Torbjørn Løkken

Torbjørn Løkken
nation	Norway
birthday	June 28, 1963
place of birth	Biri ,  Norway
size	175 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
society	Biri IL
National squad	since 1984
status	resigned
End of career	1989
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 0 × National medals 1 × 3 × 1 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1987 Oberstdorf Single (NH) silver 1987 Oberstdorf 3 × 10 km team (NH)  Norwegian championships bronze 1985 Tromsø Single (NH) silver 1986 Vang Single (NH) gold 1987 Kongsberg Single (NH) silver 1988 Skien Single (NH) silver 1988 Vang team
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	15th December 1984
World Cup victories (individual)	5 ( details )
Overall World Cup	1. ( 1986/87 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 5 2 2

Torbjørn Løkken (born June 28, 1963 in Biri ) is a former Norwegian Nordic combined skier .

Career

Løkken, who started for Biri IL , made his debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup on December 15, 1984 in Planica . With eighth place, he immediately landed in the top ten. A few days later, in fourth place in St. Moritz, he narrowly missed his first podium. He also landed on this square in January in Leningrad . His first season 1984/85 he finished eighth in the overall World Cup standings.

At the Norwegian Championships in Tromsø in 1985 , he won the bronze medal in singles behind Geir Andersen and Hallstein Bøgseth . In the 1985/86 season Løkken started weak with 15th place in Tarvisio . In the two other competitions he competed, he did not make it into the top ten and ended the season in 27th place overall after only three World Cups.

Løkken had the most successful season in his sporting career with the 1986/87 season . On December 13, 1986, he started the season in Canmore with his first World Cup victory. In Reit im Winkl he finished second again in January before celebrating his second victory in Autrans just a few days later . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1987 in Oberstdorf , he won the gold medal in the individual on the normal hill and the silver medal with the team. After the world championship, he achieved his third World Cup victory in Falun . Also at the Norwegian championship in 1987 in Kongsberg was successful for the first time and won his first and only title in individual before Arne Orderløkken and Hallstein Bøgseth. He finished the World Cup season as overall leader. He was then honored with the Aftenposten gold medal in his home country in the same year . He also received the official congratulations from Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland .

In the 1987-88 season started Løkken with second place in Bad Goisern before he celebrated his fourth World Cup victory in January in St. Moritz. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , he finished sixth in the individual, a few days after he narrowly missed a medal with Trond Arne Bredesen and Hallstein Bøgseth in fourth in the team competition. Even before the games, he won the combination competition on Holmenkollen .

At the Norwegian Championships in Skien in 1988 , he won silver both individually and with the team. On March 18, 1988, he won his fifth and final World Cup in Oslo . After taking a break from the World Cup for almost two years, he started again in St. Moritz in December 1989 and in ninth place won another seven World Cup points.

After the end of his active career, Løkken started having problems with alcohol and other drugs . In a 2007 interview with the Dagbladet , he revealed that he had been an addict for 15 years. In addition to alcohol addiction , he took pills and heroin .

successes

World Cup victories

date	place	country	discipline
December 13, 1986	Canmore	Canada	singles
17th January 1987	Autrans	France	singles
March 6, 1987	Falun	Sweden	singles
January 9, 1988	St. Moritz	Switzerland	singles
March 18, 1988	Oslo	Norway	singles

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	Single a	sprint	Mass start	team		total
				sprint	Season
1st place	5					5
2nd place	2					2
3rd place	2					2
Top 10	19th					19th
Scoring	22nd					22nd
Starts	22nd					22nd
Status: end of career

^a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

Web links

• Torbjørn Løkken in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Torbjørn Løkken in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Orklahopp Norge: NM SKI NORDISKE GRENER ( MS Word ; 2.3 MB) , 2007
2. ↑ Prisvinnere Aftenpostens gullmedalje ( Norwegian ) Store norske leksikon . Retrieved November 23, 2013.
3. ↑ Statsministeren gratuler Løkken ( Norwegian , PDF; 160 kB) regjeringen.no. February 14, 1987. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 23, 2013. 
4. ^ Vinnere av Holmenkollrennene . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
5. ↑ Gorm S. Andresen: Drikking, piller, narcotics og kjøring i rus (Norwegian) . In: Dagbladet , November 23, 2007. Retrieved November 23, 2013. 
6. ^ Hans-Inge Langø: Skistjerne var heroinmisbruker (Norwegian) . In: Nettavisen , November 23, 2007. Retrieved November 23, 2013.