{{short description|Norwegian cyclist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Per Digerud | image = | fullname = | birth_date = {{birth date|1933|7|25|df=yes}} | birth_place = Oslo, Norway | death_date = {{death date and age|1988|8|13|1933|7|25|df=yes}} | death_place = Oslo, Norway | sport = Cycling <br/> Boxing | club = SK Rye (cycling)<ref name=snl/><br/>SK av 1909 (boxing)<ref name=snl/> | discipline = }}
'''Per Digerud''' (25 July 1933 – 13 August 1988) was a Norwegian cyclist and boxer. He won several national titles in cycling, and one title in boxing, and represented Norway at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
==Life and career== Digerud was born in Oslo on 25 July 1933,<ref name=snl/> and was the father of Geir Digerud.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Geir Digerud |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |first=Rolf |last=Bryhn |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://snl.no/Geir_Digerud |language=no | access-date=18 July 2025 }}</ref>
===Cycling career=== He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the individual road race.<ref name=sref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/per-digerud-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418034708/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/per-digerud-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Per Digerud |publisher=Sports-Reference.com |accessdate=8 October 2013 }}</ref> He finished in 71st place. He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championship in 1960, 1961 and 1964.<ref name="RoadRace">{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=3192 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121085918/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=3192 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=21 January 2013 |title=National Championship, Road, Elite, Norway |accessdate=6 April 2015 |work=Cycling Archives}}</ref> He also won the National Timetrial Championship 1955 (30 km),<ref name=nil/>{{rp|424}} 1957, 1958, 1961 and 1962 (50 km),<ref name=nil/>{{rp|424}} 1956 (100 km)<ref name=nil/>{{rp|424}} a total of nine individual national titles in road championships.<ref name=nil/>{{rp|425}} He also won gold medals in the National Team-Timetrial Championship in 1955 (30 km), 1957, 1958, 1962 (50 km), 1953, 1955, 1956 (100 km), 1954, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962 (170 km).{{cn|date=July 2025}}
He received the Kongepokal trophy five times,<ref name=snl/> in 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 and 1962.<ref name=nil/>{{rp|423}} He represented the club SK Rye.<ref name=snl/>
===Boxing career=== He also won a national title in boxing in 1955, in light middleweight. He represented the club SK av 1909.<ref name=snl/>
==Death== Digerud died in Oslo on 13 August 1988, at the age of 55.<ref name=snl/>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Per Digerud |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |first=Rolf |last=Bryhn |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Per_Digerud |language=no | access-date=18 July 2025 }}</ref> <ref name=nil>{{cite book|first=Tom A |last=Schanke |title=Norsk Idrettsleksikon |language=Norwegian |year=2007 |publisher=Aller Forlag |isbn=978-82-8156-044-4 }}</ref> }}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Digerud, Per}} Category:1933 births Category:1988 deaths Category:Cyclists from Oslo Category:Norwegian male cyclists Category:Olympic cyclists for Norway Category:Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Category:20th-century Norwegian sportsmen
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