Ragnhild Myklebust
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Ragnhild Myklebust,
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is a
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and multiple gold medal winner at the Paralympic Games. , she holds the record for the most ever medals won at the Winter Paralympics, having won 27 medals, of which 22 were gold.


Biography

Myklebust won five gold medals and one silver at the
1988 Winter Paralympics The 1988 Winter Paralympic Games (german: Paralympische Winterspiele 1988) were the fourth Winter Paralympics, held again in Innsbruck, Austria. These were the last Winter Paralympics to be held in a separate location from the Winter Olympics. Be ...
, two gold at the 1992 Games, five gold, two silver and two bronze in
1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...
, five gold in
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and five gold in 2002. She has won Paralympic medals in short, middle and long distance cross-country races, relays, the biathlon, and ice sledge racing.


See also

* Athletes with most gold medals in one event at the Paralympic Games


Notes


Living people Norwegian female cross-country skiers Paralympic cross-country skiers of Norway Cross-country skiers at the 1988 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 1992 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 1994 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 1998 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Paralympics Paralympic ice sledge speed racers of Norway Ice sledge speed racers at the 1988 Winter Paralympics Ice sledge speed racers at the 1994 Winter Paralympics Paralympic biathletes of Norway Biathletes at the 1994 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 1998 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2002 Winter Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Norway Paralympic silver medalists for Norway Paralympic bronze medalists for Norway Medalists at the 1988 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 1992 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 1994 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 1998 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2002 Winter Paralympics Norwegian female biathletes Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in cross-country skiing Paralympic medalists in biathlon {{Norway-biathlon-bio-stub