Bjarne Solbakken

Bjarne Solbakken ( born May 18, 1977 in Ålesund ) is a retired Norwegian alpine skier. He participated in two Olympic Games and four World Championships. From 1998 to 2008, he started in skiing and was able to win a race.

Career

After a few good results in FIS races Solbakken took part in his first race in the European Cup in December 1996. He had regular assignments from the 1997/98 season in which he unexpectedly won the first season of the same descent, having previously his best result was a EC- 49th. He could repeat this success at first not, place 12 in the departure of Altenmarkt remained his second best result of the season. In the season 1998/99 he went three times on the podium and finished sixth in the overall standings. At the end of the season 1999/2000 he celebrated his second European Cup victory in the giant slalom in Kappl, was fourth in the giant slalom standings and seventh overall.

His first two starts in the World Cup had Solbakken already in January and March 1998, but remained far out of the points. A year later, at his next four races, he had no success. From the season 1999/2000 he started regularly in the World Cup and took on November 24 with rank 27 in the giant slalom at Vail his first points. The best result of this winter was the 13th place in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora on March 13. The following season, he finished third in the Super G in Beaver Creek eleventh place and reached in his first major event, the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton, ranked tenth in the super -G.

In the 2001 /02 season Solbakken drove in the giant slalom in Alta Badia in the World Cup for the first time in the top ten. Even better, it ran for the Norwegians at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. There he finished fifth in the Super- G and sixth place in the giant slalom and the twelfth in the downhill. In the next season Solbakken came twice in the top 10, but at the 2003 World Cup, he had less success and was 17th. 19th in the downhill and super-G, and in combination

The 2003/04 season was Solbakkens successful: In the Beaver Creek Downhill on December 5, he came at the same time Eberharter to second place and for the first time on the podium, two days later he celebrated in the Super- G at the same place before the two Austrians Hermann Maier and Hans Knauss his only World Cup victory. Two more podiums followed by finishing third in the giant slalom in Flachau and finished second in the Super G in Kvitfjell. At season's end, he finished in fourth place in the super -G standings and the eleventh overall. In 2004 he was the third time after 2000 and 2001 Norwegian champion in the giant slalom.

In the next few years Solbakken could not repeat these successes. In the season 2004/ 05 he fell far behind and the 14th place in the downhill on Beaver Creek was his best result. At the World Championships in Bormio him nevertheless scored the eleventh place in the giant slalom and 13th in the combination. In the season 2005/ 06 he came eleventh place in the Super G in Kitzbuehel again short of the top-10 approach, but reached otherwise usually only results behind the best 20 Accordingly, the results were at the Olympic Winter Games 2006: 20. giant slalom, 26th in the Super G and 29th in downhill.

On 24 November 2006 Solbakken suffered a torn ACL in training the exit of Lake Louise. Initially it was feared that this is the complete season for the Norwegians to an end, but on 20 January 2007 he was again his next World Cup racing contest. In February, he took part in the 2007 World Championships in Åre, Sweden and took place there 19 in the Super G and 29th place in the downhill. In the World Cup Solbakken never reached subsequently but the points and so he gave in the 2007/ 08 season his retirement from ski racing known.

Sporting successes

Olympic Winter Games

  • Salt Lake City 2002: 5 Super -G, Giant Slalom 6, 12 departure
  • Turin 2006: 20 Giant Slalom, Super -G 26 29 Departure

World Championships

  • St. Anton 2001: 10 Super -G
  • St. Moritz 2003: 17 Downhill, 19 Super -G, 19 combination
  • Bormio 2005: 11 Giant Slalom, 13 combination, 18, ​​Super -G, downhill 26
  • Åre 2007: 19 Super -G, downhill 29

World Cup

  • Season 2003/ 04: 4 Super -G standings

A total of four podium finishes, including one victory:

European Cup

  • Season 1998/99: 6th overall, 6th Giant Slalom, Super -G 9
  • Season 1999/ 00: 7th overall, 4th Giant Slalom

A total of nine podium finishes, including two victories:

Other successes

  • Triple Norwegian champion in giant slalom in 2000, 2001 and 2004
  • 20 victories in FIS races
Alpine skiing combined Altenmarkt im Pongau 2000 Alpine Skiing World Cup Vail (Colorado) Municipality of Kranjska Gora 2001 Alpine Skiing World Cup Beaver Creek Resort FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001 2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2003 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2003 Stephan Eberharter 2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics Piancavallo Italy
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