Bjørn Einar Romøren (born 1 April 1981) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed at World Cup level from 2001 to 2014. His career highlights include eight individual World Cup wins, two ski flying world records, and a team bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Bjørn Einar is the younger brother of Jan-Erik Romøren, best known by the stage name Nag, frontman of black metal band Tsjuder.
Career Romøren achieved his first World Cup victory in Bischofshofen during the 2002–03 Four Hills Tournament. He later won several more World Cup competitions as well as two World Championship bronze medals in the team large hill event in Val di Fiemme (2003) and Oberstdorf (2005). At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Pragelato, Romøren won a bronze medal in the team large hill event. He also has four medals in the team event at the Ski Flying World Championships with two golds (Planica in 2004; Kulm in 2006), one silver (Planica in 2010), and a bronze (Oberstdorf 2008).
On 20 March 2005, in Planica, Romøren set the world record for the sport's longest jump with a distance of 234.5 Meters which he later improved to 239 m on the same day."Flights over 220 m" . planica.si. Retrieved 2013-04-01. This record stood until 11 February 2011 (during which countryman Johan Remen Evensen jumped 243 m in Vikersund), but his 239 m jump remained the hill record at Planica until 20 March 2015, exactly a decade to the day.
World Cup
Standings Season Overall2000/01 — — — 382001/02 — — N/A 612002/03 14 19 N/A 272003/04 13 N/A 2004/05 14 44 N/A 92005/06 6 7 N/A 72006/07 29 31 N/A —2007/08 11 19 N/A 112008/09 34 67 26 —2009/10 9 17 20 352010/11 17 14 14 N/A2011/12 32 40 15 N/A2013/14 74 — — N/A
Wins No. Season Date Location Hill Size1 2002/036 January 2003 Bischofshofen Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze K120 2 2003/04 7 March 2004 Lahti Salpausselkä K116 LH3 10 March 2004 Kuopio Puijo K120 (night) LH4 2004/05 20 March 2005 Planica Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS215 5 2005/06 21 January 2006 Sapporo Ōkurayama HS134 (night) LH6 18 March 2006 Planica Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS215 FH7 2007/08 17 February 2008 Willingen Mühlenkopfschanze HS145 LH8 2009/10 28 November 2009 Kuusamo Rukatunturi HS142 (night) LH
Ski jumping world records DateHillLocationMetresFeet20 March 2005 Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS215 Planica, Slovenia234.576920 March 2005 Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS215 Planica, Slovenia239784
References
External links
Video of Romøren's 239 m world record jump at YouTube