Ole Einar Bjorndalen

Ole Einar Bjoerndalen is a biathlete from Norway, the most titled Olympian in the history of the Winter Games. The athlete has 13 Olympic medals, including eight gold; 20 gold medals of the World Championship and 6 victories in the Biathlon World Cup. The Norwegian biathlete is the absolute world record holder for victories in individual races. On account of Ole Einar 95 first places. In team disciplines, the figure is also a record - 36 gold medals. Bjoerndalen continues to improve his skills and win, breaking the stereotype about the age of the athlete.

Ole Einar was born on January 27, 1974 in Drammen, Norway. The boy was brought up in a large family, in which two more sons and two daughters were growing up. The father of the family in his youth was fond of sports, but was forced to master another profession due to the birth of children. Bjoerndalen Sr. founded a farm.

It would be strange if a child born in Norway did not master skiing. But Ole showed great promise, so the parents sent the boy to a ski sports school. In addition, Ole was fond of football, handball, cycling and athletics.

And the young man took up biathlon following the example of his older brother Dag. Ole Bjoerndalen was then 12 years old, and he came with good training - the beginner biathlete already had several victories in ski competitions. In a new sport for himself, the boy was attracted by the need to switch from dynamic to measured skiing. According to the athlete, this is not given to everyone.

At the first stage of his sports biography, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen did not shoot accurately - he had to work with a psychologist and live in 10 workouts a week.

As a professional biathlete, Ole made his debut at the age of 18 - it was a serious adult competition. By that time, the biathlete's height was 179 cm, and his weight did not exceed 65 kg. In 1994, two years after the start, the athlete already competed at the Olympic Games in Lillehammer. Ole Einar did not show significant results - he lacked experience.

For the next four years, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen trained with a vengeance. During this time, the athlete's performance at the World Cup stages began to improve: in the 94/95 season, Ole Einar became twice a bronze medalist in the sprint distance, and took 1st place in the relay. A year later, the biathlete won first places in the individual race and relay and a number of silver and bronze medals. According to the results of 1997, the athlete became the second in the overall standings, and Ole got the coveted first place in the World Cup in 1998. After that, every year at the World Cups for 11 years, the athlete was among the top three champions of the championship.

This training also influenced the biathlete's results at the Olympic Games.

As a result, from the 98 Olympics, held in Nagano, the Norwegian brought two medals - gold and silver. An even greater triumph awaited the biathlete at the next Olympic Games. In Salt Lake City, the Norwegian skier won four victories and became the undisputed champion. In the same 2002, Bjoerndalen won several more serious competitions.

Since 2009, the seasons were not so brilliant for Ole Einar, the athlete even thought about ending his sports career. But the results at the Olympics were excellent, the older skier was in no way inferior to the young competitors in terms of the number of awards. In 2014, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and Daria Domracheva were named the best participants in the Olympiad. After the closure of the Olympic Games in Sochi, the Norwegian got a seat in the IOC. At the same time, Bjoerndalen decided to stay in biathlon.

The Norwegian is deservedly called the king of biathlon, although this title is given to Ole Bjoerndalen by titanic efforts. The athlete monitors the development of this sport, observes the tactics of the performances of young athletes, adopting positive experience.

The most titled biathlete in the world willingly speaks to journalists about sports, but is restrained in comments related to his personal life. Bjoerndalen does not hide the fact that such questions are unpleasant.

Ole Einar lived for six years with Italian biathlete Natalie Sunter. The young people met in 1998, liked each other, met infrequently - the tight sports schedule of both did not allow. Ole and Natalie got married in 2006, and broke up in 2012. Children in this marriage did not appear.

The biathletes did not comment on the reasons for the divorce, but information flashed in the press that the divorce from Natalie took place because of Ole Einar's hobby for the Belarusian biathlete Daria Domracheva. The athlete traditionally did not comment on the information in the newspapers, but since 2010, after the Vancouver Olympics, athletes were often seen together.

In July 2016, Ole Bjoerndalen told on his personal page on Instagram about the wedding with Daria Domracheva. In October 2016, the wife gave birth to a daughter. Soon, a picture with his wife and a pram appeared on the athlete's account.

In 2017, after a scandal related to positive doping tests among Russian athletes, Ole Einar spoke out in defense of the Russians. The Norwegian champion stressed that WADA's practice of forcing national anti-doping agencies to recognize the existence of state systems to support doping by athletes makes any athlete vulnerable and does not guarantee that the doping test of each of the participants in the Olympics "will not be scratched."

At the end of the year, the coaching staff of the Norwegian national team approved the list of biathletes who were included in the number of athletes of the national team to participate in the World Cup stages held in Germany. In addition to Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, the men's team included Lars Helge Birkeland, Vetle Shostad Christiansen, Erlend Ovreng Bjontegard, Johannes Be, Tarjei Be, Henrik LabeLund and Emil Hegle Svendsen. Based on the results obtained during the passage of the tracks in Oberhof and Ruhpolding, a team will be formed to participate in the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.

Ole Einar Bjoerndalen did not fulfill the requirements set for the future representatives of the Norwegian team at the Olympic Games. In the first sprint, the biathlete came 52nd, in the pursuit he finished 36th. Thanks to the victory in the relay race at the Hochfilzen stage, which took place at the end of 2017, the athlete's rating in the overall standings reached only 40th place, which is not enough to participate in the Olympics. The necessary conditions have already been met by two team members - champions Tarjei Be and Johannes Be.

The biathlete hoped to catch up and get to Pyeongchang. However, the young athletes turned out to be more productive, as a result, Ole did not qualify for the Norwegian Olympic team for the first time in many years. He came to Pyeongchang as a consultant and coach of the Belarusian national team, rejoicing at every victory of his wards.

In April 2018, the legendary athlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen announced his retirement. According to the Norwegian, he could still "run", but the doctors advised to give up sports because of heart problems.

1998 - gold and silver medals at the Olympic Games in Nagano 2002 - four gold medals at the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City 2006 - two silver and bronze medals at the Olympic Games in Turin 2010 - gold and silver medals at the Olympic Games in Vancouver 2014 - two gold medals at the Sochi Olympics

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