Sixten Jernberg
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's cross country skiing | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | 50 km | |
| Gold | 1960 Squaw Valley | 30 km | |
| Gold | 1964 Innsbruck | 50 km | |
| Gold | 1964 Innsbruck | 4 x 10 km | |
| Silver | 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | 15 km | |
| Silver | 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | 30 km | |
| Silver | 1960 Squaw Valley | 15 km | |
| Bronze | 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1964 Innsbruck | 15 km | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1958 Lahti | 50 km | |
| Gold | 1958 Lahti | 4 x 10 km | |
| Gold | 1962 Zakopane | 50 km | |
| Gold | 1962 Zakopane | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1954 Falun | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1958 Lahti | 30 km | |
Edy Sixten Jernberg (born 6 February 1929, Malung Municipality, Dalarna County) is a retired Swedish cross country skier.
Through a career lasting from the 1954 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun to the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, he won four World Championships gold medals and nine Olympic medals. He specialised in the longer distances, with four of his eight gold medals coming in the 50 km distance, one was over 30 km and three in 4 x 10 km. He also won Vasaloppet twice. Jernberg won the 15 km at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1954. For his cross-country skiing successes, Jernberg was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1960 (Shared with Helmut Recknagel, Sverre Stensheim, and Tormod Knutsen.). He also won the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1956 (Shared with Lars Hall).
[edit] Olympic results
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- 1956, 15 km: 2, 30 km: 2, 50 km: 1, 4 x 10 km: 3,
- 1960, 15 km: 2, 30 km: 1, 50 km: 5, 4 x 10 km: 4,
- 1964, 15 km: 3, 30 km: 5, 50 km: 1, 4 x 10 km: 1.
[edit] World Championship results
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- 1954, 30 km: 4, 4 x 10 km: 3,
- 1958, 15 km: 4, 30 km: 3, 50 km: 1, 4 x 10 km: 1,
- 1962, 30 km: 10, 50 km: 1, 4 x 10 km: 1,
[edit] External links
- FIS Profile
- Holmenkollen medalists - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)
- Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)
1956: Veikko Hakulinen * 1960 Sixten Jernberg * 1964: Eero Mäntyranta * 1968: Franco Nones * 1972: Vyacheslav Vedenin * 1976: Sergey Savelyev * 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov * 1984: Nikolay Zimyatov * 1988: Alexey Prokurorov * 1992: Vegard Ulvang * 1994: Thomas Alsgaard * 1998: Mika Myllylä * 2002: Christian Hoffmann
1924: Thorleif Haug * 1928: Per Erik Hedlund * 1932: Veli Saarinen * 1936: Elis Wiklund * 1948: Nils Karlsson * 1952: Veikko Hakulinen * 1956: Sixten Jernberg * 1960: Kalevi Hämäläinen * 1964: Sixten Jernberg * 1968: Ole Ellefsæter * 1972: Pål Tyldum * 1976: Ivar Formo * 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov * 1984: Thomas Wassberg * 1988: Gunde Svan * 1992: Bjørn Dæhlie * 1994: Vladimir Smirnov * 1998: Bjørn Dæhlie * 2002: Mikhail Ivanov * 2006: Giorgio Di Centa
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
1925: František Donth * 1926: Matti Raivio * 1927: John Lindgren * 1929: Anselm Knuuttila * 1930: Sven Utterström * 1931: Ole Stenen * 1933: Veli Saarinen * 1934: Elis Wiklund * 1935: Nils-Joel Englund * 1937: Pekka Niemi * 1938: Kalle Jalkanen * 1939: Lars Bergendahl * 1950: Gunnar Eriksson * 1954: Vladimir Kuzin * 1958: Sixten Jernberg * 1962: Sixten Jernberg * 1966: Gjermund Eggen * 1970: Kalevi Oikarainen * 1974: Gerhard Grimmer * 1978: Sven-Åke Lundbäck * 1982: Thomas Wassberg * 1985: Gunde Svan * 1987: Maurilio De Zolt * 1989: Gunde Svan * 1991: Torgny Mogren * 1993: Torgny Mogren * 1995: Silvio Fauner * 1997: Mika Myllylä * 1999: Mika Myllylä * 2001: Johann Mühlegg * 2003: Martin Koukal * 2005: Frode Estil * 2007: Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset
1933 Sweden Per Erik Hedlund, Sven Utterström, Nils-Joel Englund, & Hjalmar Bergström
1934 Finland Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Martti Lappalainen, & Veli Saarinen
1935 Finland Mikko Husu, Klaes Karppinen, Väinö Liikkanen, & Sulo Nurmela
1937 Norway Annar Ryen, Oskar Fredriksen, Sigurd Røen, & Lars Bergendahl
1938 Finland Juho 'Jussi' Kurikkala, Martti Lauronen, Pauli Pitkänen, & Klaes Karppinen
1939 Finland Pauli Pitkänen, Olavi Alakulppi, Eino Olkinuora, & Klaes Karppinen
1950 Sweden Nils Täpp, Karl-Erik Åström, Martin Lundström, & Enar Josefsson
1954 Finland August Kiuru, Tapio Mäkelä, Arvo Viitanen, & Veikko Hakulinen
1958 Sweden Sixten Jernberg, Lennart Larsson, Sture Grahn, & Per-Erik Larsson
1962 Sweden Lars Olsson, Sture Grahn, Sixten Jernberg, & Assar Rönnlund
1966 Norway Odd Martinsen, Harald Grønningen, Ole Ellefsæter, & Gjermund Eggen
1970 Soviet Union Vladimir Voronkov, Valery Tarakanov, Fyodor Simashev & Vyacheslav Vedenin
1974 East Germany Gerd Hessler, Dieter Meinel, Gerhard Grimmer & Gert-Dietmar Klause
1978 Sweden Sven-Åke Lundbäck, Christer Johansson, Tommy Limby & Thomas Magnusson
1982 Norway Lars-Erik Eriksen, Ove Aunli, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, & Oddvar Brå and
1982 Soviet Union Vladimir Nikitin, Alexander Batyuk, Yuriy Burlakov, & Alexander Zavyalov
1985 Norway Arild Monsen, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, Tor Håkon Holte, & Ove Aunli
1987 Sweden Erik Östlund, Gunde Svan, Thomas Wassberg, & Torgny Mogren
1989 Sweden Christer Majbäck, Gunde Svan, Lars Håland, & Torgny Mogren
1991 Norway Øyvind Skaanes, Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, & Bjørn Dæhlie
1993 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Vegard Ulvang, Terje Langli, & Bjørn Dæhlie
1995 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard
1997 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard
1999 Austria Markus Gandler, Alois Stadlober, Mikhail Botvinov, & Christian Hoffmann
2001 Norway Frode Estil, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Thomas Alsgaard, & Tor Arne Hetland
2003 Norway Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Tore Ruud Hofstad, & Thomas Alsgaard
2005 Norway Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Frode Estil, Lars Berger, & Tore Ruud Hofstad
2007 Norway Eldar Rønning, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Lars Berger, & Petter Northug
| Preceded by Per Erik Hedlund |
Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal with Lars Hall 1956 |
Succeeded by Dan Waern |
| Preceded by Gunder Gundersen |
Holmenkollen medal with Helmut Recknagel, Sverre Stensheim, & Tormod Knutsen 1960 |
Succeeded by Harald Grønningen |
