Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass

	Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass
	Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass (2011)
nation	Norway
birthday	29th April 1961 (age 59)
place of birth	Bromma , Norway
Career
status	resigned
End of career	1997
Medal table
winter Olympics
Nordic World Ski Championships
	Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup	January 9, 1982, Reit im Winkl
World Cup victories in individual	4 ( details )
Overall World Cup	3. ( 1987/88 )

Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass (born April 29, 1961 in Bromma ) is a former Norwegian cross-country skier .

Career

Mikkelsplass won numerous medals at world championships with the Norwegian relay, including two gold ones. On the individual route, he won the silver medal over 15 kilometers in classic style at the 1989 World Cup . The same placement over the same distance he achieved at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary .

Mikkelsplass also won several relay and team gold medals at Norwegian Biathlon Championships, where he competed for Buskerud together with Frode Andresen , Ole Einar and Dag Bjørndalen .

He has been married to the cross-country skier Marit Mikkelsplass-Wold since 1994 . His brother Eilif Kristen Mikkelsplass , husband of the biathlete Hildegunn Fossen-Mikkelsplass , was also a successful cross-country skier.

successes

winter Olympics

1988 in Calgary : Silver over 15 km

World championships

1982 in Oslo : Gold with the relay
1985 in Seefeld : Gold with the relay
1987 in Oberstdorf : bronze with the relay
1989 in Lahti : Silver over 15 km

Norwegian championships

1980 : Silver with the relay
1981 : Bronze with the relay
1982 : Silver over 30 km
1983 : Silver with the relay
1984 : Silver over 15 km, silver over 30 km, bronze with the relay
1986 : Gold over 15 km, gold over 50 km, silver with the relay
1987 : Silver over 15 km
1988 : Gold over 15 km
1989 : Gold over 15 km

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 9, 1982	Germany Reit im Winkl	15 km
2.	18th December 1982	Switzerland Davos	15 km
3.	December 9, 1984	Italy Cogne	15 km
4th	March 27, 1988	Finland Rovaniemi	50 km classic

World Cup overall placements

season	space	Points
1981/82	20th	37
1982/83	6th	85
1983/84	31.	22nd
1984/85	5.	100
1985/86	4th	57
1986/87	16.	35
1987/88	3.	99
1988/89	4th	134
1989/90	-	-
1990/91	43.	4th
1991/92	21st	24
1992/93	88	5
1993/94	69.	9

Web links

Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass on skisport365.com
Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

personal data
SURNAME	Mikkelsplass, Pål Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bromma , Norway