Bjørn Einar Romøren (born 1 April 1981) is a Norwegian former

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who competed at

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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

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. Bjørn Einar is the younger brother of Jan-Erik Romøren, best known by the stage name ''Nag'', frontman of black metal band

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Career

Romøren achieved his first

victory in

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during the 2002–03

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. He later won several more World Cup competitions as well as two

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bronze medals in the team large hill event in

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(2003) and

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(2005). At the

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, 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 (2004 in

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; 2006 in Kulm), one silver (2010 in Planica) and a bronze (2008 in

). On 20 March 2005 in Planica, Romøren set the world record for the sport's longest jump with a distance of 234.5 metres which he later improved to 239 m on the same day."Flights over 220 m"
. planica.si. Retrieved 2013-04-01. This record stood until 11 February 2011 (during which countryman

Johan Remen Evensen Johan Remen Evensen (born 16 September 1985) is a Norwegian former ski jumper. He is a two-time world record holder in ski flying, achieving his peak distance of in 2011. A late bloomer, Evensen made his World Cup debut during the 2008/09 seas ...

jumped 243 m in

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), but his 239 m jump remained the hill record at Planica until 20 March 2015, exactly a decade to the day.

World Cup

Standings

Wins

Ski jumping world records

References

External links

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Video of Romøren's 239 m world record jump
at

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, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Romoren, Bjorn Einar 1981 births Living people Norwegian male ski jumpers Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Olympic ski jumpers of Norway Ski jumpers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in ski jumping FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics World record setters in ski flying Skiers from Oslo 21st-century Norwegian people