Bjarte Engen Vik

Bjarte Engen Vik is a Norwegian former Nordic combined athlete, born on 3 March 1971 in Tromsø. He is one of the most successful competitors the discipline has produced. He won the overall FIS World Cup twice, in 1997-98 and 1998-99, with 24 World Cup victories in total, and he collected eight medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, five of them gold and three silver, in both individual and team events. His back-to-back individual Gundersen wins in 1999 and 2001 were the first by one man in consecutive championships since Oddbjørn Hagen in 1934 and 1935. At the Holmenkollen ski festival he won the individual Nordic combined event five years running from 1996 to 2000, and his seven career wins there are the most of any Nordic combined competitor. He received the Holmenkollen medal in 1997.