Jørgen Graabak

Jørgen Nyland Grabak (* April 26, 1991 in Trondheim ) is a Norwegian nordic combined. At the Olympic Winter Games 2014 Grabak won the gold medal in the competition on the large hill.

Grabak began at the age of twelve years with the skiing and began a year later with the Nordic combined. The first competitions on the international level, he graduated at the Junior World Championships in 2009, where he finished in 20th place at the victory of the Italian Alessandro Pittin in the individual competition. At the Junior World Cup in winter after he reached number ten and won with the team led by Ole Christian Wendel, Gudmund Storlien and Truls Johansen Sønstehagen the silver medal behind the German team. After several podium finishes him were succeeded in the Continental Cup start of the season 2010/11, he made his debut in January 2011 at the World Cup, missed there, but in his six stakes this winter the points of the best 30 Such a result he reached for the first time in December 2011: After two 28 ranks in Ramsau he made a week later at the World Cup in Seefeld with the fastest run-time third behind Jason Lamy Chappuis and Alessandro Pittin the jump on the podium. With these results at this time, the 20 -year-old Grabak established firmly in the World Cup team of Norwegians, in the course of the winter he reached two more podium finishes, including a World Cup victory with Jan Schmid, Magnus Moan and Mikko Kokslien in the relay. Overall, he was at the end of the season in 16th place in the overall World Cup.

Also get the following season Grabak multiple top-10 results and two World Cup victories in the season and the team sprint. Better results failed mostly at his weakness in jumping, according to this sub-discipline of Norwegian was often far back and had to be improved by a good mileage in the class. At the season's highlight of the winter 2012/13, the Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme, Grabak had about after jumping as 49 already more than three minutes off the pace and could not with the elftbesten mileage finished in the top 30. At the same time he won at this World Cup with the team the silver medal behind the French team. The Olympic Winter 2013/14 began for him with a second place behind Eric Frenzel in the single and the victory with the Norwegian team in the team competition at the season opener in Kuusamo, also with other World Cup races, he finished digit ranks. Only one out of eight World Cup and during his last pre-Olympic Nordic Combined start at Triple he missed the Top Ten. With these results, he qualified for the five-member Norwegian Olympic contingent of combiners.

At the Games in Sochi Grabak came the first individual competition on the normal hill not used, but the competition on the large hill, where he replaced his teammate Mikko Kokslien. Here the first Norwegians jumped to sixth place, got his start residue of 42 seconds but early on and secured the final sprint ahead of his teammate Magnus Moan the gold medal. The victory was also the first success Gråbaks at a FIS individual competition at the international level at all, which is why he was considered a surprise. With his triumph, he was the first Norwegian Bjarte Engen Vik since 1998 to win an Olympic gold medal.