Nils Olav Fjeldheim (born 18 April 1977,

Tysvær Tysvær is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is part of the Haugalandet region. The municipality is located on the Haugalandet peninsula on the northern side of the Boknafjorden, just east of the towns of Kopervik and Haugesund. Th ...

) is a Norwegian

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and marathon canoeist who competed from 1998 to 2004. Competing in two

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, he won a bronze in the K-2 1000 m event at Athens in

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m:

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

), a silver (K-2 1000 m:

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), and a bronze (K-4 200 m:

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

). Fjeldheim retired from international racing in 2005. He lives in

, Norway.

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* 1977 births Living people Norwegian male canoeists Olympic canoeists for Norway Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in canoeing Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Medalists at the ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships People from Tysvær Sportspeople from Rogaland 21st-century Norwegian people {{Norway-Olympic-medalist-stub