Torbjørn Løkken Explained

Birth Place:Biri, Norway
Height:175 cm
Weight:66 kg
Sport:Nordic combined
Club:Biri Idrettslag
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Torbjørn Løkken (born 28 June 1963) is a Norwegian nordic combined skier who competed from 1985 to 1990. He won two medals at the 1987 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf with a gold in the 15 km individual and a silver in the 3×5 km team events.

Løkken also competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, finishing sixth in the individual and fourth in the team events.[1] He also won the Nordic combined event at the 1988 Holmenkollen ski festival and earned four additional individual victories in his career from 1986 to 1988. He took a year off after the 1987–88 season, and attempted a comeback in 1989–90, but quit midway through the season, claiming he no longer had the motivation to compete.

He has his education from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.[2]

After retiring from the sport, Løkken had a troubled life. In November 2007, he came forward and revealed that he was a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, having abused alcohol, pills and eventually heroin for 15 years.[3]

References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035017/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/torbjorn-lokken-1.html Torbjørn Løkken
  2. News: 40 år og fortsatt full fart . Bugge . Mette . 5 September 2008 . Aftenposten . 20 . Norwegian.
  3. http://www.dagbladet.no/sport/2007/11/23/519017.html Dagbladet: Drikking, piller, narkotika og kjøring i rus

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