Jeanette Lunde (born 28 March 1972) is a former Norwegian sportsperson who competed in

alpine skiing Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for ...

and

sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cour ...

. She competed in both the

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and

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, the second Norwegian woman to do so.

Alpine skiing

As an alpine skier she finished eleventh in the

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discipline and 32nd in the

super-G Super giant slalom, or super-G, is a racing discipline of alpine skiing. Along with the faster downhill, it is regarded as a "speed" event, in contrast to the technical events giant slalom and slalom. It debuted as an official World Cup event d ...

at the

1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 17. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, was an international winter multi-sport event held fro ...

. She also finished seventeenth in downhill at the 1993 World Championships. Her highest placing in the

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was a 66th place in 1993–94. She raced in the World Cup from 1992 to 1995, and finished twice among the top fifteen, with a thirteenth place from

Tignes Tignes () is a commune in the Tarentaise Valley, in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France, known for the highest skiable area and the longest ski season in Europe. It is located in the Savoie region with good tr ...

in December 1993 and a fifth place in

Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the O ...

in January 1994; both in downhill. She represented the sports club

Stabæk IF Stabæk Idrætsforening is a Norwegian multi-sports club in Bærum, a municipality bordering on Oslo in the west. It has sections for football, bandy, handball and alpine skiing. While the football team Stabæk Fotball is the most prominent, the m ...

, and later

Geilo IL Geilo Idrettslag is a multi-sports club from Geilo, Norway. Established on 2 December 1917 as ''Gjeilo SK'', it changed its name to ''Gjeilo IL'' on 19 May 1918 and later to ''Geilo IL''. It has sections for alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, skiing ...

. She became Norwegian champion in downhill once.

Sailing

In Lake Louise in December 1995, which would be her last World Cup race, Lunde sustained a knee injury. Another knee injury in 1997 forced her to quit alpine skiing altogether. She took up

and participated in the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

in the women's double-handed dinghy (470) event with Carolina Toll. Ranked seventeenth in the world before the contest, they finished sixteenth at the Olympics. Lunde was the second Norwegian woman who participated in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.

Personal life

Jeanette Lunde hails from

Snarøya Snarøya is a populated peninsula in the inner Oslofjord in Norway. It belongs to Bærum municipality in Viken (formerly Akershus) county. It is located south of the districts Lysaker, Lagåsen and Fornebu, and has 2,940 inhabitants. History ...

. She is the daughter of sailor Peder Lunde and alpine skier Aud Lunde, a paternal granddaughter of sailors

Peder Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek , ''Petros'' (an invented, masculine form of Greek ''petra,'' the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic ''Kefa'' ("stone, rock"), the new na ...

and Vibeke "Babben" Lunde and great-granddaughter of sailor Eugen Lunde. All these people, except for Aud, were Olympic medallists. Jeanette Lunde stands at .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lunde, Jeanette 1972 births Living people Norwegian female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of Norway Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics Olympic sailors of Norway Norwegian female sailors (sport) Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – 470