Let Ottesen

Let Ottesen
Lasse Ottesen 2018 in Seefeld
nation	Norway
birthday	April 8, 1974
place of birth	Oslo ,  Norway
size	184 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
society	Aurskog-Finstadbru Skiklubb
Pers. Best	212 m ( Planica 1997)
status	resigned
End of career	2001
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 1994 Lillehammer Normal hill  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships silver 1992 Vuokatti team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Overall World Cup	09. ( 1993/94 )
Four Hills Tournament	08. ( 1999/00 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 3 4th  Ski flying 0 0 2  Team jumping 1 0 1
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	11. ( 2000 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 0 1

Lasse Ottesen (born April 8, 1974 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian ski jumper and ski jumping coach.

Career

Ski jumper

Ottesen took part in international competitions from 1991 to 2001. He started for the Aurskog-Finstadbru Sportsklubb club . He became known to a wider audience at the Four Hills Tournament in 1993/94 when he was the fourth from last starter in the second run of the final competition in Bischofshofen, sitting on the starting bar for several minutes while the previously weak tail wind became stronger and stronger. Due to the deteriorated conditions, Jens Weißflog , who started immediately after him, could not make a good jump and fell behind Ottesen's compatriot Espen Bredesen in the tour evaluation , who was the last starter in the second run to find better conditions. Weissflog felt cheated of his fourth tour victory by Ottesen, and Ottesen was disqualified.

The greatest success of his career was winning the silver medal on the normal hill at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer in the same year . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1995 in Thunder Bay , he was fourth on the large hill. In 1997 he set a world record of 212 meters in Planica , which was only set two years later. In the ski jumping World Cup he was able to achieve a total of nine podium places. In the course of his career Ottesen was five times Norwegian champion.

After the 2000/2001 season , Ottesen ended his career as an active jumper.

Trainer and functionary

He then worked as a jump coach for the Norwegian Nordic combined athletes. In 2004 he switched to the US combined athletes, initially as a jump coach and since 2006 as head coach. Since May 1, 2008 he has been assistant coach alongside Mika Kojonkoski for the senior national team of Norwegian ski jumpers.

Since 2012 he has been active as race director of the International Ski Federation FIS for the Nordic Combined.

successes

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1990/91	50.	002
1991/92	45.	007th
1992/93	13.	055
1993/94	09.	421
1994/95	10.	472
1995/96	27.	233
1996/97	11.	545
1997/98	18th	288
1998/99	20th	362
1999/00	12.	535
2000/01	60.	023

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
1994	14th	593
1995	41.	366
1996	40.	015th
1997	29	034
1998	20th	069
1999	47.	005
2000	11.	186

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Falun	Sweden	116.5 m ( HS : 134 m)	December 6, 1992	February 21, 1993
Planica	Slovenia	212.0 m ( HS : 205 m)	March 22, 1997	March 19, 1999
Vikersund	Norway	175.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	February 18, 1995	February 18, 1995

Private

Ottesen is married and has two children.

Web links

Commons : Lasse Ottesen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lasse Ottesen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Lasse Ottesen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 , p. 246 .