Ivar Eriksen
Ivar Eriksen in 1968 | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 7 March 1942 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Aktiv SK, Oslo | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alf Ivar Eriksen (born 7 March 1942) is a former speed skater from Norway.
He won a silver medal in 1500 m., shared with Ard Schenk, at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble; at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck he came on sixth place on the same distance. Over the course of his career, Eriksen skated five world records and was the first to skate 1,000 m below 1:20.0. After the 1972 season, Eriksen joined the European long track skaters' professional league, the International Speedskating League.
- World records
| Discipline | Time | Date | Location |
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| 3000 m | 4.33,0 | 28 February 1963 | Oslo |
| 1000 m | 1.20,5 | 9 March 1968 | Inzell |
| 1000 m | 1.20,3 | 8 February 1969 | Inzell |
| 1000 m | 1.19,5 | 1 March 1969 | Inzell |
| 1000 m | 1.19,2 | 15 January 1971 | Davos |
Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com
- Personal records
- 500 m – 39.1
- 1000 m – 1:19.2
- 1500 m – 2:04.0
- 5000 m – 7:55.6
- 10000 m – 16:33.4