Anna Ida Holmlund (born 3 October 1987) is a Swedish former

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athlete.

Career

Holmlund won 19 World Cup races and three ski cross World Cups up to 2016. She came sixth at the

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and won the bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She won a bronze medal at the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships. During a practice run on 19 December 2016 in Innichen, Holmlund crashed and suffered head injuries with brain hemorrhages and facial fractures, including a

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. Doctors put her in a medically induced coma in a hospital in

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and a week later she was flown back to Sweden. In May 2017, the Swedish Ski Association announced that Holmlund had regained consciousness and had communicated with and recognised friends and family. In July 2017, she left the

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hospital, where she had been treated, and returned to her hometown of Sundsvall. In December 2017, Holmlund took her first steps since the accident. She made a return to the ski slopes in February 2018, when she took to the snow in a

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for the first time. In April 2018, she made a return to competition by racing in a biski with the assistance of her brother Kalle: they won the women's class in a downhill race in

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. In early November 2018, Holmlund was announced as an ambassador for Stockholm's bid for the

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World Cup podiums

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Holmlund, Anna Freestyle skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics 1987 births Living people Olympic freestyle skiers of Sweden Swedish female freestyle skiers Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing People from Sundsvall People with brain injuries Sportspeople from Västernorrland County 21st-century Swedish women