What is Hans Kleppen?
{{Orphan|date=February 2022}} {{MedalTableTop |image= Hans Kleppen in Lake Placid in 1932.jpeg |image_size= 200px|medals= {{Medal|Sport | Men's [[ski jumping]]}} {{Medal|WorldChampionships}} {{Medal|Bronze | [[1929 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships|1929 Zakopane]] | Individual large hill}} }} '''Hans Kleppen''' (16 March 1907 – 12 April 2009<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/kl/hans-kleppen-1.html |title=sports-reference.com |access-date=2018-04-01 |archive-date=2012-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106044359/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/kl/hans-kleppen-1.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] who was a [[ski jumping|ski jumper]] in the 1920s. He won a bronze [[medal]] at the [[1929 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships]] in [[Zakopane]]. Kleppen, from [[Bø i Telemark]], became 100 years old in March 2007 and, having been part of the [[1928 Winter Olympics]], was Norway's oldest living Olympian.<ref>{{cite news|title = 100-åring fornyer lappens|work = Telemark|publisher = NRK|date = 2007-03-16|url=http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/ostafjells/telemark/1.2064255|accessdate = 2007-12-10}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.varden.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080318/NYHET/586745985/1003/_ Report on Hans Kleppen's 101st birthday] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080324203100/http://www.varden.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080318%2FNYHET%2F586745985%2F1003%2F_ |date=2008-03-24 }} (Norwegian) {{sports-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kleppen, Hans}} [[Category:1907 births]] [[Category:2009 deaths]] [[Category:Centenarians]] [[Category:Norwegian skiers]]