| Jørn Irving Goldstein | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
(1953-03-27) March 27, 1953 (age 71) 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 | ||
Jørn Irving Goldstein (born March 27, 1953) is a Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player.
Biography
Goldstein was born in Oslo, Norway, and is Jewish. His mother's family, surname Schapow, immigrated to Norway from Lithuania in the early 1900s. 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. The family eventually moved to Ila, Trondheim.
As an 18-year old Goldstein joined Manglerud Star Ishockey, and became the team's goalkeeper. Goldstein played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team, and participated at the Winter Olympics in 1984. He was awarded Gullpucken as best Norwegian ice hockey player in 1977.
In 1983, the Norwegian director Oddvar Bull Tuhus made the movie Hockeyfeber (Hockey Fever), in which Goldstein has a central role.
See also
References
- ^ "Jorn Goldstein Olympic Stats" | Hockey-Reference.com
- Jewish Post 18 May 1988
- ^ The 1984 Olympic Games: Sarajevo/Los Angeles - Dick Schaap
- ^ 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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