Kåre Hovda

Kåre Hovda
Association	Norway
birthday	January 24, 1944
place of birth	Veggli
date of death	February 13, 1999
Place of death	Rødberg
Career
society	Rødberg IF
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	-
Debut in the World Cup	-
End of career	197?
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × NM medals 5 × 3 × 0 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze 1974 Minsk Season Norwegian championship gold 1967 Lier Season silver 1968 Kongsvinger Season gold 1970 Trondheim Season gold 1971 Vingelen Season silver 1972 Evjemoen Season gold 1973 Steinkjer Season gold 1974 Vingrom Season silver 1977 Furnes Season
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

Kåre Hovda (born January 24, 1944 in Veggli ; † February 13, 1999 in Rødberg ) was a Norwegian biathlete .

Kåre Hovda started as an active player for Rødberg IF . Kjell Hovda was his younger brother. He took part in the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , where he was 18th of the individual and with Tor Svendsberget , Ivar Nordkild and Magnar Solberg in fourth place just missed a medal in the relay race against the representation from the GDR. Hovda achieved his greatest international success at the Biathlon World Championships in Minsk in 1974 , where he won bronze in the relay race alongside his brother, Terje Hanssens and Tor Svendsbergets and this time was able to relegate the GDR representation to fourth place. He also finished seventh in the sprint and 12th in the individual.

Nationally, Hovda could never win an individual medal at Norwegian championships despite his international success . He achieved all of his successes in the season in which he started for the Numedal region . In 1967 he won his first title in Lier at the side of Odd Lunde , Ragnar Tveiten and his brother. Others followed in 1970 in Trondheim and 1971 in Vingelen with the same line-up, 1973 in Steinkjer with Anders Besseberg , his brother and Tveiten and 1974 with Kjell Flesaker , Tveiten and his brother in Vingrom . In 1968 , 1972 and 1977 he was runner-up.

Web links

• Kåre Hovda in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Results at the-sports.org