Truls Ove Karlsen

Truls Ove Karlsen
nation	Norway
birthday	25th April 1975 (age 45)
place of birth	Oslo , Norway
size	172 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom
society	Sæli Alpinklubb
status	resigned
End of career	February 2013
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut October 28, 2001  Overall World Cup 22. ( 2003/04 )  Super G World Cup 57th ( 2009/10 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 20th (2009/10)  Slalom World Cup 8. ( 2002/03 , 2003/04)  Combination World Cup 46th (2009/10)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  slalom 1 0 0  Knockout race 0 0 1

Truls Ove Karlsen (born April 25, 1975 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian ski racer . In the World Cup, he specialized in the disciplines of slalom and giant slalom for a long time , occasionally also competed in the other disciplines and from the 2010/11 season only competed in giant slalom.

biography

After Karlsen had only participated in FIS races for a long time , he was only used regularly in the European Cup from the 2000/01 season . Here he quickly made it to the top, whereupon he started in the World Cup from the 2001/02 season . In his third World Cup race, the Aspen Slalom on November 26, 2001, he finished eighth, after which he was nominated for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . There he was eliminated in both slalom and combination.

In the 2002/03 season , Karlsen was placed in the top ten six more times, including his first podium, third place in the knockout slalom in Sestriere on December 16, 2002. At the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz , he was 24th in the Giant slalom, but was eliminated in slalom. Karlsen also achieved six top 10 placings in the winter of 2003/04 and celebrated his first and so far only World Cup victory in the Kranjska Gora slalom on February 29, 2004 . As in the previous year, he achieved eighth place in the Slalom World Cup.

The 2004/05 slalom season , however, was rather disappointing. With a ninth place in Flachau and a 13th place in Schladming as the best results, Karlsen fell well short of expectations, at the 2005 World Championships in Bormio he was eliminated again in the slalom. Due to injury, Karlsen was absent for almost the entire 2005/06 season and even after that he did not find his way back to the top of the world. There were only a few places where he was able to classify himself among the top 20. An exception was his good results at the 2007 World Championships in Åre , where he finished sixth in giant slalom and seventh in slalom. The Norwegian also surprised with the 13th place in the giant slalom at the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , as his best World Cup result this winter was 23rd place.

While Karlsen had previously only participated in slaloms and giant slaloms in the World Cup, from 2009 he also started in a few super combinations, super Gs and descents. If the slalom used to be his stronger discipline, today it is the giant slalom. While he won World Cup points for the last time in the slalom in 2008, he was able to improve his giant slalom results again in the 2009/10 season . Karlsen finished in the top 20 five times, with his best results being two 15th places in the giant slaloms of Val-d'Isère and Alta Badia . This was the first time he was among the top 20 in the Giant Slalom World Cup. At the 2010 Winter Olympics , the Norwegian competed in all five disciplines. In addition to two failures, he achieved 21st place in the giant slalom, 22nd place in the super combined and 46th place in the downhill.

In the 2010/11 season , Karlsen only took part in giant slaloms in the World Cup. With tenth place in Beaver Creek , he achieved a top 10 result for the first time in six years. In the Giant Slalom World Cup, however, he fell six places down on the previous year. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he finished 25th in the giant slalom and 28th in the Super-G.

successes

Truls Ove Karlsen in March 2011

Olympic games

• Vancouver 2010 : 21st giant slalom, 22nd super combined, 46th downhill

World championships

• St. Moritz 2003 : 24th giant slalom
• Åre 2007 : 6th giant slalom, 7th slalom
• Val-d'Isère 2009 : 13th giant slalom
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 25th giant slalom, 28th Super-G

World cup

• 2002/03 season : 8th slalom ranking
• 2003/04 season : 8th slalom ranking
• 2 podium places, including 1 victory:

date	place	country	discipline
February 29, 2004	Kranjska Gora	Slovenia	slalom

Continental Cups

• European Cup 2000/01 season : 4th slalom classification
• 6 podium places in the European Cup
• 4 podiums in the Nor-Am Cup , including 2 wins
• 1 win in the Australian New Zealand Cup

More Achievements

• 7 Norwegian championship titles
  • 4 × slalom: 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008
  • 2 × giant slalom: 2002, 2008
  • 1 × combination: 2001
• 23 victories in FIS races

Web links

• Truls Ove Karlsen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Truls Ove Karlsen in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Truls Ove Karlsen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )