Espen Bredesen (born 2 February 1968) is a Norwegian former ski jumper.

At World Cup level he won gold and silver medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer.

[1] At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 in Falun, he won gold medals both in the team large hill and the individual large hill events.

He was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1994 (shared with Ljubov Egorova and Vladimir Smirnov).

Bredesen's statement after his first world record in Planica 1994 when he jumped 209m: Without any doubt this is my greatest life and career achievement.