Gunde Svan

Gunde Svan
Gunde Svan
Full name	Gunde Svan is different
nation	Sweden
birthday	12th January 1962 (age 58)
place of birth	Vansbro , Sweden
size	188 cm
Weight	81 kg
Career
society	Dala-Järna IK
status	resigned
End of career	1991
Medal table
Olympic medals 4 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 7 × 3 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 1984 Sarajevo 15 km gold 1984 Sarajevo 4 × 10 km silver 1984 Sarajevo 50 km bronze 1984 Sarajevo 30 km gold 1988 Calgary 50 km F gold 1988 Calgary 4 × 10 km  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1985 Seefeld 30 km gold 1985 Seefeld 50 km bronze 1985 Seefeld 4 × 10 km gold 1987 Oberstdorf 4 × 10 km gold 1989 Lahti 15 km F gold 1989 Lahti 50 km F gold 1989 Lahti 4 × 10 km gold 1991 Val di Fiemme 30 km C silver 1991 Val di Fiemme 15 km freestyle silver 1991 Val di Fiemme 50 km freestyle silver 1991 Val di Fiemme 4 × 10 km
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup 18th December 1982  World Cup victories in individual 30 ( details )  Overall World Cup 1. (1983/84, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1987/88, 1988/89)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 30th 11 5

Anders Gunde Svan (born January 12, 1962 in Dala-Järna ) is a former Swedish cross-country skier and automobile racing driver .

Career

Cross-country skiing

Stig Ossian Ericson, Gunde Svan and Kayo Shekoni (top to bottom)

Svan launched for the Dala-Järna IK and made his international debut at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1982 in Norway Oslo . In the individual race over 15 km he came in 13th place. For the 1982/83 season Svan made his debut in the cross-country skiing world cup . In his first World Cup over 15 km in Davos , he finished fifth on a top place. In Reit im Winkl a short bend followed with a weak 19th place. But after this result, Svan was steadily improving.

In Falun he was seventh again in the top ten. On March 12th, he came third for the first time on a podium in Oslo. He was able to win the last two season World Cups in Anchorage and Labrador City . In the overall ranking he came in second with 116 points. In the following season 1983/84 he started after a fourth place in Reit im Winkl with another victory at the World Cup in Ramsau am Dachstein . At the following Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo in 1984 , Svan secured the gold medal over the 15 km distance as a member of the Swedish team. Over the following 30 km he ran on the bronze rank before he finished the games with the silver medal over 50 km. Before that he was able to secure the gold medal in the relay together with Thomas Wassberg , Benny Kohlberg and Jan Ottosson . The individual races also counted for the World Cup, so that he was able to celebrate his fourth World Cup victory in Sarajevo. In the following race in Falun he was again at the top of the podium. He finished third in Lahti and Oslo before he celebrated another World Cup victory at the season end in Fairbanks. With a total of 145 points, he won the overall World Cup for the first time.

Also in the following season 1984/85 Svan started with a podium in Cogne . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1985 in Seefeld in Tirol , Svan secured the 30 km title and the 50 km long distance. In the 15 km race, he finished fifth. With the relay he secured the bronze medal.

After the World Cup, Svan also won the World Cups in Vitosha and Syktyvkar. After only finishing sixth in Lahti, he also won the race in Falun. He finished the season with second place in Oslo, which was able to secure the second overall World Cup victory for Svan. In the winter of 1985/86 Svan went with three wins in Labrador City, Bibawik and La Bresse. After a good second place in the Bohinj sprint , a little later he also won the 50 km race in Oberstdorf . After two more second places, Svan finished the season with a win in Oslo and secured the overall World Cup for the third time in a row.

After Svan also started the 1986/87 season with good top podium finishes, he finished seventh in the 1987 Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf. After the World Cup, Svan did not start at any other World Cups and ended up only finishing third in the overall World Cup ranking.

Already at the start of the following season 1987/88 he achieved two second places in La Clusaz and Kastelruth and another World Cup victory in Davos. At the following Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988 , he won his next two gold medals over the 50 km distance and with the relay. Over the 15 and 30 km he was 13th and 10th. A few weeks after the games, Svan secured the overall World Cup victory with 106 points for the fourth time in his career.

With the 1988/89 season he won the overall World Cup for the fifth and last time. This led to World Cup victories in Bohinj, Val di Sole, twice in Nové Město na Moravě and twice in Lahti. The latter belonged to the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1989 . There he won the races over 15 km and 50 km as well as the relay race with the team.

In the 1989/90 season it was enough for Svan only to three World Cup victories in Moscow , in Val di Fiemme and in Vang and in the end only to second place in the overall World Cup ranking. At the beginning of the 1990/91 season Svan started with a seventh place in Davos in December. He did not come to any other international use until the 1991 World Cup in Val di Fiemme. There he won the race over 30 km and not only secured the gold medal, but also the last World Cup victory in his career. He secured two further silver medals over 15 km and in the 50 km distance race.

After the world championship, Svan played another World Cup in Lahti and ended up in fifth place. He ended his active cross-country skiing career at the end of the season with eighth place in the overall World Cup ranking.

Motorsport

1994: Gunde Svan at the Irish European Rallycross Championship in Mondello Park

At the end of his winter sports career, Svan also began to be interested in automobile sports . After participating in a number of national rallies in Sweden, he was active as a racing driver for the Christer Bohlin Motorsport team in the FIA - European Rallycross Championship for drivers for two seasons in the mid-1990s, with the support of the Swedish Toyota importer . In a Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD , he finished 5th overall in the European Rallycross Championship in 1994. On a Toyota Celica GT-Four in 1995, as a team mate of rally ace Ingvar Carlsson, he even secured third place in the final accounts of Division 1, the then category for Group N vehicles with all-wheel drive .

watch TV

Gunde Svan is also popular in Sweden as a winter sports television commentator and is also extremely popular as a presenter on various entertainment programs (including "Mister Boyard" in Fångarna på fortet [= Fort Boyard ], from 1992 to 1998) on Swedish television.

successes

winter Olympics

• 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo : gold over 15 km, gold with the relay, silver over 50 km, bronze over 30 km
• 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary : gold over 50 km, gold with the relay

Nordic World Ski Championships

• Nordic World Ski Championships 1985 in Seefeld in Tirol : Gold over 30 km, gold over 50 km, bronze with the relay
• Nordic World Ski Championships 1987 in Oberstdorf : Gold with the relay
• Nordic World Ski Championships 1989 in Lahti : gold over 15 km, gold over 50 km, gold with the relay
• Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 in Val di Fiemme : gold over 30 km, silver over 15 km, silver over 50 km, silver with the relay

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	March 19, 1983	Anchorage	15 km
2.	March 27, 1983	Labrador City	30 km
3.	December 16, 1983	Ramsau am Dachstein	30 km
4th	February 13, 1984	Sarajevo	15 km 1
5.	February 25, 1984	Falun	30 km
6th	March 17, 1984	Fairbanks	15 km
7th	January 18, 1985	Seefeld in Tyrol	30 km 2
8th.	January 27, 1985	Seefeld in Tyrol	50 km 2
9.	February 16, 1985	Vitosha	15 km
10.	February 23, 1985	Syktyvkar	15 km
11.	March 9, 1985	Falun	30 km
12.	December 8, 1985	Labrador City	15 km classic
13.	December 14, 1985	Bibawik	30 km freestyle
14th	January 11, 1986	La Bresse	30 km classic
15th	February 14, 1986	Oberstdorf	50 km freestyle
16.	March 14, 1986	Oslo	50 km classic
17th	December 10, 1986	Ramsau am Dachstein	15 km freestyle
18th	December 13, 1986	Cogne	15 km freestyle
19th	December 19, 1987	Davos	15 km classic
20th	February 27, 1988	Calgary	50 km freestyle 3
21st	December 14, 1988	Bohinj	30 km freestyle
22nd	17th December 1988	Val di Sole	15 km F / K
23.	January 13, 1989	Nové Město na Moravě	15 km freestyle
24.	January 15, 1989	Nové Město na Moravě	30 km classic
25th	February 20, 1989	Lahti	15 km freestyle 4
26th	February 26, 1989	Lahti	50 km freestyle 4
27.	January 13, 1990	Moscow	30 km freestyle
28.	February 21, 1990	Val di Fiemme	30 km classic
29	March 17, 1990	Vang	50 km freestyle
30th	February 7, 1991	Val di Fiemme	30 km classic 5

¹ 1984 Winter Olympics

² Nordic World Ski Championships 1985

³ 1988 Winter Olympics

^4th Nordic World Ski Championships 1989

⁵ Nordic World Ski Championships 1991

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 c
	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km					sprint	Season
1st place			12	12	6th				30th
2nd place	1		7th	1	2				11
3rd place			2	1	2				5
Top 10	1		30th	19th	13	1			64
Scoring	1		30th	19th	13	1			64
Starts	1		31	19th	13	1			65
Status: end of career

^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

^c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season	space	Points
1981/82	57.	8th
1982/83	2.	116
1983/84	1.	145
1984/85	1.	152
1985/86	1.	145
1986/87	3.	83
1987/88	1.	109
1988/89	1.	170
1989/90	2.	144
1990/91	8th.	65

Awards

In 1984 he was honored with the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal and in 1985 with the Holmenkollen Medal . Both 1984 and 1985 Gunde Svan won the radio sports Jerringpris .

Private

Gunde Svan is married to the former Swedish cross-country skier Karin Marie Svan (née Johansson) and has a daughter and a son with her. The daughter, Julia Svan , is also a successful cross-country skier.

Web links

• Gunde Svan in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Gunde Svan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Ski Championships 1982 - Men's 15 km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 3, 2014
2. ↑ World Ski Championships 1985 - Men's 30 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 3, 2014
3. ↑ World Ski Championships 1985 - Men's 50 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 3, 2014
4. ↑ World Ski Championships 1985 - Men's 15 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 3, 2014
5. ↑ World Ski Championships 1987 - Men's 30 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 3, 2014
6. ↑ World Ski Championships 1989 - Men's 15 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 3, 2014
7. ↑ World Ski Championships 1989 - Men's 50 km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 3, 2014
8. ↑ World Ski Championships 1991 - Men's 30 km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 3, 2014
9. ↑ World Ski Championships 1991 - Men's 15 km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 3, 2014
10. ↑ World Ski Championships 1991 - Men's 50 km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 3, 2014
11. ↑ Holmenkollmedaljen . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.