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Medal record
Men's Cross country skiing
Olympic Games
Silver	1972 Sapporo	4 x 10 km
Silver	1980 Lake Placid	4 x 10 km
World Championships
Gold	1982 Oslo	15 km
Gold	1982 Oslo	4 x 10 km
Bronze	1974 Falun	4 x 10 km
Bronze	1978 Lahti	4 x 10 km

Oddvar Brå (born March 16, 1951) is a Norwegian former cross country skier. He was among the best skiers in Norway, winning 16 national championships, but his success in the major international championships was more modest. He participated internationally from the 1972 Winter Olympics to the 1989 Holmenkollen ski festival, but his first individual major international win was at the 1982 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo, where he won the 15 km event. In the same championship, he won a shared gold medal (Soviet Union) in the relay after a dramatic finish where his skiing pole broke, something which forever became a memory for every man in Norway leading to the popular all-norwegian expression "Hvor var du da Brå brakk staven?" lit. "Where were you when Brå broke his pole?". Brå also won three relay medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in 1982 and bronzes in 1974 and 1978. Brå additionally won two silver medals in the 4 x 10 km at the 1972 Winter Olympics and the 1980 Winter Olympics.

He also won the 50 km at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1980 and 1982, and the 15 km in 1975, 1979, and 1981. In 1975, Brå was awarded the Holmenkollen medal (Shared with Gerhard Grimmer and Ivar Formo.).

Brå's best individual achievement in the Olympics was a 4th position in the 15 km event in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

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• Holmenkollen Winners since 1892
• Holmenkollen Medalists
• FIS Profile (As Oddvar Braa)

World champions in men's 15 km cross country

As 18km - 1925: Otakar Nemecky | 1927: John Lindgren | 1929: Veli Saarinen | 1930: Arne Rustadstuen | 1931: Johan Grøttumsbråten | 1933: Nils-Joel Englund | 1934: Sulo Nurmela | 1935: Klaes Karppinen | 1937: Lars Bergendahl | 1938: Pauli Pitkänen | 1939: Jussi Kurikkala | 1950: Karl-Erik Åström

As 15km - 1954: Veikko Hakulinen | 1958: Veikko Hakulinen | 1962: Assar Rönnlund | 1966: Gjermund Eggen | 1970: Lars-Göran Åslund | 1974: Magne Myrmo | 1978: Józef Łuszczek | 1982: Oddvar Brå | 1985: Kari Härkönen | 1987: Marco Albarello | 1989 freestyle: Gunde Svan | 1989 classical: Harri Kirvesniemi | 1991: Bjørn Dæhlie | 2001: Per Elofsson | 2003: Axel Teichmann | 2005: Pietro Piller Cottrer

World champions in men's 4 x 10 km cross country relay

1933 Sweden Per Erik Hedlund, Sven Utterström, Nils-Joel Englund, & Hjalmar Bergström 1934 Finland Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Martti Lappalainen, & Veli Saarinen 1935 Finland Mikko Husu, Klaes Karppinen, Väinö Liikkanen, & Sulo Nurmela 1937 Norway Annar Ryen, Oskar Fredriksen, Sigurd Røen, & Lars Bergendahl 1938 Finland Jussi Kurikkala, Martti Lauronen, Pauli Pitkänen, & Klaes Karppinen 1939 Finland Pauli Pitkänen, Olavi Alakulppi, Eino Olkinuora, & Klaes Karppinen 1950 Sweden Nils Täpp, Karl-Erik Åström, Martin Lundström, & Enar Josefsson 1954 Finland August Kiuru, Tapio Mäkelä, Arvo Viitanen, & Veikko Hakulinen 1958 Sweden Sixten Jernberg, Lennart Larsson, Sture Grahn, & Per-Erik Larsson 1962 Sweden Lars Olsson, Sture Grahn, Sixten Jernberg, & Assar Rönnlund 1966 Norway Odd Martinsen, Harald Grønningen, Ole Ellefsæter, & Gjermund Eggen 1970 Soviet Union Vladimir Voronkov, Valeriy Tarakanov, Fyodor Simashev & Vyacheslav Vedenin 1974 East Germany Gerd Hessler, Dieter Meinel, Gerhard Grimmer & Gert-Dietmar Klause 1978 Sweden Sven-Åke Lundbäck, Christer Johannson, Tommy Linnby & Thomas Magnusson 1982 Norway Lars-Erik Eriksen, Ove Aunli, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, & Oddvar Brå 1982 Soviet Union Vladimir Nikitin, Aleksandr Batyuk, Yuriy Burlakov, & Aleksandr Savyalov 1985 Norway Arild Monsen, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, Tor Håkon Holte, & Ove Aunli 1987 Sweden Erik Östlund, Gunde Svan, Thomas Wassberg, & Torgny Mogren 1989 Sweden Christer Majbäck, Gunde Svan, Lars Håland, & Torgny Mogren 1991 Norway Øyvind Skaanes, Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, & Bjørn Dæhlie 1993 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Vegard Ulvang, Terje Langli, & Bjørn Dæhlie 1995 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard 1997 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard 1999 Austria Markus Gandler, Alois Stadlober, Mikhail Botvinov, & Christian Hoffman 2001 Norway Frode Estil, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Thomas Alsgaard, & Tor Arne Hetland 2003 Norway Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Tore Ruud Hofstad, & Thomas Alsgaard 2005 Norway Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Frode Estil, Lars Berger, & Tore Ruud Hofstad

Preceded by: Juha Mieto

Holmenkollen medal with Gerhard Grimmer & Ivar Formo 1975

Succeeded by: Ulrich Wehling

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