Cross-country Skiing At The 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 30 Kilometre Freestyle
The Women's 30 kilometre freestyle cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was held on 24 February, at Pragelato. Marit Bjørgen was the defending World Champion, while the last 30 kilometre free style (with individual start) in the World Cup was won by Yuliya Chepalova on 28 February 2004. The event had never been held as a mass start at the Olympics, but the last 30 km (a classical individual start event) was won by Gabriella Paruzzi of Italy. Veteran Kateřina Neumannová won her second medal at the Torino Olympics. Her daughter, Luci, greeted the exhausted Neumannová after she won. Newcomer Justyna Kowalczyk Justyna Maria Kowalczyk-Tekieli (born 19 January 1983) is a Polish cross-country skier who has been competing since 2000. Kowalczyk is a double Olympic Champion and a double World Champion. She is also the only skier to win the Tour de Ski four ... won the first ever Olympic medal in cross-country skiing for Poland, for e ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cross-country Skiing At The 2006 Winter Olympics - Women's 30 Km Freestyle
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Oxana Jatskaja
Oksana Yatskaya (born 22 September 1978 in Urzhar) is a Kazakhstani cross-country skier who has been competing since 1995. She finish fifth in the team sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo and earned her best individual finish of eighth in the 30 km event at the 2005 championships in Oberstdorf. Yatskaya's best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was 15th twice (5 km + 5 km combined pursuit: 2002, 30 km: 2006). She has a total of three individual FIS race victories up to 10 km since 1996. Yatskaya's best individual World Cup finish was sixth in a sprint event in February 2010 in Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot .... References * External links * * 1978 births Living people Peo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Petra Majdič
Petra Majdič (born 22 December 1979) is a Slovenian former cross-country skier. Her best results came in classic style races. She won twenty-four World Cup races, twenty in sprint races, but she also won a marathon (30 km race) in Trondheim in 2009. She is the first Slovenian cross-country skier to win a World Cup race, the first to get a medal at the World Championships and the first to get an Olympic medal. With 20 wins, Majdič is the second-most successful sprinter in FIS Cross-Country World Cup history and with 24 wins in total she's the fourth-most successful World Cup competitor of all time. Career She first appeared in World Cup on 9 January 1999 in Novo mesto, where she ended 10 km classic as 69th. In 2000, she won her first point in Falun with 30th place in 10 km freestyle. She showed talent for sprint events a year later in Asiago, where she earned her first podium for a 3rd-place finish in 1.5 km freestyle sprint. But real breakthrough came late ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle
Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle (; born 27 November 1980) is a retired German cross-country skier and biathlete from Reit im Winkl who has competed since 1998. She was born in Traunstein, West Germany. Competing in three Winter Olympics, she won five medals with two golds (Team sprint: 2010, 4 × 5 km relay: 2002) and three silvers (Individual sprint: 2002, 4 × 5 km relay: 2006, 2010). Sachenbacher-Stehle has also won six medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold (4 × 5 km relay: 2003) and four silvers (5 km + 5 km double pursuit: 2003, team sprint: 2007 with Claudia Künzel-Nystad, 4 × 5 km relay: 2009) and a bronze. She also has fourteen individual victories at various levels in distances up to 5 km in her career from 1998 to 2006. She received a five-day suspension at the beginning of the 2006 Winter Olympics due to a high hemoglobin level. She was one of twelve athletes given five-day suspensions for health reasonsthe Int ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Arianna Follis
Arianna Fernanda Follis (born 11 November 1977, in Ivrea, Piedmont) is an Italian cross-country skier who started competing in 1995. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she earned a bronze medal in the 4 × 5 km relay at Turin in 2006. Follis earned five medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold (Individual sprint: 2009), one silver (Individual sprint: 2011) and three bronzes (10 km: 2007, Team sprint: 2009, 4 × 5 km relay: 2005). She has six individual victories at various levels up to 10 km since 1998. She retired from cross-country skiing after the 2010–2011 season. Cross-country skiing results All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS). Olympic Games * 1 medal – (1 bronze) World Championships * 5 medals – (1 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze) :a. Cancelled due to extremely cold weather. World Cup Season standings Individual podiums * 8 victories – (3 , 5 ) * 23 podiums – (13 , 10 ) Team podiums ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Karine Philippot
Karine Laurent Philippot (born October 29, 1974 in Mulhouse as Karine Philippot) is a French cross-country skier and non-commissioned officer Équipe de France Militaire de Ski 2011. who has competed since 1994. Her best World Cup finish was second in a 10 km event in in 2007. Laurent Philippot also competed in four , earning her best finish of sixth in the 4 × 5 km relay at in [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sabina Valbusa
Sabina Valbusa (born 21 January 1972 in Verona) is an Italian cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skier who competed from 1993 to 2010. Biography Competing in five Winter Olympics, she earned a bronze medal in the 4 × 5 km relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Her best individual finish was a ninth in the 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Valbusa earned three medals in the 4 × 5 km relay at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (silver: FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1999, 1999, bronze :FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2001, 2001, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005, 2005). Her best individual finish was a fourth in the individual sprint in 2001. Her only individual victory came at Pragelato, Italy in a 15 km event in 2004. She is the younger sister of cross-country skier Fulvio Valbusa. Cross-country skiing results All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation, Internat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Olga Zavyalova
Olga Viktorovna Zavyalova (russian: О́льга Викторовна Завья́лова), née ''Korneyeva'' (born August 24, 1972 in Leningrad) is a Russian cross-country skier who competed from 1993 to 2010. She won six medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with two gold (30 km: 2003, 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit: 2007), one silver (10 km: 2007), and three bronzes (5 km + 5 km double pursuit, 15 km, and 4 × 5 km relay: all in 2003). Zavyalova's best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was seventh in the 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit in Turin in 2006. She has twelve additional individual victories at distances up to 30 km from 1996 to 2006. Zayalova took the 2007-08 season off due to pregnancy, but returned for the 2008-09 season. Since her retirement after the 2010 Winter Olympics, Zayalova has been acting as a sports ambassador for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Sochi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kristina Šmigun
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Valentina Shevchenko (cross-country Skier)
Valentyna Yevhenivna Shevchenko ( uk, Валентина Євгенівна Шевченко) (born 2 October 1975 in Nosivka Raion) is a Ukrainian former cross-country skier who competed in the World Cup between the 1993–94 season and the 2016–17 season. Career She won the bronze medal in the 30 km event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec. Competing in four Winter Olympics, Shevchenko earned her best finish finished fifth in the 30 km at Salt Lake City in 2002. She won the 30 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 2008, as well as La Sgambeda on 19 December 2010 in Livigno Livigno (; local lmo, Livígn ; german: Luwin) is a town, ''comune'' and a special-administered territory in the province of Sondrio, in the region of Lombardy, Italy, located in the Italian Alps, near the Swiss border. History Livigno's firs ..., Italy. Shevchenko carried the Ukrainian flag at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Claudia Künzel
Claudia Nystad ( Künzel, born 1 February 1978) is a German top-level woman cross-country skier. She was born in Zschopau, East Germany, and represents the sports club WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal. Besides her civilian sports career, she serves as a sports soldier with the German Federal Armed Forces. Cross-country skiing results All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS). Olympic Games * 6 medals – (2 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze) World Championships * 5 medals – (1 gold, 4 silver) :a. Cancelled due to extremely cold weather. World Cup Season standings Individual podiums *4 victories – (2 , 2 ) *26 podiums – (21 , 5 ) Team podiums * 7 victories – (4 , 3 ) * 26 podiums – (17 , 9 ) Personal life On June 27, 2005, Künzel married Trond Nystad from Norway, ex-coach of the American cross-country ski team. In the summer of 2007, Künzel donated her gold medal from the 2002 Winter Olympics to benefit th'Hansel und Gretel' found ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |