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Bjarte Engen Vik | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Norway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1971-03-03) 3 March 1971 (age 53) Tromsø, Norway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ski club | Bardufoss IF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seasons | 1991–2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Starts | 102 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Podiums | 61 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall titles | 2 (1998, 1999) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bjarte Engen Vik (born 3 March 1971 in Tromsø) is a Norwegian former Nordic combined athlete. He won the "FIS World Cup overall twice," in 1997-98 and "1998-99 with a total of 24 wins." He also has eight medals from the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with five golds (1997: 4 x 5 km team, 1999: 15 km individual, "7."5 km sprint, 2001: 15 km individual, 4 x 5 km team), and three silvers (1995: 4 x 5 km team, 1997: 15 km individual, 1999: 4 x 5 km team). He also won a bronze medal in the Norwegian championship in ski jumping. His consecutive wins in the Individual Gundersen at the Nordic Skiing World Championships in 1999. And 2001 were the first since Oddbjørn Hagen did it in 1934 and 1935.
Vik also found great success at the Holmenkollen ski festival, winning the Nordic combined individual event five times (1996–2000), becoming one of only four athletes to do so (Lauritz Bergendahl, Johan Grøttumsbråten, and Rauno Miettinen are the others.). He also won the Nordic combined 7.5 km sprint event at the festival twice (1997, 2000). Vik's seven career wins at the Holmenkollen are the most among any competitor in Nordic combined.
Vik received the Holmenkollen medal in 1997 (shared with Stefania Belmondo and Bjørn Dæhlie).
References※
- Bjarte Engen Vik at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Holmenkollen medalists at the Wayback Machine (archived February 24, 2007) - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)
- Holmenkollen winners since 1892 at the Wayback Machine (archived February 24, 2007) - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Tromsø
- Olympic gold medalists for Norway
- Nordic combined skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Holmenkollen medalists
- Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
- Norwegian male Nordic combined skiers
- FIS Nordic Combined World Cup winners
- Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Norway
- Olympic silver medalists for Norway
- Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
- Olympic medalists in Nordic combined
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics