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Lars Berger (born 1 May 1979) is a former Norway biathlon and cross-country skier.
Berger joined the national biathlon team in 2001. During the 2004 Biathlon World Championships in Oberhof, Germany, he won silver medals in the 15 km mass start and the 4 × 7.5 km relay. Berger also won two gold medals in the military world championships that same year (cross-country and patrol). Berger finished fifth in the 2004 overall World Cup, and won several gold medals from the Norwegian Biathlon Championships. At the 2007 Biathlon World Championships in Rasen-Antholz, Italy, Berger was part of the Norwegian team that won silver in the 4 × 7.5 km relay. After several disappointing races, mainly due to unstable shooting, Berger was thrown off the Norwegian national team ahead of the 2008/2009 season. He revenged this by retrieving two world cup victories in sprint events, a silver in the World Championship sprint, and contributed to the gold in the men's relay. He was regarded as perhaps the fastest skier on the biathlon tour, but his lack of shooting accuracy often prevented him from producing consistent and winning results.
Berger also competed in cross-country skiing from 2002. He won the 30 km and relay at the 2003 Norwegian cross-country skiing championships in Molde Municipality. Berger won a gold in the 4 × 10 km at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf and finished 4th in the 15 km in those same championships. Berger won the gold medal in the 15 km at the Nordic Skiing World Championships in Sapporo in 2007.
Berger is the first person to win medals at the World Championships in biathlon and Nordic skiing in the same year. He is also the only athlete to win gold in relays in both World Championships (in Nordic skiing in 2005 and 2007, in biathlon in 2009).
In 2014, Berger won gold medal in the men's 15 km cross county skiing in the military world championship in Sodankylä, Finland.
On 27 April 2015, Berger announced his retirement from the sport. He cited a "chronic knee injury" as his reason for retiring.
Though Berger only participated in the 2010 Olympics, in both cross-country skiing and biathlon, he did travel to the Olympic Games as a reserve athlete in biathlon in both 2002 and 2014.
| 2010 Vancouver | — | 46th | 23rd | — | — |
| 2004 Oberhof | 24th | 14th | 11th | Silver | Silver | |
| 2005 Hochfilzen | — | 44th | 32nd | — | — | — |
| 2006 Pokljuka | 23rd | |||||
| 2007 Antholz-Anterselva | 49th | 14th | 11th | 17th | Silver | — |
| 2009 Pyeongchang | 34th | Silver | 5th | 29th | Gold | 4th |
| 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk | 65th | 14th | 19th | 14th | — | — |
| 2012 Ruhpolding | — | 32nd | 40th | — | — | — |
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| 1999 Pokljuka | 11th | 9th | 5th | — |
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| Svartedal / Hjelmeset / Hofstad |
| Rønning / Krogh / Petter Northug |
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