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He finished eighth in the 30 km event at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
He finished eighth in the 30 km event at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
Kristiansen finished 39th in the 50 km event at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario. His best World Cup finish was sixth in a 10 km event in Italy in 1994. Kristiansen"s lone individual victory was in a 15 km CISM event in the United States in 2001.
He is currently head coach for the Norwegian women"s cross-country team