Ebba Årsjö (born 12 January 2001) is a Swedish para alpine skier who competed at the

2022 Winter Paralympics The 2022 Winter Paralympics (), also known as XIII Paralympic Winter Games, commonly known as Beijing 2022 (), were an international winter multi-sport parasports event held in Beijing, China, from 4 to 13 March 2022. This was the 13th Winter ...

Career

Årsjö competed at the 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships where she won gold medals in the slalom, and parallel event. She competed at the

and won gold medals in the

super combined Combined is an event in alpine ski racing. The event format has changed within the last 30 years. A traditional combined competition is a two-day event consisting of one run of downhill and two runs of slalom; each discipline takes place on a s ...

and slalom standing events. She also won the bronze medal in the downhill standing event. In 2022, she received the Victoria Award. On 9 November 2022, she announced she would no longer compete in

downhill skiing Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether ...

. The 2023–2024 season saw her winning the overall World Cup for first time.

Personal life

She was born with

Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome, formerly Klippel–Trénaunay–Weber syndrome and sometimes angioosteohypertrophy syndrome and hemangiectatic hypertrophy, is a rare congenital medical condition in which blood vessels and/or lymph vessels fail to f ...

which resulted in muscle reduction in her right leg. Årsjö's uncle,

Johannes Årsjö Johannes Årsjö (born 21 June 1985) is a Swedish professional strongman competitor notable for coming in 2nd in the 2014 and 2016 Europe's Strongest Man, and winning Sweden's Strongest Man nine times ...

, is a former

strongman Strongman is a competitive strength sport which tests athletes' physical strength and endurance through a variety of heavy lifts and events. Strongman competitions are known for their intensity, pushing athletes to their physical and mental limit ...

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* Living people 2001 births Swedish female alpine skiers Paralympic alpine skiers for Sweden Paralympic gold medalists for Sweden Paralympic bronze medalists for Sweden Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics 21st-century Swedish sportswomen People from Oskarshamn Municipality Sportspeople from Kalmar County {{Sweden-sport-bio-stub