Norwegian biathlete Sivert Guttorm Bakken has been found dead in his hotel room in Lavaze, Italy. The Norwegian Biathlon Association said the cause of the 27-year-old\u2019s death was unknown.<\/p>\n
The International Biathlon Union, the sport\u2019s governing body, said the athlete\u2019s death had been confirmed by Italian authorities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IBU is deeply shocked and saddened by the tragic news of Sivert Bakken\u2019s sudden death,\u201d the organisation\u2019s president Olle Dahlin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSivert\u2019s comeback to biathlon after a period of great hardship was a source of immense joy for everyone in the biathlon family and an inspiring demonstration of his resilience and determination.<\/p>\n
Bakken won his first World Cup race in the 15-kilometre mass start in Oslo Holmenkollen in 2022.<\/p>\n
After his successful 2021-2022 season, his career was halted due to heart problems, but after a long way back he has represented Norway in the Biathlon World Cup over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n
Bakken competed in the World Cup event at Le Grand Bornand in France at the weekend and was 13th in this season\u2019s overall standings.<\/p>\n
Norwegian public broadcaster NRK said Bakken had travelled to Lavaze for a high-altitude training camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis passing at such a young age is impossible to comprehend but he will not be forgotten and he will forever remain in our hearts,\u201d Dahlin said. \u201cThe IBU\u2019s thoughts are with Sivert\u2019s family and friends, his team and all members of the Norwegian biathlon family at this very difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a post to Instagram, teammate Sturla Holm Laegreid called Bakken \u201cone of the toughest\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou had the ability to work your way out of the worst situations. Where everyone else would have given up, you pushed on. Sivert, you were a role model, an inspiration, with a determination that the rest of us could only dream of,\u201d Laegreid said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norwegian biathlete Sivert Guttorm Bakken has been found dead in his hotel room in Lavaze, Italy. The Norwegian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-201005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}