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Tone Gravvold

Personal information

Born

19 June 1977 (age 47)
Surnadal, Norway

Sport

Country

Norway

Sport

cross-country skiing,
biathlon,
cycling,
goalball

Medal record

Cross-country skiing

Representing Norway
Paralympic Games
	1994 Lillehammer	5km free B2
	1998 Nagano	5km free B2-3
	1998 Nagano	3x2.5km relay open
	2002 Salt Lake City	3x2.5km relay open
	2002 Salt Lake City	7.5km
	1994 Lillehammer	15km classical B2
	1998 Nagano	15km classical B1-3
	2002 Salt Lake City	5km classical B2-3

Tone Gravvold (born 19 June 1977) is a Norwegian cross-country skier and biathlete, and since 1998, also a cyclist. She won a dozen medals in the Paralympic Games in which she competed at between 1994 and 2006. In 2019, she was named Sportsperson of the Century for Møre og Romsdal.^[1]

For the Oslo Vikings, she has competed in the Norwegian championships in goalball for the visually impaired. She has retinitis pigmentosa and competes in the B1 and B2 classes,^[2] has been on the board of the RP association since 2009,^[3] and works as a psychologist, in 2015 working for the National Centre for Rheumatological Rehabilitation at the Diakonhjemmet.^[4]

Titles

Cross-country skiing

1994 Winter Paralympics (Lillehammer):
- Cross-country skiing: Gold in 5 km freestyle (B2), bronze in 10 km classic (B2)
- Biathlon: 8th in 7.5 freestyle (B1-3).
1998 Winter Paralympics (Nagano): Gold in 5 km freestyle (B2-3), bronze in 15 km classic (B1-3), gold in relay 3x2.5 km (open) with Frode Nilssen as lead.
2002 Paralympic Winter Games (Salt Lake City):
- Cross-country skiing: Bronze in 5 km classic (B2-3), gold in relay 3x2.5 (open)
- Biathlon: Silver in 7.5 km freestyle (blind)
Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics (Torino): 11th in 10 km and 10th in 15 km (blind and visually impaired in the same class). Led by Fredrik Thomassen.^[5]

Cycling

2000 Paralympic Games (Sydney): Nr. 9 in 1000 m track (1.11.806), nr. 10 in duotempo, nr. 6 in sprint (11,861). Per Olve Tobiassen was pilot.
2004 Paralympic Games (Athens): (B1-3):
- Road: Nr. 2 in tandem tempo, nr. 5 in tandem joint start and nr. 4 combined. With Ingunn Bollerud pilot.
- Track cycling: Nr. 4 in 3000 m (3.46.581) and nr. 5 in 1000 m (1.13.507). With May Britt Hartwell as pilot.
European cycling championships:
- 2005 (Alkmaar, Netherlands): Gold in tempotandem and bronze in joint start tandem with Ingunn Bollerud as pilot
Birken: Record for tandem cycle 3.13 (2000). Pilot Per Olve Tobiassen. 4 career medal with the same pilot.
NM: 2000 Norwegian Champion road tandem. Pilot Per Olve Tobiassen

Honours

Erling Stordahls ærespris 2004
Sportsperson of the Century Møre og Romsdal, 2019.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "100 årets utøvere i Møre og Romsdal". 3 November 2019.
^ "Intervju med Tone Gravvold". 3 July 2004. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
^ "Styret, RP-foreningen i Norge". Archived from the original on 15 February 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
^ Tormod Halleraker, Slik stanser du smertene in Dagbladet 6 October 2015.
^ "Medaljesøk fra paralympic.org". 11 May 2010.

External links

Tone Gravvold at Paralympic.org

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