Early Life and Career
Born in Oslo, he represented the skiing club Ullensaker SK.
His first international competition was the 1985 Junior World Championships, in which he finished eleventh in downhill and nineteenth in giant slalom. He made his World Cup debut in December 1986, finishing tenth in the slalom race in Madonna di Campiglio. He did not compete in any World Cup races in the 1987 calendar year, but returned in the late 1987–88 season with a sixth and fifteenth place in Bad Kleinkirchheim and Oppdal, respectively.
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