Espen Andersen (Nordic combined, 1961)

Espen Andersen
nation	Norway
birthday	July 12, 1961
place of birth	Oslo ,  Norway
size	179 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
society	Lyn Oslo
status	resigned
End of career	1987
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 1 × National medals 3 × 2 × 1 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1982 Oslo team gold 1984 Rovaniemi team silver 1985 Seefeld team  Norwegian championships silver 1982 Raufoss singles gold 1983 Lillehammer team silver 1983 Lillehammer singles gold 1985 Tromsø team gold 1986 Vang team bronze 1986 Vang singles
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	17th December 1983
World Cup victories (individual)	1 ( details )
Overall World Cup	9. ( 1985/86 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 1 1 0

Espen Andersen (born July 12, 1961 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Andersen began his international career with the start at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1982 , where he won the bronze medal in the team competition together with Hallstein Bøgseth and Tom Sandberg . On December 17, 1983, he made his debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup in Seefeld in Tirol . He reached the top 10 straight away. On March 8, 1984, he won his first and only World Cup race in Oslo. At the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984 , he landed in the individual combination in 19th place. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1984 in Rovaniemi , he won the gold medal with the team. A year later in Seefeld at the 1985 World Cup , he won silver with the team. He finished the 1985/86 season as his most successful season in ninth place in the overall World Cup standings. In 1987 Andersen ended his active career.

Andersen won the Norwegian championship title in team competition in 1983, 1985 and 1986. A single title was denied to him until the end of his career.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 8, 1984	Oslo	singles

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

placement	Single a	sprint	Mass start	team		total
				sprint	Season
1st place	1					1
2nd place	1					1
3rd place
Top 10	13					13
Scoring	19th					19th
Starts	19th					19th
Status: end of career

^a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

Web links

• Espen Andersen (Nordic Combined, 1961) in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Espen Andersen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Orklahopp Norge: NM SKI NORDISKE GRENER , 2007