Knut Tore Apeland

Knut Tore Apeland ( born December 11, 1968 in Haukeli, Telemark ) is a former Norwegian Nordic skier. His greatest success were two team world titles in 1995 and 1997.

Career

His international debut Apeland on December 17, 1988 as part of the World Cup in Saalfelden sea. Here, as 14 right away, he managed to win two World Cup points. Surprisingly, he won two weeks later in Oberwiesenthal his first World Cup. After the ranks of nine and seven gained in Reit im Winkl and Breitenwang in January, he was end of the season in Oslo as third on the podium again. His first season 1988/89 he finished with his successes in fifth place overall. In the Norwegian Championships in 1989 in Vikersund he won behind the brothers Trond Einar and Bård Jørgen Elden in individual bronze medal.

In the 1989/90 season Apeland started with a good fifth place in the Swiss St. Moritz. In February 1990, succeeded Apeland in Leningrad in second again the podium. Just three weeks later, he won the individual World Cup event in Lahti. After he fourth narrowly missed another podium finish in Oslo, he ended up in the standings to third. In the Norwegian Championships in 1990 he defended his bronze medal.

In the 1990/91 season Apeland succeeded for the first time no podium. So he reached after only six World Cups eighth overall. Also in the Norwegian Championship in 1991, he came again does not go beyond bronze. Back to the world class he found, however, quickly and reached already at the opening World Cup of the season 1991/92 in Courchevel in third again a podium finish.

At the Olympic Games in Albertville in 1992 he started in single and team competition. In individual he missed a medal in tenth success significantly. Together with Fred Børre Trond Einar Elden and Lundberg but finally he was able to win the silver medal in the team competition. In his first World Cup after the Games in Lahti, he stood on the podium in second place. In the Norwegian Championships 1992, he won for the fourth time in a row the bronze medal in the individual of the combination.

In Falun Apeland In 1993, at the Nordic World Ski Championships. In individual he won silver behind Kenji Ogiwara, before he also won with the team the team competition behind the Japanese, this medal. In the Norwegian Championships in 1993 in Lillehammer for the first and last time he managed to win a silver medal in singles.

After Apeland again successfully launched in the 1993/94 World Cup season, he also belonged to the squad for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. With the team where he won the silver medal again. In the individual he was unable to repeat the results of 1992 and finally finished 11th place

At the beginning of the 1994/95 season he won the World Cup in Steamboat Springs. Also in Vuokatti in January Apeland was successful. Also in the 1995 World Cup in Thunder Bay, he was world champion with the Norwegian team. After serving in Sapporo again reached in his last World Cup of the season with a second place podium finish, he finished the season once again to third place overall.

Apelands successful season followed with the season 1995 /96 apply. After he started the season with the victory in St. Moritz, he reached a stage rank up on a fourth and a fifth place in all World Cups. In the overall standings so he landed on rank one and thus won the overall World Cup standings.

In the following season 1996/97 he could not build on this success. Despite some weak results in the World Cup, he won the domestic Trondheim at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1997 together with the team the world championship title.

In the following years it was Apeland hard to stay on top of the world. He achieved in the 1998/99 season still several top - 10 finishes and ranked 13 overall, he was in the 1999/00 season only achieve a single top-10 place and landed so in the standings only ranked 24 but. Shortly before the end of his last World Cup season he could achieve in his first and only team - mass Start World Cup together with the team as a third party once a podium finish.

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
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1997 FIS Nordic Combined World Cup Steamboat Springs, Colorado Finland Seefeld in Tirol Tom Sandberg Geir Andersen Hermann Weinbuch Klaus Sulzenbacher Fabrice Guy Bjarte Engen Vik Felix Gottwald Ronny Ackermann Eric Frenzel List of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined Uwe Dotzauer Konrad Winkler (skier) Espen Andersen Hubert Schwarz Hans-Peter Pohl Klaus Ofner Tapio Nurmela Jari Mantila Kenneth Braaten Kristian Hammer Michael Gruber (skier) Wilhelm Denifl Christoph Bieler Jaakko Tallus Akito Watabe David Kreiner Bernhard Gruber Mario Stecher
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