Johan Kjølstad

Johan Kjølstad (born 9 March 1983) is a Norwegian cross-country skier.

Johan Kjølstad lives in Trondheim and starts for Skogn IL. His international debut came in March 2002 in a World Cup sprint in Oslo, where he was 48th. The following year he won the sprint title at the Junior World Championships in Sollefteå. Kjølstad specialized right from the beginning of his career on the sprint track and started rarely in distance races. Quite surprisingly, won the young athlete who was employed until then only sporadically in the World Cup, in January 2005 in Nové Město na Moravě a Sprint Cup race. He repeated at the beginning of the 2005/06 season the team sprint in Dusseldorf at the side of Trond Iversen this success. From now on Kjølstad belonged to the world's best in the sprint and peaked in the 05/06 season with a fifth place in the Sprint World Cup his best result in this classification. At the 2006 Olympics in Turin, he finished in seventh place. So far (as of 1 November 2007) reached Kjølstad seven podium finishes in the World Cup, exclusively in the sprint and team sprint. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, he won behind his compatriot Ola Vigen Hattestad the silver medal in the sprint competition and together with it the title in the team sprint.

Victories in World Cup race

(WCE ) = stage win in the course of a World Cup stage race. These achievements do not count as World Cup victories by an official counting.

1 with Trond Iversen 2 with Ola Vigen Hattestad