Lars Elton Myhre

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Lars Elton Myhre Alpine skiing
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Lars Elton Myhre (2011)
nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday 17th August 1984 (age 36)
place of birth Gjøvik , Norway
size 184 cm
Weight 91 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G , slalom ,
giant slalom , combination
society Gjøvik Ski Club
status resigned
End of career November 2013
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Maribor 2004 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 5, 2003
 Overall World Cup 47th ( 2009/10 )
 Downhill World Cup 37th ( 2007/08 )
 Super G World Cup 48th (2007/08)
 Slalom World Cup 17th (2009/10)
 Combination World Cup 15th ( 2008/09 )
 

Lars Elton Myhre (born August 17, 1984 in Gjøvik ) is a former Norwegian ski racer . He started in all disciplines and was most successful in slalom and super combined .

biography

Myhre competed in his first FIS races in December 1999. In February 2001 he was Norwegian junior champion in slalom, and a year later in giant slalom. In 2002 he took part in a junior world championship for the first time and achieved sixth place in slalom as the best result. From the 2002/03 season, Myhre also competed in the European Cup . After he achieved two good results in the slalom, he was allowed to start in the World Cup for the first time on January 5, 2003 , but failed to qualify for the second run. At the Junior World Championships in 2003 he reached sixth place in the combined ranking and eighth place in slalom. From December 2003 Myhre regularly took part in World Cup races. In his first season he started exclusively in slalom and giant slalom, but has not yet scored any points. He achieved good results at the 2004 Junior World Championships in Maribor , where he won the bronze medal in the combination and was also among the top eight in all other disciplines.

At the beginning of the 2004/05 season, Myhre won his first European Cup race, the knockout slalom in the ski hall of Landgraaf , and finished sixth in the slalom ranking. On December 4, 2005, he got his first World Cup points in the Beaver Creek slalom , where he surprisingly finished eighth. A month later he reached tenth place in the super combination of Wengen and thus qualified for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . There he started in the slalom, but dropped out in the first round. In the following year he took part in the world championship in Åre and achieved the tenth slalom rank as the best result. From the 2006/07 World Cup season , Myhre started increasingly in the fast disciplines and at the end of the season reached tenth place in the downhill from Kvitfjell . In the same year he won his first Norwegian championship titles in downhill, super-G and combined. Another six titles were added by 2011.

The Norwegian achieved his best World Cup result on November 29, 2007 in the super combination of Beaver Creek, where he finished fifth. In December he injured his knee in a fall in the giant slalom in Bad Kleinkirchheim and had to take an injury break lasting several weeks. In the 2008/09 season he reached two more top 10 places in the World Cup and finished eleventh in the World Cup slalom in Val-d'Isère . He also got two top 10 placements in the 2009/10 season , in the Slalom World Cup he made it into the top 20 for the first time. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , however, he was eliminated in his two strongest disciplines, slalom and super Combination, from and finished 25th and 31st in Super-G and Downhill. The 2010/11 World Cup season was less successful , in which his best result was 13th place in the Super Combined by Bansko and in which he was only in slalom came under the fastest 20 twice. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he achieved seventh place in the super combined, while he finished 23rd in slalom. In the 2011/12 season, Myhre took ninth place in the Wengen slalom, the last top 10 place in the World Cup.

On November 20, 2013, Myhre announced his resignation on Facebook . He cited long-lasting back problems as the reason.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

Junior World Championships

  • Tarvisio 2002 : 6th slalom, 16th combination, 47th downhill, 66th Super-G
  • Briançonnais 2003 : 6th combination, 8th slalom, 18th descent, 19th super-G, 32nd giant slalom
  • Maribor 2004 : 3rd combination, 4th slalom, 5th Super-G, 6th giant slalom, 8th descent

World cup

  • 9 placements among the top 10

European Cup

  • 2011/12 season : 8th slalom ranking
  • 6 podium places, including 4 wins:
date place country discipline
November 25, 2004 Landgraaf Netherlands Knockout slalom
December 7, 2011 Trysil Norway slalom
December 8, 2011 Trysil Norway slalom
November 25, 2012 Levi Finland slalom

More Achievements

  • 9 Norwegian championship titles :
    • 2 × downhill (2007 and 2008)
    • 2 × Super-G (2007 and 2009)
    • 1 × slalom (2009)
    • 1 × combination (2007)
    • 3 × super combination (2009, 2010, 2011)
  • 2 Norwegian junior championship titles (slalom 2001, giant slalom 2002)
  • 16 victories in FIS races

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lars Elton Myhre announces retirement. (No longer available online.) FIS , November 20, 2013, archived from the original on November 23, 2013 ; accessed on November 21, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fis-ski.com
personal data
SURNAME Myhre, Lars Elton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Gjøvik , Norway