Anders Aukland
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Anders Aukland (born 12 September 1972 in Tønsberg) is a professional Norwegian cross-country skier who has won both Olympic and World Championship gold medals. He lives in Oslo.
Aukland also used to compete in athletics, and is a former national champion in 5000 meters (1995) and 10,000 metres (1996 and 1997) as well as cross-country running. He has represented Tønsberg FIK and IK Tjalve. In his only international athletics competition he finished seventh in 5000 m at the 1991 European Junior Championships.
Aukland received the Egebergs Ærespris in 2001.
He has his education from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.[1]
Sports merits
- 2005 Duathlon Norwegian Championship winner
- 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships - 50 km classic silver
- 2004 Vasaloppet - Winner (finishing time: 3 hours, 48 minutes and 42.2 seconds)
- 2003 Nordic skiing World Championships - 30 km classic silver, 4 x 10 km gold
- 2002 Winter Olympics - relay gold medal; 15 km classic 4th place
- 2001 Nordic skiing World Championships - 15 km classic 7th place; 30 km classic 9th place
On 7 March 2004, Aukland won the Vasaloppet in Sweden, becoming the second Norwegian to accomplish this feat after 1971 winner Ole Ellefsæter. Aukland's brother Jørgen finished 3rd in that event. In 2010 Anders won the 54 km Birkebeinerrennet. In 2008 he won Marcialonga.
References
- ↑ Bugge, Mette (5 September 2008). "40 år og fortsatt full fart". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 20.
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- 1936:
 Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Matti Lähde, Kalle Jalkanen (FIN)
- 1948:
 Nils Östensson, Nils Täpp, Gunnar Eriksson, Martin Lundström (SWE)
- 1952: Heikki Hasu, Paavo Lonkila, Urpo Korhonen, Tapio Mäkelä (FIN)
- 1956:
.svg.png) Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolay Anikin, Vladimir Kuzin (URS)
- 1960: Toimi Alatalo, Eero Mäntyranta, Väinö Huhtala, Veikko Hakulinen (FIN)
- 1964: Karl-Åke Asph, Sixten Jernberg, Janne Stefansson, Assar Rönnlund (SWE)
- 1968:
 Odd Martinsen, Pål Tyldum, Harald Grønningen, Ole Ellefsæter (NOR)
- 1972: Vladimir Voronkov, Yuri Skobov, Fyodor Simashev, Vyacheslav Vedenin (URS)
- 1976: Matti Pitkänen, Juha Mieto, Pertti Teurajärvi, Arto Koivisto (FIN)
- 1980: Vasily Rochev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Yevgeny Belyayev, Nikolay Zimyatov (URS)
- 1984: Thomas Wassberg, Benny Kohlberg, Jan Ottosson, Gunde Svan (SWE)
- 1988: Jan Ottosson, Thomas Wassberg, Gunde Svan, Torgny Mogren (SWE)
- 1992: Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, Kristen Skjeldal, Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR)
- 1994:
 Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta, Silvio Fauner (ITA)
- 1998: Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, Thomas Alsgaard (NOR)
- 2002: Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Kristen Skjeldal, Thomas Alsgaard (NOR)
- 2006: Fulvio Valbusa, Giorgio Di Centa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, Cristian Zorzi (ITA)
- 2010: Daniel Richardsson, Johan Olsson, Anders Södergren, Marcus Hellner (SWE)
- 2014: Lars Nelson, Daniel Richardsson, Johan Olsson, Marcus Hellner (SWE)
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- 1933: Sweden
- 1934: Finland
- 1935: Finland
- 1937: Norway
- 1938: Finland
- 1939: Finland
- 1950: Sweden
- 1954: Finland
- 1958: Sweden
- 1962: Sweden
- 1966: Norway:
- 1970: Soviet Union:
- 1974: East Germany
- 1978: Sweden
- 1982: Norway
- and Soviet Union
- 1985: Norway
- 1987: Sweden
- 1989: Sweden
- 1991: Norway
- 1993: Norway
- 1995: Norway
- 1997: Norway
- 1999: Austria
- 2001: Norway
- 2003: Norway
- 2005: Norway:
- 2007: Norway
- 2009: Norway:
- 2011: Norway:
- 2013: Norway:
- 2015: Norway:
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External links
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