Björn Kircheisen
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| Born | 6 August 1983 Erlabrunn, DDR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ski club | WSV Johanngeorgenstadt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 2003-2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Individual wins | 17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiv. podiums | 45 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiv. starts | 281 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Björn Kircheisen (also spelled Bjoern; born 6 August 1983 in Erlabrunn) is a German former nordic combined skier. He won four 4 x 5 km team medals at the Winter Olympics with three silvers (2002, 2006, 2014) and a bronze (2010).
Kircheisen also won ten medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with eight silvers (10 km individual large hill: 2009, 15 km individual: 2005, 4 x 5 km team: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009) and two bronze (7.5 km sprint: 2007). He also won the Nordic combined 7.5 km sprint event at the 2006 Holmenkollen ski festival.
At the FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships, he won six gold medals, the most by any athlete in history.
External links[]
- Official website
- Bjoern Kircheisen at the International Ski Federation
- Bjoern Kircheisen at the International Olympic Committee
- Bjoern Kircheisen at Olympics.com
- Björn Kircheisen at the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (in German)
- Björn Kircheisen at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Holmenkollen winners since 1892 – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file at the Wayback Machine (archived February 24, 2007) (in Norwegian)
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- 1983 births
- German male Nordic combined skiers
- Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners
- Living people
- People from Erzgebirgskreis
- Nordic combined skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Germany
- Olympic Nordic combined skiers of Germany
- Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
- Olympic medalists in Nordic combined
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined
- Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- German Winter Olympic medalist stubs
- Nordic skiing biography stubs