Håvard Bøkko
Encyclopedia
Håvard Bøkko is a Norwegian
speedskater
, widely considered to be one of the most promising talents for many years, with junior results similar to those of Sven Kramer
, Gianni Romme
and Eric Heiden
. He is the older brother of Hege Bøkko
.
he won the bronze in 2006, was no. 4 in 2007, and caught the silver in 2008 and 2009 (on both occasions trailing Sven Kramer
). In the World Allround Speedskating Championships
he was no. 4 in 2007 and won the overall silver medal, after Sven Kramer
, in both 2008 and 2009. At the latter occasion he managed the feat of reaching the podium for each of the four distances (silver, gold, silver, silver for 500-m, 1500-m, 5000-m, 10000-m). He went on to win the silver medal in the 2009 World World Single Distances
5000-m and the 10000-m, only beaten by Kramer.
In November 2005 he broke three junior world records in two weeks. On November 5 he raced 3000 metres on 3:43.66, on the 13th he raced 5000 metres in 6:18.93 and on the 18th he broke the 1500 metres record with 1:46.07. As of March 2009, he is ranked 4th in the Speedskating Adelskalender and is the highest ranking Norwegian on this list.
As of March 2009, Bøkko holds the Norwegian records in the 1500-m (1:42.67), the 5000-m (6:09.94) and the allround samalogue event (148.077), and is with Sverre Haugli
and Henrik Christiansen also on the team that holds the national record 3:42.88 in the Team Pursuit event. His 3:39.28 result from February 2009 is the 3rd best 3000-m time ever (after Eskil Ervik
and Chad Hedrick
). Also, as of March 2009, only six skaters (Shani Davis
, Denny Morrison
, Trevor Marsicano
, Erben Wennemars
, Simon Kuipers
, Chad Hedrick
) have skated the 1500-m faster than Bøkko's 1:42.67; and only four skaters (Sven Kramer
, Enrico Fabris
, Carl Verheijen
, Chad Hedrick
) have skated the 5000-m faster than his 6:09.94.
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...
speedskater
Speed skating
Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...
, widely considered to be one of the most promising talents for many years, with junior results similar to those of Sven Kramer
Sven Kramer
Sven Kramer is a Dutch long track speed skater. He is the Olympic champion of the 5000 meter in Vancouver 2010, and four-time European and World Allround Champion. He is also three-time world champion and world record holder in the 5,000 m, 10,000 m, and the team pursuit...
, Gianni Romme
Gianni Romme
Gianni Petrus Cornelis Romme is a Dutch marathon and a former long track speed skater. He is also a coach since the 2006-07 speed skating season....
and Eric Heiden
Eric Heiden
Eric Arthur Heiden, M.D. is an American former long track speed skater and road cyclist who won all the men's speed skating races, and thus an unprecedented five individual gold medals, and set four Olympic records and one world record at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York,...
. He is the older brother of Hege Bøkko
Hege Bøkko
Hege Bøkko is a Norwegian long-track speedskater, and the younger sister of Håvard Bøkko.-Personal life:Hege was born in Hønefoss in Buskerud county, Norway in 1991, but she has been living in Hovet, Buskerud her whole life...
.
Speed skating career
In 2006, Bøkko was the Junior World Champion, winning the three longest distances. In the European Speedskating ChampionshipsEuropean Speed Skating Championships
The European Speed Skating Championships are a series of speed skating events held annually to determine the best allround speed skater of Europe. The International Skating Union has organised the European Championships for Men since 1893 and the European Championships for Women since 1970. The...
he won the bronze in 2006, was no. 4 in 2007, and caught the silver in 2008 and 2009 (on both occasions trailing Sven Kramer
Sven Kramer
Sven Kramer is a Dutch long track speed skater. He is the Olympic champion of the 5000 meter in Vancouver 2010, and four-time European and World Allround Champion. He is also three-time world champion and world record holder in the 5,000 m, 10,000 m, and the team pursuit...
). In the World Allround Speedskating Championships
World Allround Speed Skating Championships
The World Allround Speed Skating Championships are a series of speed skating events held annually to determine the best allround speed skater of the world...
he was no. 4 in 2007 and won the overall silver medal, after Sven Kramer
Sven Kramer
Sven Kramer is a Dutch long track speed skater. He is the Olympic champion of the 5000 meter in Vancouver 2010, and four-time European and World Allround Champion. He is also three-time world champion and world record holder in the 5,000 m, 10,000 m, and the team pursuit...
, in both 2008 and 2009. At the latter occasion he managed the feat of reaching the podium for each of the four distances (silver, gold, silver, silver for 500-m, 1500-m, 5000-m, 10000-m). He went on to win the silver medal in the 2009 World World Single Distances
World Single Distance Championships
The World Single Distance Championships are a series of speed skating competitions organised by the International Skating Union.-History:Since the late 19th century, speed skating championships were always decided by racing multiple distances – four different distances for the allround...
5000-m and the 10000-m, only beaten by Kramer.
In November 2005 he broke three junior world records in two weeks. On November 5 he raced 3000 metres on 3:43.66, on the 13th he raced 5000 metres in 6:18.93 and on the 18th he broke the 1500 metres record with 1:46.07. As of March 2009, he is ranked 4th in the Speedskating Adelskalender and is the highest ranking Norwegian on this list.
As of March 2009, Bøkko holds the Norwegian records in the 1500-m (1:42.67), the 5000-m (6:09.94) and the allround samalogue event (148.077), and is with Sverre Haugli
Sverre Haugli (born 1982)
Sverre Haugli is a Norwegian long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.He represents the sports club Jevnaker IF and is the grandson of speed skater Sverre Ingolf Haugli and brother of Maren Haugli....
and Henrik Christiansen also on the team that holds the national record 3:42.88 in the Team Pursuit event. His 3:39.28 result from February 2009 is the 3rd best 3000-m time ever (after Eskil Ervik
Eskil Ervik
Eskil Ervik is a Norwegian speedskater. Ervik's best distance is traditionally the 5000-m, where he for several years was among the very best of the world, but his top priority for the most part of his career was to perform optimally in the allround championships...
and Chad Hedrick
Chad Hedrick
Chad Hedrick is an American inline speed skater and ice speed skater. He was born in Spring, Texas.Hedrick revolutionized the inline speed skating world with his unique technique, called the double push or DP...
). Also, as of March 2009, only six skaters (Shani Davis
Shani Davis
Shani Davis is an Olympic Champion speed skater from the United States.At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Davis became the first Black athlete to win a gold medal in an individual sport at the Olympic Winter Games . He also won the silver in the 1,500 m...
, Denny Morrison
Denny Morrison
Denny Morrison is a Canadian speedskater from Fort St. John, British Columbia. His best distance, so far in his career, is the 1500-m, where he held the world record time of 1:42.01 from 14 March 2008 to 6 March 2009...
, Trevor Marsicano
Trevor Marsicano
Trevor Marsicano is an American long-track speedskater and silver medalist in the Winter Olympics.At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Marsicano won a silver medal for his part in the team pursuit...
, Erben Wennemars
Erben Wennemars
Egbert Rolf Wennemars is a Dutch former speed skater. He specialized in the sprint and middle distances of 500, 1000 and 1500 meters.-Speed skating career:...
, Simon Kuipers
Simon Kuipers
Simon Kuipers is a Dutch speed skater. He won a 1,500 meters World Cup competitions on 3 December 2005. It was his first World Cup victory...
, Chad Hedrick
Chad Hedrick
Chad Hedrick is an American inline speed skater and ice speed skater. He was born in Spring, Texas.Hedrick revolutionized the inline speed skating world with his unique technique, called the double push or DP...
) have skated the 1500-m faster than Bøkko's 1:42.67; and only four skaters (Sven Kramer
Sven Kramer
Sven Kramer is a Dutch long track speed skater. He is the Olympic champion of the 5000 meter in Vancouver 2010, and four-time European and World Allround Champion. He is also three-time world champion and world record holder in the 5,000 m, 10,000 m, and the team pursuit...
, Enrico Fabris
Enrico Fabris
Enrico Fabris is a former Italian long track speed skater who has won three World Cup races and became the first European Allround Champion from Italy when he won the 2006 European Championships one month before the Winter Olympics in Turin. In 2007 he won also the silver medal an in 2008 the...
, Carl Verheijen
Carl Verheijen
Carl Eduard Verheijen was a Dutch speedskater specializing in the longer distances 5,000-m and the 10,000-m. Verheijen is the son of skater Eddy Verheijen and has a relation with retired skater Andrea Nuyt in Leusden. They have a daughter...
, Chad Hedrick
Chad Hedrick
Chad Hedrick is an American inline speed skater and ice speed skater. He was born in Spring, Texas.Hedrick revolutionized the inline speed skating world with his unique technique, called the double push or DP...
) have skated the 5000-m faster than his 6:09.94.
Development
| Season | Age | 500 metres | 1000 metres | 1500 metres | 3000 metres | 5000 metres | 10 000 metres |
| 1995 /96 | 9 | 55.6 | 2:06.3 | - | - | - | - |
| 1996 /97 | 10 | 52.0 | 1:58.8 | - | - | - | - |
| 1997 /98 | 11 | 50.63 | 1:54.8 | - | - | - | - |
| 1998 /99 | 12 | 48.41 | 1:35.9 | 2:27.3 | - | - | - |
| 1999 /00 | 13 | 46.50 | 1:33.07 | 2:25.77 | 5:22.6 - | - | - |
| 2000 /01 | 14 | 44.40 | 1:30.09 | 2:17.56 | 5:03.9 - | - | - |
| 2001 /02 | 15 | 41.82 | 1:24.29 | 2:09.38 | 4:35,44 - | 9:00,2 | 18:46.2 |
| 2002 /03 | 16 | 39.88 | 1:20.34 | 2:02.38 | 4:17.66 - | - | - |
| 2003 /04 | 17 | 38.46 | 1:17.6 | 1:57.98 | 4:05.32 - | 7:05.00 | - |
| 2004 /05 | 18 | 37.00 | 1:12.87 | 1:50.75 | 4:00.37 - | 6:31.91 | 13:46.08 |
| 2005 /06 | 19 | 36.65 | 1:10.57 | 1:46.07 | 3:43.66 | 6:18.93 | 13:24.09 |
| 2006 /07 | 20 | 35.87 | ... | 1:44.57 | 3:46.33 | 6:16.59 | 13:14.03 |
| 2007 /08 | 21 | ... | 1:08.60 | 1:43.93 | 3:40.22 | 6:12.28 | 13:06.42 |
| 2008 /09 | 22 | 35.86 | ... | 1:42.67 | 3:39.28 | 6:09.94 | 13:00.65 |
| 2009 /10 | 23 | 36.27 | 1:08.42 | 1:42.89 | 3:44.34 | 6:13.25 | 13:04.08 |
| 2010 /11 | 24 | 35.89 | 1:10.17 | 1:43.55 | 3:45.85 | 6:12.98 | 12:53.89 |
World records
| Distance | Time | Date | Location | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3000 m | 3.43,66 | November 15, 2005 |  Calgary Olympic Oval The Olympic Oval in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is a covered speed skating oval built for the 1988 Winter Olympics. It is the official designated training center for Speed Skate Canada and the Canadian National Speed Skating team. It is located on the University of Calgary campus... |
Junior record |
| 5000 m | 6.18,93 | November 13, 2005 | Calgary Olympic Oval The Olympic Oval in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is a covered speed skating oval built for the 1988 Winter Olympics. It is the official designated training center for Speed Skate Canada and the Canadian National Speed Skating team. It is located on the University of Calgary campus... |
Junior record |
| 1500 m | 1.46,07 | November 18, 2005 |  Salt Lake City Utah Olympic Oval The Utah Olympic Oval, an indoor speed skating oval built for the 2002 Winter Olympics, is located southwest of Salt Lake City, in Kearns, Utah. The Oval hosted the long track speed skating events for the 2002 games. Inside the facility the 400-meter skating track surrounds two international sized... |
Junior record |
| 3000 m | 3.43,20 | March 21, 2006 | Calgary Olympic Oval The Olympic Oval in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is a covered speed skating oval built for the 1988 Winter Olympics. It is the official designated training center for Speed Skate Canada and the Canadian National Speed Skating team. It is located on the University of Calgary campus... |
Junior record |