Jens Arne Svartedal

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Jens Arne Svartedal Cross-country skiing
Jens Arne Svartedal (2007)

Jens Arne Svartedal (2007)

nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday 14th February 1976 (age 44)
place of birth Sarpsborg , Norway
size 181 cm
Weight 62 kg
Career
society Troesken IL
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
National medals 4 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver 2006 Turin Team sprint
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
gold 2007 Sapporo sprint
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup November 22, 1997
 World Cup victories in individual 12 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 2. (2005/06)
 Sprint World Cup 1st (2006/07)
 Distance World Cup 5th (2005/06)
 Tour de Ski 10th ( 2007/08 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Sprint races 11 4th 2
 Distance races 1 4th 0
 Season 3 2 3
 Team sprint 1 1 2
last change: March 14, 2009

Jens Arne Svartedal (born February 14, 1976 in Sarpsborg ) is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has specialized in the sprint disciplines. He took part in the Winter Olympics twice for Norway . He was once able to become world champion in the sprint and once won the sprint world cup in the cross-country skiing world cup .

Career

In the 1997/98 season he gained his first experience in the cross-country world cup . On November 22, 1997, he completed his first World Cup race in Beitostølen and finished 51st over the 10 kilometers and thus clearly missed the World Cup points. He had his second World Cup appearance on March 14, 1998 in Oslo , where he finished 55th over the 50 kilometers. He collected his first World Cup points in the 1999/2000 season and surprised the world elite on March 8, 2000. In the classic sprint in Oslo, he took second place behind his compatriot Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset . Four days later he finished the 50-kilometer race in Oslo with 53rd place again, a bad result. With second place he finished 16th in the Sprint World Cup with 80 points at the end of the season.

In the following season he was able to confirm the surprising podium with good performances in the sprint competitions. In Engelberg he finished eleventh, in Asiago third and in Oslo fifth. In the 2001/02 season he was able to increase even further. After he finished second in Cogne behind local hero Cristian Zorzi in the first spint competition of the season, he won the second sprint competition of the season on December 19, 2001 in Asiago in front of his compatriot Trond Iversen and Andreas Schlütter from Germany. After he was also able to win the sprint in Stockholm , he achieved prestige success in Oslo by winning the sprint competition in front of Jörgen Brink and Keijo Kurttila . At the end of the season he missed winning the Sprint World Cup by 28 points and had to be content with second place behind his compatriot Trond Iversen. In the overall World Cup, he took ninth place for the first time a top ten place.

In the 2002/03 season he was unable to match his previous season's performances 100 percent. Nevertheless, he was allowed to participate in the Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 in Val di Fiemme . He started in the sprint and in the competition over the 15 kilometers. With eleventh place in the sprint he clearly missed a medal and over the 15 kilometers he finished 19th. After the world championships he was able to win the classic sprint in Drammen ahead of Keijo Kurttila and Thobias Fredriksson .

In the 2003/04 season he finished second behind his compatriot Anders Aukland in the second sprint competition of the season and he won the third sprint competition on December 16, 2003 in Val di Fiemme . He also won a sprint competition in Stockholm for the second time in his career . At the end of the season he again finished second in the Sprint World Cup and this time behind the Swedes Thobias Fredriksson . In the overall standings, he finished third in the overall World Cup behind René Sommerfeldt from Germany and Mathias Fredriksson from Sweden.

As after the 2001/02 season, the 2003/04 season was followed by a weaker winter, so that he did not qualify for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2005 in Oberstdorf . But he was able to win two relay competitions and a team sprint with the Norwegian team in the 2004/05 season . Things went better for him the following season. After he could not win a single individual competition in 2005, he won a World Cup endurance race for the first and only time on February 5th. Over the 15 kilometers he was able to secure victory in Davos ahead of Martin Tauber from Austria and Vincent Vittoz from France.

Award ceremony 2006: Jens Arne Svartedal (left) with Tor Arne Hetland

This victory also enabled him to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and he was nominated for the games by the Norges idrettsforbund . At the Olympic Games, he was allowed to start in the 15-kilometer race, the team sprint and the relay. On February 14, 2006 he started together with Tor Arne Hetland in the first team sprint and won the silver medal behind the Swedish team in the final. In cross-country skiing over the 15th kilometers he finished on February 17, 2006 a weak 44th place and the Norwegian relay, which consisted of him, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset , Frode Estil and Tore Ruud Hofstad , only finished fifth.

After the Olympic Winter Games, he was able to win the sprint in Drammen in the 2005/06 World Cup for the second time in his career, ahead of his compatriots Børre Næss and Eldar Rønning . At the end of the season he finished both in the overall World Cup and in the Distance World Cup. In the overall world cup he finished second behind Tobias Angerer and in the distance world cup he finished fifth.

The 2006/07 season was his most successful season. He won the Sprint World Cups in Kuusamo and Otepää and qualified for the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo . He was allowed to start there in the sprint and over the 50 kilometers. While he finished 19th in the 50-kilometer race, he won the sprint world title on February 22, 2007 ahead of Mats Larsson and Eldar Rønning . At the end of the season he was also able to win the Sprint World Cup ahead of Trond Iversen and Emil Jönsson .

The following season it went worse for him again, but on February 27, 2008 he won the sprint in Stockholm for the third and last time . It was also his twelfth and last World Cup victory. He was unable to build on his successes the following year either. Nevertheless, he was allowed to take part in the 2009 World Ski Championships in Liberec as defending champion . He finished the sprint competition in 20th place. In the 2009/10 season he qualified for the second time for the Winter Olympics and was also nominated by the Norges idrettsforbund for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . He only started there over the 50 kilometers and finished 23rd.

After the 2009/10 season, he ended his World Cup career. In contrast, he continues to compete in cross-country skiing. For example, he took part in the Marathon Cup between 2011 and 2015 . His best result was 9th place over 63 kilometers between Otepää and Elva . On February 10, 2018, he took part in Holmenkollmarsjen on Holmenkollen and finished in 163rd place.

successes

Medals at Winter Olympics

  • 2006 in Turin : Silver in the classic team sprint

Medals at world championships

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No. date place discipline
1. December 19, 2001 ItalyItaly Asiago 1.5 km sprint classic
2. March 5, 2002 SwedenSweden Stockholm 1.5 km sprint classic
3. March 13, 2002 NorwayNorway Oslo 1.5 km sprint classic
4th March 11, 2003 NorwayNorway Drammen 1 km sprint classic
5. December 16, 2003 ItalyItaly Val di Fiemme 1.2 km sprint classic
6th February 18, 2004 SwedenSweden Stockholm 1.1 km sprint classic
7th December 14, 2004 ItalyItaly Asiago 1.2 km sprint classic
8th. February 5, 2006 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Davos 15 km classic individual start
9. March 9, 2006 NorwayNorway Drammen 1 km sprint classic
10. November 25, 2006 FinlandFinland Kuusamo 1.2 km sprint classic
11. January 28, 2007 EstoniaEstonia Otepää 1.2 km sprint classic
12. February 27, 2008 SwedenSweden Stockholm 1 km sprint classic

World Cup victories in the team

No. date place discipline
1. December 12, 2004 ItalyItaly Lake Tesero 4 × 10 km relay 1
2. December 15, 2004 ItalyItaly Asiago 6 × 1.2 km team sprint classic 2
3. March 20, 2005 SwedenSweden Falun 4 × 10 km relay 3
4th December 18, 2005 CanadaCanada Canmore 6 × 1.2 km classic team sprint 4
5. November 25, 2007 NorwayNorway Beitostølen 4 × 10 km relay 5
3With Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Kristen Skjeldal and Tore Ruud Hofstad.
5With Martin Johnsrud Sundby , Tore Ruud Hofstad and Tor Arne Hetland.

Victories in Continental Cup races

No. date place discipline series
1. December 7, 2002 NorwayNorway Gaasbu 10 km classic Continental Cup
2. February 16, 2008 SwedenSweden Sundsvall 10 km classic Scandinavian Cup
3. December 20, 2008 NorwayNorway Lygna 15 km classic Scandinavian Cup

Medals at national championships

  • 2001 : Silver in the sprint, bronze over 10 km
  • 2003 : Gold over 50 km
  • 2004 : Bronze over 15 km, bronze in the sprint
  • 2005 : Gold in the sprint, bronze over 50 km
  • 2006 : Silver over 15 km
  • 2007 : Gold over 50 km
  • 2008 : Silver over 58 km
  • 2009 : Gold over 15 km
  • 2010 : Bronze in the skiathlon

statistics

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

Year and place competition
15 km Skiathlon 50 km sprint Season Team sprint
2006 Turin 44. - - - 5. 2.
2010 Vancouver - - 23. - - -

Nordic World Ski Championships

Year and place competition
15 km Skiathlon 50 km sprint Season Team sprint
2003 Val di Fiemme 19th - - 11. - -
2007 Sapporo - - 19th 1. - -
2009 Liberec - - - 20th - -

World Cup overall placements

season total distance sprint
Points space Points space Points space
1999/2000 80 52. - - 80 16.
2000/01 138 35. - - 127 15th
2001/02 315 9. - - 300 2.
2002/03 294 15th - - 215 8th.
2003/04 592 3. 211 20th 381 2.
2004/05 361 7th 127 21st 234 8th.
2005/06 577 2. 372 5. 205 9.
2006/07 388 8th. 30th 55. 341 1.
2007/08 527 9. 215 15th 208 11.
2008/09 126 52. 109 37. 17th 75.
2009/10 83 73. 72 45. 11 87.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Result Holmenkollmarsjen 2018
personal data
SURNAME Svartedal, Jens Arne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1976