Halvard Hanevold

Halvard Hanevold
Full name	Halvard Hanevold
Association	Norway
birthday	3rd December 1969
place of birth	Asker , Norway
date of death	3rd September 2019
Place of death	Asker , Norway
Career
job	Biathlon professional
society	Asker Ski Club
Trainer	Joar Himle
Admission to the national team	1992
Debut in the World Cup	1992
World Cup victories	33 (9 individual wins)
End of career	March 27, 2010
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 2 × 1 × World Cup medals 5 × 7 × 4 ×
winter Olympics gold 1998 Nagano singles silver 1998 Nagano Season gold 2002 Salt Lake City Season silver 2006 Turin sprint bronze 2006 Turin singles gold 2010 Vancouver Season  Biathlon world championships gold 1995 Antholz team gold 1998 Hochfilzen team bronze 1999 Kontiolahti Season silver 2000 Lahti Season bronze 2001 Pokljuka sprint bronze 2001 Pokljuka Season gold 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk singles silver 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk persecution silver 2004 Oberhof Season gold 2005 Hochfilzen Season silver 2006 Pokljuka Mixed relay silver 2007 Antholz Season silver 2008 Östersund sprint silver 2008 Östersund Season bronze 2009 Pyeongchang sprint gold 2009 Pyeongchang Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	4. ( 1997/98 , 2003/04 )
Individual World Cup	1. ( 1997/98 , 2002/03 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 4th 4th 2 sprint 2 5 7th persecution 1 5 5 Mass start 2 0 3 Season 23 19th 13 team 1 1 0
last change: February 27, 2010

Halvard Hanevold (born December 3, 1969 in Asker ; † September 3, 2019 ibid) was a Norwegian biathlete and Olympic champion in biathlon.

Career

Halvard Hanevold started for the Asker Skiklubb . After a few teething problems, he benefited from the radical rejuvenation of the Norwegian team in the winter of 1994. Success at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer was still missing, but the Norwegian team management continued to build on the youth, including Ole Einar Bjørndalen . In 1995 Hanevold celebrated his first world title in the team competition, which has since been abolished (together with Frode Andresen , Dag Bjørndalen and Jon Åge Tyldum ). He continued to improve and from 1996 was always among the top 30 athletes in the overall World Cup , twice he finished fourth in the season.

At the beginning of 1998 he celebrated his first World Cup victory in Antholz , two months later Hanevold surprisingly won Olympic gold in the 20 km singles in Nagano , leaving the Italian Pieralberto Carrara behind on the final lap . A week later, he won the silver medal in the relay. The successful season was completed by the world championship title in the team competition. From 1998 to 2000 Hanevold achieved five more World Cup victories. In 2002 he won Olympic gold again with the relay, but his next individual victory was only achieved at the 2003 Biathlon World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk , where he won gold in the individual over 20 km.

In the following season he won two consecutive races, achieved five podium places and also won silver with the relay at the 2004 Biathlon World Championships . At the Biathlon World Championships in 2005 in Hochfilzen , Austria , he added another season title to his long list of successes (together with Ole Einar Bjørndalen , Stian Eckhoff and Egil Gjelland ). At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , he won bronze in the individual over 20 km and silver in the sprint over 10 km. At the 2008 World Championships in Östersund (SWE) he won the silver medal over 10 km. He was runner-up behind the Russian Maxim Tschudow and ahead of his teammate Ole Einar Bjørndalen . Halvard Hanevold won silver with the Norwegian relay. The Norwegian also made it onto the podium at the 2009 World Cup in Pyeongchang , South Korea . With the relay he won his fifth world title, in the sprint race he took bronze behind Bjørndalen and Lars Berger . At the end of his career, Halvard Hanevold again won Olympic gold with the Norwegian relay team at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games .

Hanevold was multiple Norwegian champion and also won six national championships with the Oslo & Akershus relay.

The at NTNU studied Dipl.-Ing. Maschinenbau Halvard Hanevold lived with the German biathlete Sabrina Buchholz until 2005 . Most recently he was married to the Canadian Sandra Keith , with whom he had two children. He was an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play . In 2011 he appeared in the Norwegian television series Mesternes Mester, which was broadcast on NRK1 . He died in September 2019 at the age of 49.

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 relay

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	4th	2	1	2		23	32
2nd place	4th	5	5		1	19th	34
3rd place	2	7th	5	3		13	30th
Top 10	25th	54	44	19th	1	69	212
Scoring	41	114	78	50	2	70	355
Starts	67	141	87	50	2	70	417

Web links

Commons : Halvard Hanevold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Halvard Hanevold in the IBU database (English)
• Halvard Hanevold in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biathlon Olympic champion Halvard Hanevold is dead. Spiegel Online , accessed on September 3, 2019 . 
2. ↑ OL-vinner Halvard Hanevold (49) er død , budstikka.no, September 3, 2019