Ola Vigen Hattestad, born on 19 April 1982, is a former Norwegian cross-country skier who competed from 2002 through 2018 and specialised in the sprint. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he became Olympic champion in the individual sprint at Sochi in 2014, even though he was initially not qualified for the Norwegian team before a change of selection let him start; he then set the fastest time in the prologue and won the quarterfinal, the semifinal and the final. He won 13 individual World Cup races, all of them sprints, and took the sprint World Cup in 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2013-14. At the 2009 world championships he won two gold medals, in the individual sprint and in the team sprint, and he announced his retirement on 3 May 2018.
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he became Olympic champion in the individual sprint event at Sochi in 2014
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