Espen Bredesen

Espen Bredesen is a Norwegian former ski jumper, born on 2 February 1968. At the 1992 Winter Olympics he came last in the normal hill and 57th of 59 on the large hill, having switched from the parallel technique to the V-style only a month earlier, which earned him the nickname Espen the Eagle after the British jumper Eddie the Eagle Edwards. He recovered to win two golds at the 1993 Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, in the individual and team large hill, and he won the 1993-94 Four Hills Tournament. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer he won gold and silver, and he took silver at the 1994 Ski Flying World Championships in Planica. He broke the ski flying world record twice, with 209 metres in 1994 and 210 metres in 1997, and received the Holmenkollen medal in 1994.