Pål Anders Ullevålseter

Pål Anders Ullevålseter is a Norwegian rally raid motorcycle rider, born on 7 December 1968 in Oslo. He has competed in the Dakar Rally eleven times and was the first Norwegian to complete the race, with his best result a second place in 2010, just over an hour behind the winner Cyril Despres. In 2004 he won the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship, taking third place in 2006 and silver in 2007. He won the Africa Eco Race in 2015 and 2016, winning 16 stages, and finished second behind the South African Gev Sella in 2017; before the 2016 race he said his aim was to raise money for a school in Dakar founded by Fabrizio Meoni. He also won the Rallye des Pharaons in 2004 and the Merzouga Rally in 2014, and as a celebrity in Norway won the 2007 season of the dance show Isdans.