Sverre Farstad

Sverre Farstad
Full name	Sverre Melvin Farstad
nation	Norway
birthday	February 8, 1920
place of birth	Trondheim ,  Norway
date of death	March 27, 1978
Place of death	Oslo ,  Norway
Career
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 1948 St. Moritz 1500 m  All around world championships silver 1947 Oslo All-around  All-around European Championships bronze 1947 Stockholm All-around gold 1949 Davos All-around
last change: May 29, 2019

Sverre Melvin Farstad (born February 8, 1920 in Trondheim , † March 27, 1978 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian speed skater .

Career

Farstad surprisingly won the bronze medal at the European speed skating championships in 1947 and the silver medal shortly afterwards at the world championships . Before that, he was only ninth at the Norwegian national championship and was only able to start internationally because seven of the best Norwegian runners had canceled their participation 14 days before the start of the European championship.

The following year he was Olympic champion in the 1,500 m and sixth in the 500 m at the first Winter Olympics after the Second World War in St. Moritz . In 1949 he became European champion in the all-around competition. He also set the only world record in his career.

After the end of his active career, Sverre Farstad worked as a sports journalist.

successes

• 1947: Vice World Champion, European Championship third (all-around)
• 1948: Olympic gold medal over 1,500 m
• 1949: European Champion (all-around)

Personal best

route	time	date	place
0500 m	41.8 s	February 5, 1949	Davos
1,000 m	1: 29.7 min	January 18, 1950	Gjøvik
1,500 m	2: 13.9 min	February 6, 1949	Davos
3,000 m	4: 59.2 min	February 12, 1949	Trondheim
5,000 m	8: 15.4 min	February 5, 1949	Davos
10,000 m0	17: 39.7 min	February 6, 1949	Davos

Web links

• Sverre Farstad in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics at speed skating news