Aspens Stokkeland

Aspens Stokkeland
Nationality:	Norway
Birthday:	4th July 1968
Place of birth:	Kristiansand
Size:	182 cm
Weight:	92 kg
Society:	Kongelig Norsk Seilforening Færder Seilforening
Boat classes:	Soling
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games bronze Sydney 2000 Soling

Espen Stokkeland (born July 4, 1968 in Kristiansand , Vest-Agder ) is a former Norwegian sailor .

successes

Espen Stokkeland took part in two Olympic Games for Norway in the Soling boat class . Under skipper Herman Horn Johannessen , he was in Atlanta in 1996 alongside Paul Davis on the crew of the Norwegian boat, which finished the regatta in ninth place. Stokkeland, Davis and Johannessen also formed the crew of the Norwegian participating boat at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . They finished the preliminary round in the Fleet Race in first place, so that they were directly qualified for the quarter-finals, which took place in the Match Race . In fourth they just reached the semi-finals, in which they were defeated by the Danish boat led by Jesper Bank with 1: 3. In the duel for the bronze medal, they finally prevailed 3-1 against the Netherlands.

Stokkeland lives in Fornebu, a peninsula in Bærum commune between Oslo and Asker .

Web links

• Espen Stokkeland in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )