Bjørn Einar Romøren
Bjørn Einar Romøren ( born April 1, 1981 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian ski jumper. His biggest international success are the world champion title in the team competition at the Ski Flying World Championships in 2004 and 2006. At Olympic Winter Games, he was one in Ski Jumping World Championships two bronze medals in the team competition win. At the 2011 World Championships in his hometown of Oslo with the Norwegian team, he won the silver medal in the team competition.
Career
At the age of three and a half years Romøren began ski jumping after he became aware of this sport by his older brother, Jan- Erik, who was then also jumped ski. During his youth he first operational Nordic Combined, Alpine Skiing, Indoor Climbing, dived and played tennis, both at amateur level. At age 12, he jumped in Lillehammer with a broken arm from the Lysgårds hill and reached there by 115 m for the first time in his career a length over 100 m.
At a World Cup ski jumping took Romøren who jumped for the ski club Hosle IL, for the first time in 2001 in part. During the Four Hills Tournament, he won on January 6, 2003 in Bischofshofen his first World Cup victory, which was also the first Norwegian victory in a Four Hills jumping since 1994. He was head coach Mika Kojonkoski an integral part of the Norwegian World Cup squad, which at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 in Val di Fiemme, he won the bronze medal in the team competition in the same year. The 2002/03 season, he finished in 14th place in the World Cup overall standings. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf Romøren won the team competition on the large hill again bronze. 2004 and 2006 he was each team ski flying world champion with the Norwegian team. At the 2006 Olympics in Turin, he won together with Lars Bystol, Tommy Ingebrigtsen and Roar Ljøkelsøy the bronze medal in the team competition on the normal hill. He also won at the Norwegian Championships in late February 2006 at the individual competition and won with the team Akershus silver in the team competition. On 12 January 2008, he crashed on the World Cup in Predazzo from seven meters height with your back on the floor after had dissolved directly after take-off, the right ski from the binding, but remained largely unharmed.
Throughout his career, Romøren won the World Cup so far eight individual competition and six team competitions. His best result in the overall World Cup has so far been the third place in the season 2003/04. He also held on 20 March 2005 to February 11, 2011 the world record in ski jumping, situated in Planica with 239 meters.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, he ranked 23rd in jumping on the normal hill. In 2010, he won the Norwegian championship on the normal hill in Vikersund for themselves.
After including in Oslo, he won the Continental Cup competitions in the summer of 2010 and the ski jumping Grand Prix in Liberec achieved good rankings, he raced in the 2010/11 season with a second place in the team competition of Kuusamo. Even in individual he could win with the 15th place World Cup points. Except in Lillehammer he succeeded in the following World Cup competitions. In the Four Hills Tournament 2010/11, he surprised with a second place in qualifying to jump in Innsbruck, but could not keep up in competition with the world's best and ended up at the end on the 14th. The same position he reached in Bischofshofen, whereupon he reached the 14th place in the overall standings at the end of the tour.
After the Four Hills Tournament followed in Harrachov and Zakopane four top - 10 finishes in five jumping. When Team World Cup in Willingen, he missed the podium with the team ranks fourth in only scarce, but could reach the second place a week later in Oberstdorf in the same occupation and had to deal only the team of Austria defeated. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 on his home hill in Oslo, he won jointly with Anders Jacobsen, Anders Bardal and Tom Hilde in team jumping the silver medal.
In the next World Cup Jumping Romøren again won important World Cup points. When ski flying in Planica end of the season he reached with the team again in second place. The season he finished on the 17th place in the World Cup overall standings. In the following World Cup season 2011/12 he started after changing results in the summer rather unsuccessful without point win in Lillehammer. Only in Harrachov he could score again and stood with the team after the team competition even on the first place. In the following weeks, the now 30 - year-old could not go on his achievements. In February he jumped in Predazzo again among the top ten. In the Ski Flying World Championships 2012 in Vikersund he missed the team fly with the team to a place a medal and finished fourth. In single fly end, he was on the 29th place. Once in Planica he won the qualification a week later, he reached into the single fly places ten and nine and with the team in the team competition second place.
After rather unsuccessful was launched in the summer, he played in August 2012 in Hakuba be for an extended period last international show jumping. As a reason for his break from jumping back problems, so he underwent in October 2012 after unsuccessful attempts at treatment were surgery. Although this was successful, Romoeren could not return during the 2012/13 season and had to postpone his comeback to the summer of 2013. Romoerens main objective of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 were, then he wanted to end his career. End of April 2013 it was announced that Romoeren receives provisionally no place in the Norwegian national team, but he planned to participate in the 2014 Winter Olympics, but was not fulfilled. It was only in March 2014, he was again used internationally. After he won on March 9, 2014, the Continental Cup competitions in Zakopane, he reached at the Ski Flying World Championships in the Czech Republic Harrachov 18th place he had his last mission during World Cup competition March 23, 1014 in Planica, where he was ranked 16. Then he announced the end of his active career.
Private life
Romøren studied at the BI Norwegian School of Management and lives with his parents in Hosle in Bærum. Since early 2006, he also owns an apartment in La Manga, Spain, where he preferred staying to play golf. In the early summer of 2006 drew Romøren, along with his then-girlfriend Jules by the British swing band Sounding Voice, in the posh Oslo district Majorstua. The two were from 2005 to the end of 2006 a pair. Since 23 July 2006 he is in a relationship with the Norwegian ski racer Martine Remsøy, whom he married on July 23, 2011 in Sweden.