Ivar Nordkild

Personal information

Full name

Ivar Olaus Nordkild

Born

14 May 1941 (age 83)
Vassdalen, Narvik, Nordland, Norway

Height

1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)

Professional information

Sport

Club

Bjerkvik Idrettslag

Olympic Games

Teams

Medals

World Championships

Teams

Medals

3 (2 gold)

Medal record

Ivar Olaus Nordkild (born 14 May 1941) is a former Norwegian biathlete. He competed for Norway and won a gold medal in the 1965 Biathlon World Championships in Elverum in the team competition. He won a second gold medal in the men's relay in the 1966 world championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen^[1] and a silver medal in the same event in 1971.

He represented Norway at the 1972 Winter Olympics, skiing third leg in the relay, with team mates Tor Svendsberget, Kåre Hovda and Magnar Solberg, where the Norwegian team placed fourth.^[2]^[3]

Biathlon results

All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.^[4]

Event	Individual	Relay
1972 Sapporo	—	4th

3 medals (2 gold, 1 silver)

Event	Individual	Sprint	Team (time)	Relay
1965 Elverum	14th	—	Gold	—
1966 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	—	—	—	Gold
1970 Östersund	11th	—	—	—
1971 Hämeenlinna	14th	—	—	Silver
1974 Minsk	36th	—	—	—

*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.

**The team (time) event was removed in 1965, whilst the relay was added in 1966, and the sprint was added in 1974.

^ "Biathlon – World Championships – Men: 4 x 7.5 km Relay" – sports123.com (Retrieved on April 26, 2008)
^ Lahlum, Hans Olav; Tronstad, Øyvind (2021). Historien om Vinter-OL (in Norwegian). Vol. 1. Oslo: Cappelen Damm. p. 396. ISBN 978-82-02-71938-8.
^ "4 × 7.5 kilometres Relay, Men". olympedia.org. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
^ "Search results". IBU Datacenter. International Biathlon Union. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2015.

v t e World champions in men's biathlon – Team event
4 × 20 km (time)	1958: (Adolf Wiklund, Olle Gunneriusson, Sture Ohlin, Sven Nilsson)
3 × 20 km (time)	1959: (Vladimir Melanin, Dmitri Sokolov, Valentin Pzhenitsyn) 1961: (Kalevi Huuskonen, Paavo Repo, Antti Tyrväinen) 1962: (Vladimir Melanin, Valentin Pzhenitsyn, Nikolay Puzanov) 1963: (Vladimir Melanin, Nikolay Mezharyakov, Valentin Pzhenitsyn) 1965: (Olav Jordet, Ola Wærhaug, Ivar Nordkild)
4 × 20 km	1989: (Juri Kashkarov, Sergei Bulygin, Alexandr Popov, Sergei Tchepikov) 1990: (Raik Dittrich, Mark Kirchner, Birk Anders, Frank Luck) 1991: (Hubert Leitgeb, Gottlieb Taschler, Simon Demetz, Wilfried Pallhuber) 1992: (Evgeny Redkin, Alexander Tropnikov, Anatoly Zhdanovich, Alexandr Popov) 1993: (Fritz Fischer, Frank Luck, Steffen Hoos, Sven Fischer)
4 × 10 km	1994: (Pieralberto Carrara, Hubert Leitgeb, Andreas Zingerle, Wilfried Pallhuber) 1995: (Frode Andresen, Dag Bjørndalen, Halvard Hanevold, Jon Åge Tyldum) 1996: (Oleg Ryzhenkov, Petr Ivashko, Alexandr Popov, Vadim Sashurin) 1997: (Oleg Ryzhenkov, Petr Ivashko, Alexandr Popov, Vadim Sashurin) 1998: (Egil Gjelland, Halvard Hanevold, Sylfest Glimsdal, Ole Einar Bjørndalen)