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Jacob Gundersen
Jacob Gundersen (29 October 1875 – January 1968) was a Norwegian-American who represented Norway in the 1908 Olympics. He was a freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist.
Jacob Gundersen was born in Fjære (later incorporated into Grimstad), in Aust-Agder county, Norway. He received a silver medal in the "heavyweight" class at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. The heavyweight class had eleven competitors, nine wrestlers from the UK, one from the US, and Gundersen from Norway. Gundersen
Hans Jørgen Gundersen
Hans Jørgen Gundersen (11 August 1850 – ?) was a Norwegian consul.
He was born at sea, in the North Sea, as a son of shipmaster Peter Fredrik Gundersen and his wife Mathilde Susanne Larsen. In 1881 he married Sara Elisabeth Rerg. Their son Gunnar Gundersen became an internationally known chess player with Australian citizenship.
Gundersen finished his secondary education in Trondhjem in 1868 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.jur. degree in 1871. He started his career in merchantry in