Jørn Goldstein
Jørn Irving Goldstein | |||
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Born |
Oslo, Norway | March 27, 1953||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | ||
Weight | 170 lb (77 kg; 12 st 2 lb) | ||
Position | Goalie | ||
GET-ligaen team | Manglerud Star Ishockey | ||
National team |
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Playing career | –present |
Jørn Irving Goldstein (born March 27, 1953) is a Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player.[1]
Biography
Goldstein was born in Oslo, Norway, and is Jewish.[1][2][3][4] His mother's family, surname Schapow, immigrated to Norway from Lithuania in the early 1900s.[3][4] His father, Otto Goldstein, arrived in 1947 from Germany, a Holocaust survivor who survived and was liberated in World War II from Nazi Germany's concentration camps.[4][3] The family eventually moved to Ila, Trondheim.[4]
As an 18-year old Goldstein joined Manglerud Star Ishockey, and became the team's goalkeeper.[4] Goldstein played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team, and participated at the Winter Olympics in 1984.[5][6] He was awarded Gullpucken as best Norwegian ice hockey player in 1977.[7][4]
In 1983, Norwegian director Oddvar Bull Tuhus made a movie entitled Hockey Fever, in which Goldstein has a central role.[4][8]
See also
References
- 1 2 "Jorn Goldstein Olympic Stats" | Hockey-Reference.com
- ↑ Jewish Post 18 May 1988
- 1 2 3 The 1984 Olympic Games: Sarajevo/Los Angeles - Dick Schaap
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Månedens gjenstand
- ↑ "Jørn Goldstein". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- ↑ Jörn GOLDSTEIN - Olympic Ice Hockey | Norway
- ↑ Schanke, Tom A (2007). Norsk Idrettsleksikon (in Norwegian). Aller Forlag. p. 346. ISBN 978-82-8156-044-4.
- ↑ "Jørn Goldstein" - IMDb