Roar Ljøkelsøy

Roar Ljøkelsøy (born 31 May 1976) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed from 1993 to 2010, and twice finished runner up in the World Cup.

Career

Template:BLP unreferenced section He won his first individual World Cup event on 25 January 2003 and was a very consistent competitor in the 2003/04 and 2004/05 seasons, finishing runner-up in both. In 2003–04 he won seven out of the last eleven competitions, finishing ten points short of eventual winner Janne Ahonen.

In addition to winning eleven individual and three team World Cup events, Ljøkelsøy won the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in 2004. He then won the individual and team gold medal at the 2004 Ski Flying World Championships in Planica.

At the 2005 Ski Jumping World Championships, Ljøkelsøy won a silver medal on the individual large hill and a bronze on the team large hill. In 2006, he retained his Ski Flying World Championship in Kulm, winning with over twenty points to the next competitor, despite feeling ill. The next day, he led the Norwegian team to victory in the team event, together with Ingebrigtsen, Romøren and Lars Bystøl.

At the 2007 Ski Jumping World Championships in Sapporo, Ljøkelsøy won silver on the team large hill and bronze on the individual large hill.

Ljøkelsøy retired from the sport after competing in the 2010 Ski Flying World Championships in Planica, with his last official jump being 193.5 metres.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	4H	SF	NT	JP
1992/93	53	—	—	N/A	N/A
1993/94	17	10	—	N/A	N/A
1994/95	33	65	26	N/A	N/A
1995/96	15	27	5	N/A	15
1996/97	13	13	9	24	14
1997/98	32	38	23	39	32
1998/99	29	67	44	24	27
1999/00	29	19	23	28	27
2000/01	28	20	24	68	N/A
2001/02	35	44	N/A	43	N/A
2002/03	9	6	N/A	16	N/A
2003/04	Template:Silver02	9	N/A	Template:Gold01	N/A
2004/05	Template:Silver02	6	N/A	Template:Silver02	N/A
2005/06	4	Template:Bronze03	N/A	16	N/A
2006/07	14	17	N/A	12	N/A
2007/08	37	31	N/A	63	N/A
2008/09	25	56	19	28	N/A
2009/10	30	23	—	21	N/A

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	2002/03	25 January 2003	Template:Flagicon Sapporo	Ōkurayama K120 (night)	LH
2	2003/04	6 December 2003	Template:Flagicon Trondheim	Granåsen K120 (night)	LH
3		20 December 2003	Template:Flagicon Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze K120	LH
4		24 January 2004	Template:Flagicon Sapporo	Ōkurayama K120 (night)	LH
5		25 January 2004	Template:Flagicon Sapporo	Ōkurayama K120	LH
6		7 February 2004	Template:Flagicon Oberstdorf	Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze K185	FH
7		12 March 2004	Template:Flagicon Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken K120 (night)	LH
8		14 March 2004	Template:Flagicon Oslo	Holmenkollbakken K115	LH
9	2004/05	29 January 2005	Template:Flagicon Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS134 (night)	LH
10		6 February 2005	Template:Flagicon Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS134	LH
11	2005/06	22 January 2006	Template:Flagicon Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS134	LH

References

• Template:FIS ski jumper
• Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file Template:In lang
• Template:Official website