Lars Bystøl
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| Born |
4 December 1978 Voss, Norway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best |
216.5 m (710 ft) Planica, 20 Mar 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 2002–2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 1 (+0 Team) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Additional podiums | 3 (+2 Team) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total podiums | 4 (+2 Team) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lars Bystøl (born 4 December 1978) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who won an Olympic gold medal, a World Cup event, two FIS Nordic World Ski Championships bronze medals in the team large hill events (2003, 2005), and a gold medal in the Ski Flying World Championships. Outside of ski jumping, Bystøl has also had several alcohol-related episodes that have made the front pages of Norwegian newspapers.
Career
Bystøl won his first, and so far only, World Cup event on January 4, 2006, by winning the third event of the Four Hills Tournament at Bergisel. Eleven days later, Bystøl won a gold medal in the team event at the 2006 Ski Flying World Championships in Bad Mitterndorf, Austria.
Bystøl continued the World Cup season by placing between 10th and 20th in the next three individual events, before going to the 2006 Winter Olympics. He retained his top-15 position in the World Cup standings, which enabled him to qualify for the normal hill of the Olympics despite being disqualified in the qualifying run.[1] Once there, he finished sixth in the first jump, but held on with a 103.5 meter second jump to win Olympic gold.
Bystøl finished 13th in the 2005–06 Overall World Cup standings.
World Cup
Standings
| Season | Overall | 4H | NT |
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| 2001–02 | 65 | – | 46 |
| 2002–03 | 26 | 22 | 54 |
| 2003–04 | 21 | 10 | 22 |
| 2004–05 | 10 | 18 | 4 |
| 2005–06 | 13 | 16 | 13 |
| 2006–07 | 76 | 58 | 63 |
| 2007–08 | 37 | – | 18 |
Wins
| No. | Season | Date | Place | Hill | Size |
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| 1 | 2006 | 4 Jan 2006 |  Innsbruck | Bergiselschanze HS 130 | LH |
Substance abuse
In 2000, he was sent home from a continental cup competition in Innsbruck after a party at New Year's Eve, and later that year he was caught DUI with a 2.38‰ blood alcohol content.[2] He was sentenced to 24 days in prison.[3] In 2003, he fell into the ocean after he was fighting after some heavy drinking. His alcoholism was so bad that it caused Bystøl to be kicked off of the ski jumping team in 2004 though he did fight his way back to the team.
In early 2009, he admitted to having tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol, a derivative of cannabis. The sample was delivered in November 2008 in a Norwegian Cup race in Vikersund.[4]
Notes
- ↑ "NH Individual Competition - Qualifying" (PDF). FIS Ski. Retrieved 11 February 2006.
- ↑ Thoresen, Arne. "Jeg har sviktet". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 11 May 2003.
- ↑ Enger, Thomas. "Stjernene det lukter svidd av". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 20 August 2009.
- ↑ Bye, Are (16 January 2009). "Bystøl narkotatt". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 16 January 2009.
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