MOEN Sondre Nordstad

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Marathon
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	19th (2:14:17)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	5000m	10,000m
2019	Doha, QAT	-	11th (28:02.18)
2017	London, GBR	Heats (13:31.71)	-

European Championships

Year	Location	Marathon
2018	Berlin, GER	DNF

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
9	2017	10,000m	World Challenge	Ostrava, CZE	28:15.12

World Marathon Majors

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
9	Marathon	2019/2020	London, GBR	2:09:01
19	Marathon	2016/2017	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	2:14:17

Gold Label Road Races

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Marathon	2017	Fukuoka, JPN	2:05:48
7	Marathon	2019	Valencia, ESP	2:06:16

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Reading, watching television. (spikes.worldathletics.org, 16 Sep 2019)

Athlete

English, Norwegian

SK Vidar [Oslo, NOR]

Renato Canova [personal], ITA

He competed in cross-country skiing at youth national level in Norway. (blog.runningcoach.me, 20 Jun 2018)

In April 2019 he sustained a stress fracture in his sacrum [pelvis] that sidelined him for six weeks. (spikes.worldathletics.org, 16 Sep 2019)

In 2018 he tore a tendon in his thigh and was out for two months. He missed that year's European Championships in Berlin, Germany. (spikes.worldathletics.org, 16 Sep 2019)

He missed almost two years after he tore his flexor hallucis longus [foot] tendon in late 2012. He underwent two operations on the injury in March 2013 and May 2013, and resumed running in November 2013. (spikes.worldathletics.org, 16 Sep 2019)

He took up athletics at age 11, initially mainly in preparation for the cross-country skiing season. He began focusing on running at age 16. (runnersworld.no, 21 Sep 2014; blog.runningcoach.me, 20 Jun 2018)

He was a promising cross-country skier at a young age, but decided to pursue a running career after he finished sixth in the junior race at the 2007 European Cross-Country Championships in Toro, Spain. "I wanted a real challenge and so I decided to focus on running. However, distance running at the highest level is very un-Norwegian in my hometown. So, I knew that, if I wanted to train at the highest level, this would mean training mostly alone. I started to get tired of always having to travel to find snow conditions, and the hysteria surrounding having the best ski equipment to be competitive seemed crazy to me. Running is so much simpler. Two legs is all you need." (runnersworld.no, 21 Sep 2014; blog.runningcoach.me, 20 Jun 2018)

To win an Olympic medal in the marathon. (fastrunning.com, 22 Aug 2019)

"In my typical marathon build-up, I'll run about 200-220 kilometres a week and can sometimes go as high as 240 kilometres." (fastrunning.com, 22 Aug 2019; spikes.worldathletics.org, 16 Sep 2019)

Coach Renato Canova. (spikes.worldathletics.org, 16 Sep 2019)

"You need to meet the following three criteria. First, you have to free your mind. Second, you have to believe in the training you are doing, and third, you need to make sure that you recover from your workload in time, in order not to get too exhausted." (blog.runningcoach.me, 20 Jun 2018)