Anders Bardal Explained

Anders Bardal
Birth Date:24 August 1982
Birth Place:Steinkjer, Norway
Personalbest:230m (760feet)
Planica, 15 March 2008
Seasons:2001–2015
Wins:7
Teamwins:10
Totalpodiums:34
Teampodiums:26
Events In Yellow:7
Individual Starts:287
Team Starts:39
Wcoveralls:1 (2012)
Updated:10 February 2016

Anders Bardal (pronounced as /no-NO-03/; 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
scope=row align=center53 — N/A 22
scope=row align=center36 35 N/A 15
scope=row align=center42 34 N/A 44
scope=row align=center32 33 N/A 16
scope=row align=center54 — N/A 41
scope=row align=center27 38 N/A 36
scope=row align=center16 23 N/A 15
scope=row align=center5 7 N/A 5
scope=row align=center10 29 10 16
scope=row align=center36 — 33 16
scope=row align=center14 16 17 N/A
scope=row align=centeralign=center bgcolor=#D4AF374 5 N/A
scope=row align=centeralign=center bgcolor=silver5 19 N/A
scope=row align=center4 6 — N/A
scope=row align=center18 20 — N/A

Wins

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No.SeasonDateLocationHillSize
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1 27 January 2008   Wielka Krokiew HS134 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"2 align=center rowspan=317 December 2011   Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"3 15 January 2012   Kulm HS200 FH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"4 12 February 2012   Mühlenkopfschanze HS145 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"5 9 January 2013   Malinka HS134 (night) LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"6 align=center rowspan=219 January 2014   Wielka Krokiew HS134 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"7 7 March 2014   Granåsen HS140 (night) LH