Leif Rode

Leif Sundt Rode (27 January 1885 – 2 November 1967) was a Norwegian competitive rower, jurist, sports official, poet and playwright.

[2] He became a competitive rower, and competed in coxed fours at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

[5] At the end of his active career he served as a sports administrator, as chairman of his club from 1913, and board member of the National rowing federation from 1914.

After the war he took part as defender in the legal purge, and was a barrister at the Supreme Court of Norway from 1945 to 1955.

[2] Rode published a song book in 1928, the poetry collection Men det steg en grotid in 1945, and the non-fiction book Forsvareren i praksis in 1949.