Pål Golberg

	Pål Golberg
	Pål Golberg
nation	Norway
birthday	16th July 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Gol , Norway
size	185 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
society	Gol Il
Trainer	Ulf Morten Aune
status	active
Medal table
Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
	Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup	March 11, 2010
World Cup victories in individual	5 ( details )
World Cup victories in the team	1 ( details )
World Cup victories in stages	2 ( details )
Overall World Cup	3rd ( 2019/20 )
Sprint World Cup	3rd (2019/20)
Distance World Cup	10. (2019/20)
Tour de Ski	6. ( 2019/20 )
	last change: March 15, 2020

Pål Golberg (born July 16, 1990 in Gol ) is a Norwegian cross-country skier .

Career

Golberg started at the Junior World Championships 2008 in Val Venosta for the first time in an international championship. There he reached the quarter-finals of the sprint competition and finished in 16th place. A year later he improved this result in Le Praz-de-Lys-Sommand with 13th place. At the 2010 Junior World Championships in Hinterzarten , he won the silver medal in the sprint competition behind his compatriot Tomas Northug . Over 10 kilometers, he won the junior world championship. He was also able to celebrate the gold medal with the Norwegian team. These successes enabled him to start in the Scandinavian Cup and in the World Cup competition . During his first appearances in the World Cup in Drammen and Oslo , however, he clearly missed the qualification for the finals. At the beginning of the 2010/11 season , Golberg secured his first World Cup points in twelfth place in the sprint in Düsseldorf . At the same point he surprised a year later with victory in qualification and third place in the final run. In the team sprint, too, he and his partner Ola Vigen Hattestad could look forward to his first podium finish.

In the 2012/13 season , after a moderate start with placings outside the top ten, Golberg was able to take third place in the sprint in Liberec, his next podium. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 in Val di Fiemme , he came eleventh in the team sprint and fifth in the sprint. At the World Cup final in Falun he reached second place over 3.75 km and finished the final in ninth place. He finished the season in 21st place in the overall World Cup ranking. In the 2013/14 season he brought Lillehammer his first classic world cup victory over 15 km. Third places followed with the relay and in Nove Mesto together with Ola Vigen Hattestad in the team sprint. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he was only used in the classic 15 km race, which he finished in 18th place. At the end of the season he was able to achieve his second win of the season in the sprint in Lahti and four days later in Drammen, with second place in the sprint, his next podium place. He finished the season in ninth place in the World Cup overall standings and ninth place in the sprint standings. At the beginning of the 2014/15 season, he reached fourth place at the Nordic Opening in Lillehammer. He won the sprint race. Further placements in the points followed and at the end of the season reached 18th place in the overall World Cup and tenth place in the Sprint World Cup. After finishing 42nd at the Nordic Opening in Ruka at the beginning of the 2015/16 season, he made it into the points three times in the World Cup. His best placement of the season in the World Cup singles was ninth in the sprint in Lahti. In March 2016 he won the mini tour in Otepää in the Scandinavian Cup and finished fifth in the overall ranking of the Scandinavian Cup.

At the first World Cup of the 2016/17 season in Ruka , Golberg took his fourth World Cup victory in the sprint. This was followed by seventh place in the World Cup mini tour in Lillehammer . In the further course of the season he came twice in the top ten in World Cup sprints and finished 12th in the World Cup final in Québec . He finished the season in 20th place in the overall World Cup and in sixth place in the Sprint World Cup. The following year he was fourth in the sprint at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . In the 2018/19 season he achieved three top ten placements, including third place in the sprint in Otepää and 30th place at the World Cup final in Québec, 43rd place in the overall World Cup. He also achieved second place in the team sprint in Dresden with Eirik Brandsdal . After finishing second in the sprint in the Ruka Triple, which he finished in fourth place and third in the relay in Lillehammer, he finished sixth in the Tour de Ski 2019/20 . This was followed by second place in the sprint in Oberstdorf and his fifth World Cup victory in the sprint in Falun . In February 2020 he became Norwegian champion over 30 km and won the ski tour with a victory in the pursuit race in Östersund and second place in the sprint in Trondheim . At the end of the season he won the relay in Lahti and finally took tenth place in the distance world cup and third place in the overall world cup and sprint world cup.

successes

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 7, 2013	Norway Lillehammer	15 km classic individual start
2.	March 1, 2014	Finland Lahti	1.55 km sprint freestyle
3.	November 26, 2016	Finland Ruka	1.4 km sprint classic
4th	February 8, 2020	Sweden Falun	1.4 km sprint classic
5.	February 23, 2020	SwedenNorway Ski Tour 2020	Overall rating

Stage victories in world cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	run
1.	5th December 2014	Norway Lillehammer	1.5 km sprint freestyle	Nordic Opening 2014
2.	February 16, 2020	Sweden Ostersund	15 km classic pursuit ¹	Ski Tour 2020

¹ Being the first to cross the finish line counts as the winner.

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	March 1, 2020	Finland Lahti	4 × 7.5 km relay ²

²With Hans Christer Holund , Sjur Røthe and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo .

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	March 12, 2016	Estonia Otepää	10 km classic individual start	Scandinavian Cup
2.	March 13, 2016	Estonia Otepää	Overall standings stage race	Scandinavian Cup
3.	February 24, 2018	Norway Trondheim	10 km classic individual start	Scandinavian Cup

Medals at national championships

2013 : Gold in the sprint
2018 : Silver over 10 km
2020 : Gold over 30 km

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

2014 Sochi : 18th place, 15 km classic
2018 Pyeongchang : 4th place sprint classic

Nordic World Ski Championships

2013 Val di Fiemme : 5th place sprint classic, 11th place team sprint freestyle

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
placement	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km	Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race ^b	total	sprint	Season
1st place			1			1	4th	1	7th		1
2nd place	1						5		6th	2
3rd place						1	5		6th	2	2
Top 10	1	1	6th			5	32	6th	51	9	3
Scoring	2	5	17th		4th	10	57	13	108	9	4th
Starts	2	6th	23	1	4th	16	66	15th	133	9	4th
Status: end of season 2019/20

^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

World Cup overall placements

season	total		distance		sprint
season	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2010/11	96	63.	-	-	96	24.
2011/12	270	37.	10	88	258	9.
2012/13	346	21st	101	39.	139	15th
2013/14	512	9.	199	11.	263	9.
2014/15	363	18th	76	45.	187	10.
2015/16	59	75.	-	-	59	36.
2016/17	449	20th	95	35.	238	6th
2017/18	202	34.	24	72.	152	13.
2018/19	155	43.	24	66.	129	21st
2019/20	1311	3.	365	10.	386	3.

Web links

Pål Golberg in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Pål Golberg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

personal data
SURNAME	Golberg, Pål
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gol