Jørn Irving Goldstein (born March 27, 1953) is a Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player.[1]
| Jørn Irving Goldstein | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
March 27, 1953 Oslo, Norway | ||
| 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 |
 Norway | ||
Biography
editGoldstein 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, the Norwegian director Oddvar Bull Tuhus made the movie Hockeyfeber (Hockey Fever), in which Goldstein has a central role.[4][8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Jorn Goldstein Olympic Stats" | Hockey-Reference.com
- ^ Jewish Post 18 May 1988
- ^ a b c The 1984 Olympic Games: Sarajevo/Los Angeles - Dick Schaap
- ^ a b c d e f g Månedens gjenstand
- ^ "Jørn Goldstein". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. 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
External links
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