Andrus Veerpalu
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| Medal record | |||
 Andrus Veerpalu |
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| Men's cross country skiing | |||
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 2002 Salt Lake City | 15 km | |
| Gold | 2006 Turin | 15 km | |
| Silver | 2002 Salt Lake City | 50 km | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 2001 Lahti | 30 km | |
| Silver | 1999 Ramsau | 50 km | |
Andrus Veerpalu (born February 8, 1971 in Pärnu) is an Estonian cross country skier.
On February 17, 2006 he won his second Winter Olympics gold medal (in 15 km cross country skiing; his previous gold medal is from the Salt Lake City games), becoming the fourth Estonian to have won two Olympic gold medals (Kristjan Palusalu, Erika Salumäe and Kristina Šmigun are the first three). He is the most successful Olympic athlete from Estonia with three medals.
Veerpalu also found success at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, winning a gold at 30 km in 2001 and a silver at 50 km in 1999. He also won the 50 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 2003 and 2005.
Veerpalu earned the Holmenkollen medal in 2005, the first Estonian to do. He is also the most recent winner of that prestigious honor.
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| Olympic champions in men's 15 km cross country |
| As 18km - 1924: Thorleif Haug | 1928: Johan Grøttumsbråten | 1932: Sven Utterström | 1936: Erik August Larsson | 1948: Martin Lundström | 1952: Hallgeir Brenden |
| As 15km - 1956: Hallgeir Brenden | 1960: Haakon Brusveen | 1964: Eero Mäntyranta | 1968: Harald Grønningen | 1972: Sven-Åke Lundbäck | 1976: Nikolay Bazhukov | 1980: Thomas Wassberg | 1984: Gunde Svan | 1988: Mikhail Devyatyarov | 2002: Andrus Veerpalu | 2006: Andrus Veerpalu |
| World champions in men's 30 km cross-country skiing |
| 1926: Matti Raivio | 1954: Vladimir Kuzin | 1958: Kalevi Hämäläinen | 1962: Eero Mäntyranta | 1966: Eero Mäntyranta | 1970: Vyacheslav Vedenin | 1974: Thomas Magnusson | 1978: Sergey Savelyev | 1982: Thomas Eriksson | 1985: Gunde Svan | 1987: Thomas Wassberg | 1989: Vladimir Smirnov | 1991: Gunde Svan | 1993: Bjørn Dæhlie | 1995: Vladimir Smirnov | 1997: Alexey Prokourorov | 1999: Mika Myllylä | 2001: Andrus Veerpalu | 2003: Thomas Alsgaard |
| Preceded by: Felix Gottwald & Ronny Ackermann |
Holmenkollen medal with Felix Gottwald 2005 |
Succeeded by: Incumbent |
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