Helga María Vilhjálmsdóttir (born 25 April 1995 in

Akureyri Akureyri (, ) is a town in northern Iceland, the country's fifth most populous Municipalities of Iceland, municipality (under the official name of Akureyrarbær , 'town of Akureyri') and the largest outside the Capital Region (Iceland), Capital R ...

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) is an

alpine skier 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 ...

from

. She competed for

Iceland at the 2014 Winter Olympics Iceland competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from 7 to 23 February 2014. The Icelandic team consisted of five athletes in two sports. The team also consisted of eleven officials. For the first time since 1994, Iceland was represen ...

in the alpine skiing events. She had the best results of the athletes who represented the country at the

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as well. On 24 August 2017 Helga broke her leg while training on the

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glacier in Norway. Due to a difficult infection in the fracture she has not been able to train since the accident. The Icelandic Health Insurance agency came to the conclusion that Helga was not entitled to injury compensation as she was training with a foreign athletic club abroad, despite she was there on behalf of the Icelandic ski national team who paid for her training as there were no suitable training sites in Iceland due to the time of year.

World Championship results

Olympic results

Other results

European Cup results

Results per discipline

References

1995 births Living people Helga Maria Vilhjalmsdottir Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Helga Maria Vilhjalmsdottir Helga Maria Vilhjalmsdottir Alpine skiers at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics Helga Maria Vilhjalmsdottir {{Iceland-alpine-skiing-bio-stub