Miguel wrote:Maybe Montreal? The Olympics in '76 plus the 2005 World Outdoor Games according to wikipedia were hosted there. I'm not sure there were any paralympics in 1976 though.
I'm in Eskil Ervik's wikipedia entry and they don't mention any gold medal. They do mention silver and bronze medals in world or european championships, but nothing else. I've also found Ervik's results in skateresults.com and the cities where he's won stuff are:
-Bergen
-Herenveen
-Hamar (counts for the Lillehamer Olympics '94)
-Gethus
-Berlin
-Skien
-Inzel
Of all these places, unless one of the Dutch rinks is close to Zandvoort and for some reason that also counts for the Amsterdam Olympics of 1928... please excuse me if my knowledge of the Netherlands is almost nonexistent.
mmm, it seems your collective google skills are appalling.
Eskil Ervik
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Medal record
Center
Eskil Ervik at the Winter Olympics in Turin 2006
Men's speedskating
World Championships
Bronze 1999 Hamar Allround
Bronze 2005 Inzell Team pursuit
European Championships
Silver 2000 Hamar Allround
Silver 2006 Hamar Allround
Eskil Ervik (born 11 January 1975 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian speedskater. Ervik's best distance is traditionally the 5000-m, where he for several years was among the very best of the world, but his top priority for the most part of his career was to perform optimally in the allround championships. His retirement from top international speedskating was announced in April 2007.
Ervik won bronze at the World Allround Championships in Hamar in 1999 and silver at the European Allround Championships in 2000 and 2006, again in Hamar. As of January 2007, he has won the Norwegian allround championships seven times (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007), and has also won a string of Norwegian single distance championships titles.
Under American coach Peter Mueller, Ervik enjoyed a new spring as a speed skater – on 15 October 2005, he set a new world outdoor record on the 3000 meters, finishing at 3:44.90 in Inzell, and on 5 November 2005, he set the world record (indoor or outdoor) on that distance in Calgary with a time of 3:37.28.[1] Eight days later in Calgary, he broke the world record on the 5000 meters, finishing in 6:12.19, on that occasion also being the first skater ever to do the 5000 meters with all lap times below 30 seconds. This was a short-lived world record, though, since Chad Hedrick skated faster in the next race.
Ervik's highest ranking on the all-time best-ever Adelskalender list was a 4th place, a position he held briefly on 4 December 2005, when he became the second skater ever to race a 10,000-m below 13 minutes (but 12.52 seconds later Enrico Fabris overtook his 4th rank position). Ervik was for several years the best Norwegian on the Adelskalender, until Håvard Bøkko passed him in March 2007. At the time of his retirement from speedskating, Ervik held the 8th position at the Adelskalender.
In "Top Gear Winter Olympics Special" Jeremy Clarkson raced with Jaguar XK8 against Ervik.
Ervik currently works as head of the marketing department at the Storhamar Dragons front office.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Grand_Prix
they ran a grand pirx on a frozen lake, hence the track being resurfaced every year.
