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Place of Birth: Sarpsborg, Eastern Norway, Norway
About Jens Arne Svartedal
- Jens Arne Svartedal (born February 14, 1976) is a Norwegian former cross-country skier who competed in the World Cup between 1999 and 2010.
- He represented Trøsken IL from Sarpsborg in Norway.
- His greatest achievement is winning the individual sprint gold medal at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo.
- He also has a silver medal in the Team sprint event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Svartedal has seventeen cross-country victories since 2001, mostly in the sprint races.
- Two of those wins were in the sprint events at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival (2002, 2003).
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