Roar Ljøkelsøy Explained

Roar Ljøkelsøy
Birth Date:31 May 1976
Birth Place:Orkdal, Norway
Height:1.75 m
Personalbest:230.5m (756.2feet)
Planica, 20 March 2005
Wins:11
Teamwins:6
Totalpodiums:32
Teampodiums:16
Individual Starts:350
Team Starts:30
Updated:10 February 2016

Roar Ljøkelsøy (born 31 May 1976) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed from 1993 to 2010, and twice finished runner up in the World Cup.

Career

He won his first individual World Cup event on 25 January 2003 and was a very consistent competitor in the 2003/04 and 2004/05 seasons, finishing runner-up in both. In 2003–04 he won seven out of the last eleven competitions, finishing ten points short of eventual winner Janne Ahonen.

In addition to winning eleven individual and three team World Cup events, Ljøkelsøy won the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in 2004. He then won the individual and team gold medal at the 2004 Ski Flying World Championships in Planica.

At the 2005 Ski Jumping World Championships, Ljøkelsøy won a silver medal on the individual large hill and a bronze on the team large hill. In 2006, he retained his Ski Flying World Championship in Kulm, winning with over twenty points to the next competitor, despite feeling ill. The next day, he led the Norwegian team to victory in the team event, together with Ingebrigtsen, Romøren and Lars Bystøl.

At the 2007 Ski Jumping World Championships in Sapporo, Ljøkelsøy won silver on the team large hill and bronze on the individual large hill.

Ljøkelsøy retired from the sport after competing in the 2010 Ski Flying World Championships in Planica, with his last official jump being 193.5 metres.

World Cup

Standings

 Season Overall
scope=row align=center53 N/A N/A
scope=row align=center17 10 N/A N/A
scope=row align=center33 65 26 N/A N/A
scope=row align=center15 27 5 N/A 15
scope=row align=center13 13 9 24 14
scope=row align=center32 38 23 39 32
scope=row align=center29 67 44 24 27
scope=row align=center29 19 23 28 27
scope=row align=center28 20 24 68 N/A
scope=row align=center35 44 N/A 43 N/A
scope=row align=center9 6 N/A 16 N/A
scope=row align=centeralign=center bgcolor=silver9 N/A align=center bgcolor=#D4AF37N/A
scope=row align=centeralign=center bgcolor=silver6 N/A align=center bgcolor=silverN/A
scope=row align=center4 align=center bgcolor=#A57164N/A 16 N/A
scope=row align=center14 17 N/A 12 N/A
scope=row align=center37 31 N/A 63 N/A
scope=row align=center25 56 19 28 N/A
scope=row align=center30 23 21 N/A

Wins

No.SeasonDateLocationHillSize
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1 25 January 2003   Ōkurayama K120 (night) LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"2 align=center rowspan=76 December 2003   Granåsen K120 (night) LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"3 20 December 2003   Gross-Titlis-Schanze K120 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"4 24 January 2004   Ōkurayama K120 (night) LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"5 25 January 2004   Ōkurayama K120 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"6 7 February 2004   Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze K185 FH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"7 12 March 2004   Lysgårdsbakken K120 (night) LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"8 14 March 2004   Holmenkollbakken K115 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"9 align=center rowspan=229 January 2005   Wielka Krokiew HS134 (night) LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"10 6 February 2005   Ōkurayama HS134 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1122 January 2006   Ōkurayama HS134 LH

References