Knut Johannesen

Knut Johannesen
nation	Norway
birthday	November 6, 1933
place of birth	Oslo
size	1.83 cm
Career
discipline	Speed ​​skating
status	resigned
Medal table
winter Olympics 2 × 2 × 1 × M-World Championship medals 2 × 1 × 0 × M-EM medals 2 × 3 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver Cort. d'Ampezzo 1956 10,000 m silver Squaw Valley 1960 5000 m gold Squaw Valley 1960 10,000 m gold Innsbruck 1964 5000 m bronze Innsbruck 1964 10,000 m  All around world championships gold Ostersund 1957 All-around silver Karuizawa 1963 All-around gold Helsinki 1964 All-around  All-around European Championships silver Helsinki 1956 All-around silver Oslo 1957 All-around bronze Eskilstuna 1958 All-around gold Gothenburg 1959 All-around gold Oslo 1960 All-around silver Gothenburg 1963 All-around

Knut "Kupper'n" Johannesen (born November 6, 1933 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian speed skater .

Johannesen won in 1957 and 1964 all-around world championships and in 1959 and 1960 all-around European Championships . At the 1956 Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo , he won silver over the 10,000 meters and silver over the 5000 meters. Four years later in Squaw Valley he became Olympic champion over 10,000 meters. In 1964 in Innsbruck he won gold again over 5000 meters and bronze over 10,000 meters.

Johannesen set four world records during his active time . He led the nobility calendar between 1960 and 1964 for 1,100 days. His best score was 178.358 points.

In 1957 he was honored with the Morgenbladet Gold Medal and in 1959 with the Oscar Mathisen Memorial Trophy . In 1960 he won the election for Norway's Sportsman of the Year and the Fearnleys olympiske ærespris .

Personal bests

route	time	date	place
500 m	42.3 sec	February 24, 1960	Squaw Valley
1000 m	1: 31.0 min	February 2, 1954	Davos
1500 m	2: 09.4 min	February 24, 1963	Karuizawa
3000 m	4: 28.7 min	February 11, 1964	Oslo
5000 m	7: 37.8 min 1	January 26, 1963	Oslo
10,000 m	15: 42.9 min	January 19, 1964	Oslo

¹ World record at the time of the run

Web links

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• Knut Johannesen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics at speed skating news