Lars Bystøl

Lars Bystøl
Lars Bystøl at Holmenkollen 2008
Full name	Lars Kristian Bystøl
nation	Norway
birthday	4th December 1978
place of birth	Voss ,  Norway
size	179 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
society	Eldar IL
National squad	since 2001
Pers. Best	216.5 m ( Planica 2005)
status	resigned
End of career	2008
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 2 × National medals 1 × 2 × 3 ×
winter Olympics gold 2006 Turin Normal hill bronze 2006 Turin Large hill bronze 2006 Turin team  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 2003 Val di Fiemme team bronze 2005 Oberstdorf Team GS  Ski flying world championships gold 2006 Bad Mitterndorf team  Norwegian championships bronze 2002 Høydalsmo Normal hill bronze 2003 Lillehammer Large hill silver 2004 Oslo Large hill gold 2005 Lillehammer Normal hill silver 2006 Heddal Normal hill bronze 2006 Oslo Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	January 19, 2002
World Cup victories (individual)	01 ( details )
Overall World Cup	10. ( 2004/05 )
Four Hills Tournament	10. ( 2003/04 )
Nordic Tournament	04th (2005)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 1 2  Team jumping 0 1 1
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 29, 2003
Overall Grand Prix	20th ( 2003 )

Lars Kristian Bystøl (born December 4, 1978 in Voss ) is a former Norwegian ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Bystøl began his winter sports career as a Nordic combined skier at national level and in the B World Cup. At the Norwegian Championships in 1997 he was able to occupy 9th place in the individual. A short time later he concentrated on ski jumping and was able to achieve his first successes both nationally and in the ski jumping World Cup from 2001 . In 2002 he won the bronze medal at the Norwegian Championship for the first time on the normal hill.

Lars Bystøl won bronze with the team at the 2003 World Championships in Val di Fiemme and bronze with the team from the large hill at the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf .

As a result, he gained a dubious reputation for his excessive consumption of alcohol . After falling into the harbor basin in Oslo / Aker Brygge in the summer of 2003 , he was downgraded from the World Cup team to the COC team. However, due to good athletic performance and an improvement in his lifestyle, he was allowed to return to the World Cup a year later.

On January 4, 2006, he won a World Cup competition for the first time in Innsbruck and thus achieved his first victory in an individual competition in the Four Hills Tournament . At the Ski Flying World Championships 2006 in Tauplitz he won the gold medal in the team ski flying. Lars Bystøl secured his greatest success in Pragelato at the 2006 Winter Olympics . There he became Olympic champion on the normal hill and on the large hill he won the bronze medal. He also won the bronze medal with the Norwegian team. In the post-Olympic season he was completely out of shape, and with 28th place was 76th in the overall World Cup.

In the spring of 2007, Bystøl was arrested again in Hemsedal after a drunken fight . This led to another exclusion from the A-team. However, the Norwegian Ski Association explicitly gave Bystøl the opportunity to return to the World Cup team with convincing sporting performances.

Due to his good results in the Continental Cup , he managed to return to the Norwegian national team in February 2008, before the Nordic Tournament . At the second competition in Kuopio, he made a brilliant comeback in the World Cup with 7th place, having finished 14th the day before.

In January 2009 he confirmed to the magazine Se og Hør that traces of the prohibited substance THC had been found in his urine in a doping test at the end of November 2008 and that he was thus convicted of cannabis consumption. He was then banned for four months. On September 22, 2009, Bystøl announced his official retirement from competitive sports.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 4, 2006	innsbruck	Large hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 24, 2003	Trondheim	Large hill
2.	December 13, 2003	Lillehammer	Large hill
3.	December 14, 2003	Lillehammer	Large hill
4th	August 21, 2005	Lillehammer	Normal hill
5.	February 2, 2008	Zakopane	Large hill
6th	February 3, 2008	Zakopane	Large hill
7th	February 10, 2008	Hinterzarten	Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2001/02	65.	012
2002/03	26th	226
2003/04	21st	263
2004/05	10.	613
2005/06	13.	495
2006/07	76.	009
2007/08	37.	099

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2003	20th	050
2005	38.	031
2006	27.	094

Web links

Commons : Lars Bystøl  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Lars Bystøl in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Lars Bystøl on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Lars Bystøl in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Lars Bystøl in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lars Bystøl - character instead of scandals. Michaela Huys, accessed May 10, 2009 . 
2. ↑ Results combined hopp. (TXT) (No longer available online.) Www.hego.no, archived from the original on January 21, 2005 ; Retrieved May 10, 2009 (Norwegian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Training in Lillehammer and Trondheim. skispringen-norwegen.info, November 30, 2004, accessed on June 17, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Lars Bystøl in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
5. ^ Ski Jumping at the 2006 Torino Winter Games: Men's Large Hill, Team. www.sports-reference.com, accessed May 10, 2009 . 
6. ↑ Bystoel apologizes and is remorseful. sport.rtl.de, accessed on May 10, 2009 . 
7. ↑ Lars Bystöl can go back to the A-team. skispringen.com.rtl.de, accessed on May 10, 2009 . 
8. ↑ Winter sports: Schmitt jumps on the podium, doped Olympic champion. In: Spiegel Online . January 16, 2009, accessed January 7, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Olympic champion Lars Bystöl ends his career. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , accessed on September 22, 2009 .