Urmas Välbe (born 8 November 1966 in

Antsla Antsla is a town in Võru County, southern Estonia, it is the administrative centre of Antsla Parish. Antsla borough was renamed town of third rank by Konstantin Päts from 1 May 1938. The settlement is known since 1405. The town has a furnitur ...

) is a former

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

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 ...

. He currently works in a service team of the Russian national cross-country skiing team. Urmas Välbe was married to Russian cross-country skier

Yelena Välbe Yelena Valeryevna Välbe (russian: Елена Валерьевна Вяльбе, née ''Trubitsyna''; born 20 April 1968) is a Russian former cross-country skier. She won a record-high 14 gold, including all five golds at the 1997 World Champion ...

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Urmas Välbe
at Sports Reference 1966 births Living people Estonian male cross-country skiers Olympic cross-country skiers of Estonia Cross-country skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Cross-country skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics People from Antsla 20th-century Estonian people {{Estonia-crosscountry-skiing-bio-stub