Arnulf Sunde (born 12 October 1951) is a former

speed skater Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors racing, race each other in travelling a certain distance on Ice skate, skates. Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marath ...

from

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

, who represented his native country at the

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. There he finished in sixth place in the men's 500 metres, together with the

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Jan Bazen Cornelis Jan Bazen (born 3 January 1948) is a former speed skater from the Netherlands. He dominated the national sprint championships in the early 1970s, winning them in 1970–1972, finishing second in 1973–1974 and third in 1975–1976. He co ...

. Sunde competed for

Gjøvik Gjøvik () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Gjøvik (town), town of Gjøvik. Some of the villages in Gjøvik include Biri, Norway, Biri, Bybrua, ...

SK. His best performance at the World Sprint Championship was 21st place in 1972.

Personal bests

References

Arnulf Sunde at SkateResults.com
* ''Skøyter i radio og TV 76'', Åge Dalby and Steinar Nyborg, published by Per Sletholt & Co. 1951 births Living people Norwegian male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters for Norway Speed skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-speed-skater-bio-stub