Lars Bystøl
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| Born | December 4, 1978 Voss, Norway |
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| Club | Eldar IL/Kollenhopp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skis | Fischer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal best | 216.5 m (Planica 2005) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 2001-2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Additional podiums | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total podiums | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lars Bystøl (born 4 December 1978 in Voss) is a Norwegian ski jumper who has won one Olympic gold medal, one 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 FIS Ski Flying World Championships. Bystøl has also had several alcohol-related episodes that have made the front pages of Norwegian newspapers.
[edit] 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 103.5 meter second jump to win Olympic gold.
Bystøl finished 13th in the 2005-06 Overall World Cup standings.
[edit] Controversy
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‰[1] blood alcohol content. He was sentenced to 24 days in prison.[2] 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.[3]
[edit] References
- Lars Bystoel at the International Ski Federation
- 5 November 2003 interview with Dagbladet.no(Norwegian)
- ^ NH Individual Competition - Qualifying, from fis-ski.com
- ^ Enger, Thomas. "Stjernene det lukter svidd av" (in Norwegian). Nettavisen. http://www.nettavisen.no/sport/article799231.ece. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
- ^ Bye, Are (16 January 2009). "- Bystøl narkotatt" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/sport/article2869877.ece. Retrieved 16 January 2009.
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- 1978 births
- Doping cases in ski jumping
- Doping cases in winter sports
- Living people
- Norwegian prisoners and detainees
- Norwegian ski jumpers
- Norwegian sportspeople in doping cases
- Olympic ski jumpers of Norway
- Olympic gold medalists for Norway
- Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
- People from Voss
- Prisoners and detainees of Norway
- Ski jumpers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Ski jumpers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in ski jumping
