Trond Einar Elden
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's nordic combined | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Silver | 1992 Albertville | 3 x 10 km team | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1989 Lahti | 15 km individual | |
| Gold | 1989 Lahti | 3 x 10 km team | |
| Silver | 1993 Falun | 3 x 10 km team | |
| Bronze | 1993 Falun | 15 km individual | |
Trond Einar Elden (born February 2, 1970) is a former Norwegian Nordic combined skier who represented Namdalseid I.L. in Trondheim.
At the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, he became the youngest world champion ever, fifteen days after his nineteenth birthday. At Falun in 1993, he won a bronze medal in the 15 km individual event. Additionally, Elden won two medals in the 3 x 10 km team event at the Nordic skiing world championships with a gold in 1989 and a silver in 1993. Elden also won the Nordic combined event twice at the Holmenkollen ski festival (1989, 1991).
In 1991, Elden received the Holmenkollen medal (which he shared with Vegard Ulvang, Ernst Vettori, and Jens Weissflog). He would also win silver in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.
Elden was relatively strong in cross country skiing as well, spending his final years of competition as a ski sprinter. He later coached the American national skiing team.
Elden received the Egebergs Ærespris in 2004.
He is the brother of the Nordic combined skier Bård Jørgen Elden.
[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)
1925: Otakar Německý * 1926: Johan Grøttumsbråten * 1927: Rudolf Burkert * 1929: Hans Vinjarengen * 1930: Hans Vinjarengen * 1931: Johan Grøttumsbråten * 1933: Sven Selånger * 1934: Oddbjørn Hagen * 1935: Oddbjørn Hagen * 1937: Sigurd Røen * 1938: Olaf Hoffsbakken * 1939: Gustl Berauer * 1950: Heikki Hasu * 1954: Sverre Stenersen * 1958: Paavo Korhonen * 1962: Arne Larsen * 1966: Georg Thoma * 1970: Ladislav Rygl * 1974: Ulrich Wehling * 1978: Konrad Winkler * 1982: Tom Sandberg * 1985: Hermann Weinbuch * 1987: Torbjørn Løkken * 1989: Trond Einar Elden * 1991: Fred Børre Lundberg * 1993: Kenji Ogiwara * 1995: Fred Børre Lundberg * 1997: Kenji Ogiwara * 1999: Bjarte Engen Vik * 2001: Bjarte Engen Vik * 2003: Ronny Ackermann * 2005: Ronny Ackermann * 2007: Ronny Ackermann
(As 3 x 10 km) 1982 East Germany Uwe Dotzauer, Günther Schmieder & Konrad Winkler
1984 Norway Tom Sandberg, Hallstein Bøgseth & Geir Andersen
1985 West Germany Thomas Müller, Hubert Schwarz & Hermann Weinbuch
1987 West Germany Hermann Weinbuch, Hans-Peter Pohl & Thomas Müller
1989 Norway Trond Einar Elden, Trond-Arne Bredesen & Bård Jørgen Elden
1991 Austria Günther Csar, Klaus Ofner & Klaus Sulzenbacher
1993 Japan Takanori Kono, Masashi Abe & Kenji Ogiwara
(As 4 x 5 km) 1995 Japan Masashi Abe, Tsugiharu Ogiwara, Kenji Ogiwara & Takanori Kono
1997 Norway Halldor Skard, Bjarte Engen Vik, Knut Tore Apeland & Fred Børre Lundberg
1999 Finland Hannu Manninen, Tapio Nurmela, Jari Mantila & Samppa Lajunen
2001 Norway Kenneth Braaten, Sverre Rotevatn, Bjarte Engen Vik & Kristian Hammer
2003 Austria Michael Gruber, Wilhelm Denifl, Christoph Bieler & Felix Gottwald
2005 Norway Petter Tande, Håvard Klemetsen, Magnus Moan & Kristian Hammer
2007 Finland Anssi Koivuranta, Janne Ryynänen, Jaakko Tallus, & Hannu Manninen
| Preceded by Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi |
Holmenkollen medal with Vegard Ulvang, Ernst Vettori, & Jens Weissflog 1991 |
Succeeded by Yelena Välbe |
| Preceded by Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen |
Egebergs Ærespris 2004 |
Succeeded by Stein Johnson |
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