Trond Einar Elden

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Trond Einar Elden Cross-country skiing Nordic combination
Full name Trond Einar Elden
nation NorwayNorway Norway
birthday February 21, 1970
place of birth Namdalseid ,  NorwayNorwayNorway 
size 189 cm
Weight 85 kg
Career
discipline Nordic combined skiing
society Namdalseid IL
Strindheim IL
status resigned
End of career 2005
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 2 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
JWM medals 5 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
National medals 6 × gold 7 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver 1992 Albertville NK team
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
gold 1989 Lahti NK team
gold 1989 Lahti NK single
silver 1993 Falun NK team
bronze 1993 Falun NK single
silver 1999 Ramsau NK team
FIS Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
gold 1988 Saalfelden NK team
gold 1989 Vang NK team
gold 1989 Vang NK single
gold 1990 Štrbské Pleso NK team
gold 1990 Štrbské Pleso NK single
Norwegian Ski Association Norwegian championships
gold 1988 Vang team
gold 1989 Konnerud singles
gold 1989 Steinkjer team
silver 1990 singles
silver 1991 singles
silver 1992 Trondheim singles
gold 1993 Våler team
gold 1994 Rena team
silver 1994 Rena singles
silver 1995 Oslo singles
silver 1995 Oslo team
silver 1996 Stryn team
bronze 1996 Stryn singles
gold 1997 Mo i Rana team
bronze 1998 Meldal singles
Cross-country skiing

Debut in the World Cup December 17, 2000
Overall World Cup 27. ( 2000/01 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 sprint 0 2 0
Nordic combination

Debut in the World Cup March 12, 1988
Overall World Cup 3. ( 1990/91 )
World Cup victories 5
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 singles 5 2 8th
 sprint 0 0 1
 team 0 0 1
 

Trond Einar Elden (born February 21, 1970 in Namdalseid ) is a former Norwegian skier who was internationally successful in Nordic combined and cross-country skiing . He is considered to be one of the best cross-country skiers of all time in the Nordic Combined. He was able to achieve 42 victories in the cross-country skiing competitions. For a long time, only his brother Bård Jørgen Elden was better, with 62 cross-country victories in the combiners.

Career

Nordic combination

Elden, the younger brother of the equally successful cross-country skier and Nordic combined skier, Bård Jørgen Elden, started skiing at the age of five in his native town of Namdalseid near Namdalseid IL . He later attended the ski school in Steinkjer with his brother. Elden made his international debut at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in 1988 in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer . He won the gold medal in the team competition with his brother Bård and Jon Andersen . A short time later he won the team gold medal at the Norwegian Championships in Vang in 1988 . At the end of the 1987/88 season he made his debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup in Falun . He won his first World Cup points as 11th straight away.

In January 1989 Elden was a permanent member of the national squad and was third on the podium for the first time in his second World Cup in Schonach in the Black Forest . A week later, he narrowly missed his second podium in fourth in Reit im Winkl . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1989 , Elden secured the individual world title ahead of Andrei Dundukow and Trond Arne Bredesen and also won the gold medal in the team competition together with his brother and Bredesen.

At the end of the season, he won two individual World Cups in Oslo and Falun. He finished the 1988/89 season in sixth place in the overall World Cup ranking. At the end of the season, the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Vang in 1989 , he won another two gold medals. Also at the Norwegian Championships in Konnerud and Steinkjer in 1989 he was successful with the title in both individual and team.

The 1989/90 season did not go as expected for Elden. Although he was third on the podium twice in January and March, he often did not end up in the top ten. Only at the Junior World Championship in 1990 in Štrbské Pleso did he win gold again twice. It was not until the 1990/91 season that he found his way back to the top of the world in the World Cup. In his most successful season, which he finished third overall, he won a total of three World Cups and was second once.

After he started the 1991/92 season again with two good sixth places in Courchevel and Schonach, he was part of the squad for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville . Together with Knut Tore Apeland and Fred Børre Lundberg , he won the silver medal in the team competition. In the individual, he only achieved a ninth place, after having won the cross-country skiing superior, but only landed in the lower ranks in ski jumping. At his last World Cup of the season, he was second on the podium in Trondheim . Just a few weeks earlier, he won silver in the same place at the Norwegian Championships .

In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 in Sweden's Falun he won in the individual behind Kenji Ogiwara the bronze medal and his compatriot Knut Tore Apeland. With the team it was enough behind Japan to the silver medal. In the 1993/94 season Elden was able to achieve top 10 placements in all World Cup competitions. In the overall standings, it was enough to finish sixth. Gold again with the team at the Norwegian Championships in Rena in 1994 . Before that, he had little success at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer and did not get there beyond eighth place in the individual. In the team competition he was not part of the team.

As a result, Elden often struggled to stay at the top of the world. Often times, he only ended up above the top ten. He won no more victories. Even nationally, he did not get beyond bronze or silver medals at the championships. Only at the Norwegian Championships in Mo i Rana in 1997 did he and the team again finish at the top of the podium.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1999 in Ramsau am Dachstein , Elden started in the sprint and reached 10th place. He won silver with the team two days earlier. In March 2000 he played his last Nordic Combined World Cup in Santa Caterina and achieved another World Cup point in 15th place. The day before he finished third in the team mass start together with Kenneth Braaten and Kristian Hammer.

Cross-country skiing

In the 2000/01 season Elden switched from Nordic combined to cross-country skiing. He gave the cross-country skiing Continental Cup in Orsa and landed third on the podium right away. In February 2001 Elden was able to take second place behind his compatriot Morten Brørs at the Sprint World Cup in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic, and was thus on the podium for the first time in the cross-country skiing World Cup . At the end of the season he finished fifth overall in the sprint ranking of the overall World Cup. Also in December 2001 Elden made it onto the podium in Salzburg . At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , he started cross-country skiing for the first time and achieved 15th place in the sprint. He ended his international sporting career in January 2005 with a FIS race in the Granåsen . At national level, his greatest success in cross-country skiing was fourth place in the sprint at the 2003 Norwegian Championships in Sjøvegan .

After the career

Since 2005 he has been supporting the US national Nordic combined team as a cross-country trainer. In 2008 he took over this post with the Norwegians.

successes

Nordic combination

World Cup victories in individual

No. date place discipline
1. March 3, 1989 NorwayNorway Oslo Gundersen K120 / 15.0 km
2. March 11, 1989 SwedenSweden Falun Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km
3. March 2, 1991 FinlandFinland Lahti Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km
4th March 8, 1991 SwedenSweden Falun Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km
5. March 15, 1991 NorwayNorway Oslo Gundersen K120 / 15.0 km

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 8th 1 1 10
Top 10 51 7th 1 59
Scoring 67 14th 1 1 83
Starts 72 14th 1   1 88
Status: end of career
a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

World Cup placements

season space Points
1987/88 29 05
1988/89 06th 077
1989/90 07th 078
1990/91 03. 123
1991/92 05. 050
1992/93 07th 044
1993/94 06th 713
1994/95 07th 642
1995/96 14th 501
1996/97 08th. 581
1997/98 26th 342
1998/99 15th 621
1999/2000 23. 446

Cross-country skiing

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
  • Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.
placement Distance races a Skiathlon
pursuit 		sprint Stage
race b 		total team
≤ 5 km ≤ 10 km ≤ 15 km ≤ 30 km > 30 km sprint Season
1st place  
2nd place 1 1
3rd place  
Top 10 7th 7th 1
Scoring 14th 14th 1 1
Starts 1 1 1 16 19th 1 1
Status: end of career
a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification
bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale

Awards

As early as 1991 Elden was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal . In 2004 he was awarded the Egebergs Ærespris .

literature

  • International Sports Archive 33/1993 from August 9, 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry Elden, Trond-Einar in Munzinger Online / Sport - Internationales Sportarchiv
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Orklahopp Norge: NM SKI NORDISKE GRENER ( MS Word ; 2.3 MB) , 2007
  3. ↑ World Ski Championships 1989 - Men's Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  4. ↑ World Ski Championships 1989 - Men's Team K90 / 3x10 km ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  5. ^ Norway Nordic Combined at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  6. ↑ World Ski Championships 1993 - Men's Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  7. ↑ World Ski Championships 1993 - Men's Team K90 / 3x10 km ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  8. ^ Norway Nordic Combined at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  9. ↑ World Ski Championships 1999 - Men's Sprint K90 / 7.5 km ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  10. ↑ World Ski Championships 1999 - Men's Team K90 / 4x5 km ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  11. ↑ World Cup March 16, 2000 - Men's Team Mass Start K90 / 3x5 K ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  12. ↑ Cross Country Skiing at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Men's Sprint ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
  13. ↑ Trond Einar Elden new cross-country trainer for the combiners . Skisprungfan.de. September 17, 2008. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
  14. ↑ Holmenkollmedaljen . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
  15. ^ Winner of the Egeberg Ærespris in the store norske leksikon
personal data
SURNAME Elden, Trond Einar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian skier
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Namdalseid , Norway