Ove Aunli
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's cross country skiing | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Silver | 1980 Lake Placid | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1980 Lake Placid | 15 km | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1982 Oslo | 4 x 10 km | |
| Gold | 1985 Seefeld | 4 x 10 km | |
| Silver | 1985 Seefeld | 30 km | |
| Bronze | 1978 Lahti | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1985 Seefeld | 50 km | |
| Bronze | 1987 Oberstdorf | 4 x 10 km | |
Ove Robert Aunli (born March 12, 1956 in Hemne) is a Norwegian former cross-country skier. He took the Olympic bronze medal in Lake Placid 1980 when Thomas Wassberg beat Juha Mieto by one-hundredth of a second for the gold medal, and won a silver medal as part of Norway's 4 x 10 km relay team.
Aunli found his biggest success at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, winning six medals. This included two golds (4 x 10 km: 1982, 1985), one silver (30 km: 1985), and three bronzes (4 x 10 km: 1978, 1987; 50 km: 1985).
Aunli represented the clubs Kyrksæterøra IL and Strindheim IL.
He is married to Berit Aunli
[edit] References
- FIS-Ski: Ove Aunli - statistics
Categories: 1956 births | Living people | Norwegian cross-country skiers | Olympic cross-country skiers of Norway | Winter Olympics medalists | Olympic silver medalists for Norway | Olympic bronze medalists for Norway | Cross-country skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics | People from Hemne | Norwegian cross country skiing biography stubs

