Bjarte Engen Vik

Bjarte Engen Vik (born March 3, 1971 in Tromsø) is a former Norwegian nordic combined athlete. He won the FIS World Cup overall twice, in 1997/98 and 1998/99 with a total of 24 wins. He also has eight medals from the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with five golds (1997: 4 x 5 km team, 1999: 15 km individual, 7.5 km sprint, 2001: 15 km individual, 4 x 5 km team), and three silvers (1995: 4 x 5 km team, 1997: 15 km individual, 1999: 4 x 5 km team). He also won a bronze medal in the Norwegian championship in ski jumping. His consecutive wins in the Individual Gundersen at the Nordic skiing World Championships in 1999 and 2001 were the first since Oddbjørn Hagen did it in 1934 and 1935.

Bjarte Engen Vik
Medal record
Men's nordic combined
Representing  Norway
Olympic Games
1998 Nagano15 km individual
1998 Nagano4 x 5 km team
1994 Lillehammer3 x 10 km team
1994 Lillehammer15 km individual
World Championships
1997 Trondheim4 x 5 km team
1999 Ramsau7.5 km sprint
1999 Ramsau15 km individual
2001 Lahti15 km individual
2001 Lahti4 x 5 km team
1995 Thunder Bay4 x 5 km team
1997 Trondheim15 km individual
1999 Ramsau4 x 5 km team

Vik also found great success at the Holmenkollen ski festival, winning the Nordic combined individual event five times (1996–2000), becoming one of only four athletes to do so (Lauritz Bergendahl, Johan Grøttumsbråten, and Rauno Miettinen are the others.). He also won the Nordic combined 7.5 km sprint event at the festival twice (1997, 2000). Vik's seven career wins at the Holmenkollen are the most among any competitor in Nordic combined.

Vik received the Holmenkollen medal in 1997 (shared with Stefania Belmondo and Bjørn Dæhlie).

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