Tone Gravvold Explained

Tone Gravvold
Birth Date:	19 June 1977
Birth Place:	Surnadal, Norway
Country:	Norway
Sport:	cross-country skiing, biathlon, cycling, goalball

Tone Gravvold (born 19 June 1977) is a Norwegian cross-country skier and biathlete, and since 1998, also a cyclist. She won a dozen medals in the Paralympic Games in which she competed at between 1994 and 2006. In 2019, she was named Sportsperson of the Century for Møre og Romsdal.^[1]

For the Oslo Vikings, she has competed in the Norwegian championships in goalball for the visually impaired. She has retinitis pigmentosa and competes in the B1 and B2 classes,^[2] has been on the board of the RP association since 2009,^[3] and works as a psychologist, in 2015 working for the National Centre for Rheumatological Rehabilitation at the Diakonhjemmet.^[4]

Titles

Cross-country skiing

• 1994 Winter Paralympics (Lillehammer):
  • Cross-country skiing: Gold in 5 km freestyle (B2), bronze in 10 km classic (B2)
  • Biathlon: 8th in 7.5 freestyle (B1-3).
• 1998 Winter Paralympics (Nagano): Gold in 5 km freestyle (B2-3), bronze in 15 km classic (B1-3), gold in relay 3x2.5 km (open) with Frode Nilssen as lead.
• 2002 Paralympic Winter Games (Salt Lake City):
  • Cross-country skiing: Bronze in 5 km classic (B2-3), gold in relay 3x2.5 (open)
  • Biathlon: Silver in 7.5 km freestyle (blind)
• Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics (Torino): 11th in 10 km and 10th in 15 km (blind and visually impaired in the same class). Led by Fredrik Thomassen.^[5]

Cycling

• 2000 Paralympic Games (Sydney): Nr. 9 in 1000 m track (1.11.806), nr. 10 in duotempo, nr. 6 in sprint (11,861). Per Olve Tobiassen was pilot.
• 2004 Paralympic Games (Athens): (B1-3):
  • Road: Nr. 2 in tandem tempo, nr. 5 in tandem joint start and nr. 4 combined. With Ingunn Bollerud pilot.
  • Track cycling: Nr. 4 in 3000 m (3.46.581) and nr. 5 in 1000 m (1.13.507). With May Britt Hartwell as pilot.
• European cycling championships:
  • 2005 (Alkmaar, Netherlands): Gold in tempotandem and bronze in joint start tandem with Ingunn Bollerud as pilot
• Birken: Record for tandem cycle 3.13 (2000). Pilot Per Olve Tobiassen. 4 career medal with the same pilot.
• NM: 2000 Norwegian Champion road tandem. Pilot Per Olve Tobiassen

Honours

• Erling Stordahls ærespris 2004
• Sportsperson of the Century Møre og Romsdal, 2019.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 100 årets utøvere i Møre og Romsdal. 3 November 2019.
2. Web site: Intervju med Tone Gravvold. 3 July 2004. dead. 2010-05-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20140808190432/http://www.syklingensverden.com/baglercms.php?articleID=5544&ID=194&catID=1&catname=Dagb%C3%83%C6%92%C3%82%C2%B8ker. 2014-08-08.
3. Web site: Styret, RP-foreningen i Norge. dead. 2010-05-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20130215052307/http://www.rpfn.no/styret.4587702-124248.html. 2013-02-15.
4. Tormod Halleraker, Slik stanser du smertene in Dagbladet 6 October 2015.
5. Web site: Medaljesøk fra paralympic.org. 11 May 2010.