Bjørn Tveter (born 13 June 1944) is a former Norwegian

speed skater Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors racing, race each other in travelling a certain distance on Ice skate, skates. Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marath ...

. He competed in the 1500 m event at the

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and

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and finished fifth and fourth, respectively. He won a bronze medal over this distance at the 1968 World Allround Championships, placing seventh overall.Uitslag WK Allround 1968 mannen
schaatsstatistieken.nl In 1973, Tveter joined the professional skating league, and in 1974 he won gold medals at the Professional European Allround Championships. The professional league was dissolved in 1974. Tveter's younger brother

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was also an Olympic speed skater.

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* 1944 births Living people Norwegian male speed skaters Speed skaters at the 1968 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters for Norway 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-speed-skater-bio-stub