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Bjarte Engen Vik (born March 3, 1971) is a former Norwegian nordic combined athlete. He won the FIS World Cup overall twice, in 1997/98 and 1998/99 with a total of 24 wins. He also has eight medals from the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with five golds (1997: 4 x 5 km team, 1999: 15 km individual, 7.5 km sprint, 2001: 15 km individual, 4 x 5 km team), and three silvers (1995: 4 x 5 km team, 1997: 15 km individual, 1999: 4 x 5 km team). He also managed to win a bronze medal in the Norwegian championship in ski jumping. His consecutive wins in the Individual Gundersen at the Nordic skiing World Championships in 1999 and 2001 were the first since Oddbjørn Hagen did it in 1934 and 1935.
Vik also found great success at the Holmenkollen ski festival, winning the Nordic combined individual event five times (1996-2000), becoming one of only four athletes to do so (Lauritz Bergendahl, Johan Grøttumsbråten, and Rauno Miettinen are the others.). He also won the nordic combined 7.5 km sprint event at the festival twice (1997, 2000). Vik's seven career wins at the Holmenkollen are the most among any competitor in nordic combined.
Vik received the Holmenkollen medal in 1997 (shared with Stefania Belmondo and Bjørn Dæhlie).
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World champions in men's team nordic combined |
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1995 Japan - Masashi Abe, Tsugiharu Ogiwara, Kenji Ogiwara & Takanori Kono * 1997 Norway - Halldor Skard, Bjarte Engen Vik, Knut Tore Apeland & Fred Børre Lundberg * 1999 Finland - Hannu Manninen, Tapio Nurmela, Jari Mantila & Samppa Lajunen * 2001 Norway - Kenneth Braaten, Sverre Rotevatn, Bjarte Engen Vik & Kristian Hammer * 2003 Austria - Michael Gruber, Wilhelm Denifl, Christoph Bieler & Felix Gottwald * 2005 Norway - Petter Tande, Håvard Klemetsen, Magnus Moan & Kristian Hammer * 2007 Finland - Anssi Koivuranta, Janne Ryynänen, Jaakko Tallus, & Hannu Manninen |
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