- Ola Vigen Hattestad
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Medal record Men's cross country skiing Competitor for Norway World Championships Gold 2009 Liberec Individual sprint Gold 2009 Liberec Team sprint Silver 2011 Holmenkollen Team sprint Ola Vigen Hattestad (born 19 April 1982) is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, hea earned his best finish of fourth in the individual sprint event at Vancouver in 2010.
Hattestad has nine individual World Cup victories, all in the sprint events. He also won the 2007-08 and 2008-09 World Cup in the sprint discipline and finished third in the overall 2008-2009 world cup.
Hattestad won two gold medals at the 2009 world championships, earning them in the individual and team sprint events. Having ranked sixth in the qualifying round, Hattestad progressed through the quarter finals and semi finals by winning each round, eventually taking the title ahead of fellow Norwegian Johan Kjølstad. The subsequent day, the two of them teamed up for the team sprint and won another gold medal.
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2001: Tor Arne Hetland (NOR) * 2003: Thobias Fredriksson (SWE) * 2005: Vasili Rotchev (RUS) * 2007: Jens Arne Svartedal (NOR) * 2009: Ola Vigen Hattestad (NOR) * 2011: Marcus Hellner (SWE)World champions in men's team sprint cross-country 2005: Norway (Tore Ruud Hofstad & Tor Arne Hetland) • 2007: Italy (Renato Pasini & Cristian Zorzi) • 2009: Norway (Ola Vigen Hattestad & Johan Kjølstad) • 2011: Canada (Devon Kershaw & Alex Harvey)
Categories:- 1982 births
- Cross-country skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Living people
- Norwegian cross-country skiers
- Olympic cross-country skiers of Norway
- Norwegian cross-country skiing biography stubs
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