Gate Arne Hetland

Gate Arne Hetland
Tor Arne Hetland (right) with Jens Arne Svartedal (2006)
nation	Norway
birthday	12th January 1974 (age 46)
place of birth	Stavanger , Norway
Career
society	Byaasen IL
status	resigned
End of career	2009
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 1 × 1 × JWM medals 1 × 1 × 1 × National medals 8 × 4 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2002 Salt Lake City sprint silver 2006 Turin Team sprint  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2001 Lahti sprint gold 2001 Lahti 4 × 10 km bronze 2003 Val di Fiemme sprint silver 2005 Oberstdorf sprint gold 2005 Oberstdorf Team sprint  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 1993 Harrachov Season silver 1994 Breitenwang Season bronze 1994 Breitenwang 30 km freestyle  Norwegian championships gold 1998 Season silver 1998 10 km gold 2000 Vang sprint gold 2001 Steinkjer 30 km gold 2001 Steinkjer Season gold 2002 Vang Season silver 2002 Vang sprint gold 2003 Meråker Season silver 2003 Meråker sprint gold 2004 Savalen Team sprint silver 2004 Bardufoss Season bronze 2005 Lillehammer sprint gold 2008 Trondheim Season
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup February 11, 1995  World Cup victories in individual 11 ( details )  Overall World Cup 3. (2004/05, 2005/06)  Sprint World Cup 1st (2004/05)  Distance World Cup 11. (1996/97)  Tour de Ski 5th ( 2007/08 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Sprint races 9 11 5  Distance races 2 2 1  Season 5 2 2  Team sprint 3 2 2

Tor Arne Hetland (born January 12, 1974 in Stavanger ) is a former Norwegian cross-country skier who specialized in the sprint disciplines.

Career

Hetland has been running world cup races since the 1996/97 season, and won his first race in Reit im Winkl in December 1996 . In the course of his career there were nine more victories (eight sprint races and one 15 km run). In addition, he came second ten times and third three times. In the 2004/05 season he won the Sprint World Cup, in 2004/05 and 2005/06 he was third overall.

At the 2002 Winter Olympics , Hetland won the gold medal in the sprint. In the same discipline he became world champion in 2001, won the bronze medal in 2003 and the silver medal in 2005. In 2005 he won the team sprint together with Tore Ruud Hofstad , and in 2006 he won the Olympic silver medal with Jens Arne Svartedal . After the end of his career, which he announced in April 2009 due to knee pain, he was the sprint coach of the Swiss national cross-country team from 2010 to 2014. From 2016 to 2018 he was the trainer of the Norwegian national cross-country skiing team.

successes

winter Olympics

• 2002 in Salt Lake City : Gold in the individual sprint
• 2006 in Turin : Silver in the team sprint

World championships

• 2001 in Lahti : Gold in the individual sprint and with the relay
• 2003 in Val di Fiemme : bronze in the individual sprint
• 2005 in Oberstdorf : silver in the individual sprint, gold in the team sprint

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	4th February 1996	Reit im Winkl	1 km sprint freestyle
2.	December 27, 1998	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	1 km sprint freestyle
3.	December 28, 1998	Engelberg	1 km sprint freestyle
4th	December 29, 1998	Engelberg	1 km sprint freestyle
5.	December 11, 2002	Clusone	1.4 km sprint freestyle
6th	December 15, 2002	Cogne	1 km sprint classic
7th	4th December 2004	Bern	1.35 km sprint freestyle
8th.	March 9, 2005	Drammen	1.2 km sprint classic
9.	November 19, 2005	Beitostølen	15 km classic individual start
10.	December 11, 2005	Vernon, BC	1.3 km sprint freestyle
11.	December 15, 2007	Rybinsk	30 km freestyle mass start

Stage victories in world cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	run
1.	January 5, 2007	Asiago	1.2 km sprint freestyle	Tour de Ski 2006/07
2.	December 29, 2008	Prague	1.3 km sprint freestyle	Tour de Ski 2008/09

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 20, 1998	Davos	4 × 10 km relay 1
2.	November 26, 2000	Beitostølen	4 × 10 km relay 2
3.	December 9, 2000	Santa Caterina	4 × 5 km relay 3
4th	November 27, 2001	Kuopio	4 × 10 km relay 4
5.	December 8, 2002	Davos	4 × 10 km relay 5
6th	December 7, 2003	Toblach	6 × 1.2 km team sprint freestyle 6
7th	December 14, 2003	Davos	4 × 10 km relay 7
8th.	October 24, 2004	Dusseldorf	6 × 1.5 km team sprint freestyle 6
9.	December 15, 2004	Asiago	6 × 1.2 km classic team sprint 8
10.	November 25, 2007	Beitostølen	4 × 10 km relay 9
11.	December 7, 2008	La Clusaz	4 × 10 km relay 10
12.	December 21, 2008	Dusseldorf	6 × 1.5 km team sprint freestyle 11

¹With Espen Bjervig , Erling Jevne and Bjørn Dæhlie .

²With Frode Estil , Kristen Skjeldal and Thomas Alsgaard .

³With Tore Bjonviken , Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset and Kristen Skjeldal.

^4thWith Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Erling Jevne and Håvard Bjerkeli .

⁵With Anders Aukland , Tore Bjonviken and Thomas Alsgaard.

^6th With Håvard Bjerkeli.

^7th With Anders Aukland, Frode Estil and Kristen Skjeldal.

^8thWith Jens Arne Svartedal .

⁹With Martin Johnsrud Sundby , Jens Arne Svartedal and Tore Ruud Hofstad .

¹⁰With Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Tord Asle Gjerdalen and Petter Northug .

¹¹With Ola Vigen Hattestad .

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	December 14, 1995	Savalen	10 km freestyle	Continental Cup

Others

• Winner Engadin Skimarathon 1999, 2008

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			1	1			9		11	3	5
2nd place			1		1		11		13	2	2
3rd place			1				5		6th	2	2
Top 10		4th	8th	4th	1	1	49	2	69	8th	13
Scoring	1	11	18th	8th	3	5	70	2	118	8th	13
Starts	1	17th	32	11	5	9	71	3	149	8th	13
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		distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
1996/97	98	30th	80	11. 12	18th	46.
1997/98	17th	62.	15th	42. 12	2	78.
1998/99	170	23.	56	24. 12	354	2.
1999/2000	268	18th	51 24	22. 12 52. 13	193	4th
2000/01	330	12.	-	-	239	3.
2001/02	258	13.	-	-	247	6th
2002/03	340	9.	-	-	391	2.
2003/04	372	14th	76	37.	294	4th
2004/05	512	3.	22nd	61.	564	1.
2005/06	570	3.	161	20th	423	3.
2006/07	522	4th	132	21st	234	4th
2007/08	656	6th	214	16.	291	5.
2008/09	373	19th	38	58.	335	3.

¹² Long distance world cup

¹³ Middle distance world cup

Web links

• Tor Arne Hetland in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Profile of Tor Arne Hetland on skisport365.com
• Tor Arne Hetland in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tor Arne Hetland no longer coach of the Swiss sprinters on aargauerzeitung.ch, accessed on August 3, 2019
2. ↑ Tor Arne Hetland new men's trainer in Norway at www.xc-ski.de, accessed on August 3, 2019
3. ↑ New trainers and cadre nominations in Norway, Finland, Russia and Sweden at www.xc-ski.de, accessed on August 3, 2019