Hans Aasns, OBE was a Norwegian army officer, Olympic sport shooter and World Champion. A lawyer by education, Aasns was a member of the Norwegian Army during the Second World War, fighting against Nazi Germany. After the war, he participated in numerous national and international shooting championships, including five Olympic Games, and won several World Championship medals.
Aasns was born in the municipality of Sande in Vestfold, the son of farmers Hans Alfred Aasns and Anna Kristine Freberg. OnMay 1928, he married Kristianiaborn Eleanor Chambers Poulsson, with whom he had one child before she died in 1933. In 1936 he married Astrid With, with whom he had two children. Through her, Hans Aasns was a brotherinlaw of wartime resistance member and engineer Bror With. He was also a cousin of fellow Olympic sport shooter Hkon Aasns. Hans Aasns died in Oslo in 1965.
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