Per Elofsson

Per Elofsson
Per Elofsson (2013)
nation	Sweden
birthday	2nd April 1977 (age 43)
place of birth	Umeå , Sweden
Career
society	IFK Umeå
status	resigned
End of career	2005
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 3 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 2 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2002 Salt Lake City persecution  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2001 Lahti persecution gold 2001 Lahti 15 km classic silver 2001 Lahti Season gold 2003 Val di Fiemme persecution bronze 2003 Val di Fiemme Season  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 1996 Asiago 10 km classic silver 1996 Asiago 30 km freestyle bronze 1996 Asiago Season gold 1997 Canmore 30 km freestyle
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup November 23, 1996  World Cup victories in individual 11 ( details )  Overall World Cup 1. ( 2000/01 , 2001/02 )  Sprint World Cup 5. ( 1998/99 )  Distance World Cup 4. ( 1999/00 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 11 6th 6th

Per Elofsson (born April 2, 1977 in Umeå ) is a former Swedish cross-country skier .

Career

In the junior division, Elofsson won a complete set of medals at the Junior World Championships in 1996 in Asiago, Italy : In addition to gold over 10 kilometers and silver over 30 kilometers in the individual competitions, he won bronze with the Swedish relay. At the Junior World Championships in 1997 in Canmore , Canada , he was able to win the title over 30 kilometers. He won the cross-country skiing world cup in the 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 seasons , winning a total of eleven world cup races. In 2001 he became world champion over 15 kilometers and in the pursuit race, in 2003 he repeated his victory in the pursuit. At the 2002 Olympic Games he benefited from the subsequent disqualification of the German Johann Mühlegg , who started for Spain, in the pursuit race and won the bronze medal.

In 2001 Elofsson was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal. In 2005 he retired from top-class sport and in the same year surprised as a heavy metal musician: On the album Grand Illusion by the band Nocturnal Rites , Elofsson played guitar on a song.

successes

winter Olympics

• 2002 in Salt Lake City : Bronze in the pursuit

World championships

• 2001 in Lahti : gold over 15 km, gold in the pursuit race, silver with the relay
• 2003 in Val di Fiemme : gold in the pursuit race, bronze with the relay

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	November 28, 1998	Muonio	10 km freestyle
2.	November 29, 2000	Beitostølen	10 km freestyle
3.	December 8, 2000	Santa Caterina	15 km freestyle
4th	December 16, 2000	Brusson	20 km pursuit
5.	March 4, 2001	Kavgolovo	15 km freestyle
6th	March 10, 2001	Oslo	50 km classic
7th	March 14, 2001	Bor length	10 km freestyle
8th.	November 25, 2001	Kuopio	10 km freestyle
9.	December 22, 2001	Ramsau	30 km mass start
10.	January 5, 2002	Val di Fiemme	20 km pursuit
11.	March 2, 2002	Lahti	15 km freestyle

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 16, 2001	Davos	4 × 10 km relay

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	4th January 1997	Hudiksvall	10 km freestyle	Continental Cup

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.

placement	Distance races a					Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race b	total	Team c
	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km					sprint	Season
1st place		4th	3	1	1	2			11		1
2nd place		4th	1		1				6th		2
3rd place		1	2	1		2			6th
Top 10		13	11	5	5	6th			40		5
Scoring		17th	16	10	5	7th	3		58		5
Starts		19th	17th	10	5	7th	5		63		5
Status: end of career

^a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification

^bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale

^c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season	total		Long distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
1997/98	156	19th	26th	32.	130	10.
1998/99	465	5.	141	8th.	295	5.
1999/2000	536	4th	170 350	4. 3. 1	16	51.
2000/01	763	1.	-	-	6th	68.
2001/02	780	1.	-	-	10	63.
2002/03	209	24.	-	-	-	-

¹ Middle distance world cup

Web links

• Per Elofsson in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Per Elofsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )