Eirik Kvalfoss

Eirik Kvalfoss
Association	Norway
birthday	25th December 1959 (age 60)
place of birth	Voss , Norway
Career
Debut in the World Cup	1981
World Cup victories	14 (individual: 12)
status	resigned
End of career	1994?
Medal table
OWG medals 1 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 3 × 5 × 5 × Norwegian M medals 18 × 13 × 3 ×
winter Olympics gold 1984 Sarajevo sprint silver 1984 Sarajevo Season bronze 1984 Sarajevo singles  Biathlon world championships gold 1982 Minsk-Raubitschy sprint silver 1982 Minsk-Raubitschy singles silver 1982 Minsk-Raubitschy Season gold 1983 Antholz sprint bronze 1983 Antholz Season silver 1985 Ruhpolding sprint gold 1989 Feistritz an der Drau singles silver 1989 Feistritz an der Drau sprint bronze 1989 Feistritz an der Drau Season silver 1990 Oslo sprint bronze 1991 Lahti singles bronze 1991 Lahti sprint bronze 1991 Lahti Season  Norwegian championships gold 1982 Steinkjer singles gold 1982 Steinkjer Season gold 1984 Vossestrand singles gold 1985 Fyresdal singles gold 1985 Fyresdal sprint gold 1986 Geilo singles gold 1986 Geilo sprint gold 1986 Geilo Season gold 1987 Tromsø sprint gold 1987 Tromsø Season gold 1988 Dombås singles gold 1988 Dombås Season gold 1989 Sørskogsbygda Season gold 1990 Voss Season gold 1990 Voss team gold 1991 Steinkjer Season gold 1993 Brumunddal singles gold 1994 Trondheim Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1. ( 1988/89 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 2 1 3 sprint 4th 4th 5 Season 1 5 3 team 1 1 0
last change: end of career

Eirik Kvalfoss (born December 25, 1959 in Voss ) is a former Norwegian biathlete . He was considered the best Norwegian biathlete until the 1990s and was one of the most successful athletes of his time.

Career

In 1984 he won three medals in three competitions at the Olympic Games in Sarajevo , including the gold medal in the sprint. Between 1982 and 1991 he was world champion three times , primarily in his special race, the sprint . He was able to win a total of nine individual medals and four relay medals . In 1989 Kvalfoss was also the first non-German to win the overall biathlon world cup. Eirik Kvalfoss won 12 individual races between 1981 and 1991, including 9 sprint races. Together with Gisle Fenne , Geir Einag and Frode Løberg , he won at least two team races for Norway. Kvalfoss is nine-time Norwegian champion in individual races and has won eight times with the relay and once with the team for the Hordaland region .

In 1983 he won the Morgenbladet gold medal , in 1984 he was voted Norway's Sportsman of the Year and the Fearnleys olympiske ærespris .

Today Kvalfoss promotes the national offspring.

statistics

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	Jan. 22, 1981	Antholz	Single (20 km)
2.	0Apr 4, 1981	Hedenäset	Sprint (10 km)
3.	Feb 13, 1982	Minsk-Raubitschy ( WM )	Sprint (10 km)
4th	Jan. 28, 1983	Ruhpolding	Sprint (10 km)
5.	Feb. 26, 1983	Antholz ( WM )	Sprint (20 km)
6th	Jan. 14, 1984	Pontresina	Sprint (10 km)
7th	0March 8 1984	Oslo	Sprint (10 km)
8th.	14 Mar 1988	Oslo	Relay (4 × 7.5 km) 1
9.	15th Mar 1988	Jyväskylä	Sprint (10 km)
10.	18 Mar 1988	Jyväskylä	Single (20 km)
11.	04th Mar 1989	Hämeenlinna	Sprint (10 km)
12.	19 Mar 1989	Steinkjer	Team (20 km) 1
13.	15th Mar 1990	Kontiolahti	Single (20 km)
14th	16. Mar. 1991	Canmore	Sprint (10 km)

¹with Gisle Fenne , Geir Einang and Frode Løberg

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	3	9			1	1	14th
2nd place	3	5			1	6th	15th
3rd place	3	6th				5	14th
Top 10	22nd	38			3	21st	84
Scoring	35	48			3	22nd	108
Starts	45	55			3	22nd	125
Status : data from 83/84 largely complete

winter Olympics

	Individual competitions		Season
	singles	sprint
1984 Winter Olympics | Sarajevo	3.	1.	2.
1988 Winter Olympics | Calgary	6th	20th	6th
1992 Winter Olympics | Albertville	27.	47.	5.

World championships

	Individual competitions		Team competitions
	singles	sprint	Season	team
World Championships 1981  Lahti	17th	8th.	4th	-
World Championships 1982  Minsk-Raubitschy	2.	1.	2.	-
World Championships 1983  Antholz	14th	1.	3.	-
World Championships 1985  Ruhpolding	26th	2.	4th	-
1986 World Championships  Oslo	25th	12.	5.	-
World Championships 1987  Lake Placid	17th	41.	-	-
World Championships 1989  Feistritz on the Drau	1.	2.	3.	-
World Championships 1990  Minsk , Oslo and Kontiolahti	10.	2.	4th	-
World Championships 1991  Lahti	3.	3.	3.	-
World Championships 1993  Borovets	4th	4th	9.	-

Web links

• Eirik Kvalfoss in the IBU database (English)
• Eirik Kvalfoss in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Eirik Kvalfoss incomplete athlete profile on the-sports.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wintersport Charts World Cup Biathlon 1981. wintersport-charts.info, accessed on March 10, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Wintersport Charts World Cup Biathlon 1983. wintersport-charts.info, accessed on March 10, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Wintersport Charts World Cup Biathlon 1984. wintersport-charts.info, accessed on March 10, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Wintersport Charts World Cup Biathlon 1988. wintersport-charts.info, accessed on March 10, 2017 .