Jan Egil Storholt
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Olympic medal record | |||
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Men’s Speed Skating | |||
Gold | 1976 Innsbruck | 1,500 m |
Jan Egil Storholt (born 13 February 1949 in Løkken) is a former ice speed skater from Norway.
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[edit] Short biography
Together with Amund Sjøbrend, Sten Stensen, and Kay Stenshjemmet, Jan Egil Storholt was one of the legendary four S-es (which sounds like "four aces" in Norwegian), four Norwegian top skaters in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Being born in Løkken, Storholt became a member of sports club Falken ("Falcon") in nearby Trondheim. Falken was the club 1948 Olympic 1,500 m Champion Sverre Farstad and three-time 1952 Olympic Champion (on the 1,500 m, 5,000 m, and 10,000 m) Hjalmar Andersen had skated for.
Storholt was the Norwegian Junior Champion in 1969, but when he was almost killed in a mining accident in 1970, he was told he would probably not be able to compete at the highest levels again, and it seemed that his promising career had already come to an end. However, Storholt's determination got him back to the Norwegian top by 1972. After some of the best Norwegian speed skaters had turned professional in 1973 (and therefore also could no longer participate in the Olympic Games), Storholt suddenly was one of the best Norwegian amateurs.
It still took until 1976 for his first major international successes: After having won bronze at the European Allround Championships that year, Storholt went on to win Olympic gold on the 1,500 m in Innsbruck. This made him the third Olympic 1,500 m Champion for sports club Falken. Storholt ended his speed skating career in 1981.
[edit] Medals
An overview of medals won by Storholt at important championships he participated in, listing the years in which he won each:
Championships | Gold medal | Silver medal | Bronze medal |
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Winter Olympics | 1976 (1,500 m) | ||
World Allround | 1977 1978 1979 |
1981 | |
World Sprint | |||
European Allround | 1977 1979 |
1980 | 1976 1978 |
Norwegian Allround | 1979 | 1975 | 1977 1978 |
Norwegian Sprint | 1976 1977 1981 |
1974 1980 |
[edit] World records
Over the course of his career, Storholt skated 2 world records:
Distance | Result | Date | Location |
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1,500 m | 1:55.18 | 20 March 1977 | Medeo |
Big combination | 163.221 | 20 March 1977 | Medeo |
[edit] Personal records
Distance | Result | Date | Location |
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500 m | 38.07 | 19 March 1977 | Medeo |
1,000 m | 1:16.77 | 3 January 1978 | Oslo |
1,500 m | 1:55.18 | 20 March 1977 | Medeo |
3,000 m | 4:09.05 | 2 March 1978 | Inzell |
5,000 m | 7:01.16 | 19 March 1977 | Medeo |
10,000 m | 14:49.26 | 19 March 1978 | Medeo |
Storholt was number one on the Adelskalender, the all-time allround speed skating ranking, for a total of 30 days, divided over two short periods in 1977 and 1978. He has an Adelskalender score of 163.042 points.
[edit] References
Leaders of the Adelskalender |
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Rudolf Ericsson - Peder Østlund - Jaap Eden - Oscar Mathisen - Ivar Ballangrud - Michael Staksrud - Åke Seyffarth - Nikolay Mamonov - Hjalmar Andersen - Boris Shilkov - Dmitriy Sakunenko - Juhanni Järvinen - Knut Johannesen - Jonny Nilsson - Per Ivar Moe - Eduard Matusevich - Ard Schenk - Kees Verkerk - Magne Thomassen - Hans van Helden - Vladimir Lobanov - Jan Egil Storholt - Sergey Marchuk - Vladimir Belov - Eric Heiden - Viktor Shasherin - Andrej Bobrov - Nikolay Gulyayev - Michael Hadschieff - Eric Flaim - Johann Olav Koss - Falko Zandstra - Rintje Ritsma - Gianni Romme - Jochem Uytdehaage - Chad Hedrick |
Olympic champions in men's 1500 m speed skating |
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1924: Clas Thunberg | 1928: Clas Thunberg | 1932: Jack Shea | 1936: Charles Mathiesen | 1948: Sverre Farstad | 1952: Hjalmar Andersen | 1956: Yevgeny Grishin / Yuri Mikhaylov | 1960: Roald Aas / Yevgeny Grishin | 1964: Ants Antson | 1968: Kees Verkerk | 1972: Ard Schenk | 1976: Jan Egil Storholt | 1980: Eric Heiden | 1984: Gaétan Boucher | 1988: André Hoffmann | 1992: Johann Olav Koss | 1994: Johann Olav Koss | 1998: Ådne Søndrål | 2002: Derek Parra | 2006: Enrico Fabris |