Maren Lundby (born 7 September 1994) is a
Norwegian
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ski jumper
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. She is one of the most successful ski jumpers, male or female, having won three consecutive
World Cup
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overall titles (an all-time record), thirty individual World Cup wins, and gold medals at the
2018 Winter Olympics
The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...
and the
2019
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and
2021 World Championships.
Lundby is also known as an advocate for gender equality in the sport. Because of her efforts, women are now allowed to jump on the large hill during the World Championships.
Ski jumping career
Lundby represents the Kolbu KK ski club. She made her debut in the
Continental Cup, the highest level in women's ski jumping at the time, on 12 August 2007 with a 56th place in
Bischofsgruen. At age 14, she made history as the first female ski jumper in a World Championship, when she jumped with bib number 1 at the
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 ( cs, Mistrovství světa v klasickém lyžování Liberec 2009) took place 18 February – 1 March 2009 in Liberec, Czech Republic. This was the fourth time these championships were hosted either i ...
in
Liberec. On 6 September 2010, she made the first jump when the new
Midtstubakken in
Oslo
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was opened. She landed on 87 meters. 14 March 2019, Lundby won the first women's edition of Raw Air. 12 March 2020, Lundby won the second edition of Raw Air and also became the first woman to win the World Cup three years in a row. She is the first ski jumper to do so since
Adam Małysz in 2001–2003.
On 3 March 2021, Lundby became the first female world champion on the large hill.
In October 2021, Lundby withdrew from the
2022 Winter Olympics and said she had difficulties losing weight and did not feel she could perform at the top level.
She was awarded the
Holmenkollen Medal in 2021.
Major tournament results
Olympics
FIS World Nordic Ski Championships
World Cup
Standings
Individual wins
References
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1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Gjøvik
Norwegian female ski jumpers
Olympic ski jumpers of Norway
Ski jumpers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Ski jumpers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping
Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Norway
Olympic medalists in ski jumping