Audun Grønvold
Audun Grønvold was a Norwegian alpine and freestyle skier, born in Hamar.
He won national titles in both downhill and ski cross. Internationally, he won bronze medals in ski cross both at the Olympics and at the world championships. After his active career he coached the Norwegian national ski cross team.
Career
Grønvold won a bronze medal in ski cross at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2005. He won the Ski Cross World Cup in 2007. He represented Norway at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where he won a bronze medal in the men's ski cross. A third place in downhill was his best World Cup achievement.Grønvold won national titles in both alpine skiing and freestyle skiing, winning the Norwegian championship in downhill in 2003 and 2004, and becoming Norwegian champion in ski cross in 2005 and 2006. He won another national title in ski cross in 2010, which also earned him the Kongepokal trophy.
Grønvold retired as active athlete in 2010, due to injury problems. After his active career, he was assigned as coach for the Norwegian national ski cross team from 2010 to 2012. He later established the company Grønvold Sports for selling sports equipment, and worked as a media consultant for Egmont Publishing.