Anders Bardal

Anders Bardal (Urban East Norwegian: [ˈɑ̀nːəʂ ˈbɑ̀ːrdɑːɫ]; born 24 August 1982) is a Norwegian former ski jumper.

Anders Bardal
Bardal in Engelberg, 2014
Country Norway
Born (1982-08-24) 24 August 1982
Steinkjer, Norway
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Personal best230 m (750 ft)
Planica, 15 March 2008
World Cup career
Seasons20012015
Individual wins7
Team wins10
Indiv. podiums34
Team podiums27
Indiv. starts287
Team starts39
Overall titles1 (2012)
Updated on 10 February 2016.

Career

He participated in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, finishing 25th on the individual large hill. He was also part of the Norwegian team that finished ninth on the team large hill at those same games. Bardal won his first individual Ski jumping World Cup event in Zakopane on 27 January 2008.

He won four silver medals in the team large hill event at the Ski Jumping World Championships (2007, 2009, and two medals on both normal and large hills in 2011). At the 2008 Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf, he won a bronze in the team event, and in 2010, in the team event as well, he achieved a silver. Same year, he was part of the Norwegian team that won bronze in the team large hill at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

In 2012 he won the overall World Cup, becoming the first Norwegian to win it since Espen Bredesen in 1993/94. A year later, at the 2013 Ski Jumping World Championships in Val di Fiemme, he won a gold medal on the normal hill.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, he won a bronze in the individual normal hill event. He currently lives in Trondheim with his wife, and their daughter and son. He studies at Trondheim Business School. Bardal retired from ski jumping at the end of the 2014/15 season.

World Cup

Standings

Season Overall 4H SF NT
2000/01 53N/A22
2001/02 3635N/A15
2002/03 4234N/A44
2003/04 3233N/A16
2004/05 54N/A41
2005/06 2738N/A36
2006/07 1623N/A15
2007/08 57N/A5
2008/09 10291016
2009/10 363316
2010/11 141617N/A
2011/12 45N/A
2012/13 519N/A
2013/14 46N/A
2014/15 1820N/A

Wins

No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 2007/0827 January 2008   ZakopaneWielka Krokiew HS134LH
2 2011/1217 December 2011   EngelbergGross-Titlis-Schanze HS137LH
3 15 January 2012   Tauplitz/Bad MitterndorfKulm HS200FH
4 12 February 2012   WillingenMühlenkopfschanze HS145LH
5 2012/139 January 2013   WisłaMalinka HS134 (night)LH
6 2013/1419 January 2014   ZakopaneWielka Krokiew HS134LH
7 7 March 2014   TrondheimGranåsen HS140 (night)LH

References

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