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Place of Birth: Drammen, Buskerud, Norway
About Sten Stensen
- Sten Einar Stensen (born 18 December 1947) is a former speed skater.
- Together with Amund Sjøbrend, Kay Stenshjemmet, and Jan Egil Storholt, he was one of the legendary four S-es ("four aces" in Norwegian), contemporary Norwegian top skaters in the 1970s and early 1980s.
- Stensen excelled at the longer distances, especially the 5,000 m and 10,000 m, and set two world records.
- He was World Allround Champion in 1974 and European Allround Champion in 1975.
- He also won Olympic gold on the 5,000 m in Innsbruck in 1976.
- For his accomplishments, he received the Oscar Mathisen Award in 1974 and 1976. During the 1976 European Allround Championships in Oslo, Stensen (the defending European Champion), set a new world record on the 10,000 m, but he still lost his title to fellow Norwegian Kay Stenshjemmet by a tiny margin of only 0.005 points (equivalent to 0.10 seconds on the 10,000 m).Stensen won gold on the 5,000 m at the 1976 Winter Olympics the next month, a race in which Piet Kleine won silver and the world record holder on that distance, Hans van Helden, won bronze.
- Still being the world record holder on the 10,000 m, Stensen was the favourite for that distance three days later, but he was beaten by Kleine in a close race.
- Again, Van Helden finished third.After ending his speed skating career in 1978, Stensen became a Norwegian broadcasting commentator at speed skating events.
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