Lisbeth Korsmo (14 January 1948 – 22 January 2017) was a
Norwegian
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speed skater
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, cyclist, and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the
1976 Winter Olympics
The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a ...
in
Innsbruck
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.
["1976 Winter Olympics – Innsbruck, Austria – Speed Skating"]
(Retrieved 15 March 2008) She also won the
Norwegian National Road Race Championship in 1981.
She died on 22 January 2017 at the age of 69.
Skøyteløperen Lisbeth Korsmo er død
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1948 births
2017 deaths
Norwegian female speed skaters
Norwegian female cyclists
Olympic speed skaters for Norway
Speed skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Oslo
20th-century Norwegian women
20th-century Norwegian people
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