Ola Vigen Hattestad

Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad (2011)
nation	Norway
birthday	19th April 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Askim , Norway
size	188 cm
Weight	83 kg
Career
society	Ørje IL
Trainer	Ulf Morten Aune
status	resigned
End of career	2018
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2014 Sochi sprint  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2009 Liberec sprint gold 2009 Liberec Team sprint silver 2011 Oslo Team sprint bronze 2015 Falun sprint
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup March 3, 2003  World Cup victories in individual 13 ( details )  World Cup victories in the team 4 ( details )  Overall World Cup 3rd ( 2008/09 )  Sprint World Cup 1. ( 2007/08 , 2008/09 , 2013/14 )  Distance World Cup 86th ( 2013/14 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Sprint races 13 12 6th  Team sprint 4th 0 2
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the Continental Cup December 6, 2002  Continental Cup victories 2 ( details )  SCAN overall rating 17th ( 2006/07 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  SCAN individual race 2 0 0

Ola Vigen Hattestad (born April 19, 1982 in Askim ) is a former Norwegian cross-country skier .

Career

Ola Vigen Hattestad lives in Ørje and starts for the local association Ørje IL . He first ran in international races in December 2001. First he started in FIS races and in the Continental Cup. The sprint specialist made his debut in the cross-country skiing world cup towards the end of the 2002/03 season , but was not able to qualify for the finals as 34th in the qualification. World Cup appearances were only sporadic until 2005. At the Norwegian Championships of the year he was sprinting fifth. Only a little later, Hattestad won first points in the World Cup in Reit im Winkl, also finishing fifth. A short time later he reached a first podium in Gothenburg in third place. The 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin were the first major event for the Norwegian. In the competitions in Pragelato Plan he reached ninth place. In 2007 he only had to give up Trond Iversen at the Norwegian Championships . The upward trend continued with winning a World Cup sprint in Changchun for the first time . In 2008 a second World Cup victory followed and the first title win at the Norwegian championships in sprint. After Hattestad was ninth in the overall ranking of the Sprint World Cup in 2005 and 2007, he won it in 2008. In addition to his second World Cup victory, he achieved four other podium finishes in the 2007/08 season.

The 2008-09 season was the most successful season of his career. Hattestad was able to win the first sprint world cup of the season in Kuusamo , which was held in the classic technique. Two weeks later he also won the second sprint world cup of the season in Davos . This time he triumphed in free engineering . On December 20, 2008, he also won the third sprint world cup of the season in Düsseldorf and with this victory also took the lead in the overall world cup. After he had decided not to take part in the Tour de Ski , he finished second behind the Swede Emil Jönsson at the World Cup in Vancouver . Two weeks later, Hattestad triumphed at the World Cup in Otepää and thus extended his lead in the Sprint World Cup . In the following sprint in Rybinsk , Hattestad was also one of the favorites. But at temperatures of −17 ° C, the entire Norwegian team decided not to start. The last World Cup before the Nordic World Ski Championships took place in Valdidentro, Italy. Hattestad was able to win this competition too. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 he won the gold medal in the sprint competition, which was held in the free technique, and the world championship title in the team sprint in the classic technique together with Johan Kjølstad . After the World Cup, the last World Cups of the season were on the program. In Lahti, Hattestad finished second on the podium again. With this result, like the year before, he secured victory in the Sprint World Cup. In the sprint in Trondheim, Hattestad secured the sixth win of the season. With that he saved the chance to finish the overall World Cup in third place. At the World Cup in Stockholm he reached 7th place, which meant the worst result of the season in a sprint for him.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Hattestad just barely missed his first Olympic medal in fourth in the sprint. At the beginning of the 2010/11 season he achieved his second World Cup victory in this discipline in the team sprint in Düsseldorf together with Anders Gløersen . In January he also celebrated another sprint victory in Liberec. He also clearly dominated the team sprint and celebrated his third team sprint World Cup victory with Johan Kjølstad .

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 , he won the silver medal in the team sprint. Hattestad also started the 2011/12 season with a sprint victory in Düsseldorf. For some time it was his last individual victory in the World Cup. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 in Val di Fiemme , he missed another world championship medal in ninth place in the sprint.

For the 2013/14 season , Hattestad managed to dominate the competition again in Toblach . After he had already won the qualification, he also achieved another victory in the Sprint World Cup himself. At the following Olympic Winter Games in 2014 , Hattestad impressed again in the sprint and secured his first Olympic success. As fourth in the team sprint, he just missed another medal. He also won the last sprint race of the season in Drammen . In the 2014/15 season , he took second place in the sprint in Otepää and third in Drammen. At the 2015 Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun , he took bronze in the sprint. He finished the season in ninth place in the Sprint World Cup. In the 2015/16 season he came in nine participations in the Sprint World Cup, three times in the top ten, including second places in Drammen and Stockholm and thus reached seventh place in the Sprint World Cup.

He contested his last World Cup race on December 11, 2016 in Davos , where he finished eighth in the sprint in free technique. As a result, Hattestad had to cancel his starts at an FIS race, a Continental Cup race and also the World Cup race in Toblach due to health problems. In May 2018 he finally announced the end of his career.

training

Hattestad belongs to the generation of Norwegian cross-country skiers who have systematically recorded their training (heart rate and load values ​​as well as distance, etc. of each training session) since they were accepted into the squad . It turned out that he trained significantly more and with significantly lower intensity than the competition in Germany or other non-Scandinavian countries. While in Germany around a third of running training takes place above the anaerobic threshold, it was only 9% for these Norwegians. While fatigue resistance is trained in Germany, the Norwegians train aerobic endurance, which is especially noticeable in the sprint in the 3rd and 4th races.

successes

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	February 15, 2007	Changchun	1.2 km sprint classic
2.	March 5, 2008	Drammen	1.2 km sprint classic
3.	November 29, 2008	Kuusamo	1.2 km sprint classic
4th	December 14, 2008	Davos	1.7 km sprint freestyle
5.	December 20, 2008	Dusseldorf	1.5 km sprint freestyle
6th	January 25, 2009	Otepää	1.4 km sprint classic
7th	February 13, 2009	Valdidentro	1.7 km sprint freestyle
8th.	March 12, 2009	Trondheim	1.6 km sprint classic
9.	November 28, 2009	Kuusamo	1.4 km sprint classic
10.	January 15, 2011	Liberec	1 mile sprint freestyle
11.	December 3, 2011	Dusseldorf	1.7 km sprint freestyle
12.	2nd February 2014	Toblach	1.3 km sprint freestyle
13.	5th March 2014	Drammen	1.3 km sprint classic

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 21, 2008	Dusseldorf	6 × 1.5 km team sprint freestyle 1
2.	5th December 2010	Dusseldorf	6 × 1.6 km team sprint freestyle 2
3.	January 16, 2011	Liberec	6 × 1.6 km team sprint classic 3
4th	December 22, 2013	Asiago	6 × 1.7 km team sprint classic 4

¹With gate Arne Hetland .

²With Anders Gløersen .

³With Johan Kjølstad .

^4thWith Eldar Rønning .

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	December 16, 2006	Vuokatti	Classic sprint	Scandinavian Cup
2.	January 10, 2015	Falun	Sprint freestyle	Scandinavian Cup

Medals at national championships

• 2007 : Gold in the sprint
• 2008 : Gold in the sprint
• 2010 : Silver in the sprint
• 2014 : Gold in the sprint

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.

placement	Distance races a					Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race b	total	Team c
	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km					sprint	Season
1st place							13		13	4th
2nd place							10		10
3rd place							6th		6th	2
Top 10							46		46	8th
Scoring							65		65	9
Starts	1		2				75	4th	82	9
Status: end of season 2014/15

^a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification

^bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale

^c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season	total		distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2004/05	182	28.	-	-	182	9.
2005/06	129	42.	-	-	129	16.
2006/07	177	30th	-	-	178	9.
2007/08	450	14th	-	-	450	1.
2008/09	792	3.	-	-	792	1.
2009/10	312	20th	-	-	312	5.
2010/11	407	18th	-	-	407	2.
2011/12	426	21st	-	-	426	5.
2012/13	122	51.	-	-	122	16.
2013/14	374	15th	11	86.	363	1.
2014/15	204	33.	-	-	204	9.
2015/16	302	26th	11	72.	291	7th
2016/17	32	98	-	-	32	46.

Web links

Commons : Ola Vigen Hattestad  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ola Vigen Hattestad in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

• Ola Vigen Hattestad in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ola Vigen Hattestad website (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ola Vigen Hattestad . Fischer Sports. February 11, 2014. Archived from the original on March 3, 2014. 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. Retrieved February 27, 2014. 
2. ↑ Den mest dramatiske finalen vi har hatt i et mesterskap ( Norwegian ) NRK.no. February 11, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
3. ↑ Kershaw, Jaks and Hattestad end their careers, Duvillard and Dyrhaug injured - xc-ski.de cross-country skiing. In: xc-ski.de. May 4, 2018, accessed on January 4, 2019 (German). 
4. ↑ Tønnessen, Espen; Haugen, Thomas A .; Hem, Erlend; Leirstein, Svein; Seiler, Stephen (2015): Maximal Aerobic Capacity in the Winter-Olympics Endurance Disciplines: Olympic-Medal Benchmarks for the Time Period 1990-2013. Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 10 (7): 835-839.
5. ↑ Arnd Krüger : How much basic training do you need? The importance of aerobic endurance for cross-country skiing. FdSnow. Specialized journal for skiing 33 (2015), 2, 22–33.
6. ↑ Sandbakk, Oyvind; Skålvik, Tommy Fredriksen; Spencer, Matt; van Beekvelt, Mireille; Welde, Boye; Hegge, Ann Magdalen; Gjøvaag, Terje; Ettema, Gertjan (2015): The physiological responses to repeated upper-body sprint exercise in highly trained athletes. European Journal of Applied Physiology 115 (6): 1381-1391.