Ole Kristian Furuseth (born 7 January 1967) is a retired Norwegian alpine skier.

[1] His first international competition was the 1985 Junior World Championships, in which he finished eleventh in downhill and nineteenth in giant slalom.

He made his World Cup debut in December 1986, finishing tenth in the slalom race in Madonna di Campiglio.

He did not compete in any World Cup races in the 1987 calendar year, but returned in the late 1987–88 season with a sixth and fifteenth place in Bad Kleinkirchheim and Oppdal, respectively.

He won competitions in Madonna di Campiglio and Kranjska Gora in December, and recorded three-second places, only one of them in giant slalom.

At the 1992 Winter Olympics, he finished fifth in the giant slalom, fourth in the super-G and seventh in the combined race.

In slalom he recorded two third places; in Kitzbühel in January and Furano in February; he then won his last race for the season, in Bormio in March.

He opened with a thirteenth place in Park City in November, but improved gradually until reaching third in Kitzbühel in January.

Then, in February he won a silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, only defeated by fellow countryman Hans Petter Buraas.

He has made his mark in construction, among others as a real estate developer at the ski resort Kvitfjell.