Jørn Didriksen (born 27 August 1953) is a former

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

from

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. Representing ''

Oslo Idrettslag Oslo Idrettslag is a Norwegian multi-sports club from Oslo, with sections for swimming, speed skating, figure skating and athletics. History It was founded on 3 September 1893 as Kristiania Idrætsforening, partly on the ruins of the clubs ''Dov ...

'', Didriksen specialised in the sprint and participated in the

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three times. His best result there was a fourth place in 1975. That same year, he also became Norwegian Sprint Champion. At the

1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label= Austro-Bavarian), was a ...

of Innsbruck, he won a silver medal on the 1,000m behind Peter Mueller.

Personal records

To put these personal records in perspective, the ''WR'' column lists the official world records on the dates that Didriksen skated his personal records.

External links

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Jørn Didriksen at SkateResults.com

Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database

Historical World Records
''International Skating Union''.
National Championships results
''Norges Skøyteforbund'' (Norwegian Skating Association). 1953 births Living people Norwegian male speed skaters Speed skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters for Norway Olympic silver medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in speed skating Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-speed-skater-bio-stub