Jørn Didriksen

Jørn Didriksen
nation	Norway
birthday	August 27, 1953
place of birth	Jevnaker , Oppland
size	179 cm
Weight	76 kg
Career
society	Oslo IL
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 1976 Innsbruck 1000 m

Jørn Didriksen (born August 27, 1953 in Jevnaker , Oppland ) is a former Norwegian speed skater .

Didriksen had specialized in short distances in his active career. His greatest success was winning the silver medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria . Over 1,000 m he only had to admit defeat to the American Peter Mueller .

Between 1975 and 1977 Didriksen also took part in three speed skating sprint world championships. His best result was 1975 in Gothenburg , Sweden, when he finished fourth in the overall standings behind three runners from the Soviet Union . In the following years he reached the ranks six and ten.

Also in 1975 Didriksen was Norwegian champion in the sprint four-way fight. In Elverum , Norway, he won over three individual distances (1 × 500 m, 2 x 1,000 m) and thus laid the foundation for his victory in the overall standings.

Didriksen works as a writer and is the author of several detective novels .

Personal bests

route	time	date	place
0500 m	38.70 s	January 11, 1977	Hamar
1,000 m	1: 17.34 min	March 20, 1977	Almaty
1,500 m	2: 05.80 min	4th February 1977	Oslo
3,000 m	4: 37.10 min	January 30, 1971	Inzell
5,000 m	8: 11.00 min	February 11, 1973	Elverum

Web links

• Jørn Didriksen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics on the speed skating news page