in the Battle of Länkipohja have became famous.

Sports career

He participated in shooting at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and won the gold medals both in team 100 m running deer, single shots and team 100 m running deer, double shots. He won the individual bronze medal in 100 m running deer, single shot. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris he won the gold medal in team 100 m running deer, single shots and the silver medal in team 100 m running deer, double shots.

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