Jens Arne Svartedal

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Jens Arne Svartedal
Medal record
Jens Arne Svartedal at Tour de Ski, Prague 2007

Men's cross country skiing
Olympic Games
Silver	2006 Turin	Team sprint, classical
World Championships
Gold	2007 Sapporo	Individual sprint

Jens Arne Svartedal (born February 14, 1976) is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 1996. He represents Trøsken IL from Sarpsborg in Norway. His greatest achievement is winning the individual sprint gold medal at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo. He also has a silver medal in the Team sprint event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Svartedal has 17 cross country victories since 2001, mostly in the sprint races. Two of those wins were in the sprint events at the Holmenkollen ski festival (2002, 2003).

References

Jens Arne Svartedal at the International Ski Federation
Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)

v t e World champions in men's individual sprint cross-country

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) 2013: Nikita Kriukov (RUS)

Persondata
Name	Svaretdal, Jens Arne
Alternative names
Short description	Cross-country skier
Date of birth	February 14, 1976
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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