Tor Håkon Holte 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...

 cross country skier who competed from 1982 to 1987. He won the 4 x 10 km gold at the 1985 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

1985 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1985 took place January 16-27, 1985 in Seefeld, Austria . This was the fourth time the Innsbruck area hosted these championships, having done so in 1933, the 1964 Winter Olympics, and the 1976 Winter Olympics...

 in Seefeld

Seefeld, Tirol

Seefeld in Tirol is a municipality of the Innsbruck-Land District in the Austrian state of Tyrol, located about northwest of Innsbruck. With more than one million overnight stays each year, it is one of the most popular Tyrolean tourist destinations especially for skiing in winter, but also for...

 and finished 9th in the 50 km event at those same championships.

Holte also won the 50 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival

Holmenkollen 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...

 in 1984. His best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was 8th in the 15 km event in 1984

1984 Winter Olympics

The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated from 8–19 February 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Gothenburg, Sweden...

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Holte's only other international victory was a 50 km event in Lahti

Lahti

Lahti is a city and municipality in Finland.Lahti is the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital Helsinki...

 in 1985.

Holte has 4 individual Norwegian championships on 50 km and one on 15 km.

He is a brother of Geir Holte

Geir Holte

Geir Holte is a Norwegian cross-country skier. He was born in Drammen, and represended the club Hokksund IL. He competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.-References:...

, and a nephew of Tove

Tove Paule

Tove Paule is a Norwegian sports official.She was the secretary general of the Norwegian Gymnastics Federation from 1995 to 2000, and became the president of the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports in 2007...

 and Torbjørn Paule.