A statue Frode Estil

Last Saturday was inaugurated in Lierne, his city Christmas, a statue dedicated to Frode Estil, great long-distance runner of the millennium.

Wednesday 30 July 2014 2 minutes reading time

"It is a special feeling " said the Olympic Salt Lake City "I feel perhaps a bit ' young to have a statue, but I am honored and proud of this recognition. And the result is also very good, even better version in the flesh. " Estil, while living for fifteen years in MerÃ¥ker, has never denied his native country, so that "it is Lierne a person who has put on the map ", to use the words of Fraud GÃ¥sbakk, the project manager of the space around the statue, sculpted by Knut HÃ¸ihjelle. The now 42-year old Norwegian has won thirteen medals in his career between the World Cup and Olympics, including six gold. In particular, at the individual level, won the most metal prized in the 50 km at the World Championships in Oberstdorf in 2005 and in the pursuit at the Olympics in Salt Lake City, daring race was originally won by Johan MÃ¼hlegg, then disqualified for doping, in which they placed Estil and AlsgÃ¥rd is tied for second place, since even the photo finish failed to determine who of the two had cut the line first. The exclusion of the German-born Spaniard gave Norway to a resounding one-two, an event more Uniquely in a format against the man.

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