Bjarte Engen Vik

Bjarte Engen Vik
nation	Norway
birthday	March 3, 1971
place of birth	Tromso
size	173 cm
Weight	61 kg
Career
society	Bardufoss IF
status	resigned
End of career	April 2001
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 6 × 2 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × NM medals 11 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Lillehammer 1994 singles silver Lillehammer 1994 team gold Nagano 1998 singles gold Nagano 1998 team  Nordic World Ski Championships silver Thunder Bay 1995 team silver Trondheim 1997 singles gold Trondheim 1997 team gold Ramsau 1999 singles silver Ramsau 1999 team gold Ramsau 1999 sprint gold Lahti 2001 singles gold Lahti 2001 team  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 1990 Štrbské Pleso team
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	January 12, 1991
World Cup victories (individual)	26 ( details )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 21st 9 11  sprint 3 11 3  Mass start 2 0 1

Bjarte Engen Vik (born March 3, 1971 in Tromsø ) is a former Norwegian Nordic combined skier . At the end of the 1990s he was one of the best athletes in his sport, and he was able to convince especially in ski jumping . In addition, from 1996 to 2000 he was Norwegian champion in Nordic combined and once third in ski jumping.

Career

Even as a junior, Engen Vik was one of the world's best combiners. At the Junior Ski World Championships in 1990 in Štrbské Pleso he was denied the individual medals but with his teammates Halldor Skard , Trond Einar Elden , he won the gold medal.

In the Olympic season 1991/92 he came for the first time as the great young hope of the Norwegian combined athletes in the World Cup, made his debut on January 12, 1991 in Bad Goisern and finished twelfth. In the overall World Cup, Engen Vik finished 17th. One season later , he finished third in Vuokatti for the first time and was eleventh in the overall World Cup. At his first Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun in 1993 , he narrowly missed third place and was fourth behind his compatriot Trond Einar Elden. In the 1993/94 World Cup season he finished fourth six times and narrowly missed third place each time. At the World Cup station in Trondheim , he won third place. In the end, he also came fourth in the overall World Cup. At the 1994 Winter Olympics he was able to compete in his own country and won two medals: the silver medal in the individual and the bronze medal in the team.

The 1994/95 World Cup season went very well, as he came in third in five races, once in second and the remaining results were two fourths and one eleventh place. In the overall standings, Engen Vik had to be satisfied with second place behind the Japanese Kenji Ogiwara . The 1995 Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay went anything but good, because he won the silver medal in the team and only came seventh in the individual. The 1995/96 World Cup season began rather moderately than well, but towards the end of the season it got stronger and stronger and he achieved his first World Cup success in Lahti . In the overall standings he was again fourth. The 1996/97 season began with three second places. After that he had a small weak phase for a race in Lahti, but was able to make up for it with three more victories in Oslo and Štrbské Pleso the next. In the overall standings he was third. At his third Nordic World Ski Championships in 1997 in Trondheim, Engen Vik won the individual silver medal and was world champion for the first time as a team.

Viks jersey from the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano

In the 1997/98 Olympic season , he finished every race in the top ten. He also won five World Cup stations, became the overall World Cup winner for the first time and was also an individual and team Olympic champion at his last Winter Olympics in Nagano in 1998 . One season later , he was able to top the result in the World Cup again, winning nine World Cup races and defending his overall victory from the previous year with confidence. In the sprint classification, he took second place. His penultimate Nordic World Ski Championships in 1999 in Ramsau were also very successful, because he became world champion in individual and sprint and won the silver medal in the team. Also in his penultimate World Cup season 1999/2000 he repeatedly achieved results among the top ten and among them were four World Cup victories, five second and four third places. At the end of the season, he finished second in the overall standings and came second again in the sprint standings. The last World Cup season 2000/01 began with a 44th place in Kuopio , after which Engen Vik found his way back to his old strength and stood ten times on the podium. In the overall standings he was third for the second time since 1997. At the last Nordic World Ski Championships in 2001 in Lahti, he was crowned world champion again in the individual and team, and he was ninth in the sprint. In April 2001 Vik ended his career surprisingly and justified this with motivation problems and had to take setbacks again and again during his active career, because he had dislocated his shoulder five times and broken his leg once.

Private

He now lives mostly in Trondheim with his partner Eva and their daughter Elise, who was born in the summer of 2000. During an Easter excursion, he and Kristian Hammer were caught in an avalanche, both of which were unharmed. He also survived the fire in his apartment a few years ago unscathed.

Sporting successes

Participation in Winter Olympics

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen	team
1994 Lillehammer	3.	2.
1998 Nagano	1.	1.

Participation in world championships

Year and place	competition
	Gundersen	sprint	team
1993 Falun	4th	-	-
1995 Thunder Bay	-	-	2.
1997 Trondheim	2.	-	1.
1999 Ramsau	1.	1.	2.
2001 Lathi	1.	9.	1.

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
01.	March 2, 1996	Lahti	Gundersen
02.	March 16, 1996	Oslo	Gundersen
03.	March 14, 1997	Oslo	sprint
04th	March 15, 1997	Oslo	Gundersen
05.	March 22, 1997	Štrbské Pleso	Gundersen
06th	November 29, 1997	Rovaniemi	Gundersen
07th	January 9, 1998	Ramsau	Gundersen
08th.	February 28, 1998	Sapporo	Gundersen
09.	March 7, 1998	Lahti	Gundersen
10.	March 14, 1998	Oslo	Gundersen
11.	November 27, 1998	Lillehammer	Gundersen
12.	December 12, 1998	Steamboat Springs	Gundersen
13.	January 3, 1999	Schonach	Gundersen
14th	January 9, 1999	Štrbské Pleso	Gundersen
15th	January 16, 1999	Liberec	Gundersen
16.	January 16, 1999	St. Moritz	sprint
17th	January 26, 1999	Val di Fiemme	Gundersen
18th	March 12, 1999	Oslo	Gundersen
19th	March 21, 1999	Zakopane	Gundersen
20th	January 5, 2000	Reit im Winkl	Mass start
21st	January 8, 2000	Schonach	Gundersen
22nd	February 5, 2000	Hakuba	Gundersen
23.	March 10, 2000	Oslo	Gundersen
24.	March 11, 2000	Oslo	sprint
25th	December 30, 2000	Lillehammer	Gundersen
26th	January 3, 2001	Reit im Winkl	Mass start

Award

• Holmenkollen Medal : 1997

Web links

• Bjarte Engen Vik in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Bjarte Engen Vik in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Bjarte Engen Vik . In: Internationales Sportarchiv 35/2001 Munzinger Archive . dated August 20, 2001.