Anders Bardal (; born 24 August 1982) is a Norwegian former

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Career

He participated in the 2002 Winter Olympics in

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, finishing 25th on the individual large hill. He was also part of the Norwegian team that finished ninth on the team large hill at those same games. Bardal won his first individual

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event in

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on 27 January 2008. He won four silver medals in the team large hill event at the Ski Jumping World Championships ( 2007, 2009, and two medals on both normal and large hills in 2011). At the 2008 Ski Flying World Championships in

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, he won a bronze in the team event, and in 2010, in the team event as well, he achieved a silver. Same year, he was part of the Norwegian team that won bronze in the team large hill at the 2010 Winter Olympics in

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. In 2012 he won the overall

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, becoming the first Norwegian to win it since

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in 1993/94. A year later, at the 2013 Ski Jumping World Championships in

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, he won a gold medal on the normal hill. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in

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, he won a bronze in the individual normal hill event. He currently lives in

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with his wife, and their daughter and son. He studies at

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. Bardal retired from ski jumping at the end of the 2014/15 season.

World Cup

Standings

Wins

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bardal, Anders 1982 births Living people People from Steinkjer Norwegian male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers of Norway Ski jumpers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in ski jumping FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics Holmenkollen medalists Sportspeople from Trøndelag 21st-century Norwegian people