Rune Høydahl

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Rune Høydahl Road cycling
Rune Høydahl
Rune Høydahl
To person
Date of birth 10th December 1969 (age 50)
nation NorwayNorway Norway
discipline Mountain bike , road
Team (s)
2008 Truls Haugseth Norway
Most important successes
World championships
silver 1996 Cairns Cross Country
Last updated: October 2, 2018

Rune Christopher Høydahl (born December 10, 1969 in Drammen , Norway ) is a former Norwegian mountain biker , triathlete and two-time Olympic athlete (1996, 2000).

Career

In mountain biking, Høydahl achieved eleven World Cup winners and was second three times in the overall World Cup. At that time, Høydahl was the first to succeed in winning World Cups in downhill and cross country . Between 1992 and 2003 he was a nine-time national mountain bike champion.

In cross country, Høydahl won the silver medal at the 1996 World Championships. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Høydahl started for Norway in cross country mountain biking. Mountain biking was an Olympic discipline for the first time in 1996 and Høydahl came in eleventh. At the 2000 Summer Olympics , Høydahl was there again, but did not reach the goal.

After retiring from active cycling, Høydahl was able to win the second edition of the Norseman Xtreme Triathlon in 2004 and improve the course record by over an hour.

Høydahl lives in Sande , not far south of his birthplace Drammen. Today he leads his own mountain bike team, the Etto / Høydahl team .

Sporting successes

  • MaillotNoruega.PNG Norwegian Downhill Champion 1992
  • MaillotNoruega.PNG Norwegian Champion Cross Country 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003
  • MaillotNoruega.PNG Norwegian champion Cyclo-Cross 2001, 2002
Mountain bike
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
  2000 DNF 2000 Summer Olympics AustraliaAustralia Sydney - Cross country mountain bike; eliminated in the 1st round
  1996 11 1996 Summer Olympics United StatesUnited States Atlanta Cross country mountain bike (47.7 km)
  1996 2 UCI Mountain Bike and Trial World Championships AustraliaAustralia Cairns Vice World Champion Cross Country
Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0Aug 5, 2012 7th Norseman Xtreme Triathlon NorwayNorway Eidfjord 11:15:27 10th anniversary
Sep 11 2004 23 Xterra Germany GermanyGermany Titisee 02:52:05 behind the Swiss Olivier Marceau
  2004 1 Norseman Xtreme Triathlon NorwayNorway Eidfjord 11:30:08 one of the toughest triathlon competitions worldwide over 3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42.2 km running (5500 m) - new course record

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Drammen Rittet 2009. (PDF; 746 kB) Archived from the original on August 12, 2014 ; Retrieved January 17, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b WorldXCmtb.com - Hoydahl Rune. Archived from the original on February 17, 2013 ; Retrieved January 17, 2013 .
  3. ↑ XTERRA Germany Titisee 2004
personal data
SURNAME Høydahl, rune
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Høydahl, Rune Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian mountain biker and triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Drammen , Norway