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Lasse Sætre

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Lasse Sætre
Sætre at the 2006 Olympics
Personal information
Born (1974-03-10) 10 March 1974 (age 50)
Sand, Norway
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
CountryNorway
SportSpeed skating
Medal record
Representing  Norway
Men's speed skating
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Salt Lake City 10000 m

Lasse Sætre (born 10 March 1974) is a former speed skater from Norway, who for several years was among the world's best long distance skaters. Sætre who grew up in Nord-Odal competed in the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Olympics, and won a 10,000-m bronze in the 2002 Winter Olympics. He won another 10,000-m bronze in the 2003 World Single Distance Championships. As of December 2006, only seven skaters in the world have 10,000-m results below 13 minutes, and Sætre has twice achieved such results. His personal bests are 38.15, 1:49.36, 6:17.60 and 12:56.85. Sætre is currently one of only four skaters to have skated the 10,000m more than once in a time of under 13 minutes, along with Chad Hedrick, Sven Kramer and Carl Verheijen, and among those four was the second to achieve it (after Hedrick).