 Hedegart in 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 8 November 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Skiing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seasons | 2 – (2025–present) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiv. starts | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiv. podiums | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiv. wins | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team starts | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team podiums | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team wins | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Updated on 12 February 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Einar Hedegart (born 8 November 2001) is a Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier. He represented Norway at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Hedegart began his career as a biathlete and competed at the Biathlon Junior World Championships 2023. He won a gold medal in the 4 × 7.5 km relay, and silver medals in the 15 km individual and 12.5 km pursuit events. [1]
Hedegart made his FIS Cross-Country World Cup debut during the 2024–25 FIS Cross-Country World Cup and in his second career race on 16 March 2025, he earned his first career podium, finishing in second place. [2] After the race he was encouraged by several people to focus only on cross-country skiing. [3] He previously announced that he would make a decision after the Norwegian National Championships on whether he will focus on biathlon or cross-country skiing. At the Norwegian National Championships he won gold medal in the men's mass start. Following the race he announced he would focus on being a biathlete. [4]
During the 2025–26 FIS Cross-Country World Cup he earned his first career World Cup victory on 7 December 2025, winning the 10 km freestyle race. [5] A week later he earned his second career World Cup victory on 14 December 2025. [6] On 23 January 2026, he won the team sprint, along with Harald Østberg Amundsen. [7]
In November 2025, he announced he would end his biathlon career to devote himself entirely to cross-country skiing ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics. [8] In December 2025, he was selected to represent Norway at the Olympics. [9] [10] In his Olympic debut on 13 February 2026, he won a bronze medal in the 10 kilometre freestyle event with a time of 20:50.2. His teammate, Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, won gold, marking the first time Hedegart lost to Klæbo in this discipline, after defeating him twice during the World Cup. [11]
