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Eldar Rønning (born June 11, 1982 in Levanger) is a Norwegian cross-country skier. He skies with the
Skogn IL club, in Nord-Trøndelag. He's 178 cm (5'10") tall
and weighs 73 kg (161 lb, 11 st 7 lb). He skis with Rossignol boots
and skis, and Rottefella bindings.
In 2004/05, he achieved three podium finishes in World Cup
Sprint events, including a win at Reit im Winkl. He finished the season in
10th, 235 points behind overall winner Axel Teichmann. He was 62nd in the
distance standings, 520 points behind Teichmann, and came second in
the sprint discipline, 237 points behind fellow countryman Tor Arne
Hetland. He also came second in the sprint discipline at the
Norwegian national championships.
Rønning shared the 2005/06 season between the World Cup and the
Scandinavian Cup, competing almost exclusively in sprints. He only
competed in one World Cup race that was not either a sprint or a
pursuit, it was a 15km classic style race in Davos, Rønning finished 30th, 1:25.9 behind
winner Jens Arne Svartedal. His best World
Cup result was a third place avchieved in a classic sprint in Drammen, a race in which the
top four were Norwegian, and was won again by Svartedal. Rønning
also came fifth twice, both in sprints, his only other race in the
World Cup when he finished inside the top 20, was a 16th place in a
sprint, in Oberstdorf.
Rønning finished the season in 11th place in the FIS World Cup
overall standings, 474 points behind German Tobias Angerer.
Rønning was 28th in the distance standings, 671 points behind
Angerer, and 7th in the sprint standings, 349 points behind sprint
winner Björn
Lind.
Rønning earned three medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski
Championships with two golds (4 x 10 km: 2007, 2009) and a
bronze (Individual sprint: 2007).
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World champions in men's 4 x 10 km cross country
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1933: Sweden ( Per Erik
Hedlund, Sven Utterström, Nils-Joel
Englund, & Hjalmar Bergström) * 1934: Finland
( Sulo Nurmela, Klaes
Karppinen, Martti Lappalainen, & Veli Saarinen) *
1935: Finland ( Mikko
Husu, Klaes
Karppinen, Väinö Liikkanen, & Sulo Nurmela) * 1937:
Norway ( Annar Ryen, Oskar
Fredriksen, Sigurd Røen, & Lars
Bergendahl) * 1938: Finland ( Juho 'Jussi' Kurikkala, Martti
Lauronen, Pauli Pitkänen, & Klaes
Karppinen) * 1939: Finland ( Pauli Pitkänen, Olavi
Alakulppi, Eino Olkinuora, & Klaes
Karppinen) * 1950: Sweden ( Nils Täpp, Karl-Erik Åström, Martin
Lundström, & Enar Josefsson) * 1954: Finland ( August Kiuru, Tapio
Mäkelä, Arvo
Viitanen, & Veikko Hakulinen) * 1958: Sweden ( Sixten
Jernberg, Lennart Larsson,
Sture Grahn, &
Per-Erik
Larsson) * 1962: Sweden ( Lars Olsson, Sture Grahn, Sixten Jernberg, & Assar
Rönnlund) * 1966: Norway: ( Odd Martinsen, Harald
Grønningen, Ole Ellefsæter, & Gjermund Eggen) *
1970: Soviet Union: ( Vladimir Voronkov, Valery
Tarakanov, Fyodor Simashev & Vyacheslav
Vedenin) * 1974: East Germany ( Gerd Hessler, Dieter Meinel, Gerhard Grimmer & Gert-Dietmar Klause) * 1978: Sweden
( Sven-Åke Lundbäck, Christer Johansson, Tommy Limby & Thomas
Magnusson) * 1982: Norway ( Lars-Erik Eriksen, Ove Aunli, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, &
Oddvar Brå) and
Soviet Union ( Vladimir Nikitin, Alexander
Batyuk, Yuriy
Burlakov, & Alexander Zavyalov) * 1985: Norway
( Arild Monsen, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, Tor Håkon
Holte, & Ove
Aunli) * 1987: Sweden ( Erik Östlund, Gunde Svan, Thomas Wassberg, & Torgny Mogren) *
1989: Sweden ( Christer Majbäck, Gunde Svan, Lars Håland, &
Torgny Mogren) *
1991: Norway ( Øyvind Skaanes, Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, & Bjørn
Dæhlie) * 1993: Norway ( Sture Sivertsen, Vegard Ulvang, Terje Langli, &
Bjørn
Dæhlie) * 1995: Norway ( Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn
Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard) * 1997: Norway ( Sture
Sivertsen, Erling
Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas
Alsgaard) * 1999: Austria ( Markus Gandler, Alois
Stadlober, Mikhail Botvinov, & Christian
Hoffmann) * 2001: Norway ( Frode Estil, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Thomas
Alsgaard, & Tor Arne Hetland) * 2003: Norway ( Anders Aukland,
Frode Estil, Tore Ruud
Hofstad, & Thomas Alsgaard) * 2005: Norway: ( Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Frode Estil, Lars Berger, & Tore Ruud
Hofstad) * 2007: Norway ( Eldar
Rønning, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Lars Berger, & Petter Northug) *
2009: Norway: ( Eldar Rønning, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Tore Ruud
Hofstad, & Petter Northug) |
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