Olav Magne Dønnem

Olav Magne Dønnem ( born November 21, 1980 in Øvre Surnadal ) is a former Norwegian ski jumper. He is the overall winner of the Ski Jumping Continental Cup 2003/ 04 and was especially successful in ski flying.

Career

Dønnem started in the 1998/99 season for the first time in the World Cup and was already on his third World Cup competition, on 19 December 1998 in Harrachov, win a fourth. In the rest of the season he could two times, on the flying hill in Planica, penetrate into the top ten. The following season, he missed most of the points. Only in ski flying at Kulm, he was able to prove than 25 points a placement. In the discharged during the season Ski Flying World Championship in 2000, he finished 19th place. In summer 2000, he participated in the Summer Ski Jumping Grand Prix. He was able to retrieve them perform better and usually occupied seats in the top twenty. In the coming World Cup Winter 2000/ 01, whose opening he could celebrate a victory in a team competition, he could build on the achievements of the summer and mostly place in the points. His two best results of the season, two eleventh places he could to ski jump in Planica and Harrachov, win again. At the Grand Prix in the summer of 2001, he was unable to provide stable services again. However, in the winter of 2001 /02 his form subsided and he could, with a thirtieth place in Trondheim, shortly before the end of the season, win a single World Cup point. Previously, he was discharged in Innsbruck Continental already at a beginning of January (COC ) started and excreted at the Ski Flying World Championship in 2002 as the 42nd after the first passage. In the summer of 2000, he first started out back in the COC, but moved to the end of summer in the Grand Prix, where a 24th place in Lahti his only income remained. At the beginning of the winter 2002/ 03 he always missed in the World Cup competition the second round, which is why he joined the Continental Cup from mid-December. There he was able to mostly place in the points and also jump a few times in the top ten. After he had begun in the summer of 2003 with only one COC, he started at the beginning of winter 2003/ 04 again in the World Cup. Although he was able to achieve World Cup points when jumping in Trondheim with a 26th place, he started from the middle of December in the COC. Since there almost always get it finishes among the top ten and he won some jumping, Dønnem stable as the overall winner of the Continental Cup at the end of the season. After the end of the COC season, he still went on at two World Cups held in Norway, but was unsuccessful. In the summer of 2004, he was jumping no convincing performances bring and missed almost always the second pass. In the winter of 2004/ 05 he joined continuously at the Continental Cup and was mostly occupy seats in the upper middle. After he always fought for a place in the second round in summer 2005 and winter 2005/ 06 in the Continental Cup, he finished the season end of his active career.

Currently, Olav Magne Dønnem coach of the team Trønderhopp in Trondheim and serves there as an assistant coach with Daniel Forfang and head coach Geir Johnsen juniors.