Kristen Skjeldal
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's Cross country skiing | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 2002 | 4 × 10 km Relay | |
| Gold | 1992 | 4 x 10 km Relay | |
| Bronze | 2002 | 30 km Freestyle Mass Start | |
Kristen Skjeldal (born May 27, 1967) is an Olympic champion and cross country skier from Norway. He has won three olympic medals: two gold and one bronze. He won his first gold medal in the 4 x 10km relay at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. He finished fourth in 30km freestyle event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, but was awarded the bronze medal upon Spain's Johann Mühlegg blood-doping disqualification. Skjeldal also won a gold medal in 4 x 10km relay at those same games.
His beat finish at the Nordic skiing World Championships was a 6th in the 50km event in 1999. Skjeldal has also won thirteeh cross country skiing events of various distances between 1991 and 2006.
Skjeldal was still an active skiier in 2005, located in his ski club in Bulken, Norway. His brother Gudmund Skjeldal also has participated in the Olympics.
I 2005 Gudmund published a biography about his brother, called Den siste langrennaren.
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1936 Finland Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Matti Lähde, & Kalle Jalkanen
1948 Sweden Nils Östensson, Nils Täpp, Gunnar Eriksson, & Martin Lundström
1952 Finland Heikki Hasu, Paavo Lonkila, Urpo Korhonen, & Tapio Mäkelä
1956 Soviet Union Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolay Anikin, & Vladimir Kuzin
1960 Finland Toimi Alatalo, Eero Mäntyranta, Väinö Huhtala, & Veikko Hakulinen
1964 Sweden Karl-Åke Asph, Sixten Jernberg, Janne Stefansson, & Assar Rönnlund
1968 Norway Odd Martinsen, Pål Tyldum, Harald Grønningen, & Ole Ellefsæter
1972 Soviet Union Vladimir Voronkov, Yuri Skobov, Fyodor Simashev, & Vyacheslav Vedenin
1976 Finland Matti Pitkänen, Juha Mieto, Pertti Teurajärvi, & Arto Koivisto
1980 Soviet Union Vasily Rochev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Yevgeny Belyayev, & Nikolay Zimyatov
1984 Sweden Thomas Wassberg, Benny Tord Kohlberg, Jan Ottosson, Gunde Svan
1988 Sweden Jan Ottosson, Thomas Wassberg, Gunde Svan & Torgny Mogren
1992 Norway Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, Kristen Skjeldal & Bjørn Dæhlie
1994 Italy Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta & Silvio Fauner
1998 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard
2002 Norway Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Kristen Skjeldal, & Thomas Alsgaard
2006 Italy Fulvio Valbusa, Giorgio di Centa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, & Cristian Zorzi
