Bernt Evensen

Bernt Evensen
Full name	Bernt Sverre Evensen
nation	Norway
birthday	April 8, 1905
place of birth	Kristiania
date of death	August 24, 1979
Place of death	Oslo
Career
discipline	Speed ​​skating
Medal table
winter Olympics 1 × 2 × 1 × M-World Championship medals 2 × 1 × 3 × M-EM medals 1 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold St. Moritz 1928 500 m silver St. Moritz 1928 1500 m bronze St. Moritz 1928 5000 m silver Lake Placid 1932 500 m  All around world championships bronze Trondheim 1926 All-around gold Tampere 1927 All-around bronze Davos 1928 All-around silver Helsinki 1931 All-around bronze Lake Placid 1932 All-around gold Helsinki 1934 All-around  All-around European Championships gold Stockholm 1927 All-around silver Oslo 1928 All-around silver Helsinki 1935 All-around

Bernt Sverre Evensen (born April 8, 1905 in Kristiania (now Oslo ), † August 24, 1979 there ) was a Norwegian speed skater .

Evensen won the 1927 all-around world championship in Tampere , where he was able to defeat Clas Thunberg , as well as the European championships in Stockholm . In 1934 he won the all-around world championships in Helsinki for the second time.

At the Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz in 1928 , Evensen won the gold medal over 500 meters (a victory shared with Clas Thunberg ). He also won silver over 1500 meters and bronze over 5000 meters. In the competition over 10,000 meters he was in second place when the competition was canceled because of the thawing ice. At the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , he won the silver medal over 500 meters.

Web links

• Statistics at speed skating news
• Bernt Evensen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )