Espen Bredesen

Espen Bredesen
Country  Norway
Born (1968-02-02) 2 February 1968
Oslo, Norway
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 12 in)
Personal best 210 m (689 ft)
Planica, 22 Mar 1997
World Cup career
Seasons 19891999
Individual wins 8
Indiv. podiums 21
Team podiums 5
Yellow bibs 12
Indiv. starts 156
Team starts 8
Overall titles 1 (1994)
Four Hills titles 1 (1994)
Updated on 10 February 2016.

Espen Bredesen (born 2 February 1968) is a Norwegian former ski jumper.

Career

At World Cup level he won gold and silver medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer.

At the 1992 Winter Olympics, he performed badly, coming last in the normal hill and 57th out of 59 on the large hill. He had converted from the parallel to the ski jumping techniques#V-style just a month previously. His poor performance gave him the nickname "Espen the Eagle", based on British ski jumper Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards.[1]

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 in Falun, he won gold medals both in the team large hill and the individual large hill events. In the 1993/94 season, he won the Four Hills Tournament. He won gold and silver medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer, and won a silver medal at the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1994 in Planica. Bredesen twice beat the world ski flying record with jumps of 209 meters (1994) and 210 meters (1997).

Bredesen also won the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1993. He was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1994 (shared with Ljubov Egorova and Vladimir Smirnov).

World Cup

Standings

Season Overall SF JP 4H NT
1989/90 N/A N/A
1990/91 34 23 N/A 21 N/A
1991/92 34 18 N/A 26 N/A
1992/93 5 5 N/A 33 N/A
1993/94 1st, gold medalist(s) 2nd, silver medalist(s) N/A 1st, gold medalist(s) N/A
1994/95 15 13 N/A 21 N/A
1995/96 13 10 13 21 N/A
1996/97 16 11 19 20 31
1997/98 43 26 55 45
1998/99 101 99 55
1999/00 79 76

Wins

No. Season Date Place Hill Size
1 1992/93 11 March 1993 Norway Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken K120 LH
2 14 March 1993 Norway Oslo Holmenkollbakken K110 LH
3 28 March 1993 Slovenia Planica Bloudkova velikanka K120 LH
4 1993/94 11 December 1993 Slovenia Planica Srednja Bloudkova K90 NH
5 1 January 1994 West Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen Große Olympiaschanze K107 LH
6 6 January 1994 Austria Bischofshofen Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze K120 LH
7 15 January 1994 Czech Republic Liberec Ještěd B K90 NH
8 1994/95 5 February 1995 Sweden Falun Lugnet K90 (night) NH

WR statement

Bredesen's statement after his first world record in Planica 1994 when he jumped 209m:

This is the best feeling ever and the greatest achievement in my career. Nothing can compare with this world record. Not even my Olympic or world championships gold. Now I know how birds feel.

References

Records
Preceded by
Toni Nieminen
World's longest ski jump
18 March 1994 – 22 March 1997
Succeeded by
Lasse Ottesen
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