Sverre Istad

Sverre Istad
Full name	Sverre Geir Istad
Association	Norway
birthday	January 3, 1965
place of birth	Voss
Career
society	Voss IL
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × NM medals 7 × 4 × 1 ×
Biathlon world championships silver 1991 Lahti team  Norwegian championships silver 1984 Vossestrand Season silver 1985 Fyresdal Season gold 1986 Geilo Season gold 1987 Tromsø Season gold 1988 Tingvoll / Dombås Season gold 1990 Voss sprint gold 1990 Voss Season gold 1990 Voss team gold 1991 Steinkjer Season silver 1991 Steinkjer singles bronze 1992 Skrautvål Season silver 1993 Brumunddal / Hattfjelldal Season
World Cup balance

Sverre Geir Istad (born January 3, 1965 in Voss ) is a former Norwegian biathlete .

Sverre Istad is the son of world champion and Olympic medalist Jon Istad and cousin of Gro Marit Istad-Kristiansen . He was active for Voss IL . He took the first time in 1987 at Biathlon World Championships in part and was 28th in the sprint. The high point of his career was the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary . In the sprint, after one error in prone and four errors in standing, he finished 30th at the same time as Lyle Nelson . At the Biathlon World Championships in 1990 , which were held in several locations due to the capricious weather , Istad at Holmenkollen in Oslo was 25th in the sprint and with Geir Einang , Frode Løberg and Gisle Fenne sixth in the team race. In 1991 the Norwegian won the World Championship silver medal behind the team from Italy in the team race with Jon Åge Tyldum , Ivar Ulekleiv and Løberg.

Nationally, Istad won twelve medals between 1984 and 1993, including seven titles. His most successful year was 1990 , when he not only won the relay and team races in Voss , but also won his only individual title with the sprint title. With the relay and the team from the Buskeruds region , he won six titles alongside athletes such as Gisle Fenne, Eirik Kvalfoss , Magne Istad , Lars Fosse and Terje Breivik .

World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Relay: including mixed relay

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place					1		1
3rd place
Top 10		1			2		3
Scoring		2			2		4th
Starts		4th			2		6th
Status : end of career, data not complete

Web links

• Sverre Istad in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Istad at the-sports.org