Thea Krokan Murud (born 6 June 1994) is a

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cross-country skier Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

. She participated at the 2011 European Youth Olympic Festival, winning one silver medal in the 7.5 kilometres; then at the

2012 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Championships 2012 took place in Erzurum, Turkey from 19 February to 26 February 2012. It was the 35th FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships, Junior World Championships and the 7th Under-23 World Champio ...

, the

2016 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Championships 2016 took place in Râșnov, Romania from 22 February to 28 February 2016. It was the 39th Junior World Championships and the 11th Under-23 World Championships in nordic skiing. Due to weathe ...

(U23) and finally at the

2017 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Championships 2017 took place in Park City, United States from 30 January to 5 February 2017. It was the 40th Junior World Championships and the 12th Under-23 World Championships in nordic skiing. Schedul ...

(U23), where she took the silver medal in the sprint. She made her World Cup debut in March 2015 in

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, finishing in 49th place in the sprint prologue. She collected her first World Cup points in the March 2017 Drammen sprint, and reached the top 10 for the first time on home ground in December 2017 in

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(10 kilometres). She represents the sports club

Søre Ål IL Søre Ål Idrettslag is a Norwegian skiing club from Søre Ål, Lillehammer, Norway. The club was founded in 1944. Cross-country skiers Brit Pettersen Tofte and Thea Krokan Murud represented the club, so did the Nordic combined skiers Odd A ...

. As an

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she raced for

Lillehammer IF Lillehammer Idrettforening is a Norwegian athletics club from Lillehammer, founded on 28 May 1919. At that time city already had four different sports teams; for cross-country skiing (since 1882), gymnastics (since 1892), speed skating (since 18 ...

in her teenage years. As an athlete she finished 14th at the 2011 World Youth Championships and 9th at the 2011 European Junior Championships, both in the 3000 metres. Her personal best times were 4:30.31 minutes in the 1500 metres and 9:45.90 minutes in the 3000 metres, both achieved in 2011.

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

World Cup

Season standings

References

1994 births Living people Skiers from Lillehammer Norwegian female cross-country skiers Norwegian female long-distance runners {{Norway-crosscountry-skiing-bio-stub