 Anders Haugen was the first and, as of 2016, only American to win an Olympic medal for ski jumping.Anders Olsen Haugen was born in Bø, Telemark, Norway.Anders Haugen and his brother Lars emigrated to the United States in 1909 and built a ski jumping hill with the Milwaukee Ski Club near Lake Nagawicka west of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in order to open ski jumping to the public of the area.