Dag Bjørndalen (born 2 April 1970) is a former Norwegian

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not ti ...

. He is the older brother of

Ole Einar Bjørndalen Ole Einar Bjørndalen (; born 27 January 1974) is a retired Norwegian professional biathlete and coach, often referred to by the nickname, the "King of Biathlon". With 13 Winter Olympic Games medals, he is second on the list of multiple medali ...

. His biggest triumph as a biathlete is the silver medal he won in the relay in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano (together with his brother Ole Einar,

Halvard Hanevold Halvard Hanevold (3 December 1969 – 3 September 2019) was a Norwegian biathlete. Career Hanevold won medals in biathlon events at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the 2002 Winter Olympics by winning his first Olympic gold followed by another go ...

and

Egil Gjelland Egil Gjelland (born 12 November 1973) is a Norwegian former biathlete. He is olympic champion in the biathlon relay from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Egil Gjelland grew up in Voss, the home of many world class biathletes, and sta ...

). He was also part of the team that won the team event in the 1995 World Championships.

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* * 1970 births Norwegian male biathletes Olympic biathletes for Norway Olympic silver medalists for Norway Biathletes at the 1998 Winter Olympics Living people Olympic medalists in biathlon Biathlon World Championships medalists Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics {{Norway-biathlon-bio-stub