Country Norway Height 1.81 m Sport Men's speed skating Weight 77 kg | Name Magne Thomassen Club Trondhjems SK Role Speed Skater | |
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Born 1 May 1941 (age 82) ( 1941-05-01 ) Melhus, Norway Olympic medals Speed Skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics - Men's 500m | ||
Magne Thomassen (born 1 May 1941) is a former speed skater from Norway. He participated in international championships over a period of more than ten years. He took part in 23 country matches for Norway in the period 1959–1971 and competed in the European Speed Skating Championships, World Allround Speed Skating Championships and World Sprint Speed Skating Championships between 1962 and 1972.
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Biography
After setting a world record on the 1,500 meters with the time 2:02.5 on 5 February 1972, Magne Thomassen conquered the first position on the Adelskalenderen ranking for a period of two days until Kees Verkerk regained that position.
Thomassen became Norwegian allround champion in 1968. He became the first winner of the Norwegian sprint speed skating championship in 1970, a title he also won the year thereafter.
Thomassen won silver in the 500 m event of the 1968 Winter Olympic Games, silver in the World Allround Speed Skating Championships in 1968 and 1970, bronze in the 1970 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships as well as bronze in the 1968 allround European Speed Skating Championships.
He represented the club Trondhjems Skøiteklub.
World record
Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com
Personal records
To put these personal records in perspective, the WR column lists the official world records on the dates that Thomassen skated his personal records.
Note that Thomassen's score on the Big combination was no world record because Kees Verkerk skated an even lower total of points on that day.