Fred Børre Lundberg
Fred Børre Lundberg ( born December 25, 1969 in Hammerfest) is a former Norwegian Nordic skier.
Career
Lundberg made his international debut at the Nordic Junior World Championship 1989 in Vang and Hamar. There Lundberg secured with the team title in the team competition. On 19 January 1990, the Norwegians were in Murau his debut in the World Cup Nordic Combined. Right away he managed in single and on the podium in second place. Four weeks later, was for him the race in Leningrad even more successful. He could for the first time prevail against the entire competition, and secured his first World Cup victory. At the end of the season he again succeeded in Örnsköldsvik the jump on the podium.
His most successful season he played with the 1990/91 season. Already the first season of competition in Trondheim he could win and ended up as runner-up in Oberwiesenthal in its second season World Cup on the podium. After another win in Schonach and third in Bad Goisern, he traveled as one of the medal favorites for the 1991 Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme. There he won the individual competition by far. In team competition, it was enough for the Norwegian team only to fifth place.
In the Norwegian Championship in 1991, he secured Rognan his first national title. After another top-10 results in the World Cup, he finished the season in March 1991 as the first in the overall World Cup standings.
Also in the following Olympic season 1991/92 Lundberg launched successfully with a second place in Štrbské Pleso. Also in Schonach and Breitenwang he managed this success. At the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville Lundberg missed his first Olympic individual medal barely in fourth in singles. The team, however, was eventually successful and won silver behind the team from Japan.
In January 1993, Lundberg celebrated his fourth victory in the World Cup. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 in Falun, he secured with the team as already at the Olympics, the silver medal. In the Norwegian Championships in 1993 Lundberg won for the second time the singles title. After he always reached the top 10 in the aftermath of the World Cup without exceptions while also repeatedly mounted the podium, he traveled to Lillehammer to his second Olympic Winter Games. There Lundberg scored the first Olympic individual success and thus also the first Olympic victory in his career. With the team, he also secured the silver medal. Back in the World Cup he reached his five World Cup victories and six in Vuokatti and Sapporo. In the Norwegian Championships in 1994 in Vegårshei to Lundberg secured his third national title.
In the following season, 1994/95 Lundberg belonged again to the best in the world, securing an early season victory in Štrbské Pleso and Schonach. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 in Thunder Bay Lundberg won the individual and team world title and also won for the first time both possible combination medals.
From the 1995/96 season Lundberg could after an initial victory in Schonach often no longer in the Top 10. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1997 in Trondheim, Norway, he missed another individual medal, but defended the team competition with the team the title. In the Norwegian Championships 1997 in Mo i Rana to Lundberg secured once the bronze medal in the individual competition. In his third and final 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano he also won again the gold medal with the team. A little later, Lundberg was awarded the Holmenkollen medal.
After two more years with rather mixed results in the World Cup and the profit of team silver at the 1999 Nordic World Ski Championships in Ramsau am Dachstein Lundberg ended his playing career after the 1999/2000 season.
Achievements
World Cup wins
World Cup Stats
The table shows the achieved placings in detail.
- Place 1st-3rd. Number of podiums
- Top 10: Number of placings in the top ten
- Points ranking: number of placements within the points positions
- Start: Number overflowed race in the respective discipline