Trond Einar Elden

Personal information
Born	(1970-02-21)21 February 1970 (age 55)
Height	189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Sport
Country	Norway
Sport	Skiing
World Cup career
Seasons	1988-2005
Indiv. starts	88
Indiv. wins	5
Medal record Men'snordic combined Representing Norway Olympic Games 1992 Albertville 3 × 10 km team World Championships 1989 Lahti 15 km individual 1989 Lahti 3 × 10 km team 1993 Falun 3 × 10 km team 1999 Ramsau 4 × 5 km team 1993 Falun 15 km individual

Trond Einar Elden (born 21 February 1970) is aNorwegian formerNordic combined skier who representedNamdalseid IL. He competed at threeWinter Olympics.^[1]

At the1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships inLahti, he became the youngest world champion ever, fifteen days after his nineteenth birthday. AtFalun in 1993, he won a bronze medal in the 15 km individual event. Additionally, Elden won two medals in the 3 × 10 km team event at the Nordic skiing world championships with a gold in 1989 and a silver in 1993. Elden also won the Nordic combined event twice at theHolmenkollen ski festival (1989, 1991).

In 1991, Elden received theHolmenkollen medal (which he shared withVegard Ulvang,Ernst Vettori, andJens Weißflog). He would also win silver in the 3 × 10 km team event at the1992 Winter Olympics inAlbertville.

Elden was relatively strong incross-country skiing as well, spending his final years of competition as a ski sprinter. He later coached the American national skiing team. Elden received theEgebergs Ærespris in 2004. He is the brother of the Nordic combined skierBård Jørgen Elden.

All results are sourced from theInternational Ski Federation (FIS).^[2]

• 2 podiums

No.	Season	Date	Location	Race	Level	Place
1	2000–01	4 February 2001	Nové Město, Czech Republic	1.0 km Sprint F	World Cup	2nd
2	2001–02	29 December 2001	Salzburg, Austria	1.5 km Sprint C	World Cup	2nd

• Trond Einar Elden at theInternational Ski and Snowboard Federation
• Holmenkollen medalists - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file(in Norwegian)
• Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file(in Norwegian)

• 1970 births
• Living people
• People from Namsos Municipality
• Nordic combined skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
• Nordic combined skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
• Holmenkollen medalists
• Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
• Norwegian male Nordic combined skiers
• Norwegian male cross-country skiers
• Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Norway
• Olympic medalists in Nordic combined
• FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined
• Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics
• Olympic silver medalists for Norway
• Olympic cross-country skiers for Norway
• Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics

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• Articles with Norwegian-language sources (no)