Bjørn Einar Romøren

Bjørn Einar Romøren
Bjørn Einar Romøren
	Romøren in Oslo, 2010
Country	Norway
Born	1 April 1981 (age 43); Oslo, Norway
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Personal best	239 m (784 ft); Planica, 20 March 2005
World Cup career
Seasons	2001–2012; 2014
Starts	221
Podiums	22
Wins	8
Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
Men's ski flying
FIS Ski Flying World Championships
	Updated on 10 February 2016.

Bjørn Einar Romøren (born 1 April 1981) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed at World Cup level from 2001 to 2014. His career highlights include eight individual World Cup wins, two ski flying world records, and a team bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Bjørn Einar is the younger brother of Jan-Erik Romøren, best known by the stage name Nag, frontman of black metal band Tsjuder.

Career

Romøren achieved his first World Cup victory in Bischofshofen during the 2002–03 Four Hills Tournament. He later won several more World Cup competitions as well as two World Championship bronze medals in the team large hill event in Val di Fiemme (2003) and Oberstdorf (2005). At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Pragelato, Romøren won a bronze medal in the team large hill event. He also has four medals in the team event at the Ski Flying World Championships with two golds (Planica in 2004; Kulm in 2006), one silver (Planica in 2010), and a bronze (Oberstdorf 2008).

On 20 March 2005, in Planica, Romøren set the world record for the sport's longest jump with a distance of 234.5 Meters which he later improved to 239 m on the same day.^[1] This record stood until 11 February 2011 (during which countryman Johan Remen Evensen jumped 243 m in Vikersund), but his 239 m jump remained the hill record at Planica until 20 March 2015, exactly a decade to the day.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	4H	SF	NT
2000/01	—	—	—	38
2001/02	—	—	N/A	61
2002/03	14	19	N/A	27
2003/04		13	N/A
2004/05	14	44	N/A	9
2005/06	6	7	N/A	7
2006/07	29	31	N/A	—
2007/08	11	19	N/A	11
2008/09	34	67	26	—
2009/10	9	17	20	35
2010/11	17	14	14	N/A
2011/12	32	40	15	N/A
2013/14	74	—	—	N/A

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	2002/03	6 January 2003	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze K120	LH
2	2003/04	7 March 2004	Lahti	Salpausselkä K116	LH
3	2003/04	10 March 2004	Kuopio	Puijo K120 (night)	LH
4	2004/05	20 March 2005	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS215	FH
5	2005/06	21 January 2006	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS134 (night)	LH
6	2005/06	18 March 2006	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS215	FH
7	2007/08	17 February 2008	Willingen	Mühlenkopfschanze HS145	LH
8	2009/10	28 November 2009	Kuusamo	Rukatunturi HS142 (night)	LH

Ski jumping world records

Date	Hill	Location	Metres	Feet
20 March 2005	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS215	Planica, Slovenia	234.5	769
20 March 2005	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS215	Planica, Slovenia	239	784

References

^ "Flights over 220 m" Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine. planica.si. Retrieved 2013-04-01.

External links

Records
Preceded by Tommy Ingebrigtsen 231 m (758 ft)	World's longest ski jump 234.5 m (769 ft) 20 March 2005 – 20 March 2005	Succeeded by Matti Hautamäki 235.5 m (773 ft)
Preceded by Matti Hautamäki 235.5 m (773 ft)	World's longest ski jump 239 m (784 ft) 20 March 2005 – 11 February 2011	Succeeded by Johan Remen Evensen 243 m (797 ft)

[1] "Flights over 220 m" Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine. planica.si. Retrieved 2013-04-01.

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