Erlend Bjøntegaard

Erlend Bjøntegaard
Full name	Erlend Øvereng Bjøntegaard
Association	Norway
birthday	30th July 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Kongsberg , Norway
size	177 cm
Career
society	Il Bevern
Trainer	Egil Kristiansen, Siegfried Mazet
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2010
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	1
Debut in the World Cup	2012
World Cup victories	7 relay victories
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 2 × 1 × NM medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
European biathlon championships silver 2017 Duszniki-Zdrój Mixed relay  Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 2008 Ruhpolding Season gold 2009 Canmore persecution silver 2009 Canmore sprint bronze 2011 Nové Město Season  Norwegian championships silver 2012 Trondheim Season bronze 2019 Ål singles
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	12. ( 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	11. ( 2012/13 )
Sprint World Cup	14. (2018/19, 2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup	10. (2019/20)
Mass start world cup	09. ( 2017/18 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. sprint 0 1 0 Mass start 0 1 1 Season 7th 3 1
last change: March 14, 2020

Erlend Øvereng Bjøntegaard (born July 30, 1990 in Kongsberg ) is a Norwegian biathlete .

Career

Erlend Bjøntegaard starts for Il Bevern . He made his international debut at the youth races of the Junior World Championships 2008 in Ruhpolding , where he was 13th in the individual, tenth in the sprint, 14th in the pursuit and runner-up in the relay race. The 2009 Junior World Championships in Canmore were particularly successful . Bjøntegaard was runner-up behind Kurtis Wenzel in the sprint and won the title in the pursuit race. In the individual he reached the 31st place and finished in the relay race on the side of Lars Helge Birkeland , Henrik Brovold and Tarjei Bø the sixth place. The 2010 Junior World Championships in Torsby went less well , in which the Norwegian was 41st in the sprint, 36th in the pursuit and ninth in the relay. Fourth Junior World Championships were the title fights in 2011 in Nové Město na Moravě . Bjøntegaard missed the medal ranks three times as sixth in individual and pursuit and fourth in the pursuit race, finally won bronze in the relay race with Erling Ålvik, Kristoffer Langøien Skljelvik and Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen . This was followed by participation in the junior races of the Biathlon European Championships 2011 in Ridnaun , where the Norwegian was 20th in the individual and ninth in the sprint.

Bjøntegaard made his debut in the men's IBU Cup in Beitostølen at the start of the 2010/11 season and won points as the 29th of a sprint. After two missions in the season, he came to five missions in 2011/12 . At the season finale, he won his first race in the second highest international biathlon racing series with a sprint in Altenberg .

Bjøntegaard has been competing in the World Cup for the first time since the 2012/2013 season and in the first race of the season, the mixed relay in Östersund , Sweden , together with Tora Berger , Synnøve Solemdal and Emil Hegle Svendsen, he finished second behind the Russian relay. In the Östersund individual race, his first individual race in the World Cup, Erlend Bjøntegaard took seventh place in the top ten and also in the points of the Biathlon World Cup.

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statistics

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 15, 2015	Ruhpolding	Season 1
2.	February 13, 2016	Presque Isle	Season 2
3.	December 10, 2017	Hochfilzen	Season 3
4th	February 8, 2019	Canmore	Season 4
5.	7th December 2019	Ostersund	Season 5
6th	15th December 2019	Hochfilzen	Season 5
7th	January 11, 2020	Oberhof	Season 6

¹With Ole Einar Bjørndalen , Johannes Thingnes Bø and Emil Hegle Svendsen .

²With Lars Helge Birkeland , Johannes Thingnes Bø and Tarjei Bø .

³With Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Henrik L'Abée-Lund and Lars Helge Birkeland.

^4thWith Lars Helge Birkeland, Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen and Johannes Thingnes Bø.

⁵With Johannes Dale , Tarjei Bø and Johannes Thingnes Bø.

^6th With Johannes Dale, Lars Helge Birkeland and Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen.

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place					6th	6th
2nd place		1		1	2	4th
3rd place				1	1	2
Top 10	2	7th	5	5	14th	33
Scoring	8th	33	27	13	14th	95
Starts	12	43	29	13	14th	111
As of January 2, 2020

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018 Pyeongchang	5.	9.	-	7th	-	-

World championships

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
World Championships 2016 Oslo	69.	-	-	-	-	-
World Championships 2019 Ostersund	7th	15th	64.	22nd	-	-

Web links

Commons : Erlend Bjøntegaard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Erlend Bjøntegaard in the IBU database (English)
• Erlend Bjøntegaard in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erlend Bjøntegaard. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 .