Atle Kvålsvoll

Atle Kvålsvoll
	Atle Kvålsvoll (2013)
To person
Full name	Atle Sturla Kvålsvoll
Date of birth	April 10, 1962
nation	Norway
discipline	Street
End of career	1994
Team (s) as sporting director
2011–	Team Sparebanken Sør
	Last updated: September 27, 2018

Atle Sturla Kvålsvoll (born April 10, 1962 in Trondheim ) is a sports director in cycling from Norway and a former cyclist .

Athletic career

In 1983 he took part in the UCI Road World Championships for the first time and was classified as 33rd in the amateur road race . In 1984 Atle Kvålsvoll started in the road race at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles and finished 20th. The following year he was Norwegian champion in the team pursuit and won a stage of the Tour of Norway . In 1987 he became Nordic champion in the team time trial .

In 1988 Kvålsvoll got a contract with Team Z , for which he drove until 1992. In 1989 he won the Tour of Sweden , in 1990 the Tour du Vaucluse and in 1991 the Trophée des Grimpeurs . He competed three times in the Tour de Suisse and was sixth overall in 1990 . In 1991 and 1992 he decided one stage of the Tour DuPont for himself and was second in the overall standings in both years. In 1994 he ended his active cycling career.

Sports director and trainer

From 1995 to 2000 Atle Kvålsvoll was the sports director of the Norwegian Cycling Federation NCF . In this role, he placed particular emphasis on promoting women's cycling in Norway. Since 2011 he has worked as a trainer for the Norwegian sports organization Olympiatoppen and is Thor Hushovd's personal advisor . He has also been the sporting director of the Norwegian Continental Team Sparebanken Sør since 2011 , together with his son Sebastian since 2014 . (As of 2017)

successes

1985

Norwegian Champion - Team Pursuit (with Olaf Lurvik , Terje Gjengaar and Terje Alstad )

one stage tour of Norway

1987

Nordic Championships - Team Time Trial (with Morten Sæther , Olaf Lurvik and Kjetil Kristiansen )

1989

Overall ranking and a stage tour of Sweden

1990

Tour du Vaucluse
Mountain classification Tour de Trump

1991

Trophée des Grimpeurs
one stage Tour DuPont

1992

one stage Tour DuPont

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	30th	-	-	-
Tour de France	DNF	46	26th	DNF	49	-	79

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

1988–1989 Z-Peugeot
1990 Z-Tomasso
1991-1992 Z
1993 Subaru-Montgomery
1994 Wordperfect

Web links

Commons : Atle Kvålsvoll - collection of images, videos and audio files

Atle Kvålsvoll in the Radsportseiten.net database

Atle Kvålsvoll in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Atle Kvålsvoll in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Atle Kvålsvoll. In: teamsparebankensor.no. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .

Individual evidence

↑ Rene Jacobs et al. (Ed.): Velo . Dendermonde 1984, p. 131 .
↑ Kvålsvoll mener kvinnesykling burde «rappe» talenter from langrenn. In: vg.no. June 22, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017 (Norwegian).
↑ Atle Kvålsvoll sender sønnen på sportsdirektørskole. In: procycling.no. November 10, 2013, accessed on September 26, 2017 (Norwegian Bokmål).

personal data
SURNAME	Kvålsvoll, Atle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kvålsvoll, Atle Sturla (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian sports director, coach and cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Trondheim

[1] Rene Jacobs et al. (Ed.): Velo . Dendermonde 1984, p. 131 .

[vg-080712-2] Kvålsvoll mener kvinnesykling burde «rappe» talenter from langrenn. In: vg.no. June 22, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017 (Norwegian).

[procycli-709421-3] Atle Kvålsvoll sender sønnen på sportsdirektørskole. In: procycling.no. November 10, 2013, accessed on September 26, 2017 (Norwegian Bokmål).