Monika Kørra (born September 5, 1989) is a Norwegian author and former

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athlete from

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Running

In 2008, she won the bronze medal in the 3000 metre steeplechase at the Norwegian championships representing the Norwegian club Friidrettsklubben Ren-Eng. She also competed in the 3000 metre steeplechase at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics, finishing twelfth in her heat and failing to reach the final.

Authorship

Kørra won a sports scholarship at

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. On December 5, 2009, she was kidnapped, assaulted and raped by three men living illegally in the United States. Arturo Arevalo and Alfonso Zuniga received life sentences while the third, Luis Zuniga, received 25 years. Instead of staying silent about her ordeal, she chose to come forward with her story and in 2015, she completed a book in English entitled ''Kill the Silence'' stating that, "It's not what happens to you, but how you respond to it that matters." In her book, she details how she forgave her perpetrators, telling them: "I don't hate them; I hate what they did to me. Two of them even cried...That really meant a lot to me because then I saw that it is something good in everyone." She went on to graduate from Southern Methodist University. In 2012, she founded the Monika Kørra Foundation dedicated to creating awareness of the prevalence and effects of sexual assault and to provide a place of healing for victims. She has appeared in the media in both the United States and Norway including as a guest on the TV talk show '' Skavlan'' on October 9, 2015.nettavisen.no
''Gjengvoldtatt av tre menn - nå har hun tilgitt dem''
hentet 10. oktober 2015 In 2009, Kørra was awarded the SMU Athletics' Perseverance Award for her courage. In 2012, she received the Wilma Rudolph Student Athlete Achievement Award.

References

External links

Official website

Official website, Monika Kørra Foundation

Book Release Celebration "Kill the Silence"

Monika Korra at Geiranger, Norway - Wilma Rudolph Achievement Award
{{DEFAULTSORT:Korra, Monika 1989 births Living people People from Løten Norwegian memoirists Norwegian expatriates in the United States Southern Methodist University alumni Norwegian female steeplechase runners Crime victim advocates Sportspeople from Innlandet 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen