Tufte wamamaye ku rwego mpuzamahanga, yegukanye imidali ibiri ya zahabu mu mikino Olempike ya 2004 yabereye i Atene na 2008 yabereye i Beijing mu cyiciro cya single sculls. Yanegukanye kandi umudali wa feza mu 2000 ndetse n’uwa bronze mu 2016 mu cyiciro cya double sculls.
Amakuru yatangajwe n’itangazamakuru ryo muri Noruveje avuga ko Tufte yasanzwe atakibasha kwiyitaho ku isambu y’umuryango we, ahita ajyanwa mu bitaro byo mu mujyi wa Oslo, aho yaje kugwa mu bitotsi by’urupfu.
Umuryango we watangaje inkuru y’urupfu rwe ku wa Kabiri, nyuma y’uko abaganga bari bamaze kugerageza kumutabaza.
Ishyirahamwe ry’umukino wa rowing ku Isi ryamusezeyeho rivuga ko yari intangarugero ku bakinnyi bato, kuko yakomeje guhatana no gutanga uburambe bwe kugeza ku mikino Olempike ya Tokyo 2021, ubwo yari afite imyaka 45.
Mu gihe cy’umwuga we, Olaf Tufte yakinnye imikino Olempike inshuro zirindwi kuva mu 1996 kugeza mu 2021, ndetse aba na nyampinga w’isi inshuro ebyiri.
Usibye siporo, Tufte yari afite ibikorwa bitandukanye birimo gucunga isambu y’umuryango, kuba umukorerabushake mu kuzimya inkongi z’umuriro, ndetse no gutangiza ubucuruzi burimo uruganda rw’imyenda n’uruganda rukora inzoga.
Minisitiri w’Intebe wa Noruveje, Jonas Gahr Store, yamushimiye avuga ko yari umwe mu ntwari zikomeye z’igihugu mu mikino, kandi ko yahaye abaturage ibyishimo byinshi binyuze muri siporo.
Nyuma yo kuva mu marushanwa, Tufte yakomeje gufasha abandi bakinnyi nk’umutoza w’ikipe y’abakinnyi bafite ubumuga ya Noruveje, aho yagize uruhare mu gufasha Birgit Skarstein kwegukana umudali wa feza.
Olaf Tufte, yitabye Imana afite imyaka 50, asiga amateka akomeye mu mikino Olempike