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Rune Høydahl

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Rune Høydahl
Medal record
Representing  Norway
Mountain Bike
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1996 Cairns Cross Country

Rune Høydahl (born December 10, 1969) is a former Norwegian mountain biker. He won 11 World Cup races, and three times came second overall. Besides John Tomac, Hoydahl is the only mountain biker with World Cup victories in both downhill and cross country.

In 1995 Høydahl won five World Cup races in a row. He represented Norway at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In addition, he won the Norseman triathlon in 2004 after having retired. He is now captain of his own professional mountain bike team - Team Etto/Høydahl. He lives in Sande, 20 km south of Drammen.

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