Anita Håkenstad Evertsen

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Anita Håkenstad Evertsen biathlon
Association NorwayNorway Norway
birthday 19th February 1968
place of birth Oslo
Career
society Oppland
status resigned
Medal table
NM medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Norwegian Ski Association Norwegian championships
gold 1985 Fyresdal Season
gold 1986 Geilo Season
World Cup balance
 

Anita Håkenstad Evertsen (born February 19, 1968 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian biathlete , long-distance , marathon and cross-country runner and mountain runner .

Anita Håkenstad was an excellent biathlete as a junior. In 1985 she was Norwegian junior champion in singles and sprints. As a 17-year-old she already competed in the performance area and in 1985 she won the relay title at the Norwegian Championships in Fyresdal for Oppland together with Sanna Grønlid and Siv Bråten . With the same line-up she won her second title in Geilo (or 1987 in Tromsø ). The 1.70 m tall and 55 kg athlete then turned to athletics and started in 1985 for the Øystre Slidre club , later for the IF Minerva and Idrettslaget i Bondeungdomslaget (BUL) clubs in Oslo. As a mountain runner, she is back for Øystre Slidre IL . She initially competed in races over medium and long distances, but over time she turned to longer and longer distances. She also started in cross-country running. She competed in her first international competition in 1985 at the European Athletics Junior Championships over 1500 meters when she finished eleventh in a time of 4: 26.61 min. In 1986 she took part in the first World Athletics Championships in Athens, she competed over 3000 meters and finished sixth in a personal best of 9: 12.80 minutes. In March of the same year she took part in the World Cross Country Championships , when Zola Budd , who was still starting for England at the time, was one of the youngest participants in Neuchatel Planeyse Colombier, she was thirtieth in the individual, with the team ( Grete Kirkeberg , Christine Sørum , Håkenstad, Anne Jorun Flaten ) Ninth. This remained her best world championship result in the individual competition in cross-country running. With the team in the line-up Ingrid Kristiansen , Maiken Sørum , Håkenstad, Kirkeberg, she was able to finish sixth at the World Championships the following year, in individual she finished 42nd, in 1988 in Auckland she had to settle for 97th place. Also in 1987 she took part in the road running world championships over 15 km and reached place 57, she also won her first Norwegian championship in an athletics competition, when she won the 5000 meter run in 16: 06.02 min . In 1989 she was runner-up over the same distance. Her 5000 meter best time is 15: 44.66 minutes from July 1992 in the Bislett Stadium , Oslo. She won another state championship over the half marathon route in 1996, her winning time was 1:12:21 h, and in 2003 she entered the winners list of the half marathon again as third. She also won Norwegian titles in cross-country skiing, three times between 1987 and 1996.

Between 1995 and 1997, Håkenstad was one of the strongest marathon runners in Norway. She took part in the World Athletics Championships in 1995 and 1997 , but gave up on both races. Things went better for Håkenstad at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta . She was the only Norwegian starter over the marathon route and was 48th in the victory of Ethiopian Fatuma Roba , her time was 2:43:58 h. On September 29, 1996, she set her personal best over this route at the Berlin Marathon , her 2:30:08 hours - second behind Colleen De Reuck - are the fifth best time of a Norwegian behind Ingrid Kristiansen , Grete Waitz , Stine Larsen and Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu (as of May 2008) . In 1997 Håkenstad won the Stockholm Marathon in a time of 2: 33.26 hours.

Since the 2000s, Håkenstad Evertsen has shifted its activities to cross-country running and also started mountain running. For the renewed national championship in cross-country running in 2005 there were four Norwegian championships in mountain running between 2005 and 2008. In 2007 she took first place in the World Mountain Running Distance Challenge , an international mountain running competition in which she was the only Norwegian runner to take part. There was also the title at the European Championships and a victory at the Jungfrau Marathon in 3: 23: 05.5 hours. At the 2008 Mountain Running World Championships , Håkenstad Evertsen was sixth and won the title as part of the Norwegian team. In 2008 she set a new course record at 1:20:06 h at Skåla Up in Loen .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b With regard to the second championship there are different information in the sources, one time it says 1986, another time 1987. The Norwegian Biathlon Federation states 1986.
  2. ↑ NM Senior ( Norwegian ) Norges Skiskytterforbund - skiskyting.no. 2007. Archived from the original on March 6, 2012. Retrieved on July 23, 2010.
  3. ↑ Skiskyting NM de 6 best ( Norwegian ) Hans Christian Lysaker results service - www.hanslysaker.net. 2010. Archived from the original on August 19, 2013. Retrieved July 23, 2010.
  4. ↑ a b Internasjonal Kvinner H ( Norwegian ) friidrett.no - archive.org. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved July 24, 2010.
  5. ↑ IAAF World Cross Country Championships ( English ) archive.org. February 8, 2007. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved July 23, 2010.
  6. ↑ IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 5.1 km CC Women ( English ) archive.org. September 8, 2007. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved July 23, 2010.
  7. ↑ NM 5000 m kvinner ( Norwegian ) www.bvnilsen.com. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  8. ↑ 5000 meters Kvinner ( Norwegian ) friidrett.no - archive.org. April 27, 2008. Archived from the original on April 27, 2008. Retrieved on July 23, 2010.
  9. ↑ Half marathon Kvinner ( Norwegian ) friidrett.no - archive.org. September 28, 2007. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved on July 23, 2010.
  10. ↑ Marathon ( Norwegian ) friidrett.no - archive.org. May 27, 2008. Archived from the original on May 27, 2008. Retrieved on July 23, 2010.
  11. ↑ Til topps for Håkenstad ( Memento from July 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Håkenstad Evertsen, Anita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Håkenstad, Anita; Evertsen, Anita; Hakenstad, Anita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian biathlete, cross-country, cross-country and mountain runner
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo