Frode Andresen
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Rotterdam
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) is a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
biathlete and a cross-country skier. He now resides in Hønefoss
Hønefoss
Hønefoss is a city in Buskerud county, Norway, and the center of the municipality of Ringerike.In 1852, Hønefoss received town status and was separated from Norderhov. Hønefoss celebrated its 150th year of township in 2002...
, and trains with the Ringkollen Skiklubb.
Early life
Andresen was born in the NetherlandsNetherlands
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, and lived one year each in Cape Town
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, South Africa
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; Laos
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, Nigeria
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; and Nairobi
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, Kenya
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, because of his parent's careers. They settled in Norway when Frode was four, and a year later he learnt to cross-country ski, taking up biathlon when he was twelve.
Biathlon career
Andresen started competing in 1985 and has 15 World cup victories (as of March 9, 2006). In all Andresen has had 47 podium finishes, 15 1st (including three wins at the Holmenkollen ski festivalHolmenkollen ski festival
The Holmenkollen Ski Festival is a traditional annual Nordic skiing event in Holmenkollen, Oslo, Norway. The full official name of the event is Holmenkollen FIS World Cup Nordic. It takes place in March and has been arranged every year since 1892, except for 1898 and during World War II...
biathlon competition with two sprint wins (2000, 2001) and one pursuit (2001), 15 2nd and 17 3rd places. On the January 22, 2006, Frode Andresen won the Golden Cup
Golden Cup
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, which is a trophy awarded to the biathlete with the most points during the three world cup events after Christmas
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. Andresen is one of the fastest skiers in the field, but his shooting accuracy is questionable, his 03/04 season shooting statistics were 72% in the prone, and 67% standing, whilst the top biathletes are in the high 80% range.
On the 14 February 2006 Andresen won the bronze medal in the 10 km sprint in the 2006 Winter Olympics
2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...
in a time of 26:31.3, 19.7 seconds behind winner Sven Fischer
Sven Fischer
Sven Fischer is a former German biathlete. He trained with the WSV Oberhof club, and was coached by Frank Ullrich and Fritz Fischer and Klaus Siebert...
of Germany
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, having missed one target out of ten. This gave him a complete set of medals in his olympic career.
Andresen is currently 8th in the IBU World Cup standings, 236 points behind fellow countryman Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen is a Norwegian professional biathlete. He is often regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time. In 1992, he won his first career medal at the junior world championships. A year later In 1993, after winning a record three junior world championship titles, Bjørndalen...
. He is in 36th place in the individual standings, 117 points behind Michael Greis
Michael Greis
Michael Greis is a German triple Olympic gold medalist in biathlon.Greis first competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, finishing 15th and 16th in the 10 km sprint and 12.5 km pursuit events in the biathlon.Greis won the World Cup in the individual category in 2004/05, and...
of Germany. He finished the sprint season in 7th place, 45 points behind Tomasz Sikora
Tomasz Sikora
Tomasz Sikora , is a Polish biathlete.In 1993 he finished second in 10 km sprint at world youth championships in Ruhpolding....
of Poland
Poland
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. He's sixth in the pursuit, 77 points behind Bjørndalen, and he's 9th in the mass start, 64 points behind Poirée. Norway was fourth in the relay. Biathletes are not awarded points for relays.
Cross-country career
A skilled and versatile skier, Andresen also participates in FISInternational Ski Federation
The International Ski Federation, known by its name in French, Fédération Internationale de Ski is the main international organisation for ski sports...
cross-country skiing competitions. One of his best achievements in this sport is the first place in 20 km Freestyle race on 1999 Norwegian national championship which took place in Lillehammer
Lillehammer
is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway, globally known for hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. As of May 2011, the population of the town of Lillehammer was...
.
Trivia
- Frode lives with fellow biathlete Gunn Margit AndreassenGunn Margit AndreassenGunn Margit Aas Andreassen is a Norwegian biathlete.-Biathlon career:She has won two Olympic medals, bronze in Nagano 1998 and silver in Salt Lake City 2002. Both in biathlon relay...
, and they have a son together, David, who was born around Christmas 2004.
- He has a degree in economics and lists monitoring the stock marketStock marketA stock market or equity market is a public entity for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.The size of the world stock market was estimated at about $36.6 trillion...
as a hobby of his.
- Frode is an avid cyclist, coming 26th at the 2002 Norwegian Championships in road cycling.
- As a child he cracked several teeth while skateboarding.