Anders Bardal facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Anders Bardal
Bardal in Engelberg, 2014
Country	Norway
Born	(1982-08-24) 24 August 1982 (age 42) Steinkjer, Norway
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Personal best	230 m (750 ft) Planica, 15 March 2008
World Cup career
Seasons	2001–2015
Individual wins	7
Team wins	10
Indiv. podiums	34
Team podiums	26
Indiv. starts	287
Team starts	39
Overall titles	1 (2012)
Medal record Men's ski jumping Olympic Games Bronze 2010 Vancouver Team LH Bronze 2014 Sochi Individual NH FIS Nordic World Ski Championships Gold 2013 Val di Fiemme Individual NH Gold 2015 Falun Team LH Silver 2007 Sapporo Team LH Silver 2009 Liberec Team LH Silver 2011 Oslo Team NH Silver 2011 Oslo Team LH Silver 2015 Falun Mixed team NH Men's ski flying FIS Ski Flying World Championships Silver 2010 Planica Team Silver 2014 Harrachov Individual Bronze 2008 Oberstdorf Team
Updated on 10 February 2016.

Anders Bardal (Urban East Norwegian: [ˈɑ̂nːəʂ ˈbɑ̀ːɖɑːɫ]; born 24 August 1982) is a Norwegian former ski jumper.

Career

He participated in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, finishing 25th on the individual large hill. He was also part of the Norwegian team that finished ninth on the team large hill at those same games. Bardal won his first individual Ski jumping World Cup event in Zakopane on 27 January 2008.

He won four silver medals in the team large hill event at the Ski Jumping World Championships (2007, 2009, and two medals on both normal and large hills in 2011). At the 2008 Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf, he won a bronze in the team event, and in 2010, in the team event as well, he achieved a silver. Same year, he was part of the Norwegian team that won bronze in the team large hill at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

In 2012 he won the overall World Cup, becoming the first Norwegian to win it since Espen Bredesen in 1993/94. A year later, at the 2013 Ski Jumping World Championships in Val di Fiemme, he won a gold medal on the normal hill.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, he won a bronze in the individual normal hill event. He currently lives in Trondheim with his wife, and their daughter and son. He studies at Trondheim Business School. Bardal retired from ski jumping at the end of the 2014/15 season.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	4H	SF	NT
2000/01	53	—	N/A	22
2001/02	36	35	N/A	15
2002/03	42	34	N/A	44
2003/04	32	33	N/A	16
2004/05	54	—	N/A	41
2005/06	27	38	N/A	36
2006/07	16	23	N/A	15
2007/08	5	7	N/A	5
2008/09	10	29	10	16
2009/10	36	—	33	16
2010/11	14	16	17	N/A
2011/12	01	4	5	N/A
2012/13	02	5	19	N/A
2013/14	4	6	—	N/A
2014/15	18	20	—	N/A

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	2007/08	27 January 2008	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS134	LH
2	2011/12	17 December 2011	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137	LH
3		15 January 2012	Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf	Kulm HS200	FH
4		12 February 2012	Willingen	Mühlenkopfschanze HS145	LH
5	2012/13	9 January 2013	Wisła	Malinka HS134 (night)	LH
6	2013/14	19 January 2014	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS134	LH
7		7 March 2014	Trondheim	Granåsen HS140 (night)	LH

See also

In Spanish: Anders Bardal para niños