Bjarte Engen Vik

{{short description|Norwegian former nordic combined athlete (born 1971)}}

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{{Infobox skier

| name = Bjarte Engen Vik

| image =

| nationality = Norway

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|3|3|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Tromsø, Norway

| height = 1.73 m

| club = Bardufoss IF

| seasons = 1991–2001

| wins = 26

| totalpodiums = 61

| individual_starts = 102

| wcoveralls = 2 (1998, 1999)

| show-medals = no

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport|Men's nordic combined}}

{{MedalCountry | {{NOR}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}

{{MedalGold|1998 Nagano|15 km individual}}

{{MedalGold|1998 Nagano|4 x 5 km team}}

{{MedalSilver|1994 Lillehammer|3 x 10 km team}}

{{MedalBronze|1994 Lillehammer|15 km individual}}

{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}

{{MedalGold|1997 Trondheim| 4 x 5 km team}}

{{MedalGold|1999 Ramsau| 7.5 km sprint}}

{{MedalGold|1999 Ramsau| 15 km individual}}

{{MedalGold|2001 Lahti| 15 km individual}}

{{MedalGold|2001 Lahti| 4 x 5 km team}}

{{MedalSilver|1995 Thunder Bay| 4 x 5 km team}}

{{MedalSilver|1997 Trondheim| 15 km individual}}

{{MedalSilver|1999 Ramsau| 4 x 5 km team}}

}}

Bjarte Engen Vik (born 3 March 1971 in Tromsø) is a Norwegian former 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.

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).

References

  • {{FIS Nordic combined skier|64222}}
  • {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070224190249/http://www.skiforeningen.no/holmenkollen/holmenkollen_historikk |date=February 24, 2007 |title=Holmenkollen medalists}} - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file {{in lang|no}}
  • {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070224190249/http://www.skiforeningen.no/holmenkollen/holmenkollen_historikk |date=February 24, 2007 |title=Holmenkollen winners since 1892}} - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file {{in lang|no}}

{{Footer Olympic Champions NK Individual}}

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{{Footer World Champions NK Sprint}}

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{{Holmenkollen medal}}

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Category:1971 births

Category:Living people

Category:Sportspeople from Tromsø

Category:Skiers from Troms

Category:Olympic gold medalists for Norway

Category:Nordic combined skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics

Category:Nordic combined skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Category:Holmenkollen medalists

Category:Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners

Category:Norwegian male Nordic combined skiers

Category:FIS Nordic Combined World Cup winners

Category:Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Norway

Category:Olympic silver medalists for Norway

Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Norway

Category:Olympic medalists in Nordic combined

Category:FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined

Category:Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Category:Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics