Eirik Brandsdal

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Eirik Brandsdal Cross-country skiing
Eirik Brandsdal, Dresden, 2019

Eirik Brandsdal, Dresden , 2019

nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday 11th November 1986 (age 33)
place of birth Oslo , Norway
size 181 cm
Career
society Kjelsås IL
status resigned
End of career 2020
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup March 14, 2007
 World Cup victories in individual 7 ( details )
 World Cup victories in stages 2 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 11. ( 2014/15 )
 Sprint World Cup 2. ( 2013/14 , 2014/15 )
 Distance World Cup 52nd ( 2015/16 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Sprint races 7th 4th 7th
 Stage race 2 3 1
 Team sprint 0 5 3
last change: March 4, 2020

Eirik Brandsdal (born November 11, 1986 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian cross-country skier .

Career

Brandsdal was not able to record any outstanding successes at junior level, so that he did not take part in any junior world championships. At the U23 World Cup in Kranj in 2006 , his best result was eleventh place in the sprint competition. In the pursuit he finished 23rd and was 35th over 15 kilometers classic.

In the 2006/07 season he was able to convince several times in sprint competitions of the Scandinavian Cup , whereupon he was nominated for the first time for the cross-country skiing world cup . In his home town of Drammen he survived qualifying for the quarter-finals as 30th and won World Cup points as 29th in the final ranking right on his first appearance. The following year he was able to start again in the World Cup sprint in Drammen and this time even reached the semi-finals. At the U23 World Championships in Mals , he was second in the qualification of the sprint competition, but was then eliminated in the quarter-finals.

In the season 2008/09 followed regular appearances in the World Cup. In Valdidentro he won the qualification and reached the final run, where he finished sixth and thus last place. He was also able to convince with eighth place in Lahti . At the end of the season he was 29th overall in the Sprint World Cup. Brandsdal had his first start in the 2009/10 season in Düsseldorf , where he was able to achieve a podium for the first time in his career. In the final he only had to admit defeat to Alexei Petuchow and Anders Gløersen . The next day he and Gløersen were able to improve this result when they finished second behind the Russian duo Petuchow and Morilow .

In the individual World Cups there were no further successes, so that in February 2010 he switched to the Scandinavian Cup for some races. In March he came back to the World Cup squad and surprised the competition with fourth place in Drammen . At the end of the season in Falun , however, he landed again only beaten on rank 34. At the Norwegian Championships in Tolga a little later he missed a medal over 50 km and came fourth.

After Brandsdal also had a weak start in the 2010/11 season , he went back to the Scandinavian Cup in December. Back in the World Cup, he finished the team sprint race in Liberec in third place and was thus on the podium again. A week later he won the sprint race in Otepää . At the following Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 , he clearly missed a top position and only came 17th in the sprint. In the 30 km pursuit, he was only 65th.

In January 2012 he won the sprint race in Milan . Just two weeks later, he won the sprint title at the 2012 Norwegian Championship in Voss . In Drammen, he secured another sprint World Cup victory at the end of the season. He also won the sprint stage in Stockholm at the end of the season . At the beginning of the 2012/13 season he reached third place in the sprint stage of the Nordic Opening in Kuusamo . This was followed by a third place in the team sprint in Quebec and a second place in Liberec . At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme , he was sixth in the sprint. At the World Cup finals, he finished 37th. He achieved second place in the sprint stage.

At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he won the sprint stage of the Nordic Opening in Kuusamo . At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he finished ninth in the sprint. At the Sprint World Cup in Lahti, he was back on the podium in third place. After further good placements, he finished his best World Cup season so far in 17th place in the overall World Cup ranking. In the Sprint World Cup he finished second and narrowly missed the victory that his compatriot Ola Vigen Hattestad secured. At the start of the 2014/15 season, he won the sprint in Ruka . This was followed by a 49th place at the Nordic Opening in Lillehammer and a third place in the sprint in Davos . At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun , he came 11th in the sprint. In March 2015 he won the last two sprint races of the season in Lahti and Drammen . As in the previous year, he finished the season in second place in the Sprint World Cup. After finishing 30th at the Nordic Opening in Ruka at the beginning of the 2015/16 season, he finished in the top ten five times in the further course of the season, including third place in Drammen. At the Ski Tour Canada he came in 38th place. He finished second in the sprint stage in Canmore . At the end of the season he reached fifth place in the Sprint World Cup. At the beginning of April 2016 he and Øyvind Fjeld Moen became Norwegian champions in the team sprint. At the beginning of the 2016/17 season he finished 50th in the World Cup mini tour in Lillehammer. In the further course of the season she was among the top ten three times in sprint world cups. He won the sprint in Drammen and reached 31st place in the overall World Cup and tenth place in the Sprint World Cup at the end of the season. In January 2017 he was silver in the sprint at the Norwegian Championships in Lygna . The following year he ran at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang to 22nd place in the sprint.

In the 2018/19 season Brandsdal came 39th in the Lillehammer Triple and 21st in the World Cup finals in Québec . In addition, he achieved third place in the sprint in Ruka and, together with Pål Golberg in the team sprint in Dresden , together with Sindre Bjørnestad Skar in the team sprint in Lahti and in the sprint in Drammen , second place and thus achieved 16th place in the overall World Cup and third Rank in the Sprint World Cup.

On March 24, 2020 Brandsdal announced his retirement from active cross-country skiing.

successes

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No. date place discipline
1. January 23, 2011 EstoniaEstonia Otepää 1.4 km sprint classic
2. January 14, 2012 ItalyItaly Milan 1.4 km sprint freestyle
3. March 7, 2012 NorwayNorway Drammen 1.2 km sprint classic
4th November 29, 2014 FinlandFinland Ruka 1.4 km sprint classic
5. March 7, 2015 FinlandFinland Lahti 1.5 km sprint freestyle
6th March 11, 2015 NorwayNorway Drammen 1.3 km sprint classic
7th March 8, 2017 NorwayNorway Drammen 1.2 km sprint classic

Stage victories in world cup races

No. date place discipline run
1. March 14, 2012 SwedenSweden Stockholm 1 km sprint classic World Cup Final 2012
2. November 29, 2013 FinlandFinland Kuusamo 1.4 km sprint classic Nordic Opening 2013

Victories in Continental Cup races

No. date place discipline series
1. December 18, 2010 NorwayNorway Savalen Sprint freestyle Scandinavian Cup
2. 5th January 2018 SwedenSweden Piteå Classic sprint Scandinavian Cup

Medals at national championships

  • 2010 : Silver in the team sprint
  • 2011 : Gold in the sprint, bronze in the team sprint
  • 2012 : Gold in the sprint, bronze over 50 km
  • 2013 : Silver in the team sprint, bronze in the sprint
  • 2014 : Silver in the team sprint
  • 2015 : Gold over 50 km, bronze over 10 km
  • 2016 : Gold in the team sprint
  • 2017 : Silver in the sprint
  • 2018 : Silver in the sprint

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

Nordic World Ski Championships

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
≤ 5 km ≤ 10 km ≤ 15 km ≤ 30 km > 30 km sprint Season
1st place 9 9
2nd place 7th 7th 5
3rd place 8th 8th 3
Top 10 1 59 60 12
Scoring 3 1 3 1 6th 86 3 103 13
Starts 4th 4th 12 1 18th 89 13 141 13
Status: end of season 2019/20
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

World Cup overall placements

season total distance sprint
Points space Points space Points space
2006/07 2 163. - - 2 84.
2007/08 24 100. - - 24 64.
2008/09 92 65. - - 92 29
2009/10 225 35. 9 105. 216 11.
2010/11 246 29 7th 95. 239 6th
2011/12 483 17th - - 483 3.
2012/13 272 32. 32 64. 240 7th
2013/14 365 16. 8th 92. 355 2.
2014/15 442 11. - - 442 2.
2015/16 348 22nd 39 52. 307 5.
2016/17 199 31. - - 199 10.
2017/18 194 36. - - 194 9.
2018/19 508 16. 17th 77. 471 3.
2019/20 101 55. - - 101 20th

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Ski Championships 2011 - Men's SP F Final in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 22, 2014
  2. ↑ World Ski Championships 2011 - Men's 30 km M Pursuit in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 22, 2014
  3. ↑ National Championships 2012 - Men's SP 1.5 km C Final in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 22, 2014
  4. ↑ Eirik Brandsdal ferdig som langrennsløper , NRK.no, accessed on March 24, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Brandsdal, Eirik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo , Norway