Frode Andresen

Frode Andresen, born on 9 September 1973, is a Norwegian former biathlete and cross-country skier. He was born in the Netherlands and lived in Cape Town, Lagos and Nairobi because of his parents' careers before the family settled in Norway when he was four; he learned to cross-country ski a year later and took up biathlon at twelve. He started competing in 1985 and won 15 World Cup races, with 47 podium finishes in all, including three wins at the Holmenkollen biathlon festival, and he took the Golden Cup in January 2006. At the 2006 Winter Olympics he won the bronze medal in the 10 km sprint, completing a full set of Olympic medals. His results table lists three Olympic medals and nine World Championships medals, and his last World Cup race was the sprint at Hochfilzen on 15 December 2011.