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Norway's world champion Jacobsen retires

Norway's Anders Jacobsen, pictured here in January 2015, won bronze at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010

Norway's world ski jumping team champion Anders Jacobsen announced on Tuesday he was retiring at the age of 30 to spend more time with his family after a 12 year career. Jacobsen, who won team gold at Falun in Sweden this year, claimed bronze at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, and also has ten individual World Cup wins to his name. A former plumber, the father of two's last win came in the Four Hills at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany on January 1.