Halldor Skard

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Halldor Skard Nordic combination
nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday April 11, 1973
place of birth Oslo ,  NorwayNorwayNorway 
Career
society Heming IL
status resigned
End of career 2001
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
JWM medals 4 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
National medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 1998 Nagano team
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
gold 1995 Thunder Bay team
gold 1997 Trondheim team
FIS Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
gold 1990 Štrbské Pleso team
silver 1991 Reit im Winkl team
gold 1992 Vuokatti singles
gold 1992 Vuokatti team
gold 1993 Harrachov team
Norwegian Ski Association Norwegian championships
silver 1996 Stryn / Meldal singles
bronze 2000 Rena / Meldal singles
Placements in the World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 7, 1995 in Schonach
 World Cup victories (individual) 01 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 05. ( 1995/96 )
 Sprint World Cup 60th ( 2000/01 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 singles 1 2 2
last change: December 9, 2017

Halldor Skard (born April 11, 1973 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian Nordic combined .

Skard has won medals several times at major events in his sport. His greatest achievement was winning the gold medal in the team competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . He won - also with the team - two world championships at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1995 in Thunder Bay and in 1997 in Trondheim . He is also a multiple Nordic junior ski world champion . In individual competitions, a World Cup victory in Steamboat Springs from the 1996/97 season is his greatest success. Overall, he achieved five podium finishes in the World Cup and with fifth place in 1995/96 his best result in the overall World Cup.

Career

Beginnings with successes at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships (1990-1993)

Halldor Skard won his first medal at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1990 in Štrbské Pleso . Together with Bjarte Engen Vik and Trond Einar Elden , he won the team competition on the normal hill and after a cross-country distance of ten kilometers per athlete. A year later he could not repeat this in the same competition at the 1991 World Championships , which took place in Reit im Winkl , with his teammates Henrik Brors and Evan Chiodera. After jumping and identical cross-country skiing distance, they finished second behind the Czechoslovak trio Milan Kučera , Zbyněk Pánek and Jiří Hradil and thus won the silver medal.

The Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1992 in Vuokatti turned out to be very successful for Skard. First, on March 19, 1992, he won gold in a competition that was carried out using the Gundersen method on the normal hill and over the cross-country distance of ten kilometers. This was his biggest single success up to that point. Three days later, on March 22, 1992, he was able to achieve first place in the team competition together with Glenn Skram and Thomas Westeraas. In 1993 , in Harrachov, Czech Republic, Skards participated in the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships for the fourth time. He was unable to defend his individual title from the previous year. On the other hand, on March 6, 1993, he won the gold medal in the team competition for the third time with Knut Borge Andersen and Gard Myhre . His record at the Junior World Championships thus amounts to a total of four gold and one silver medal.

Second-rate victories and first years in the World Cup (1993–1995)

On December 4, 1994 Skard scored his first victory in the B-World Cup Nordic Combined in Lillehammer . Exactly one week later he followed up with the second victory in Vuokatti, Finland . He repeated this again a week later in the same place. In the 1993/94 season he had already reached fifth place in the overall standings.

On January 7, 1995 he made his official debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup in Schonach . In the Gundersen competition, whose jumps were carried out from the large hill, followed by a cross-country distance of over 15 kilometers, he took fourth place. His first place on the podium followed just three weeks later in Vuokatti, when he finished second in the same discipline behind fellow countryman Knut Tore Apeland and ahead of Japanese Kenji Ogiwara . In some other competitions he also achieved placements in the top ten. At the end of the season he finished eighth in the overall World Cup ranking.

Skard took part in the 1995 Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay , Canada . On March 15, 1995 he won the world championship title with Bjarte Engen Vik, Apeland and Fred Børre Lundberg in the team competition on the large hill and over four by five kilometers. Thus he achieved the most important title of his career to date.

Establishment among the world's best (1995–1998)

In the following two years he managed to maintain the high level from his debut season with consistently good placements. Among other things, he reached third place on February 10, 1996 in Chaux-Neuve as well as on March 16, 1996 in his hometown Oslo , and thus a place on the podium. At the end of the season, he finished fifth in the overall World Cup - the best result in Skard's career in this competition series.

On December 11, 1996, he achieved his first World Cup victory in Steamboat Springs, USA . It should remain his only one. In Lahti he achieved on March 8, 1997 with the second place his last podium place in the World Cup and the second of the season. With seventh place in the overall World Cup, he placed in the top ten for the third time in a row at the end of the season. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1997 in Trondheim , on February 26, 1997, he had been able to repeat the success of that year together with the team that competed in the same line-up as in 1995 and had become world champion again. At the beginning of the 1997/98 Olympic season , Skard could no longer match his results from the three previous years. The best results were two ninth places in the sprint from Rovaniemi and at the end of the season in another sprint in Swedish Falun . This resulted in the 28th place in the overall World Cup.

Halldor Skard drove with the Norwegian team to the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . Participation in the individual competition on February 14, 1998 was denied to him, but he entered together with Kenneth Braaten , Bjarte Engen Vik and Fred Børre Lundberg in the team competition on February 20, 1998. In this they won the gold medal and relegated the Finns and French to the places.

Decreasing success and end of career (1998-2001)

The following years proved to be comparatively difficult in terms of results for Skard. Although he continued to compete in the World Cup and regularly placed in the points there, top placings were rather exceptional and podium placings were completely absent - the best individual result after the 1998 Winter Olympics was a fourth place, which he achieved in a sprint that on February 8, 2000 in Nozawa Onsen , Japan . The 40th place in the overall World Cup 1998/99 was followed by 16th place in the 1999/2000 season .

On December 30, 2000, Halldor Skard completed his last competition in the World Cup in Lillehammer . After the season in which he started again in the B World Cup and in which he finished 61st in the overall World Cup, he ended his career.

successes

winter Olympics

Nordic World Ski Championships

Nordic Junior World Ski Championships

World Cup victories in individual

No. date place discipline
1. December 11, 1996 United StatesUnited States Steamboat Springs Gundersen

World Cup placements

season space Points
1993/94 72. 004th
1994/95 08th. 590
1995/96 05. 808
1996/97 07th 595
1997/98 28. 314
1998/99 40. 250
1999/00 16. 594
2000/01 61. 023

B-World Cup victories in individual

No. date place discipline
1. 4th December 1994 NorwayNorway Lillehammer Gundersen
2. December 11, 1994 FinlandFinland Vuokatti Gundersen
3. December 18, 1994 FinlandFinland Vuokatti Gundersen

B World Cup placements

season space Points
1993/94 05. 067
2000/01 22nd 107

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FIS Junior World Ski Championships - Men's Team K88 / 3x10 km. Results from March 31, 1990, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  2. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships - Men's Team K90 / 3x10 km. Results from March 9, 1991, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  3. ^ FIS Junior World Ski Championships - Men's Gundersen K90 / 10.0 km. Results from March 19, 1992, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  4. ^ FIS Junior World Ski Championships - Men's Team K90 / 3x10 km. Results from March 22, 1992, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  5. ^ FIS Junior World Ski Championships - Men's Team K90 / 3x10 km. Results from March 6, 1993, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  6. ^ Balance of Halldor Skard at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in the FIS-Ski.com database, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  7. ↑ World Cup B - Men's Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km. Results from December 4, 1994, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  8. ↑ World Cup B - Men's Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km. Results from December 11, 1994, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  9. ↑ World Cup B - Men's Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km. Results from December 18, 1994, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  10. ↑ Overall ranking of the B-World Cup Nordic Combined 1993/94 in the FIS-Ski.com database, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  11. ↑ World Cup - Men's Gundersen K120 / 15.0 km. Results from January 7, 1995, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  12. ↑ World Cup - Men's Gundersen K120 / 15.0 km. Results from January 28, 1995, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  13. ↑ Results of Halldor Skard in the Nordic Combined World Cup 1994/95 in the FIS-Ski.com database, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  14. ↑ Overall ranking of the Nordic Combined World Cup 1994/95 in the FIS-Ski.com database, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  15. ↑ Results of Halldor Skard at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 in the database of FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  16. ↑ World Ski Championships - Men's Team K90 / 4x5 Km. Results from March 15, 1995, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  17. ↑ World Cup - Men's Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km. Results from February 10, 1996, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  18. ↑ World Cup - Men's Gundersen K120 / 15.0 km. Results from March 16, 1996, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  19. ↑ Overall ranking of the World Cup in Nordic Combined 1995/96 in the FIS-Ski.com database, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  20. ↑ World Cup - Men's Gundersen K88 / 15.0 km. Results from December 11, 1996, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  21. ↑ Halldor Skard's World Cup victories in the FIS-Ski.com database, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  22. ↑ World Cup - Men's Gundersen K120 / 15.0 km. Results from March 8, 1997, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  23. ↑ World Ski Championships - Men's Team K90 / 4x5 km. Results from February 26, 1997, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  24. ↑ World Cup - Men's Sprint K90 / 7.5 Km. Results from November 28, 1997, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  25. ↑ World Cup - Men's Sprint. Results from March 10, 1998, FIS-Ski.com, accessed December 9, 2017.
  26. ↑ Overall ranking of the World Cup in Nordic Combined 1997/98 in the FIS-Ski.com database, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  27. ^ Results of Halldor Skard at the 1998 Winter Olympics in the FIS-Ski.com database, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  28. ↑ Olympic Winter Games - Men's Team K90 / 4x5 Km. Results from February 20, 1998, FIS-Ski.com, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  29. ↑ World Cup - Men's Sprint. Results from February 8, 2000, FIS-Ski.com, accessed December 9, 2017.
  30. ↑ Overall ranking of the World Cup of Nordic Combined 1998/99 in the FIS-Ski.com database, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  31. ↑ Overall ranking of the Nordic Combined World Cup 1999/2000 in the FIS-Ski.com database, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  32. ↑ World Cup - Men's NH 15 km. Results from December 30, 2000, FIS-Ski.com, accessed December 9, 2017.
  33. ↑ Results of Halldor Skard in the B-World Cup Nordic Combined 2000/01 in the FIS-Ski.com database, accessed on December 9, 2017.
  34. ↑ Overall ranking of the Nordic Combined World Cup 2000/01 in the FIS-Ski.com database, accessed on December 9, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Skard, Halldor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION norwegian nordic combined
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo , Norway