Anders Aukland

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Medal record

Anders Aukland (in red)
Men's cross country skiing
Olympic Games
Gold 2002 Salt Lake City 4 × 10 km
World Championships
Gold 2003 Val di Fiemme 4 x 10 km
Silver 2003 Val di Fiemme 30 km
Silver 2005 Oberstdorf 50 km

Anders Aukland (born September 12, 1972 in Tønsberg) is a professional Norwegian cross country skier who has won both Olympic and World Championship gold medals. Anders Aukland lives in Oslo.

He also used to compete in athletics, and is a former national champion in 5000 meters (1995) and 10,000 metres (1996 and 1997) as well as cross-country running. [1] [2] In his only international athletics competition he finished seventh in 5000 m at the 1991 European Junior Championships. [3]

Aukland received the Egebergs Ærespris in 2001.

He has his education from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.[1]

[edit] Sports merits

  • 2005 Duathlon Norwegian Championship Winner
  • 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships - 50 km classic silver
  • 2004 Vasaloppet - Winner (finishing time: 3 hours, 48 minutes and 42.2 seconds)
  • 2003 Nordic skiing World Championships - 30 km classic silver, 4 x 10 km gold
  • 2002 Winter Olympics - relay gold medal; 15 km classic 4th place
  • 2001 Nordic skiing World Championships - 15 km classic 7th place; 30 km classic 9th place

On March 7, 2004, Anders Aukland won the Vasaloppet in Sweden, becoming the second Norwegian to accomplish this feat after 1971 winner Ole Ellefsæter. Aukland's brother Jørgen finished 3rd in that event.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bugge, Mette (5 September 2008). "40 år og fortsatt full fart" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten: p. 20. 
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Olympic champions in men's 4 x 10 km cross country relay
1936: Finland (Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Matti Lähde, & Källe Jalkanen) * 1948: Sweden (Nils Östensson, Nils Täpp, Gunnar Eriksson, & Martin Lundström) * 1952: Finland (Heikki Hasu, Paavo Lonkila, Urpo Korhonen, & Tapio Mäkelä) * 1956: Soviet Union (Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolay Anikin, & Vladimir Kuzin) * 1960: Finland (Toimi Alatalo, Eero Mäntyranta, Väinö Huhtala, & Veikko Hakulinen) * 1964: Sweden (Karl-Åke Asph, Sixten Jernberg, Janne Stefansson, & Assar Rönnlund) * 1968: Norway (Odd Martinsen, Pål Tyldum, Harald Grønningen, & Ole Ellefsæter) * 1972: Soviet Union (Vladimir Voronkov, Yuri Skobov, Fyodor Simashev, & Vyacheslav Vedenin) * 1976: Finland (Matti Pitkänen, Juha Mieto, Pertti Teurajärvi, & Arto Koivisto) * 1980: Soviet Union (Vasily Rochev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Yevgeny Belyayev, & Nikolay Zimyatov) * 1984: Sweden (Thomas Wassberg, Benny Tord Kohlberg, Jan Ottosson, & Gunde Svan) * 1988: Sweden (Jan Ottosson, Thomas Wassberg, Gunde Svan & Torgny Mogren) * 1992: Norway (Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, Kristen Skjeldal & Bjørn Dæhlie) * 1994: Italy (Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta & Silvio Fauner) * 1998: Norway (Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard) * 2002: Norway (Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Kristen Skjeldal, & Thomas Alsgaard) * 2006: Italy (Fulvio Valbusa, Giorgio di Centa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, & Cristian Zorzi)
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World champions in men's 4 x 10 km cross country relay
1933: Sweden (Per Erik Hedlund, Sven Utterström, Nils-Joel Englund, & Hjalmar Bergström) * 1934: Finland (Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Martti Lappalainen, & Veli Saarinen) * 1935: Finland (Mikko Husu, Klaes Karppinen, Väinö Liikkanen, & Sulo Nurmela) * 1937: Norway (Annar Ryen, Oskar Fredriksen, Sigurd Røen, & Lars Bergendahl) * 1938: Finland (Juho 'Jussi' Kurikkala, Martti Lauronen, Pauli Pitkänen, & Klaes Karppinen) * 1939: Finland (Pauli Pitkänen, Olavi Alakulppi, Eino Olkinuora, & Klaes Karppinen) * 1950: Sweden (Nils Täpp, Karl-Erik Åström, Martin Lundström, & Enar Josefsson) * 1954: Finland (August Kiuru, Tapio Mäkelä, Arvo Viitanen, & Veikko Hakulinen) * 1958: Sweden (Sixten Jernberg, Lennart Larsson, Sture Grahn, & Per-Erik Larsson) * 1962: Sweden (Lars Olsson, Sture Grahn, Sixten Jernberg, & Assar Rönnlund) * 1966: Norway: (Odd Martinsen, Harald Grønningen, Ole Ellefsæter, & Gjermund Eggen) * 1970: Soviet Union: (Vladimir Voronkov, Valery Tarakanov, Fyodor Simashev & Vyacheslav Vedenin) * 1974: East Germany (Gerd Hessler, Dieter Meinel, Gerhard Grimmer & Gert-Dietmar Klause) * 1978: Sweden (Sven-Åke Lundbäck, Christer Johansson, Tommy Limby & Thomas Magnusson) * 1982: Norway (Lars-Erik Eriksen, Ove Aunli, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, & Oddvar Brå) and Soviet Union (Vladimir Nikitin, Alexander Batyuk, Yuriy Burlakov, & Alexander Zavyalov) * 1985: Norway (Arild Monsen, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, Tor Håkon Holte, & Ove Aunli) * 1987: Sweden (Erik Östlund, Gunde Svan, Thomas Wassberg, & Torgny Mogren) * 1989: Sweden (Christer Majbäck, Gunde Svan, Lars Håland, & Torgny Mogren) * 1991: Norway (Øyvind Skaanes, Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, & Bjørn Dæhlie) * 1993: Norway (Sture Sivertsen, Vegard Ulvang, Terje Langli, & Bjørn Dæhlie) * 1995: Norway (Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard) * 1997: Norway (Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard) * 1999: Austria (Markus Gandler, Alois Stadlober, Mikhail Botvinov, & Christian Hoffmann) * 2001: Norway (Frode Estil, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Thomas Alsgaard, & Tor Arne Hetland) * 2003: Norway (Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Tore Ruud Hofstad, & Thomas Alsgaard) * 2005: Norway: (Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Frode Estil, Lars Berger, & Tore Ruud Hofstad) * 2007: Norway (Eldar Rønning, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Lars Berger, & Petter Northug) * 2009: Norway: (Eldar Rønning, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Tore Ruud Hofstad, & Petter Northug)
Awards
Preceded by
Anette Bøe		 Egebergs Ærespris
2001		 Succeeded by
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
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