Halvard Hanevold
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Overall World Cup | 4. ( 1997/98 , 2003/04 ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Individual World Cup | 1. ( 1997/98 , 2002/03 ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 |
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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
- Halvard Hanevold in the IBU database (English)
- Halvard Hanevold in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Biathlon Olympic champion Halvard Hanevold is dead. Spiegel Online , accessed on September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ OL-vinner Halvard Hanevold (49) er død , budstikka.no, September 3, 2019
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hanevold, Halvard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian biathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd December 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Asker , Norway |
DATE OF DEATH | 3rd September 2019 |
Place of death | Asker , Norway |