Andrus Veerpalu

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Medal record
Andrus Veerpalu
Competitor for  Estonia
Men's cross country skiing
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 who competed from 1993 to 2006.

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.

[edit] Individual races

6 wins (6 Individual, 0 Sprint)

Date	Location	Race
12 March 2005	Oslo	50k
8 January 2005	Otepää	15k
17 January 2004	Nove Mesto	15k
13 December 2003	Davos	15k
8 March 2003	Oslo	50k
15 February 2003	Asiago	10k

[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)

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Olympic champions in men's 15 km cross country

As 18 km - 1924: Thorleif Haug * 1928: Johan Grøttumsbråten * 1932: Sven Utterström * 1936: Erik August Larsson * 1948: Martin Lundström * 1952: Hallgeir Brenden

As 15 km - 1956: Hallgeir Brenden * 1960: Håkon 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

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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 Prokurorov * 1999: Mika Myllylä * 2001: Andrus Veerpalu * 2003: Thomas Alsgaard

Preceded by Yuliya Chepalova

Holmenkollen medal 2005

Succeeded by Frode Estil, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, King Harald V & Queen Sonja of Norway