Roar Ljøkelsøy

Roar Ljøkelsøy
Roar Ljøkelsøy 2005
nation	Norway
birthday	May 31, 1976
place of birth	Orkdal ,  Norway
size	175 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
society	Orkdal IL
Pers. Best	230.5 m ( Planica 2005)
status	resigned
End of career	2010
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 2 × SFWM medals 4 × 0 × 0 × National medals 11 × 7 × 7 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2006 Turin Normal hill bronze 2006 Turin team  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 2005 Oberstdorf Large hill bronze 2005 Oberstdorf Large hill team bronze 2007 Sapporo Large hill silver 2007 Sapporo team  Ski flying world championships gold 2004 Planica singles gold 2004 Planica team gold 2006 Tauplitz singles gold 2006 Tauplitz team  Norwegian championships bronze 1993 Lillehammer team gold 1995 Oslo team bronze 1996 Stryn Normal hill silver 1996 Stryn team gold 1997 Mo i Rana team gold 1997 Meldal team bronze 1999 Raufoss Normal hill gold 1999 Rena Large hill gold 1999 Raufoss team bronze 2000 Meldal Large hill gold 2000 Rena team gold 2001 Sprova team gold 2002 Rælingen Normal hill silver 2002 Trondheim Large hill silver 2003 Rælingen Normal hill silver 2003 Trondheim Large hill gold 2004 Bardu Normal hill bronze 2004 Oslo Large hill gold 2004 Bardu team silver 2005 Lillehammer Large hill silver 2007 Molde Normal hill bronze 2007 Molde team gold 2009 Raufoss Normal hill silver 2009 Lillehammer Large hill bronze 2009 Trondheim Normal hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	March 11, 1993
World Cup victories (individual)	11 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	06 ( details )
Overall World Cup	02. ( 2003/04 , 2004/05 )
Ski flying world cup	07. (1995/96)
Jump World Cup	14. (1996/97)
Four Hills Tournament	03rd ( 2005/06 )
Nordic Tournament	01. (2004)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 10 12 6th  Ski flying 1 3 0  Team jumping 6th 7th 3
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 28, 1994
Grand Prix victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	05th ( 2004 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 0 1 2  Team jumping 1 0 0
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	03rd December 1993
COC wins (individual)	03 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	16. ( 2009/10 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 3 1 2

Roar Ljøkelsøy (born May 31, 1976 in Orkdal ) is a former Norwegian ski jumper and today's trainer. From 2016 to 2019 he was assistant trainer for the German national ski jumping team.

Career

At the age of nine, Ljøkelsøy made his first jumps under the supervision of Terje Nyhus. Two years later he won his first competition, at 13 he became district champion. At the age of 14/15 he ended his footballing career and went to Trondheim , where he attended Heimdal Vidergaende Skole for four years . In the same winter he won the Norges Cup for Juniors, finished fifth in the Junior World Championship and finally joined the Norwegian World Cup team. There he made his debut at the age of 16, shortly afterwards he won his first World Cup points in Planica . This was followed by years on average with rare upward swings. In 1995 he stood on the podium for the first time, again in Planica, but soon afterwards a Norwegian ski jumping depression broke out that would last for years and had one of its sad symbolic figures in Ljøkelsøy. A low point was the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , where the team finished ninth behind Korea .

Success only came with the coach change in 2002, because the new national coach, the Finn Mika Kojonkoski , carried out nationwide viewing programs in order to seek out the greatest talents and to promote them.

At the Ski Flying World Championships 2004 in Planica, Ljøkelsøy was world champion both individually and with the team. He finished the 2003/2004 season after a furious season finale in second place in the overall World Cup , which he was able to repeat in the following season. Ljøkelsøy showed the best jump of his career in 2004 in Oberstdorf, his 223 meters exceeded the previous hill record by 10 meters - until then it was considered impossible to stand such a distance on the Heini-Klopfer ski-flying hill . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 2005 , he won the silver medal in jumping from the large hill and the bronze medal with the team. At the ski flying world championship 2006 in Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf ( Kulm ) he was able to successfully defend his title from 2004. He won the individual jumping twice and thus achieved the gold medal. The next day he again won the gold medal with his team in team competition. This makes Ljøkelsøy the only ski jumper, along with Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer , to have won four ski flying gold medals.

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Ljøkelsøy came third on the normal hill and fourth on the large hill. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo , he won the bronze medal and silver with the team in the individual competition.

After the 2009/10 season, he ended his active career. He made his farewell flight at the 2010 Ski Flying World Championships in Planica.

Ljøkelsøy is the father of a son named Sokrates and an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play .

From 2016 to 2019 he was part of the coaching team of the German national ski jumping team. Since May 2019 he has been the head coach of the Trønderhopp ski jumping club in Trondheim .

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 25, 2003	Sapporo	Large hill
2.	December 6, 2003	Trondheim	Large hill
3.	December 20, 2003	Engelberg	Large hill
4th	January 24, 2004	Sapporo	Large hill
5.	January 25, 2004	Sapporo	Large hill
6th	February 7, 2004	Oberstdorf	Ski jump
7th	March 12, 2004	Lillehammer	Large hill
8th.	March 14, 2004	Oslo	Large hill
9.	January 29, 2005	Zakopane	Large hill
10.	February 6, 2005	Sapporo	Large hill
11.	January 22, 2006	Sapporo	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	November 25, 2000	Kuopio	Large hill
2.	February 15, 2004	Willingen	Large hill
3.	March 6, 2004	Lahti	Large hill
4th	March 5, 2005	Lahti	Large hill
5.	November 30, 2007	Kuusamo	Large hill
6th	March 6, 2010	Lahti	Large hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	September 5, 2004	Zakopane	Large hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 20, 1998	Raelingen	Normal hill
2.	March 9, 2008	Trondheim	Large hill
3.	August 22, 2009	Lillehammer	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1992/93	53.	0004th
1993/94	17th	0258
1994/95	33.	0096
1995/96	15th	0501
1996/97	13.	0462
1997/98	32.	0191
1998/99	29	0173
1999/00	29	0213
2000/01	28.	0151
2001/02	35.	0117
2002/03	09.	0757
2003/04	02.	1306
2004/05	02.	1440
2005/06	04th	0875
2006/07	14th	0474
2007/08	37.	0099
2008/09	25th	0259
2009/10	30th	0140

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
1995	42.	351
1996	45.	008th
1997	15th	092
1998	30th	029
1999	38.	018th
2000	14th	156
2001	18th	107
2002	06th	193
2003	05.	150
2004	15th	112
2005	30th	052
2006	46.	046
2007	19th	109
2008	28.	075

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Harrachov	Czech Republic	201.0 m ( HS : 205 m)	March 9, 1996	March 9, 1996
Sapporo	Japan	126.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	January 19, 1997	January 19, 1997
Oberstdorf	Germany	223.0 m ( HS : 213 m)	February 7, 2004	February 14, 2009
Lillehammer	Norway	136.5 m ( HS : 138 m)	March 12, 2004	March 11, 2005
Sapporo	Japan	140.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	January 22, 2006	January 26, 2014

Web links

Commons : Roar Ljøkelsøy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Roar Ljøkelsøy in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Roar Ljøkelsøy on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Roar Ljøkelsøy website (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ WM splitter from Planica . www.kleinezeitung.at. Archived from the original on October 9, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
2. ↑ Ljøkelsøy ny hovedtrener for Trønderhopp , Aftenposten.no, accessed on March 22, 2020