Halvor Egner GRANERUD

Norway

Ski Jumping

Date of Birth: 29 May 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Place of birth: OSLO

Birth Country:

Norway

Residence: TRONDHEIM

Residence Country:

Norway

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank
Ski Jumping	Men's Normal Hill Individual	30
	Men's Large Hill Individual	8
	Men's Team NOR Norway	4

Schedule

Location	Event	Status
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Normal Hill Individual Trial Round for Qualification	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Normal Hill Individual Qualification Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Normal Hill Individual Trial Round for Competition	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Normal Hill Individual 1st Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Normal Hill Individual Final Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Large Hill Individual Trial Round for Qualification	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Large Hill Individual Qualification Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Large Hill Individual Trial Round for Competition	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Large Hill Individual 1st Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Large Hill Individual Final Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Team Trial Round for Competition	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Team 1st Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Men's Team Final Round	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Four Hill Tournament
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
2	Large Hill	2022	Bischofshofen, AUT	282.4
2	Large Hill	2022	Oberstdorf, GER	299.2
2	Large Hill	2021	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER	274.9
3	Large Hill	2022	Bischofshofen, AUT	282.4
4	Large Hill	2021	Oberstdorf, GER	280.1
7	Large Hill	2019	Bischofshofen, AUT	258.0
8	Large Hill	2022	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER	264.2
9	Large Hill	2019	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER	245.4
12	Large Hill	2021	Bischofshofen, AUT	268.1
15	Large Hill	2021	Innsbruck, AUT	234.3
16	Large Hill	2018	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER	255.7
21	Large Hill	2018	Innsbruck, AUT	215.1
23	Large Hill	2018	Oberstdorf, GER	235.1
28	Large Hill	2017	Oberstdorf, GER	247.8
32	Large Hill	2018	Bischofshofen, AUT	103.4
34	Large Hill	2017	Innsbruck, AUT	90.0
36	Large Hill	2016	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER	97.4
37	Large Hill	2017	Bischofshofen, AUT	102.6
46	Large Hill	2016	Oberstdorf, GER	103.4
47	Large Hill	2017	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER	99.6

World Championship
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
2	Normal Hill Team	2021	Oberstdorf, GER	995.6
3	Normal Hill Team	2019	Seefeld, AUT	938.4
4	Normal Hill	2021	Oberstdorf, GER	259.7
5	Large Hill Team	2019	Seefeld, AUT	900.2
33	Large Hill	2019	Seefeld, AUT	103.0

World Cup Rankings Overview
Season	Overall
2021/2022	3
2020/2021	1
2019/2020	61
2018/2019	15

Best Performance per Season in World Cup Events from 2018/2019
Season	Normal Hill	Large Hill	Flying Hill	Normal Hill Team	Large Hill Team	Flying Hill Team
2021/2022		1 x 1st			1 x 2nd
2020/2021	1 x 29th	11 x 1st	1 x 16th	1 x 1st	1 x 1st	1 x 5th
2019/2020	1 x 23rd	1 x 64th
2018/2019		1 x 4th	1 x 8th		1 x 4th

Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
Rank	Event	Season	Location	Result
1	Large Hill	2021/2022	Nizhny Tagil, RUS	235.3
2	Large Hill Team	2021/2022	Willingen, GER	799.7
2	Large Hill	2021/2022	Willingen, GER	111.6
2	Large Hill	2021/2022	Klingenthal, GER	262.0
2	Large Hill	2021/2022	Bischofshofen, AUT	287.7
3	Large Hill	2021/2022	Four Hills Tournament, FIS	1128.2
3	Large Hill Team	2021/2022	Bischofshofen, AUT	1006.2
3	Large Hill	2021/2022	Nizhny Tagil, RUS	239.7
4	Large Hill	2021/2022	Titisee-Neustadt, GER	272.8
5	Large Hill	2021/2022	Willingen, GER	234.3

Nickname:

McSkalli Skallz Grandex (fis-ski.com)

Previous names:

Egner

Hobbies:

Gaming, frisbee golf, and being outside. (fis-ski.com; Athlete, Oct 2021)

Occupation:

Athlete, former kindergarten assistant. (olympicchannel.com, 28 Dec 2020)

Education:

Sport school WANG Toppidret. Trained as a kindergarten teacher.
Plans for after his sports career: "I think I want to work with evolving people, but I have not decided yet." (Athlete, Oct 2021)

Family:

Father, Svein. Mother, Marit Egner. Great-grandfather, Torbjorn Egner (wrote the children's classic 'Hakkebakkeskogen').
Brother, Joergen. Sister, Karoline.

Languages spoken:

Norwegian, English

Club name:

Asker Ski Club

Coach:

Team: Alexander Stoeckl (AUT)
Personal: Henning Stensrud (NOR), Christian Meyer (AUT)
Ski: Fluege.de

Other sports:

Nordic combined: Has an active FIS license. (7 Oct 2021)

Debut:

2014 Continental Cup in Seefeld (Normal hill - 34th)
2015 World Cup in Lillehammer (Normal hill - DSQ)

National team:

2015

Ambition:

Season 2021/22 goals: Defending the overall World Cup, winning an Olympic medal, gold in the Ski Flying World Championships, the Four Hills Tournament and the Raw Air.
Career goal: Becoming the greatest ski jumper ever. (Athlete, Oct 2021)

Memorable:

Winning the overall World Cup in 2020/21. (Athlete, Oct 2021)

Hero:

Biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (NOR), "King of Biathlon." Eight-time Olympic champion (four silver, one bronze), with 13 Olympic medals, he stands second on the list of multiple medallists; 20-time World champion (14 silver, 11 bronze).

Ski jumper Kamil Stoch (POL), three-time Olympic champion (two-time 2014, one 2018), two-time world champion (2013, 2017), two-time winner of the overall World Cup, and three-time winner of the Four Hills Tournament.

Ski jumper Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT), four-time Olympic medallist (2010 team gold), 12-time World Championships medallist (six gold). Record of 53 individual World Cup wins, two-time winner of the overall World Cup, two-time winner of the Four Hills Tournament.

Ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi (JPN), 2018 Olympian. Winner of the 2018/19 overall World Cup and Four Hills Tournament (becoming one of the only three athletes who managed to win all four events of the tournament).

Influence:

His father. "We have spent so many hours in the car to different ski jumping hills, and in later years he is the one I call if I need to get something off my chest." (Athlete, Oct 2021)

Philosophy:

"Work better than everyone else." (Athlete, Oct 2021)

General Interest

CHARITY
Donated 10 kroner to Right To Play for every World Cup point he earned in the 2020/2021 season. (Facebook)

KINDERGARTEN TEACHER
Believes that his time as a kindergarten employee contributed to the good start to the 2020/21 season. Not only financially motivated to take the job, but it was a way to relax from the monotonous elite sports every day, which he believes has helped him become a better jumper. (nrk.no, 11 Dec 2020)

During the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 he worked at a kindergarten in Trondheim. (berliner-zeitung.de)

Milestones

OLYMPIC GAMES
Finished eighth in the Beijing 2022 large hill event, 30th in the normal hill.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Competed at two World Championships winning team silver in 2021.

At the 2020 Ski Flying World Championships, he missed individual gold by 0.5 points but was on the gold medal-winning team.

Two-time Junior World Championships team medallist, winning gold (2015) and silver (2016).

WORLD CUP
Competed five seasons with no podiums in the first four years and then 13 in his fifth season (2020/21), in which he also won the overall World Cup - 11 of the 13 podium finishes were first places.

First Norwegian to win five in a row, surpassing Lillehammer 1994 gold medallist Espen Bredesen and world champion Ole Bremseth, who both managed four (record is six consecutive wins, currently held by Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer).

Earned more prize money in eight days in 2020 than all 2019. Had earned just seven points and a modest 800 Swiss francs. “I lived on the savings account for well over a year. Now I have paid back what I borrowed from myself and filled up the account.” (nrk.no, 11 Dec 2020)

SEASON 2021/22
Competed in four out of eight events in the Summer Grand Prix 2021, winning three of them and finishing second in one. Won the overall ranking.
In the winter season he is currently ranked third in the overall World Cup with eight podium finishes (five second and two third places) and one win in Nizhny Tagil.
Finished third in the Four Hills Tournament.

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