Frode Andresen
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Frode Andresen is a Norwegian biathlete born in Rotterdam on 9 September 1973. He now resides in Hønefoss, and trains with the Ringkollen Skiklubb.
Andresen was born in the Netherlands, and lived one year each in Cape Town, South Africa; Laos, Nigeria; and Nairobi, Kenya, because of his parent's careers. They settled in Norway when Frode was four, and a year later he learnt to cross country ski, taking up biathlon when he was twelve.
Andresen started competing in 1985 and has 15 World cup victories (as of March 9 2006). In all Andresen has had 47 podium finishes, 15 1st, 15 2nd and 17 3rd places. On the 22nd of January 2006, Frode Andresen won the Golden Cup, which is a trophy awarded to the biathlete with the most points during the three world cup events after Christmas. Andresen is one of the fastest skiiers in the field, but his shooting accuracy is questionable, his 03/04 season shooting statistics were 72% in the prone, and 67% standing, whilst the top biathletes are in the high 80% range.
On the 14th of February 2006 Andresen won the bronze medal in the 10km Sprint in the 2006 Winter Olympics in a time of 26:31.3, 19.7 seconds behind winner Sven Fischer of Germany, having missed one target out of ten. Giving him a medal of each colour in his olympic carrer.
Andresen is currently 8th in the IBU World Cup standings, 236 points behind fellow countryman Ole Einar Bjørndalen. He is in 36th place in the individual standings, 117 points behind Michael Greis. He finished the sprint season in 7th place, 45 points behind Tomasz Sikora. He's sixth in the pursuit, 77 points behind Bjørndalen, and he's 9th in the mass start, 64 points behind Poirée. Norway are fourth in the relay, but the biathletes arn't awarded any points for the relays.
Trivia
Frode lives with fellow biathlete Gunn Margit Andreassen, and they have a son together, David, who was born around christmas 2004.He has a degree in economics and lists monitoring the stock market as a hobby of his.
Frode is an avide cyclist, coming 26th at the 2002 Norwegian Championships in road cycling.
As a child he cracked several teeth while skateboarding.
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