Mira Verås Larsen (born 17 April 1987,

Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...

) is a Norwegian canoe sprinter. She was selected to be Norway's flag-bearer at the

2012 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations At the 2012 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations of the 2012 London Olympics, athletes and officials from each participating country paraded into the Olympic Stadium preceded by their national flag to the sound of iconic British modern music. Each ...

Personal life

Her great grandfather took the first norwegian olympic gold in 1906 in teams gymnastics. In 2011, she married fellow Olympic kayaker

Eirik Verås Larsen Eirik Verås Larsen (born 26 March 1976 in Flekkefjord) is a Norwegian sprint kayaker who has competed internationally since the early 1990s. He has participated in three Summer Olympics, and has won a complete set of medals (gold: 2004 K-1 ...

References

Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists for Norway Norwegian female canoeists 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Bærum {{norway-canoe-bio-stub